, 1908-03-26

contributed at all, for the reason that
many people would be willing to pay
a membership fee of S. per annum or
not afford to give $40 per annum, n
there are also many who can afford to
give 800 per annum who are now CIV
ing $40 per annum
The commercial club a and should
take interest in other matters than the
mere selling of groceries. hardware,
tobacco, brick, drugs, real estate or
what not. The beauty of the city is as
much of an asset as any OF the things
mentioned. The committee on improve
ment should be a live one. In some
cities this committee goes outside OF
the commercial club for the raising of
money for its work. 1t pushes the
building of sidwalks-and Laramie is
doing well in mat matter in the
business section of the city-it offers
prizes for the pest kept lawns, the
most beautiful yards and the prettiest
place as a whole. 1t encourages the
parking of the streets and takes a hand
in the planting of treets along boule-
wards. 1t will be recalled that the city
has planted and replanted trees along
the boulevard to the east of the city,
but they have died, all of them. This
was from sheer neglect, for the citizens
of Laramie who nave given the mat
ter care have had no trouble in rails
ing trees about their places. There
are good trees upon the hospital
grounds, too. This proves conclusive
ly that the cause of the death of the
trees along the boulevard was neglect.
Under the direction OF a commercial
club committee Cheyenne saved 80 per
cent of the trees planted along her
~boulevards.
In the matter of the adjustment of
rates, dealing with new railroad enter
prises, securing rates for new enter
prises about to start in our community,
and a hundred other things, there is
much work for a good transportation
committee.
The experience of the past month
with the auto racers in the matter of
receiving people passing through, there
has been an object lesson as to what
an entertainment committee is good
for. This committee should see to it
that the club as a whole has frequent
gatherings at which they can exchange
ideas and agree upon definite plans Of
action. Programs should be arranged
in advance, selecting men to discuss
the particular subjects with which they
are most familiar. These entertain
ments can readily take the form of
dollar dinners or fifty-cent dinners. II
the churches desire to take up the mat
ter of giving the dinners SO much the
better. In these affairs the committee
would not be compelled to draw upon
the club for a single cent, each mem
Der and citizen paying for his individ-
ual ticket.
And above all, the advertising CON-
mittee ought to look Systematically and
keenly into the advertising of the city.
Noopportuity should belost to bring our
resources to the attention of the out
side world. In these days of close Or
ganization on the part of the railroads,
facilities are provided for reaching the
people who desire to change their pres
ent habitation. For illustration, the
secretary of the commercial club now
has in his possession 1,500 ame of
people who are looking for a favorable
location sent to him by the Union Pa
cific company. The agent of the COM
pany expressed the wish that these PEG
pile be apprised of our advantages. and
said that he would send more names
monthly as they came to him. The
l 800 had come in voluntarily in a very
short time preceding his communica-
ton. If we don't let the people know
what we have here in Wyoming and on
the Laramie plains, they simply pass
on through to Idaho or some other
state that is alive and doing business.