Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
CIVIC PRIDE AND CIVIC
PUSH HELP WAUSAU.
Few Observations From the Pen of G. E. Vandercook
Correspondent of the Evening Wisconsin

associations having such a nurnose.
To purchase and sell sites, to erect.
construct and sell buildings. Tolease
sites and buildings. To locate. build.
encourage and establish. such manu-
factories by any other method except
TO give bonuses. To borrow money
for any of the above purposes and to
make loans and to promote i'm all
Legitimate ways the general industrial.
social, educational and economic. well
fare of the people of said city and TO
maintain traffic bureaus and to secure
the location of industrial concerns.
Nj. B. Rosenberg is president. q. f..
Turner, vice-president; B. +. Wilson.
secretary; Charles A. Barwig. treas
urer: g. D. Jones, Charles Wegner.
M. G. Ewing, Walter K. Curtis and
ID. G. Everest are the directors.
Four thousand shares were issued
and have been taken by the business
men and citizens. 1t is a business
organization to cooperate with any
person or corporation seeking to
establish an industry in new field
1t is full OF the Wausau spirit which
seeks to give encouragement and
financial assistance TO am business
project of benefit to the city. 1t is
not paper organization for adyertis-
| ing purposes alone, but one that
adopts practical business methods to
secure the best results through CO.
operation. If money is needed. if
stock is to be subscribed and taken,
it means that Wausau stands ready
TO aid in the work.
A few years ago, Neal Brown, who
is lawyer and not a promoter or
captain of industry, found himself in
possession of franchise for a street
railway. Most people thought that
the transition from the day of the OK
team to an electric railway was far
cry, as far as Wausau was concerned.
| Brown didn't think so and proceed
ed TO put the idea into concrete life.
He sold the stock and bonds in Wau-
sau and built the road from the west
side through the principal portion of
the city out to one of the manufac-
turing additions. The road earned
recognition as an approved investment
and extensions were added which
carried it to the new town of Roths-
childs, with another plan to be execut-
ed which will reach Merrill. The
lstock is worth more than par and is
not distributed among the so-called
lumber barons," but is owned by
hundreds of businessmen.
/ And so the story might go on in
definitely as it relates to the develop
ment of Wausau and the men who in
fluence this progress. The city repre-
sents progress and expresses a great
big broad citizenship in everything
In the building of Wausau the
lumbermen have carried an important
pagt and today they are cooperating
with the industrial agencies which
seek a continuation of community
welfare and progress. The wealth the
surrounding forest regions have con-
tributed finds investments in mills
and factories, in the development OF
power and in the building Of thrifty
city. These men adapt themselves tC
the evolution of industrial conditions
They meet problems as they arise in
the same spirit and with the same
success as the high grade of men
carve out anywhere they operate.
In these days OF lads and faddiSt
purposes, when the too common i'm.
pulse is to look upon the lumbermen
of Wisconsin from the view point OF
prejudice and defamation, it would be
well worth the time of some o. the
| Wisconsin disciples of this school tic
visit Wausau as fair type of the city
of so-called ''lumber barons.' Unless
their opinions are as prejudiced as
their schemes of conservation are i'm.
practical, the object lesson thus af.
forded might do them some good
They might learn that the men who
are energizing the business and in
dustrial life of many city and town
in northern Wisconsin are not the
sort of vandals they depict in Their
play of parlor socialism conceived
largely from the academic conclusion
that their rule and no other must fit.
but that the men of these communi.
ties succeed because they develop re-
sources and do not destroy them.