The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-04
Mrs. George A. Yule Opens a
Crusade for Civic improve
ment at Womans' Club.
SUGGESTS IMPROVEMENTS.
Movement is Started at the Annual
Open Meeting of the Womans'
Club and Much Good is Ex-
pected From it.

Mrs. George A. Yu1es sounded the
keynote Of the Woman's crusade for
civic Improvement in Kenosha this
afternoon when she presented
splendid paper before the annual open
meeting Of the Womans' club Of Ke-
nosha taking as her subject, ssThe
Town Beautiful This topic was as
signed to Mrs. Ynle nearly year
ago and since that time she has made
an investigation of the work that has
been done in other cities and She
spoke with authority when she told
what could be done in Kenosha by the
women of the city.
The paper by Mrs. Yule drew to
the club rooms of the club the largest
crowd ever attending meeting Of the
club. Each of the members had the
privilege of bringing a guest and the
room was almost too small to hold the
many women who desired to show
their support of the movement of
which Mrs. Yule has been the
champion. In order to make the
talk on civic Improvement more in
teresting and instructive Mrs. Yule
illustrated the paper with large
number of lantern slides loaned by
the Century club IN Boston and the
National Cash Register company Of
Dayton, Ohio Before taking up
local conditions and local reforms
needed Mrs. Yu1e spoke at length on
the work Of civic improvement which
was attracting the attention of the
people of the United States. She
told of the work that had been done
in other cities and of the methods
which had been worked out to secure
the desired result.
In speaking of the needs Of Keno-
| sha Mrs. Yule brought the matter
down to decidedly practical side of
the question. She stated that the
first thing that should be done IN Ke-
nosha was to secure cleaner streets
and urged that sentiment in this
direction should be fostered among
was necessary to teach the men an
object lesson the women should take
up the work themselves and see to it
that the streets of the city were clean
ed and kept clean. Then she spoke
of better architecture and showed
that the people of the city should be
educated up to the plane of appreciat-
ing the better forms of building. She
spoke of the fact that many of the
streets and breathing places n the
city were treeless and urged the
women of the city to take up the work
of planting trees in these waste
places. She spoke of landscape
gardening as beautifier of the city
and showed that it could be carried
out at home as well as on property
owned by the municipality. One Of
the pertinent points Of the paper was
a discussion of the condition of the
city cemetery and showed the neces-
sity of the women of the city taking
up this work and securing a perfect
cleaning for the cemetery and the
building of fence to separate it from
the streets surrounding it. She spoke
at1ength on the Lake front and the
improvement of the property owned
by the city and at present dedicated
for park purposes. She urged the
women to see to it that this property
was at once properly improved and
put into condition for use as a public
park. She spoke Of the school ground
and grounds surrounding the fac
tories and showed that in other cities
these grounds had been made the
most inviting portion of the city.
Mrs. Yule had but one suggestion
as to the ways and means for secur-
ing the changes advocated in her
paper and that was to get up gener-
al interest in the work among the
people of the entire city and then for
women to put in some hard work to
see that the suggestions we're carried
out.
The paper was such delightful
one and it was SO charming1y illus
trated that it has aroused new spirit
in favor of civic improvement, and
the ladies of the city will at once
take steps to organize an Improve
ment association which will have for
its purpose the carrying out of the
suggestions of the paper.
In order to bring the matter better
before the public Mrs. Yule has
arranged to have the pictures pre-
scented at Simmons hall this evening
and every one interested in the beau
tifying Of the city is urged to attend
this meeting.