New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-06-10
Club Discusses
Civic Progress
NEW APPROACH TO c. N. w.
STATION is PROMISED BY
COMPANY.
CARNIVAL COMPANY NOT WANT
ED HERE. NEWSPAPER
MEN WELCOMED.

Interest in the rejuvenated CONNER
cial Club keeps on unabated and if there
should continue to be as much business
to require the attention as developed last
Monday evening, it may become niece
ssary to hold semi-monthly meetings.
With reports from special and standing
committees, discussions arising from the
reports and new matters that were
brought up, the 80 odd members of the
club that were present spent very busy
two or thre hours.
DR.. Emil Mueller reported on behalf
of the good roads committee that negoti-
ations had been opened with the officials
of the Northwestern line for better ap-
proaches to the depot and that seven
foot cement sidewalk had been promised,
and that the widening Of the thorough
fare for an additional five feet had also
been agreed to. The railroad company
had intimated that the city should fur
nish the crushed rock for ballasting the
street and that the railroad company
would give the city in lew thereof the
same number of cubic yards of gravel.
The general opinion seemed to prevail
that the railroad company ought to do
this work cheerfullyin view of the amount
of business that they get out Of the city
annually and the whole matter was re-
no 1x +Lo
About this time someone asked if any,
thing had been done about the cement
sidewalk that had been promised to the
College some five years ago. This
brought Prof. Alderman to his feet to
tell the club. all he had done the promises
he had received which had not yet been
carried out and he characterized the treat
ment that the College had received as
simply scandalous. Other members
voiced similar sentiments and the matter
was finally disposed Of by referring it to
a committee consisting OF Ferd. Crone,
H. N. Sonsen, DR.. 0. G. Stricken, Dr..
L. A. Fritsche and Albert Steinhauser.
This committee will bring the matter be-
fore the council at their next meeting.
A lively discussion was brought on
when Pres. Ottomeyer reported that a
carnival company had been booked here
and that upon inquiry he had been told
that no permit had been issued by the
Mayor or the city council and he asked
that the Commercial Club take action
and prevent the exhibition if possible.
ALDER Steinhauser suggested that as long
as the carnival company was not going to
occupy the streets of the city that it
ought to make very little difference to
the Club whether they gave exhibitions
or not. He was however, completely
overruled by the opposition led by Rev.
Wheeler who maintained that the average
carnival company is composed Of unde-
sirable people and that these shows as
rule are demoralizing for the young
people. A resolution was finally adopted
giving as sense Of the meeting that no per-
NIT should be granted to the carnival
company and a committee consisting of
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was appointed to present the wishes of the
club to the city authorities.
Willibald Eibner reported on behalf
of the committee on industries that they
had several prospects under consideration
and were investigating some of them,
especially the one which proposes to
erect a factory here for the purpose of
manufacturing dry cell batteries. This
proposition he thought looked very
favorable from the Investigations that
had been made so far. He stated, how
ever, that they were not thru with their
Investigations and that complete
report would be made at later date.
During the course of the evening Messrs.
Ritter and Jaeger, promoters of this
industry, were given an opportunity to
address the meeting. Both were quite
confident that there would be no diff
Guilty in financing the proposition and
that within few months they would be
ready for work. In their opinion they
would employ not less than 20 or 80 men
from the start, which number would be
increased to SO or Is in a very short time.
Mr.. Eibner also read from letter re-
Gently received from Prof. John x. Neu-
mann showing that the bread from New
Ulm showed the best psychological
test Of any bread that had been received
at the Wisconsin University laboratory
so far.
Mr.. Eibner then brought up the matter
OF lower motor rates for the home in
dustries and this led to considerable