The Glenwood post., 1911-02-11
GLENWOOD WANTS
PUBLIC BUILDING
Matter Discussed at Public
Meeting and Finance Com.
mittee Appointed
NEED GREAT, MONEY Nil

The meeting called by Mayor Drach
last Friday evening at the court house
was fairly well attended and the ques-
tion of a city hall and auditorium was
discussed by several of Glenwood s cit
izens without anything at all definite
being accomplished.
Glenwood S need, not only of decent
city hall, Jail and fire house, but pub
lie auditorium would be quite IN add
tion to the town and could be used
several times every year to quite good
advantage and often at considerable
financial profit to the town.
But needing a thing and getting it
are two different matters and while
all are agreed as to the need, no plan
has yet been devised for securing
building to meet the demands of the
town and to house many conventions
that might be induced to meet here it
sufficient accommodations could be pro-
videi.
At Fridays meeting Mayor Draeh
was elected chairman and C. w. Taylor
was made secretary. The chairman a.
once called for any who might have
sponded with plan. proposing that an
association should be organized to con-
struct suitable building and that to
those subscribing for such purpose,
either in cash or labor, the town should
issue certificates of Indebtedness draw
ing six per cent interest, this to be
done after the building was completed
and decided to the town.
Mr.. Taylor's plan, which showed
that he had given the matter great
deal of thought, was considered by
many to be the most feasible scheme
yet advanced looking to the solution of
this important question.
Major S. J. DeLan proposed plan
which he claimed was entirely feasible,
the plan being for the town to issue
warrants for an amount sufficient to
build the structure, these warrants to
be based on a special tax. and he
claimed there would be no trouble IN
getting capitalists to take such war
rant issue at face value as he had taken
the matter up with a Denver attorney
who is authority on the question of
municipal Indebtedness and he had pro
nounced it sound and safe.
Mayor Drach mildly attacked Major
DeLan's proposition and said he did
not regard it as feasible and doubted
if capitalists would care to advance
their money on such plan. MAJOR
DeLan ably defended his plan and said
he was sure the money could be raised
by the plan he had suggested.
Assessor Barlow thought the town al
ready had a floating warrant indebted
ness of nearly $4,000 and while he said
! this was technically illegal he thought
we might just as well add $4,000 or
$4,000 to it and go ahead and build the
hall.
Theodore Rosenberg faored Major
DcLan's proposition as he thought the
nonresident property owners who were
refusing either to sell or improve
their Glenwood property should be
forced by means of direct taxation to
contribute their share toward public
improvements. He stated that such Il
building as Glenwood needs would cost
$25, 900 to 100000 and referred to two
previous attempts to secure town
hall and to the obstacles then found N
the way. He was somewhat sarcastic
in his remarks and referred to the fact
that some of the parties who are the
most ardent advocates Of public
building were in the former days the
most bitter in opposing better plan
than has thus far been presented.
Fred c. Ewing referred to former
efforts and told of the time when he,
as town trustee, introduced resoln-
tion providing for special levy for
town hall purposes but he said he was
laughed at. He said he would give 800
toward the project if 90 others could
be found to do the same.
C. d. Barnes discussed the matter at
some length and made motion that
committee of three be appointed to as
certain if the money could be secured
as per Major DeLan g suggestion. The
motion prevailed and the chair appoint