Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-05-08


In addition to this the club, in con-
nection with the Eagle Printing Com
Ipany, got out the souvenir edition of
The Eagle in September of which 1000
copies We're distributed at an expense
of about $1,000, advertising being sold
to pay for the issue. That was a most
valuable investment.
Now. it is not so much what has
been the receipts and expenditures as
/ it is what has been accomplished. A
retroactive inventory, we believe, will
give the Commercial Club at least
some credit for the splendid public i'm
provements now in process, as every
one must recognize the fact that the
club has assisted in bringing about
| this condition. These consist of side
walk building, water extension, light
improvement, sewer system, COM
mercial college, and at least a very
healthy building campaign. But the
particular point that we wish to draw
attention to is the securing of a great
industry for Bryan, and what that
means to the prosperity of the city.
The first step was: A man came to
hotel, stayed several days, paid his
bill and went away; returned with an
other man to look over the situation,
stayed a week, paid their hotel bills,
and in this way began to spend money
in Bryan. The next step was to erect
buildings, thus employing labor, which
put more money in circulation. This
money went to the grocer, the dry
goods merchant, the shoemakers, the
/ hardware store, the churches, the
schools, the postoffice the drug store,
I the newspaper, and, in short, into
every channel of trade, and was a
means of improving every department
of the commercial, religious and edu-
cational institutions which make up
the civic life of the community.
| The next development was the in
stallation of machinery which called
! for more skilled labor (Which had to
be brought to the city,; insurance, ma
terials, household goods, etc, all
of which contributed many thousands
of dollars to these same channels of
trade. demanding the employment in
the stores of more clerks, in the homes
of more room, in the city of more
houses, making more taxable values.
To the churches and schools it brought
increased attendance, to the postoffice
increased receipts and increase Ill sal
aries of the department officials and
clerks, which still further increases the
volume of trade. In fact, there is not
a single person in the city but that
the presence of a new industry affects
even from its very inception.
| Next, the great wheels of that in
dustry begin to turn; a great quantity
OF the product goes out into every
! part of the county, bringing back the
wages of an army Of workmen whose
names are on a steady pay roll, which
continues to grow twenty-four hours
of the day three hundred and sixty
five days of the year. Every business
or profession in the city gets its share
of that pay roll every Saturday night
The above is not a dream; it is an
accomplished fact.
Now, suppose that the resources of
the Commercial Club were made just
three times the present amount, can
any man estimate what would be it's
value to this city in the next five
years? Suppose that the business men
try it. There is no questioning that the
results would be satisfactory Bryan
can just as well have 10000 population
in five years as to wait ten years
for it.
L. NJ. HEWITT,
Secretary Bryan Commercial Club.