Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-17

the Chamber of Commerce get to-
gether" dinner held at $50 o'clock
Monday evening at the Elks' Home on
Appleton street. at which fully Zoo
persons. including gentlemen ana
ladies who are interested in he re-
organizing of the Chamber of Com
merce were present A feature of the
dinner was the presente of DR.. Rob
ert o. Kirkwood, who gave most
interesting discourse pertaining to the
organization of the Chamber of Com
merce in this city, uniting the Win
slow and Waterville citizens.
DIR. Kirkwood is known as the
preacher with Punch" and he de-
ivered one of the most stirring adj
dresses that was ever heard here.
Ex.Gov. Haines
Ex-Governor Haines presided at
the meeting and said: 1T gives me
great pleasure in seeing all you busl-
ness men and ladies present. We
have some one with US who VIII or
ganize a Chamber of Commerce. and
build it up I am so glad to see the
young men present and this is an
suspicious occasion. The young men
are coming forward and want TO
see them work If there was ever
anything we did fail in it was the
Chamber Of Commerce. You now
have a concrete position ahead of
YOU to establish this organization"
Harvey D. Eaton
Harvey D. Eaton said: The savage
lives by himself for himself. and to
himself, and every step is from TINS
savage and is the way this human
race has progressed. The progress
in 1900 years was less than the next
100 years, from Washington coach
to the pullman car. Sometimes TOR
1900 years the world joys along
star gazes, and almost stands still.
but there came that war. the stirring
up and the awakening of the whole
human race The world went along
progressive and prosperous until the
time of our Civil war, such as the
world had never known, and from
then the world has been prospecting.
The next ten years after the close OF
the present war, then, Will be 4 stir
ring up of everything and make the
conditions far ahead of those ten
wears ago We must Join Waterville
and Winslow, and l am sorry that it
is not larger for Oakland, Fairfield
and Benton are only a short way off.
We must cooperate and make, our
community bigger and better than
before.
One special thing that I am par
ticularly interested in is the fair
which brought the American City
Bureau with us. We didn't try to
carry on the fair as years before ana
if would not have been right to do
so. We were under obligations 10 the
citizens Of Waterville as they took
active part in the fair. He referred
to the Pc. tland Farmers Club. Uni
versity of Maine, Maine Central and
Industrial League. The big neWspa-
pers send men here to report its
| showing an illustration of writing,
| and | am awful glad the men are
| here to rebuild the organizing.
Charles S. Cummings
Charles S. Cummings. chairman Of
|
| who said: 1.-TWO onths ago we were
in just the same relation as you are
, in tonight. We had the organization
in name but were dead. We invited
the gentlemen down and they came
and started the campaign. We had
! suppers, newspaper articles and IL
nally organized the campaign. We
got out around the people and found
| that only the people who had
! thought of it and could only get those
but we wound up that week with Il
membership of 800 who had signed up
on a three year basis. The first
thing we did was to select a nua, I:
OF directors We are just waking up
| to the fact that we have never done
| ANYTHING and we now believe in great
| things and we can now accomplish
| it. We have had the biggest revival
| in Auburn now that we have had in
wears and the interests Of one are
| the interests Of all. We are having
bows coming home and what are we
| going to have them find here. The
| Chamber Of Commerce is giving Au-
burn ain inspiration and we are now
| waking up to it. This organization
ras thrilled us up and we are almost
4 paralyzed. We have made program
4 Of work and what must be done III
il the city of Auburn. The money we
have paid is nothing side OF the
awaking Of u.s."
II Dr. Robert o. Kirkwood, director
of the New York Chamber of Com
Il merce, was introduced and said:
You have heard outlined in very
II skillful manner some of the charac-
! teristics of the Chamber Of Com
! merce. I have had the record OF your
! Liberty bonds, generous gifts to the
\ Red Cross and the splendid response
| Of the men in Waterville to the SER
| vice Of our beloved United States. |
hardly feel like stranger here ana
1 am very glad to be here to speak
infornNlly.
He outlined the church and church
work. IF the churches closed mere
all the people you would want here
| would move out, The church busl-
ness is t, establish in the lives the
only interest hat would make the
| city and the Chamber Of Commerce
a success. The reason l am hereto
night is because / believe in the Am
erican City Bureau although am
not connected with it. 1t consists OF