The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1905-01-21
THE BUILDING OF
AN IDEAL TOWN
Some Things Which Will
Advance a Community and
Increase Prosperity.

No better example of the public
spirit which upbuilds city can be
cited than that of the city of Will
Transport, Pennsylvania.
Six years ago, Williamsport
was a small and almost unknown
village of 1900 inhabitants, located
on the Susquehana river, 2S9 miles
west of New York, while today it is
a city OF 10000, surrounded by a
rich and productive county.
Thrift, enterprise, progress, form
conspicuous page in the history
of achievements in the Keystone
State, and the city of Willlamsport
today, with its broad, well kept
streets, attractive business houses
and charming homes instantly i'm
presses the visitor with the fact
that its citizens are among the most
wide awake people.
Brains and energy, pure noun
tain air and pure water, together
with enlarging opportunities for
profitable business Operations, tell
the story of the rise of city which
is not wanting in a single element
of the highest modern civiliz ltion.
In 1885, the Nilliamsport Board
of Trade was incorporated, and en-
rolled every merchant and bushes
man as a member. No business
interest were 10 be considered too
trivial and were fostered in way
which could not but mean success.
AS one instance, and only one of
many, showing how it's citizens,
through it's Board of Trade, added
to and developed its different busi-
ness interests, the Stearns Dye
Works may be cited. This COM
pany were anxious to locate in the
thriving, bustling city of Williams
port, provided that the citizens
would subscribe for $4,000 worth
of first mortgage bonds. The Board
of Trade, to whom the proposition
had teen submitted, took the mat
ter under consideration, and their
inves tigation proving satisfactory,
they reported favorably. Acting on
the report, mass meeting was call
ed, the proposition set forth, and in
one hours time the entire sum of
$140,000sswas subscribed and the
bonds taken.
The following extract from the
Managers Annual Report for 1902
gives an idea of how things are
done in Williamsport.
"The work of the past year, coup
led with that of the previous year
has amply demonstrated the fact
that the originators of the present
organization built upon no un-
certain foundation. 1t demon
strates the fact that the Executive
Committee--together with those
members of the Board it has called
upon from time to time for expert
opinions-has been conservative
and in no instance has it allowed
an intense desire for tangible re-
suits of its work to interfere with
or overcome its business judgment.
"This is fact most appreciable
by those who have, at one time or
another, been in close touch with
Board of Trade work. When
months have passed during which
time proposition after proposition
has been investigated and declined,
it should not be difficult to realize
the reluctance of the committee in
refusing to recommend a PROPOSE
ton, the approval of which would
bring some temporary satisfaction,
but which cold, sober, conservative
business judgment indicates could
not be of perm anent value. A
reluctance which becomes the great
er with the knowledge that an in
terested people are anxikusly await
ing the announcement perfected