The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-04
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The following is report that
will be submitted to the chamber
of commerce tonight at it's meet
ing for the election of officers, by
Secretary Levi G. Monroe, who is
slated for retirement by the new
board of directors.
Mr.. Monroe has held his office
for the past seven years. The fig
ures for those years show what
success he has had in the associa-
ton. In his report and speech,
which will likely be his farewell
address to members Of the cham
ber of commerce as brother Of
ficers, Mr.. Monroe will suggest a
few things as work for the or
ganization and betterment of the
city as follows:
while we can well feel proud
of our achievement of the last
year, there is much more to accom-
plish. A mere glance into the fu-
ture will convince us that we have
just started on the road to real
accomplishment. Among things this
association can and should con-
slider with a view to rendering ev-
cry assistance possible are the
creation of a sentiment for the
immediate construction of better
roads, modern street lighting, the
permanent improvement of the
streets, the gathering of data on
various kinds of street paving
Wise and far seeing of the city park
commission is the furtherance of
a park and boulevard system and
a civic center; secure a more d.
rect communication between the
city and Fort George Wright mill
tary reservation by means of
bridge across the river near Nata-
tOrium park, so necessary to in
creasing it's facilities required for
the establishment of a full regi-
mental post; the building of a~san-
itarium hotel at Medical Lake; the
laying of plans for a future water
supply; the building of line into
the Big Bend and on to Lake Che
Ian, the Switzerland of America,
making Spokane the greatest sum
mer tourist center in the United
States; the creation of an industrial
department, whose duties it will be
to investigate all manufacturing
propositions and industrial pro-
jects
In regard to his proposed forma-
ton of an industrial department in
the chamber of commerce, Mr.. Mon
roe says that he is in favor of form
ing a corporation, with a capital of
100000, and making the members
of the industrial committee the
trustees of the fund
He calls attention to the fact that
many local people have invested in
manufacturing enterprises at their
own financial loss, because of the
fact that they have not had time to
investigate their merits and that,
many mer:torious concerns have
been permitted to lapse or pre-
vented from starting at all for the
same reason.
AS to the proposed bridge con-
Meeting the military reservation
with the city, it is remembered that
Mr.. Monroe made just such sug-
gestion five years ago. The govern
ment has a standing offer to pay
half the cost of such a structure,
but at that time the county of Spo-
kane was not financially able to
pay the other half. Secretary Mon
roe declares his belief that the
county is now sufficiently wealthy
to handle the proposition with com
parative ease, thereby giving
transportation facility that has al
most become imperative by the
rapid growth of the city and coun-
try in that direction.