Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-21

completed. Bleachers should be built
on each ed Of the amphitheater.
Blcachcrs are good enough for a Har-
ward Or Yale crowd of GO, 600, and they
would be good enough here. In rainy
weather there would not he people
enough to use them and in good
weather they Would beat an opcn
buggy. Those cindcr walks are just
the thing and should be extended
everywhere. The merchants should put
up their exhibit hall with a fine rest
room pavilion above. The four acres
along Linn creek should be turned
into a hitch rack yard. a definite
plan and something permanent every
year will eventually build an exposi-
ton mex to the state fair at Des
Moines. In time eight or ten counties
will look TO Marshalltown for their
fair every year.
1t certainly seems strange that
whenever a large crowd is attracted To
~Marshalltown. as has been the case
during nearly every day during the
past week. the railroads can not fore
see the situation and provide sufficient
equipment to are for the business.
1t Is discouraging for women and chill
dren. especially. with a har day at
sightseeing before them, to board a
train and have to stand up all the
way; then. to know that after their
days tramp is over with they will
probably have to do the same thing at
night returning home. 1t seems to do
very little good to complain. for the
same condition exists each time a big
crowd is in Marshalltown for some
probably wake up when a law is en-
forced compelling them to collect fare
only when passengers can be fur
nished with seating accommodations,
and this day is coming.
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If there was a citizen of Marshall
town during fair week who was not
thoroughly ashamed of his city's street
car service he has not yet been heard
Of. With thousands upon thousands OF
people traversing u street back and
forth for a solid week and not enter
prise enough in the street car com
pany to build six blocks of track to
accommodate the crowds, it would not
be strange If Marshalltown should get
the reputation of being u slow town.
At about six o'clock every evening the
little bob-cars are packed to overflow
ing, while the trailers stand die in the
barn. Combine this with low pressure
on gas mains and dim lights and cars
packed to the platforms ever on or
binary days, and the city council would
be justified in taking away h fran
chise which permits the present COM
| pany to operate. Some day a public
| spirited citizen will rise up to lead a
political movement which will either
| %galvanize the present corpse or put a
live thing in its place.
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All hats off to the dry goods mer-
chant who has shown his faith in the
future of Marshalltown to the extent
of taking a lease on store space twice
| as large as what he had ven when he
already had three average store
fronts. A city grows always from
within, seldom from without. When its
own citizens have enthusiasm enough
to expand, their expansion becomes
contagious. 1t infects another citizen
and is carried abroad to the ears OF
outsiders who are attracted to the
place where things are looking up. Try
to bring a stranger to a town where
the home people are afraid Of their
future and one has to drag him in by
the ears.
This recalls conversation had with
a very shrewd and successful investor
this week. He has been dealing in
properties a long ways from home, but
has returned his money to MARSHALL
town and confided to his friend that
now was the time to pick up snaps in
M~arshalltown property. He had al
ready made more than a first-class
salary for a year in a deal that re-
CURED less than a month to put thru.
Recently the realty expert of a million
aire corporation came here. to examine
the situation. Following his report,
900 Of Marshalltown residence prop
erty mortgages. These are the ground
floor class of men. They are getting
in now. Within a few years, when the
upper floors begin to loosen up, we
will all be wanting in.
1t looks as tho the boys of today did
not have to work. The T.-R. needs
three carrier boys and has been adj
vertising for a week without response.
The explanation has been made that
as soon as a man does not need the
money he will not let his boy work.
But what about the boy? Where is
he going to get the training that will
teach him not to be afraid of work?
DR.. Fl. l.. Getz's attempt on his life
yesterday, during a period of mental
alteration, is extremely sad, and the
sympathy of the friends of this com
munity goes out to him and his
family. 1t is always sad to witness the
breaking down OF the mental and
physical vigor Of a brilliant man, and
especially when that man has been
a leader in his community.
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