Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-08
KEYSTONE HOTEL

mind You, and twenty minutes later
twenty men subscribed $500 dollars
each to the bonus and thirty minutes
after that thirty men subscribed $3.50
each and they announced, all of them,
that the hotel would be finished in
six months and that 1t would cost
something like 100000. As matter
of fact the hotel was finished in less
time than that and it did cost 500 600.
If HoldcnUlle needed an opera house
the folks Just had a little party and
the money was in the bank the next
morning. If Holdcnvlle needed a
modern city han the commission or
dered an election, everybody in town
voted for the bonds and the city hail
was there and ready for occupancy
while some Of the ohcr towns were
merely talking about it. If Holden
Vile was short Of water, as happened
just once and will never happen again,
the commission called an election and
the bonds, TO the extent Of S15O,OOO,
were subscribed right at home, SO it
was about paved streets and so It was
about parks and so 1t was about
everything else that makes town worth
living in.
The thing which puzzles most peo-
pie is how all these things could have q
been going on right under peoples
noses and no attentions paid them
Holdenville has been pursuing too
much the policy Of attending to her
Gown business and not advertising at
all. There was a sort OF shrinking
aversion to publicity. a dignified
aioofness which used to be considered.
admirable but is away out Of dato
now. While other places were Shrek
ing their supposed advantages and
their piecemeal progress to the four
quarters OF the earth and sending
commercial missionaries out TO lure
the wary dollar from heopockets Of
the tightfisted eastorners Holdenyillo
was as silent as quaker meeting.
The reawakening or rather the
awakening, came suddenly one day
when Mr. McFarlin and some others
were sitting around looking over some
statistics. "You have not issued a
folder giving data about Holdenville in
three years, why?' he asked. And
then before anybody could answer he
shouted another one: why don't you
let people know what you have got
here? Why don't you get some moro
people and put a little more steam
around the odd towing Before any
body could answer he landed another
charge Of shrapnel: Let's put somo
dynamite in @tho movement and let
the folks know that we are still on
the map. Get busy and keep busy.
Tell all about everything that is worth
telling Print something. Spread a
few tons Of ink around the country
Talk whole lot but be sure it is the
right kind oG talk. not the kind which
brings men and boys here looking for
jobs before the Jobs arc ready for
them. Get the jobs first and the men
to fill them will be pouring in by
every train. Menless Jobs are infinitely
preferable to jobless men" The Mr..
McFarlin took train for Tulsa or some
other town and let the suggestions
soak in.
with little more speed than It has
heretofore experienced Holdehvllle did
get busy. 1t reorganized the Chamber
Of Commerce and quit looking at the
occasional visiting newspaper man
like he was an escaped criminal. They
furbished up the folders and busted
up the chairs on the meeting place and
instead Of a conference once in great
while they meet once day and some
times twice day and discuss things
TO make Holdenville attain TO a place
in the sun. Mr.. McFarlln used to
prod them along, along, along. along
a bit TIL they took the bit and now
they are Just making all the other
towns In that part OF Oklahoma
realize that Holdenvlle is not
"wasser" but 'Isser," not coming
but "goInger town" than anything
round about. All OF the men, young
and old have frightened up bit and
brushed the cobwebs off the entire