Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-05-25
RAILROAD TO The LAKE;
AUDITORIUM FOR The CITY

:
II believe that there is no doubt
whatever that a municipal rail-
road connecting the city with 4
Lake Kampeska would be a pay
ing investment from the start.
The lake is our biggest asset, so
far as drawing people here is
concerned. With the present
trend of sentiment against pub
lie utilities in general, and munic-
ipal utilities in particular, / see
no Immediate prospect for enlist
ing private capital in the con-
struction of line to the lake;
SO, as view it, it is up to the
people of Watertown to see that
+ we take advantage of what ma
ture has endowed us with by pro-
viding meEns of transportation =
between the city and the lake
shore. = Colonel Stover.
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q s.
II would have sufficient means
! supplied fot- securing our own
municipal terminal, lay out a park,
provide ample beach facilities for
bathing, SO that we may have a
place for recreation-a place ac-
cessible to the large number of
our people who are unable to own
automobiles place where they
may take their families for an
afternoons or an evenings en-
joyment. 80 Colonel Slower.
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II am in favor Of an auditorium
because Watertown has felt the
need of it in the recent past. We
all know how fearfully the city
has been cramped to accommo-
date even those large conventions
that we have had Without dis
paragement of any of the the
aters or halls which we now have
think it may be said that our
great and crying need at this
moment is for an auditorium of
sufficient capacity to meet the
requirements of the principal as
sociations and industrial conven-
tions Of the state and the north
west. It would pay us purely as
an advertising medium, it occurs
to me, to say nothing of the
money that it brings to our city
as a result of numerous gather
ings of people from various parts
of the country. fail to perceive
how we can afford longer to post
pone the building of an auditor
ium. "-J. G. Mcfarland.
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When was in Grand Forks
some time ago, my brother point
ed out to me the benefits that
Grand Forks had derived from it's
auditorium. / listened with con-
siderable interest, because i had
been opposed, in my own mind,
at any rate, to investing public
funds for such purposes. But be-
fore my visit to Grand Forks had
been concluded reached the con-
clusion that my views ought to
be revised concerning the bene-
f1cial results that would follow the
construction of such a building
for Watertown. have. since been
a persistent and constant booster
for an auditorium for this city.
am in favor OF voting bonds for
the purpose of erecting it, and
am satisfied that after we once
get it and have had time to OBJ
serve what it accomplishes for us
none of us viii ever consent to
tear it down for double the
! money we may have put into it.''
John Mahowa1d.
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Il don't know what is thought
to be the proper sum to. be
expended for the two projects
the lake railroad and the auditor
ium-e,ut have heard 1T suga
gested that seventy-five thousand
dollars ought to be sufficient for
the latter and about one hundred
thousand for the former. It seems
to me that we would not be far
out of the way If we should vote
these sums. "-J. w. Dougherty.
The way to get these two prop
ositions through is to go after
them with a determination to get
'em. If every man here tonight
would begin from this moment to
advocate the building Of road
to the lake and the construction
of an adequate auditorium it
\ would be but a comparatively
short time before we'd have them
8 We haven't had them before be-
cause we haven't gone after them.
{ We have merely talked about the
projects in a sort of desultory
manner, as though We didn't ex-
pect to get them anyway. Now
lets cease to occupy this doubt
ing and doubtful position and We
Z will be surprised to note the ease
Y with which they may be brought
about II, for instance, the whole
town could have heard tonight
what Colonel Stoyer has said con.
cerning the line to the lake, the
town would be for it, without
question. in my opinion. SO let's
express the faith that is within
us and we'll soon have ali our
nsig ghbors Wit s, He sf they TIL are NOT
already occupying the same
1 ground. Geo. w, Case. z