The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-28

Plans on broad lines, effective
organization, the hearty cooperation
| of the people and enthusiasm plus
are the principal requisites that en-
tered into arranging and carrying to
a successful conclusion the city clean
ing and special arbor day celebration
| which was originated in Spokane
early in the spring Of 1906.
Aubrey Lee White, president of the
| city park commission, worked out the
plan through the City Beautiful com
mittee of the One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand club, headed by c. Herbert
Moore, former mayor of Spokane.
and every year since then Spokane
has furnished one of the most re-
markable and wholesome spectacles
ever witnessed in any city OF the
100000 class in America.
The City Beautiful committee is de-
clared to be one of the best organized
In addition to the chairman. there is
vice chairman in each ward, a cap
tain in each precinct and lieuten-
ant in every block within the corpor-
ated city limits. There is also a
joint committee. composed of 20 bust
ness men, making up the sub-com-
mittee on cleaning day. public build
ings, parks, driveways and alleys,
streets and bridges and tree planting
The joint committee meets twice a
month, when plans are presented for
improvements and upon adoption the
work is carried out in the various
wards through the captains and lieu
tenants.
Twenty thousand men. women and
school children turned out at the first
annual cleaning day. the middle OF
April, five years ago. The army of
volunteer workers, including hank and
railroad presidents. millionaire lum-
Der mill. mine and factory operators,
Wholesale and retail merchants. so
ciety folk. clerks, mechanics and la
borers, was under the supervision Of
Henry ]. Lilienthal, city engineer,
who was marshal of the day. They
were armed with shovels. spades,
rakes and pruning implements. and
worked in the open from early morn
ing till nightfall.
Five hundred teams of horses and
wagons We're provided BY the One
Hundred and Fifty Thousand club.
mill owners, business houses and
residents generally to haul Inc gar
bage to the municipal inc5neraEng
plants. and special detachmsats 81
hremen We're stationed in varaoas
parts of the city and cufsszrrs ga
supervise the destruction al 1hs ~.
fuse by bonfires. The rnaFls gai ms
city had declared a public aaEzzssF Glrla
business was suspendsd wa ffns
people were at work heartily r:s 1iiss
city.
The One Hundred and Fifty Tsesns-
and club turned out lis entire -sza-
hership Of s.2 2tteo and the NaMoE z
Nak-ODs, the vce,an,s asff1ziiiissaF7. nsef-
ed by Mrs. F. T. Emery. assisted the
school children in planting trees and
shrubs, seeding plots of ground The
planted 10000 packets OF
flower seeds, and when Spokane
awakened the following morning. the
streets, drives, walks and front and
back yards were as bright and clean
as new pins.
Identification and artistic improve
ment was noticeable in all parts d
Spokane and it was generallF agreed
that the first cleaning day campaign
was one OF the most successful semi
civic movements carried out in
Spokane. Then and there it was de-
cided to devote one day each rear 10
this work More than that, several
hundred cities and towns in the Unit