The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-06-22
GREELEY, COLORADO.

An Interesting Write-Up Of Western
Town in Which Belfast People are Lo-'
Gated.
The Journal recently received from
Mr.. D. Faunce Woodcock copy of the
Greeley Tribune containing write-up OF
that town as illustrative of the Western
methods of promoting growth and pros
perity. The town of Greeley was found
ed by Horace Greeley of the New York
Tribune, and the Greeley Tribune was
established by N. C. Meeker, member
of the N. Y. Tribune editorial staff. Both
have passed away, but the town and the
newspaper continue to flourish. One OF
the live business men of Greeley is Mr..
A. ]. Condor, formerly of Belfast, and
Mr.. Jesse E. Wilson, who conducts a
successful business at Fort Collins, and
Mr.. A. w. Thompson, both former Bel
fast boys, have large real estate interests
there. Following is the write-up:
sPUDs, WOMEN AND PIONEERS.
Greeley is the city of spuds and pio-
neers. The spuds grow luXurlantly IN
the country roundabout and the pioneers
seem to grow on every street corner
within the city. Positively, there are
more pioneers here to the square foot
than in any other town in Colorado.
Even the dogs appear to assert, with
furious wagging of their tails, that they,
too, are pioneers, and that they came
here before Horace Greeley's dog.
Potatoes, pioneers and the women
these are the three most active inf1u
ences in Greeley today. The potatoes
furnish the income, the pioneers furnish
the brains and hard work, and the women
furnish the ideas of Improvement; and
all three work tremendously together to
build up city that is easily one of the
most remarkable in Colorado.
FOUNDED ON IDEA.
For Greeley, unlike any other town in
the State, was founded on an idea, with
the whim of & railroad or other enter
prise. 1t was started as model colony
with the avowed intention of becoming
a model city, and the sturdy old pioneers
have stuck with the game. They have
spent money at home which they might
easily have spent abroad; they have re-
fused gifts when better result could be
accomplished by subscriptions from pub
lic-spirited citizens. You find Greeley
today self-respecting, self-sufficient and
frankly self-centered. Greeley capital is
almost wholly invested in Greeley enter
prises, and Greeley aesthetic interest in
art, literature, music and social science
has for its practical aim the betterment
of Greeley as place to live.
OFTEN CALLED CLANNISH.
Because of this attitude Greeley, with
some show of reason, has been called
clannish and even cold, but that is hardly
fair One must remember that this city
is in spirit still the original Union Colony
still working out the ideas of Horace
Greeley and of Father N. c. Meeker.
The men who came here when the col
ony was started are, for most part, still
here and still actively advancing the
growth of the colony. Other cities in
Colorado are like streams of running
water. The stream remains, but the
material of it changes. The cities re-
main, but the people come and go. But
the people of Greeley have remained,
and they naturally scrutinize the new
conner with come degree Of care.
If one has this fact we'll in mind when
he enters Greeley he won It feel badly if
his overtures are received calmly and his
actions watched rather closely. For
Greeley is frankly opposed to anything
or anybody who comes to interfere with
the working out of the colonial ideas.
Greeley is therefore a practical city.
Any interest of life that ca mot be
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apt to be hewn down and cast in the fire.
tivities of the women. The women have
clubs and organizations of all kinds-lit-
erary, social, musical, benevolent, and
the product of all of them is something
good for Greeley. The only automobile
club in the place is compos d of women.
1t is called the ''Joy Riders club" but
that is a misnomer, because the work of
the club has been to procure the enforce
ment of regulations for automobiles anG
their speed. The work of the Fortnightly
Musical club, composed of women entire
ly, of which Mrs. Charles Clark is presi-
dent, has been to secure concerts by the
great artists for Greeley. The new thea.
ire in the Sterling building Exclusively
Greeley enterprise) was tittingly open
ed Friday night by the Fortnightly Musi-
cal club. The demand for good things
which this club created was one of the
greatest causes of the theatres building,
MOTHERS CONGRESS.
Probably no organization in Greeley
today has a greater influence on it's civic
life than the Mothers congress, of which
Mrs W. r. Dedrick is president. Within
one short year this organization of forty
women has done tremendous amount OF
work 1t abolished the vulgar features
of the moving picture shows; secured
more sanitary conditions for children ir
the schools; reduced the expenses of high
school social affairs; secured more parks
and Fairgrounds for school children. To.
day the Mothers congress is working for
good roads; change in the high schoo
curriculum which would give less promi.
nence to dead languages and more to do.
nestle science and hygiene, reforms ii
dress for both young men and young
women; reforms in the matter of print
ing conspicuously the names of unfortu
nate girls in the newspapers.
MEN PROUD OF THEM.
All this is said without disparagement
to the men. 1t was from the men of the
Commercial club and the newspaper men
that secured the dope" on the women s
activities. Ask any man in Greeley today
what the women are doing and he will
tell you just what | have told. Horror
to whom honor is dllai