Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-03
Tremendous Amount Of Work
Done in Cleaning Up
That City
Great Army OF Boys Worked
Hard. Idea for
Bismarck
As Reward They Will Be
Given Fine Picnic
by League

Grand Forks Times: Never lin the
history of the city has so much en-
ergy and enthusiasm marked at at
tempt to clean up the city as was
witnessed from one end of the mum
icipality to the other today. More
100 of the larger boys covered the
entire city and cared for the general
rubbish which was found in the back
yards, vacant lots and in the alleys,
while more than 500 of the Junior
Civic league members cleaned the
streets of paper and other light rub
bish, filling the receptacles provided
| for this work several times durinb
the day.
The larger boys under the direction
of S. G.. Skulason and the other vol
unteer workers, were armed with
| rakes, forks and shovels and took
| the city by wards, raking all the
trash together and in many instances
helping to load it on the wagons
which were used to convey it to the
dumping grounds. Not a nook or
| corner escaped the vigilant eyes of
the workers and when the work clos
ed this evening, the city was the
cleanest it has ever been in its ex-
istance.
The work of collecting the paper
was placed in the hands of the small
Ter boys-the members of the Junior
Civic league and they did this dis
agreeable work far better than it
could have been done by older
hands. The city was laid out into
divisions and the boys were under a
lieutenant who had charge of one
division. They passed around the
division and every scrap of paper
was gathered together and carried to
the receptacles. So we'll was the
work organized that the lieutenants
kenw every division line and the
rules of war were carried out so that
\ none crossed the line on the others
territory
The larger boys were given a din
ner today by the civic league, but
the large number of soldiers in the
junior league made it impossible for
them to have a part of the feast
But the ladies of the civic league
4 have a pleasant surprise for the en-
thusiastic workers and as soon as
the weather is sufficiently warm the
UOyo Will NC S1NCu d plSulC WllCu
they will have all the ice cream and
cake they can eat or that they will
want to eat for month. The sur
prise has been kept in store for them
as reward for the splendid work
they did, but it was thought best to
accept the manly desire of the boys
that their work should not have the
appearance of being bought with a
dinner. They wanted it to be known
that they worked because they want
, ed a cleaner city and were willing to
help make it such. But the reward
. is for them just the same The COM
ments which have been passed on
these boys by the citizens-men and
women-would certainly make them
feel that they have not worked in
vain, could they have heard them.
, Some disappointment has been felt
, over the fact that the high wind will
, prevent the building of bonfires tc
consume the rubbish which has been
gathered. There were 135 boys al
the Y. M. c. A. hall dinner today and
more than 500 boys have given the
. day to the city. The dinner was serv.
i ed by Mesdames Jos. Kennedy F
R. Hall, A. F. Madison, Miles Strick.
er and Misses Furgeson and Palmer
, The dinner was donated by the lad.
, les of the city and was solicited BY
! high school girls who served the
tables.