Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22

lidNcIAHE pIICcpotiucitl VI ltlC Efcli-
ing Wisconsin, spent the past week in
Wausau visiting with old time
friends. Interviews were had With
Neal Brown and G. ID. Jones on the
water power development situation
which Mere published in the Evening
Wisconsin. Both were very able
papers on the situation.
In Saturdays Wisconsin, Mr.. Van
dercook has an article on the general
conditions as he finds them here, and
the PILOT gives its readers parts of
that article as follows:
Wausau is the biggest small city in
the United States III all the activities
and forces which contribute TO the
making of city. Its continuing
growth is the result of efforts by men
who do things as individuals and in
harmony and cooperation of a great,
big, assertiye community spirit. The
spirit of the place is community pride.
Wausau men and women are proud of
Wausau because they have wrought
out great big plan, of homes, of
schools, OF churches, of mammoth in
dustries. They have cleared away the
forests and developed farms. They
have harnessed the energy of rivers
and have built railways and mills.
This has been done by themselves
alone, without aid from the big out
side business world. The surplus
capital of Wausau is TO be found rep
resented in the directorate of num-
Der of Milwaukee banks and invested
in Milwaukee enterprises.
The spirit OF Wausau is harmony
and cooperation, confidence in and
respect for the men who are bringing
results in the upbuilding of the city
1t is part of the daily life of Wau-
sau business men and influences that
public spirit which has achieved sc
greatly in big results. A business
project is to be launched, the building
of street railway line, the erection
of an industrial plant or the reclaim
ing of cut-over timber section. How.
ever big the sum of money may be
that is needed, if the project is ac-
cepted, it is found in Wausau. The
financial end is not the only considera
tion. The question most frequently
asked is, what will the project do fol
Wausau?" Will it give employment
to labor? Will it bring something
that is needed? Will it aid in the
development of resources and add tC
the progress of the city?
These are generalities, but they find
demonstration in the actual things
accomplished. New buildings, ar
ornament TO any city, like that of the
Wisconsin, Valley Trust company
which by the way is the result of d
plan made by Senator A. L. KreutZel
and M. B. Rosenberg, the new Y. M
G. A. building erected at cost Of
$50, 700, the library, the hospital, the
federal building and many other public
and business blocks, mark the move
ment of Wausau'S evolution and de
velopment. These men make plans
that are executed on the scale of Wau
sau public spirit. They are too busy
to engage in the petty community
quarrels which so greatly impair anC
so frequently destroy the building uE
of towns and cities. Political lines
stop where the interests of Wausar
are involved.
/, One of the concrete, practical re
suits of the distinctive Wausau spirit
is to be found in the purposes of al
association recently organized. Thi:
is known as the Wausau Industrial
association Its name alone woulC
indicate that it was an aggregation o.
business men and citizens in some
thing of the nature of a business
mems league, an advancement associa
ZION or something of the kind which
mas many types in practically every
town of any pretense. The WausaI
organization is something more thar
this, for it is a business corporation
with a paid up capital stock Of
100000, distributed among all classes
and the purposes are as follows:
To purchase and sell stock of corpo-
rations having established or propos-
ing to establish manufactures OF
manufacturing establishments in oil
near the city of Wausau. To loar
money to individuals, corporations OF