New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-06
COMMERCIAL CLUB
ATTENDANCE GOOD
NEW QUARTERS INSPECTED. DE-
CLARED FINE. FORMAL
OPENING SOON.
QUESTION OF BETTER WALKS
ON FIRST NORTH STREET
URGED.

Altho there was record attendance
of between so and 60 members of the
Commercial Club at the first meeting
of the Club held in it's new quarters
Monday evening, no business of great
Importance was transacted and there
seemed to be lack of the enthusiastic
spirit that has at most of the other meet
ings dominated the members.
The matter of having the census of
New Ulm taken was again up for dis
cussion and it was reported that the ex-
pense of merely counting the inhabitants
would not exceed $40 to $50 but some
of those who took part in the discussion
favored the plan that other information
should be gathered also at the time and
the whole matter was finally disposed
of by referring it to committee consist
ing of E. A. Pfeferle, John H. Siegel
and Ed. A. Stoll whose duty it shall be
to investigate the matter fully and make
such recommendations to the club at the
next meeting as they see fit.
VIM. Mather on behalf of the COM
mittee which was to take up with the
City Council the matter of putting a
stop to the begging proposition in this
city, reported that they had appeared
before the council and that the council
had appointed Mayor l.. A. Fritsche,
City Attorney Albert Pfaender and
President of the Council F. H. Retzlaff
to meet with this committee for the pur-
pose of talking this matter over and that
this meeting had not yet taken place but
would take place some time this week.
F. W. johnson on behalf of the COM
mittee in charge of the convention Of
Charities and Correction recently held
here, reported that the committee had
not in it's possession a list of all the ex-
penses incurred in behalf of the conven-
ton and was therefore unable to submit
complete report at this time. The
committee also stated thru it's chairman
that it was the intention to call upon
the city council for donation to help to
pay the expense of the conference.
Awaiting the action of the city council
the committee had not made any assess
ments as yet on those who signed the
guaranty.
In the matter of the official badge
which the Commercial Club is to adopt
it was decided to let the matter rest for
the time being. Attention was called
to the fact that there is no sign to
identify the post office building and at
tention was also called to the fact that
the lobby of the post office is altogether
inadequate, but no action was taken.
There has never been an adequate
sidewalk leading to the Eagle Roller Mills
on LIST North Street. This matter was
up for discussion before the Commercial
Club and was referred to the Good
Roads Committee with instructions to
appear before the city council and have
this matter brought to their attention.
The matter of better road leading to
the cemeteries of the city was also up for
discussion, but no action was taken.
There will be a formal opening of the
new Commercial Club rooms some time
during the latter part of this month.
It was decided at the Monday evenings
meeting to throw the rooms open to the
ladies during the afternoon and to the
men folks in the evening. It was
planned to have Allen T. Albert of
Minneapolis, who at the present time is
national president of all the civic and
commercial clubs in the United States
to be present at the formal opening of
the Commercial Club. If he cannot be
secured at that time, it is the intention
to have him speak to the members of the
Commercial Club at later date.
The matter of preparing an adequate
program for this occasion and attending
to the detail work was entrusted to the
entertainment committee. It is planned
that hereafter it will be the policy of
the club not to entertain all kinds of
propositions, but rather to entertain
few OF them and get results on those
few. All those present took occasion
to inspect the new club rooms and the
general census of opinion was that they
are certainly fine and everything that
could be wished for.
John KalOs who formerly ron tho