The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-01-12
NEW BOARD
TAKES HOLD
COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS MEETING
First Meeting of the Club Under New
Board of Directors Well Atrend-
ed and Enthusiastic.

large crown was present, among them
several visitors from neighboring
towns. Under the consideration of old
business the committee that had been
appointed to investigate the present
facilities for the amusement and rec
reation of young boys of the city and
to suggest means of furthering this
work, made report to the club. This
committee was composed of c. A.
Bell, II. l.. Howe and Capt. McCan.
Mr.. Bell as chairman reported that the
Congregational Church was conducting
a movement along the same line and
were looking for some place suitable
for adequate Fairgrounds. 1t was
found that the Hood River Athletic
Club, which has ceased to be active,
has in its possession some unused
apparatus. After a discussion of
the report it was moved and seconded
that the Commercial Club, as an or
ganlzation, take no active interest nor
make any attempt to control any ath-
letIc association or endorse any move
ment along this line, but that its mem
bers individually make every effort to
re-establish the present athletic club
anu StI IL uOWll W DuSlIlGSS.
A communication was received from
the Pine Grove Grange enclosing a
petition, which appears in another col
umn of this issue, asking for the Club S
cooperation in determining the best
road measures or an amended measure,
and to so instruct the representative
from Hood River county. Acting upon
this petition the club decided to call
meeting for tomorrow afternoon,
at which the members of the Pine
Grove Grange have been asked to be
present. The question of road bills
for the county will be taken up by
these two bodies and thoroughly dis
cussed and some bill or amended bill,
such as will be for the best interest of
the county, will be decided upon.
A petition signed by a majority of
the members WIS presented to the or
ganization asking that the board of
directors be instructed to make ar
rangements to have about twenty feet
of the assembly hall cut off and added
to the billiard room. The present con
veniences of the billiard room are very
inadequate. 1t has. mo outside windows
and the ventilation is poor. BY the
proposed change two more tables can
be added and plenty of fresh air Sc
cured from the windows opening on
Third Street. The measure was
strongly opposed by some members
who were opposed to the club under
going the Indebtedness that will be
necessary to cary out the change,
and it was suggested that the
cut off from the assembly hall would
make it impossible to rent for social
purposes. However, after discus
sion, it was decided that space could
be spared without impairing any of its
present facilities. A further argu-
ment for the proposed change was
made when Secretary Skinner reported
that the present billiard room in the
past few months had netted the organ
ization in the neighborhood of $3.50
whereas against an .income of $50
from the hall. President Smith ap-
pointed committee of three, composed
of DR.. J. f. Watt, DR.. f. c. Brosius,
and W. i. Clark, to confer with the
board and have the desired change
made at once.
After the business of the meeting
was tinisnhed Ivan b. Rhoades, sec
retary of the Young Mems Christian
Association for the states of Oregon
and Idaho, made very interesting
address. Mr.. Rhoades said that his
work had required him to travel over
all of the sections of the Northwest
and that everywhere he found pre-
vailing spirit of progress. Men, he
said, are entering into a spirit of work
not for selfish purposes alone, but that
may they better serve mankind as
whole. In closing Mr.. RhOades told of
the work that has been conducted by
the Y. M. c. A. in neighboring cities.
Much of this work consists in prepar-
ing adequate places of recreation as
well as clear brains. He suggested
plan for a Y. M. G. A. building in
Hood River, if the citizens should
desire it. 1t would be easy, he said,
to raise twenty or twenty-five thousand
dollars whereby handsome building
equipped with every modern apparatus
could be constructed. The most
feasible plan, he suggested, would be
to cooperate with the neighboring
country communities. Each commun-
ity could have its local organization,
holding local meetings as often as con
venient or necessary, which, when in
the city, would be granted all the pri-
vileges of the city building. The club
endorsed Mr.. Rhoades' suggestions
and decided to appoint a committee to
confer with him.
Z. H.. HartWig, the new mayor and
a member Of the new board of drec-
tors of the Club, was called on for
speech. He said that one of the
policies of the new city government
would be devoted toward making Hood
River a city of more manufactures.
Too much effort he said has been spent
in developing the horticultural re-
sources. Now that the surrounding
country is forging ahead Of the town
it is time for the citizens of the town
to make an effort to secure greater
growth in their own limits.
James f. Montgomery announced
that he, Charles l.. Wheeler and c. A.
Mosely had made arrangements to have
Ebert Hubbard deliver his lecture,
'The March of the Centuries" here
February 20. MIR. Montgomery asked
that the Commercial Club lend its sup
port toward making this thing a great
success and toward entertaining Frau
Elbertus while in the Valley. It. is
the custom of Ebert Hubbard to des-
cribe fluently in his two magazines,
the Frau and the Philistine, those
places with which ne is favorably i'm
pressed. The club endorsed the plans
as set forth by Mr.. Montgomery, and
undoubtedly Mr.. Hubbard will receive
royal welcome on the date Of his lee
ture.
Judge Bradshaw and Prosecuting
Attorney Wilson, of The Dalles, who
have been attending circuit court here
this week, were present and addressed
the meeting. Each praised Hood