The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-14
FARGO THE CONVENTION CITY.
A difficult task for the editors who

A difficult task for the editors who
spent yesterday and are spending to-
day in Fargo will be to adequately de-
scribe the entertainment furnished
and do Justice in the spirit Of hospl-
tality shown to the scribes and their
wives, sweethearts, daughters and Sis
tiers of whom there were many. No
attempt will be made to cover the edi-
, torial program itself as it was pretty
much the same as others, talks on
subjects of interest to the craft, but
after the splendid treatment accorded
it would be unfair not to tell some
thing of Fargo and to advise similar
gatherings that Fargo offers every
thing on earth body Of people could
want in the way Of accommodations
and a spirit of whole-hearted hospital
ity that doesn't seem to exist in such
quantities any where else as in the
Gate City.
Secretary "Hesitation" Hardy and
the Commercial Club-note Hardy is
ahead-is one of the best working Or
CARNATIONS in the world and are do
ing things that are worth while as Is
exemplifed by the great Auditorium
recently dedicated and first used for
convention by the editors who closed
the session there this afternoon. This
magnificent structure cost the city of
Fargo approximately 100000, all of
which was raised by popular subscrip.
ton and the building is now all paid
for and is perhaps the best structure
of it's kind west of Chicago. Not the
largest but the builders have con
structed an absolutely fre-proof struc
ture that will seat thousands, without
the use of a stick of timber of any
kind excepting the doors and very lit
tie of the interior finish. The roof and
every floor is concrete and there is
not enough wood to make a decen,
fire in the entire building and were
the fire started on any floor it might
burn for a long time without injuring
the building beyond smoke damage.
This is wonderful building but the
building itself is not nearly so great
as the spirit of loyalty displayed by
the citizens who furnished the money
for to build the structure which
stands as monument, proclaiming
community loyalty, love of beauty and
civic pride that must stand out as a
magnificent example of what real
live booster spirit can do for city,
once it is aroused. The completion Of
this building has also had the effect of
giving the civic improvement work
another impetus and one of the recent
moves in that direction is by the
"Town Criers Club" an auxiliary or
ganization to the Commercial Club,
which has removed all signs Of the
streets which are misleading and Of
fensive, as we'll as to prosecute, sue
cessfully, merchants who have placed
misleading advertisements in the pa
pers. All of this was explained by
Mayor Emery and others in the open
ing address and various speeches at
the banquet last evening and while
some of the claims were at first so
great as to be almost unbelievable in
every instance the speakers were able
to prove their case and had no trouble
at all in convincing the editors from
every section of the state that a city
displaying such united booster front
must succeed in maintaining it's lead
with the best cities in the northwest
and to rank with the most progressive
in the world. The editors were invit
ed to Fargo in order that Fargo
might show them" They were sho wn
conquered and convinced and the
memory of the treatment accorded will
long be last as one of the pleasant
oasis in the rather dry and humdrum
life OF the country newspaper man anG
the gratitude expressed can only in {
small measure repay for the magnifi
cent treatment afforded. Long may
Fargo be recognized as the Gate
City, the Convention City" and thu
home of Hesitation Hardy, Mayo
H. F. Emery, J. S. Watson, Edito
Guild, Editor Dodsen and all othe
members of the craft and the hund
reds of others who did so much t,
make the editors enjoy their stay.
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