The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-18
The Greatest Fair Ever Held In North Dakota Will
Open Ii, Doors at Fargo Grounds Monday Morning

meals at the five evening banquets
during the campaign. Mrs. w. III,
Stewart spoke for the ladies when she
said: I'VE want to thank you all for
the heartiness with which you have
eaten our dinners. We hope that when
we come around to see you all for the
Y. w. G. A, you will meet us all as
pleasantly and as heartily as you have
met our meals
Col. Morton Page, chairman Of divi-
sion B, said: 1T was hard work. I
want to thank you from the CAPTAINS
way down to the corporals in division
b. No better patriotism was ever
shown the city. want to thank you
all for the way this thing panned
out"
Chairman H. l.. Loomis, in respond
ing to Chairman Stones introduction,
said There is one argument in this
campaign that it is easy to raise. That
was, that the Fargo college campaign
showed us how to do it. We all chip
ped in for Fargo college. In that cam
palen $115,000 was raised. In this
$4,000 has been raised, making, to-
tai of 100000. I don't know where
there is a city twice the size that
could do 1t. I want to congratulate
every member of every team and ev-
cry captain on their work"
DR.. L. T. Guild said: mo one could
be anything but proud to live in Far
go. We've certainly learned how to
do the thing in these two campaigns
and there are a good many things
ahead if we can keep up this spirit"
Rev. Father Egan, member of the
executive committee, said: 'In the
twenty years l have lived in Fargo I
have always maintained that this city
States from a moral standpoint. In
this campaign you certainly have done
thugs. When the annals of Fargo COZ
lege are written, the work in the Far
go college and Auditorium campaigns
certainly must have a prominent
place. The Fargo Armory association
and the workers here deserve the ev-
erlasting gratitude of every citizen.
Rev. Thomas J. Graham said: 'I
want to say that in the fifteen weeks
1 have lived in this city I have found
that it's citizens are neither mean nor
slow. This is the third financial cam
paign I have gone through since I
came. This is just the beginning of
the good things to come. We don't
want to have too big a surplus or the
income tax will get it."
After announcing a gift Of $500 as
an additional stock subscription to the
Armory Auditorium from the North
western Telephone Exchange. John S.
Watson, member of the executive COM
mittee of the campaign, said, you've
sort Of restored my self respect. Wnen
thought that l was a director in the
| organization that had set out to build
structure that would be an ornament
and a pride to any city with no money
back of us, l sometimes wondered
whether we were doing the right thing.
see now that we were all building
better than we knew and that we were
safe in relying on the public spirit of
Fargo to see us through. I am as
proud of the fact as you are that we
are turning over this magnificent
building to the citizens without a dol
lar of debt. When we opened the
campaign, I said to you that we
wouldn't know the meaning Of the
word fail You have proved the as
sertion of the great Cardinal of France
that In the bright lexicon of youth
there is no such word as fall"
George Hancock said, 1.-The chick
ems come home to roost.' Yes, they
do. AS a direct result of the Fargo
college campaign our firm was auth
orized the other day to invest $4,000
in Fargo. AS result of this cam
paign / expect we will probably be
authorized by other outsiders to invest
$4,000 more in Fargo property"
! Maj, Gen. J. Dusenberry Hardy, as
he was introduced by Chairman stone,
got an ovation when he spoke. He
said, much has been said here about
the length of time speakers have liv-
ed in Fargo. l have lived here twenty
eight years and I have always noticed
that If 1 lived through Saturday night,
1 nearly always lived through the
/ week. I had the pleasure this even
ing of sitting down next to the we'll
known wag, DIR. Darrow. He said one
man told him it would be cold day
when they raised $4,000 for the
auditorium He very sagely remark
ed that 1t was a cold day. I'd like
to shake hands with every one of you.
My task has been devising ways to
keep you all at work and 1t hasn't
been a difficult task at all. do want
to say that this campaign and the
Fargo college campaign have healed
every sore spot in town. Now, the
hole where they put the auditorium
is just the right size and the pillars
that were going to 'obstruct the view
of the stage are ornamental. Two
more days and we would have built a
city market on the roof of the audi
torium and never have known 1t.
don't want to take much credit for the
commercial club for this thing, but
do want some of you fellows, instead
of looking through the bars, to come
inside and eat peanuts with the rest
of the monkeys" 1885,.