The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-11-25
BOOST BRIDGE
AT Big RALLY
SATURDAY EVE
Strive to Put Kennewick SOlidly
Back of Kennewick- -PascO
:-~.= Project ss.llss
MEET in THE TABERNACLE
DR.. Bulgin will Close Services Early
and Turn Meeting Over to
st Bridge Enthusiasts

A rousing Kennewick-Pasco bridge
rally is to be held in the tabernacle
Saturday evening of this week begin
ming at 9 p. m. The Bulgin-Lewis
evangelistic party have agreed to
shorten their services and lend their
hearty cooperation to the CONNER
cial club in making success of the
bridge meeting. 1t is the wish of
the committee in charge that the
meeting be attended by every man and
woman in the community, regardless
of whether they are willing or able
!, to lend any financial aid. What they
want is numbers, the enthusiasm, the
moral support. To date Kennewick
has laid down on the bridge job. Com
munities hundred miles away from
the Columbia river are showing more
interest in and enthusiasm for the
bridge than has Kennewick.
The bridge project which during
the past weeks has been allowed to
drag, was given new baptism of life
last Friday in Walla Walla at the
annual meeting of the Washington
section of the Yellowstone Trail As
sociation. This meeting, which was
attended by delegations from a score
of communities from Colfax to Ell
lensburg, went unanimously and en-
thusiastically on record in favor Of
the bridge. Every delegate present
agreed to get his coat off, to go to
work and put the bridge over and to
do it quick.
To accomplish this E. w. Trenbath
of this city, who was chosen to head
the Washington section next year,
was authorized to organize and car
ry on whirlwind campaign during
the next two weeks. Mr.. Trenbath
left Tuesday for Waitsburg, where
that evening the opening rally of the
new campaign was held. Similar
meetings are to be held in Walla
Walla, Touchet, Wallula, Pasco, Ken
newick and right on up the Yakima
Valley to Ellensburg. In the mean
time a similar series of meetings will
be held in Whitman, Garfield and Co
lumbia counties.
In these meetings Mr.. Trenbath is
being assisted by M. D. Carrigan,
chairman of the good roads bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Carrigan says Seattle has awak-
ened to the necessity of bridge at
this point and he has volunteered to
sell 100000 of bridge stock in the
city of Seattle, and to give his entire
time for the next two weeks in boost
ing for the bridge on this side of the
mountains.
"People generally do not realize
that if we fall down on the bridge
project now it may be years before
the Columbia will be bridged at this
point" said Mr. Trenbath before
leaving for Waitsburg. Furthermore
failure to finance the bridge at the
present time will probably mean the
indefinite postponement of the paving
of the Inland Empire highway. 1t
will be up to the next legislature to
outline program for the expendi-
ture of about three millions of state
highway money. There is a wide
spread and growing sentiment in fa-
vor of the early paving of one trans
; state highway. Boosters for the Sun
set highway are going to the legisla-
ture armed with all possible ammu-
milton to have the Sunset designated
for early completion. If their plans
are successful it means a bridge over
the Columbia at Vantage ferry, and
they will succeed if the people along
the Inland Empire highway go to
sleep on the job. 1t is highly imper-
ative that the Kennewick-Pasc bridge
be financed and that it be financed
before the legislature meets. Let's
show both our friends along the In
land Empire and our rivals along the
Sunset that Kennewick is out to win
by making Saturdays meeting hum
mer. We are all equally interested
In the project and we want everybody
out. 1t makes no difference if the
Individual hasn't nickel to invest
IN the bridge, if he is a resident OF