The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Since women of intelligence and social standing have begun to interest themselves in the outward appearance of their home cities and towns change in some cases remarkable has been made for the better~in the aspect of these places. TheFwomen have gener- ally been shrewd enough to begin their crusade against unciean streets and neglected parks in the spring, when outdoor things are at their worse in munich. alities. The ladies have at such time had comparatively httie trouble in convincing mayors and city authorities that there was crying need of a civic spring cleaning.
 p. turesuue El Paso, on the bank of the Rio Grands Is shining illustration of what women of the best class can oo toward making the town in wnicn they dwell so clean and attractive that if draws tourists and traders because of that fact and thus increases US own prosperity. ,.s,.. al,
 year ago about dozen ladies oI Ell Paso formed civic improvement. league They adopted motto. ana It was. Make El Paso BeauIlIu o, F Hammett was made President or the league Ell Paso women did not meet and read papers and have them selves addressed in a long winded, SUI, nid speech by some piblic official ana then adjourn for a pink tea and let the city 20 to the dogs and the pigs ana tbs weeds. They wrought quietly among themselves till they had secured A powerful. compact organization. They elected a general vice presiuent' Mrs s. H. Sutherland; then wee president for each ward. They ap- pointed committees respectively on streets and sidewalks. public buildings, parks, sanitation. the press and ounior civic work. With this systematic preparation they were ready for opera tions.
 They moved down on Mayor Captain Charles Davis in force. They told him they wanted to give El Paso great spring cleaning and they respectively petitioned for his assistance. More '. over, they told him how to give IL They Lad thought that all out too. He was to issue a proclamation appoint ing a certain day for spring cleaning of Fl Paso On that day rags oot ties, tin cans, ash heaps, ooxes' olu broons and old snoes must vanish rom tha streets. their like nevermore re- turn zo,.
 And it was done. On the given day all prisoners in the city ana county were nut to work the streets. Was-
 
 eral dumping ground near 'he ii''' The streets were sWeft
 Tten the ladies felt better, but their w,rk was not yet done. The day a1ter ths, historic EI Paso spring cleaning tba women visited the business dis-- v ana personally requested each mer- chant to keep all rubbish and onstruc- tions off the sidewalks and to have the pavement in front of his premises swept every morning before oclocA' The merchants agreed
 Next the civic improvement league tackled the citys chronically neglected narks These looked like desolation. Grass did no. grow in them because the ground was not watered Tne league obtained an order for irrigating the parks and pruning and tending the shabby sickly trees that half lived and half starved within them. Now Fl Paso parks are clean and cool and green and shady.
 Then came an order that each house. holder should have a receptacle for all trash and rubbish and that this should be duly hauled off to the civic dumping ground, and 1t was done.
 Last came their crowning victory over two powerful enemies of health and cleanliness-pigs and tobacco splitting. One respectable and well to do citizen maintained a pigpen on his premises in a residence district. The owner of the pigs was remonstrated ''ith till the animals were consigned untimely to the butcher, and all swine were banished forever from regener- ated Fl Paso. El Pasoans now boast that their city is clean as Denver"
 Instructive to the people of other cities Is the aen's successful war against that scourge of America--ex- pectoration. The evil was swelled to dangerous proportions by the great number of tuberculnns natients who