The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-05-20
QUESTION IS BEING DISC USED BY
- COUNCIL AND BUSINESS MEN
ELECTORS WILL HAVE SAY
Considerable Division Exists Both on
the Council and Among the People
At Large.


an opera nouss or shall ths building be
confined wholly to Offices. fire depart.
ment and barDI'' That is the ques.
tion that is up in the minds Of the
council and in the minds of many OF
the businessmen OF the city.
There seems TO be considerable divi-
sion on the subject at the present time
and as the time which will intervene
between now and the date on which the
matter Is put MP to the people in the
torm Of bonding proposition will be
several months, there Is plenty of time
TO give IL tull and free discussion so
that the arguments on both sides may
be put up to the people.
Our readers must not get the idea
that city hall, with or without an
opera house, is going to be built right
away. The council has no intention of
crowding these Improvements so fast
that the public Golfers cannot digest
them. IL Is quite probable that moth.
ing will be done until late in the fall
or winter and then the first step will
be TO put the matter up TO the voters
in the form of bonding proposition.
The street expenditure is all taken
care Of but the city must have time TO
recover and get some money ahead be-
fore any such new improvement ques-
tion can be taken up BY the time the
taxes come in next fall the city will be
in excellent financial condition.
On every question that comes up now
before the council the pruning knife Is
applied as advisedly as the case will
warrant for I'VE must be saving and
get in shape for a city hall is the sx
preston heard from every member Of
that body.
The council is getting plars and spe
cihcations made out and 10 is under.
stood that one set will be for a city
hall only and the other will be for
city hall containing an opera house.
These plans and estimates will be-
gotten out during the summer ~ that
they can be fully discussed ere any ac-
tion Is taken.
On a rough guess, Mayor Bjork states
that city hall only will cost about
S24. 600 and "a city hall to contain an
opera house will cost s32 000 That
means that the extra expense necessary
TO put in an opera house will be aJout
IS. 00p
Is IL too much for the return to be
got9
Those who say that we need no opera
house claim that the extra expense Is
too great and that the tax payers ought
not be asked 10 make il in order 10
furnish an amusement place only that
city hall is necessity an opera
house is not and that the city should
20 no further in the expenditure OF
public money than to provide the ne
cessities
Those who argue for an pera house
consist OF three classes
First there are the progressives who
are in for anything that will promote
the city and give advantage to it's peo-
pie.
Secondly those who look 10 the safety
and amusement of the people; who
waut as many amusements and as much
Of the bright side OF life promoted as
possible that the people may be con-
tented with their lot here.
Then there are the young people in
large numbers the dancing public who
want public hall large enough to take
care OF large parties with safety and
comfort.
All OF these classes favor an opera
house rs we'll as city hall.
II Is ~. policy of all who have labor
and sociA conditions TO contend with
now days TO bring to the people Of the
small towns and the farming country
az many amusements as possibly can be
crowded in so as 20 content the people
with their lot and keep them from
hocging 10 the cities.
Even the mining companies have en-
tered upon such policy and many Of
them are erecting club houses at their
mines in which lectures and picture
shows are exhibited. all al the expense
Of the companies the purpose being 10
content their employees with their loca.
tion.
Crystal Falls has very few advan-
tages. All strangers who come. to stop
among us say. II like the place ard
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