The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-21

along with the tide and are afraid
to raise your voices or use your pens
in opposition to conditions which you
know are wrong" said a prominent
citizen on coming into the Daily
World office ut seems to me that
you should run a Kicker's column in
your paper and allow some of us
who have just complaints to make
to air our views. I know of num-
Der of things l would like to express
myself upon. I am and always have
been what is generally termed kick
er and don't want to be interviewed
by the newspaper, because people
will say, "Ah, that's only so and so,
who always was kicking about things
in Wenatchee, but I tell you honest
ly, things are going to the bow-wows
in this town. Even the weather has
town for 13 years and I never knew
a colder winter or a more backward
spring than we are having this
spring Talk about winds, the winds
and dust of this spring can beat any
thing that | ever remember of in this
valley.
Il do not know what we have
elected a city council for, if they can
not control the dust on Wenatchee
I'll,
sents a very inviting appearance to
the fasteners, who are continually
dropping in here. It looks to me as
though water could be secured from
the Columbia river to at least sprink-
lie the streets once a day. The dust
and the winds of the past month are
certainly putting a crimp on business
in this town.
Another thing that I have got
kick on and I believe that the bust
ness men are with me on is in the
location of the new depot at the foot
of Kittitas street It seems to me
as though the members of the city
council are weaklings that they could
not locate the depot at the foot of
OrOndo avenue, as originally planned
by the Great Northern railway itself.
| do not know, but it seems to me as
though the booming of certain lots
some influence in the sudden desire
of the railway company to locate the
depot on Kittitas instead of Orondo |
avenue. I should think that in To- |
eating this depot that the petition of |
the largest property owners in the
city would have some weight, but as
far as l can learn that was not even
considered. Orondo avenue is about |
the center of the town and that is
certainly the legitimate place for the
new depot.
Another think that l should like
to register a kick on is the location
of the new commercial club building.
Who ever heard of a commercial club
building being located away up in the /,
residence section of the town. 1t is
a funny proposition tc me that when
the club owns its own lots on Mis-
sion street that it should go way off
on Chelan avenue to build. l have
talked with the business men on this
matter today and I can not find
single business man who favors any i
such location for the new building.
The decision to locate this on Chelan
was made at the commercial meeting
when there happened to be but very /
few present. 1t was done on the /
night the Elks dedicated their hall /
and l am sure that had there been
a good membership present the club /
building would not have been located /
in any such out of the way place.
Certainly the object Of commercial /
club is for the purpose of making a |
display of our products, a place in |
which to invite our friends ana a |
place where we may get together to /
discuss matters of Importance to the /
community. Do you suppose it would
be possible to get meetings in this
far away place? We might just as
we'll disband our club at once; 1t will
break it up if we have to go away |
up on the hill.
"The argument has been used that
the club could not afford to build on
its lots on Mission street. This argu-
ment will not hold good. The club
owns its own lots and they are clear.
With $4,000 a one-story building,
5Ox12O, could be erected and the
money for this purpose could be