Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1907-10-18
ENTERTAINING BOOSTERS. ;"
Each kind has its merits.

ENTERTAINING BOOSTERS.
Does it Pay to be Generous and Exert
Ourselves Toward Pleasing Visitors?
That is queer proposition to put
to anyone isn't it? But when we are
occasionally visited by representative
business men of the cities, who are out
enlarging their acquaintance and learn
ing something of this new territory
and seeking new business, there seems
to be a question in the minds of some
as to what should be done in the way
of entertainment by the towns visited.
In the first place it is certainty that
the visitors do not expect any enter
tainment, but can town like Hot
Springs afford to let hundred or
more representative business men of
live western cities come here by special
train and go away without little at
tention being given them? We think
not-not by a long ways. The i'm
preston that such body of men
would get of town that wonld CON-
pletely ignore them would certainly
not be favorable. On the other hand
to be given some attention and go
away with good feeling toward the
town would be of incalculable benefit
to resort town like this We should
not think argument would be necessary
to convince any man of this fact.
These visitors come from the very
localities that send thousands of
visitors annually to mountain resorts,
and now that the Black Hills has been
placed in direct communication with
eastern Dakota and Minnesota there is
even more necessity for Hot Springs
and the Black Hills paying out money
and advertising this region as desir
able place for tourists to visit than
there is for those cities to spend their
money in seeking our trade. They
are more to us than we are to them
Hot Springs should be spending
thousands of dollars annually in ad-
vertising this as a health and pleasure
resort, and we believe that we can
get more for the money invested by
giving favorable impression to
bunch of business boosters than in
any other way. They are successful
business men and are in touch with
the people of their localities. A word
from them as to where to go for health
or pleasure would be sufficient with
most people.
Therefore why should not Hot
Springs, as we'll as other Hills towns,
exert itself, strain itself il necessary,
towards advertising and giving a good
feeling to such a crowd when we have
an opportunity. And the thing should
not be left for a half a dozen to at
tend to either. Every citizen should
lend a hand. In fact commercial or :
ganization is an absolute necessity
here and the town can not rightly
progress without organization, and no
business man can afford to hold back
from it.
II Here is a squib from the Deadwood
Pioneer Times that is quite to the
point relative to
/ "ENTERTAINING THE BOOSTERS"
'Trade excursions from the leading
trade centers adjacent to Deadwood
have become popular and one of the
best known means of becoming &C
quainted with our neighbors. They
are good thing for the excursionists
as we'll as for Deadwood and Hills
generally. The more competitors We
have for our business, the better fol
us. Most of those who come here d,
not represent lines that are manufac
tured or wholesaled here, any way, ant
I if they did, we are not SO narrow o
high-bound that we cannot welcom
! competition. Money spent in the enter
I tainment of these visitors is good in
] vestment. 1t will make them ou
I friends, they will feel good and viii
send their folks out here to spend tn
! summer. Those who pay the bills TO
I the entertainment of the excursionist
do not listen to the silly twaddle o
those who neither contribute to tn
fund or represent the sentiment Q
any portion of the business men. Th
Black Hills wants the friendship an
good will of just such men as max
up the trade excursions"
4 And another incident of recent in
portance was the visit Of DR.. Mayo
; the eminent Rochester surgeon, VIII