The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-29
CALLS MEETING
OF GOVERNORS
President Stephens of Civic Improves
ment League Announces Gath
ering for Friday Night.
WILL OUTLINE CAMPAIGN
TO TAKE UP PAVING AND OTHER
MATTERS.

Actual work in making Salt Lake a.
more beautiful city has begun in earn
est The first meeting of the board of
governors Of the Civic Improvement
league has been called for Friday night
at the rooms of the Manufacturers and
Merchants association, 209-211 South
West Temple street. At this meeting
the details of the work of the league
VIII be laid out. Committees having I'm
charge all the interests of the organ
izatiOn will be selected then. 4 gen
eral campaign will be planned and the
work Of the various departments as
signed.
President on Purpose.
In speaking Of the call for the meet
ing to be held Friday night beginning
at o'clock, President Frank B. Steph-:
ems said yesterday:
AT this meeting the scope of the
work of the league and what needs
first to be done will be discussed. Il
do not know what the board of gov
errors viii regard as the most import
ant work to commence with but pre-
sumo that the first thing 20 do will be
TO undertake to have the usual spring
house cleaning Il refer Of course TO
streets, alleys, etc), done in a more
thorough manner than ever before, and
the physical condition of the city gem
orally made as attractive as possible.
As contracts for paving viii soon
be let. the question of asphaltum or ma
cadam in the residence districts will be
very important subject for consid-
Grafton: personally I have always been
IN favor Of macadam in the residence
section as opposed to asphaltum, for
the reasons so clearly given by Dr.
Goshen in his address last evening. We
shall expect of course to work in en-
tire harmony with the city officials in
consulting together with reference to
the best thing to do; I know that both
the city council and the board of pub
lie works viii give this important mat
ter full consideration.
salt Lake has been very much in
the public mind; we have many visi-
tors: many are looking with a view to
locating; il is of vital Importance that
our city be improved and made more
beautiful I'm every way possible. This
is something we can all unite I'm work
ing for We are grateful to the newspa-
pers for their generous cooperation.
and we expect every resident of the
city, old and young. TO become imbued
with a desire to have better things,
and when this desire is general the
better things will come"
Would Park Streets.
OUc OF the plans which Y II De dEi-
tated by some of the members of the
board of governors is the parking OF
one or two downtown streets. It IS
planned To undertake the cutting of
from the side of each street a strip Of
ground ten or fifteen feet wide. A curb
stone would be placed at this distance
from the present curb. In between the
two curbs viii be planted grass, and
possibly flowers and trees The expense
Of maintaining these improvements
will fall upon the city. One member
of the board stated yesterday that it
was his belief that the city would glad
~ undertake this work as the cost Of
maintaining it would be less than look
ing after the pavement in the same,
space. 1t would be necessary to water
the grass but once or twice a day.
whereas it is necessary to sweep and
sprinkle the pavement. A lawn mower
with a horse attachment could be used
in moving the grass and the expense
would be small. It is the belief Of
some of the directors that If such a.
plan were carried out it would demon
strate to the people what could be done
in the way of making the city more
beautiful with a small expenditure
The idea would be in the nature Of an
experiment. it is said, and if 1t proved
successful all the streets could be treat-i
ed in the same manner