The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-09-25
TACOMA GLAD
THEY CALLED
Visitors From Sound City
Pleased With Reception
Given Them Here

"The visitors Of the Tacoma cara
van to. Kennewick left some very de-
lishtful impressions in the group that
assailed your city recently, writes
Walter E. Ruemelin advance man for
the Tacoma Trade Tour which brot
eighty of Tacoma's prominent citi-
zens to Kennewick for a two-hour's
visit Friday.
The sentiment expressed by Mr..
Ruemelin in his letter to the Cour-
ier-Reporter seems to have been pref
ty generally shared by the visitors.
The local Commercial club, ably as
sisted by the ladies of the M. E.
church spared no effort to make the
visit Of the Tacomans a pleasant one.
So complete were the arrangements
that the visitors were greeted upon
their arrival with gentle Puget
Sound shower.
A delegation of Commercial club
members and their wives met the spe-
cial train at the N. p depot and all
marched in a parade to the M. F..
church where splendid chicken din
ner was served by the Ladies Aid.
The plan of the Commercial club to
be the host to the visitors was upset
when j. T. Hickey, spokesman for the
visitors called upon all the Tacoma
men to leave dollar at their place
and those who occupied seat next
to lady to leave a dollar for the
lady.
Music was furnished during the
luncheon by Clark's orchestra and
Byron johnson for the hosts and spe-
cial booster songs and the Chamber
of Commerce quartet for the visi-
tors.
A. R. Gardner presided as toast
master and introduced Mayor H. w.
Desgranges who formally welcomed
the visitors and told them something
of the resources of the community
and of the hopes and aspirations of
its people.
The meeting was then turned over
to Mr.. Hickey who in turn introduced
C. C. Terry, of the Burroughs Adding
Machine company, H. L. Brown, of
the Oriole Candy company, c. w. Or
ton, commissioner Of the Port of Ia
coma, and Scott q. Henderson. The
first three speakers emphasized Ia
coma's desire to become better ac-
quainted with the communities OF
eastern Washington. but Mr.. Hender-
son, speaking as former resident
of Kennewick, took occasion to cite
Kennewick as sn example for Ia
coma to follow. He declared that
had the same measure of community
spirit been shown in Tacoma in the
early days of its building, as was
shown here few years ago, Tacoma
would have outstripped Seattle. He
told his fellow townspeople OF the
many community undertakings which
were carried through with success
during the years he resided here.
Justice o. r. Holcomb, who was
present at the dinner was called up
on and spoke briefly. He declared
that had the people of Tacoma shown
the same energy and enthusiasm II
working for the commercial upbuild.
ing of their city that they have IL
seeking to change the name of GER
tain mountain, their city today woulc
not be in second place to Seattle.
At the request of the Tacoma visi'
tors, M. M. Moulton closed the pro
gram with one of his characteristic
straight-to- -the-point talks. He stress
ed the fact that while the Kennewicl
people are interested in their owr
community, they are equally inter
ested in the state of Washington ant
we are ready to work just as ener
getically for the upbuilding OF th'
state as for the upbuilding Of thi'
community. "We are interested il
good roads and we want to see a net
work of paved highways on the wes
side of the mountains" he declared
we believe that the show places o
this state should be made accessslbl
to the thousands of tourists who com
from all parts of the nation, bu
while, we are building scenic mig
hways to attract the tourist 1T !
equally important that we build mar
ket highways for the farmers. In
people of Tacoma, of Seattle and o
the west side should be, and are ]
they are brought to realize it, vital
iy interested in the construction OF
paved highway across this state t
the summit of the Cascades. 70
In Tacoma do not realize the increas
ing volume of traffic tat is bein
lost to the state of Washington an