Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-10
ASSOCIATION FOR THAT PURPOSE
GROWS OUT or MOVE 70
LIGHT AVENUE.
SEEK 70 ESTABLISH
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
Less Dirt and Dust and q Cleaner,
Better Avenue is Slogan Of the Club
Street Lighting COMMITTEES F1sports
and Will Solicit Money For Electro
iiers.

of the south part of the city and the
depot district, and especially South
Third avenue, were made, and an asso-
citation of South Third avenue resi-
dents and business men was organized
to push the projects proposed, at
meeting held at the Railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. Tuesday evening. The meeting was
called especially for residents of the
street, to hear the report of the COM
mfttee on the electrolier lighting prop
osition for the avenue
This project paved the way for 9TH
ers, and out of them grew an organiza-
ton called the South Third Avenue
Improvement Association, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, A. p. Bratt;
vice president, George r. Stone; Sec
rotary, ]. L. Williams; treasurer, H. E.
Wilson.
Want Civic Improvement.
Civic Improvement, especially for
Third avenue and districts touching it,
might be properly termed the slogan Of
this organization. Its members want
several things which they believe
would better the town in general and
particularly their avenue.
Chief among them is an anti-dust
and dirt campaign. In other words
they want the avenue kept cleaner, and
while it has not yet been definitely de-
termined just how this particular OBJ
| ject may be attained, steps are to be
| taken to accomplish it if possible. A
committee is to wait on the city coun-
| ell, hoping to receive cooperation from
| that body.
| Seek Emergency Hospital.
| Still another, and what some of
those most interested hold to be one Of
the important hoped-for improvements,
is an emergency hospital for the depot
district. In this they have the en-
couragement of physicians whose opin-
| ion has been asked. 1t Is held that a
majority Of the accidents of the city
| happen in the depot and railroad dis
tricts, which has made necessary the
establishment of an emergency hospital
! to care for such cases until they can
be removed to st. Thomas hospital or
! elsewhere. The need of such a place
was made apparent recently when
little girl had her leg broken in an ac-
cident near the union station. There
was no place to take the child but into
a nearby office, where temporary relief
the gaze of crowd of curious men and
boys
This plan for hospital. as far as it
has been developed. is to establish and
maintain a room near the union station,
equipped for emergency cases, where
the injured could be quickly removed
and be cared for, 1t is believed that
the physicians of the city would be
glad to cooperate in equipping such
a room.
Want Parking Near Station.
Another plan proposed is to make
an effort to induce the Northwestern
to lay a parking north of the union sta
ton and perhaps the entire distance
between Second and Third avenue.
! This space in the rear of the station
is about twice the width of an ordinary
street, and as it is now is q great
reservoir for dust and dirt. a parking.
while leaving ample room for vehicles.
would, it is thought. do away with
much of the dust and dirt that blow
from this place.
The committee that was appointed
by w. w. Doolittle, president of the
Mars4lalltown Club, to report on the
street lighting proposition for the
avenue, did so and the report was
accepted. The committee mas on hand
and promised from the railroads what
practically amounts to about 81 400
Five hundred dollars of this amount
was secured by the sale Of buttons
last summer, and the rest is represent
ed by twelve electrolier posts which
the three railroads have agreed to do
nate. Approximately $1,000 more is
needed to buy and install the lights
The committee will try to secure this
amount by solicitation, and it was con-
tinued for that purpose. This commit
tee is composed Of E. S. Ketchum
chairman; A. P. Brat, F. w. Brewer
P. j. saveraid, George Stone, H. E
Wilson, and L. E. Young.