Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-28

the pleasing assurance that the gentle
/ men OF our city are willing to take their
place In the front ranks OF this civic
movement, and for this we thank them
and assure them OF all the assistance
we are capable Of rendering.
Another phase of this movement
interests us as women particularly. The
constitution OF the Civic Improvement
league to be presented for your consld-
Grafton this evening provides that chill
dren may become members of this as
sociauon, and II is the especial hope OF
the women that they shall be encour-
aged to take part IN the work OF the
league. Children are easily stimulated
To effort. Evidence of this was mani
tested at the last state fair, where the
children competed in making the best
exhibit of potted plants, vegetables and
flowers, and they are at the present
time planting the bulbs and seeds which
VIII qualify them to compete for the
S25 prize offered by the Ladies' Literary
club for the best kept school yard"
NAMES OF OFFICERS.
The constitution AMI bylaws we're
then presented and adopted, and the
names of the officers were then pre-
hented from the nominating committee,
aud elected as follows President
Frank b. stephens; first vice president
Colonel r. a, Wall; second vice presl-
dent, Mrs. W. W. Ritter; secretary. Os-
car L. Cox, treasurer, Mrs Simon
Hamburger; board Of governors, Mrs
j. NJ Bailey, Mrs G. j. Freund. Mrs
ed Kimball. Mrs, David Keith, Mrs. e.
g. Crismon, Mrs. 4. V. Taylor, Mrs. c.
$. Kinney, Miss Anna Cannon, Judge
~ f, Colborn, NJ II. Walker. Judge O.
w. Powers, Judge W, II. King. Or. T.
Vs. Beatty, O. II, Hewlett. G.. 4. Quie-
Icy, r. l., Prltchard O. H. Christensen.
". W. Lawrence, j. T. Harris ana
Thomas Weir
President stephens was then intro
duced by Judge Powers, who resigned
The chair Ia the new executive. Mr..
stephens said:
WANT NEW BOULEVARD.
Il want to see new boulevard to
the lake. as Judge Powers has outlined
10 you, want TO have the league take
up the matter Of pavement with vigor.
want 10 have this organization do all
IN It's power toward making the physl-
cal condition Of the city better We
must devise ways and means OF doing
this, and ! want 10 be assured of the
cordial support Of every man, woman
and child in Salt Lake. ! believe |
shall have It.
Sooner or later we shall have to tear
up some of the street car tracks now
In salt Lake. This viii be one OF the
greatest steps toward making Salt Lake
the cts Beautiful We want to have
the city beautiful. We want to have
a place whore ladies and children may
drive without fear Of being run over.
There are too many tracks here now.
The street car system would benefit by
such a move fully as much as the city
and the people. The cost of mainten-
ance would be less and the service
could be improved, There is no reason
for running tracks oil over the CITY the
way they are now. II Is better to save
a Few lines and two or three-minute
service on those lines than a lot of
non-paying lines running from nowhere
To nowhere.
II We want cleanliness we shall havn
To generate Goodness. The one way
To do this is by closing the saloons at
midnight All.night saloons are a dir,
grace. ] believe the better class OF sa
loon men are In favor of closing al
midnight We shall have to look into
mo laW-making Of the city as well "A,
the cleaning and identifying of tho
city This league will WELD force
morally physically and in legislation.
Tho league will be success If every-
one takes an interest, and that am
sure VIII be done do not fear for the
future