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THREE QUARTERS of a CENTURY of PROGRESS published 1923
One Hundred One _________________ Sioux City's Recreational and Social Clubs in Beautiful Homes Country club, boat clubs, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., and other organizations center of play and social activities of many Sioux City people. ALL is not work in Sioux City, for there is plenty of play and many organizations that exist for the pleasure and recreation of its members. Among the first of these to come into existence was the Sioux City Boat Club, organized in 1889, and erecting a building 10 years later. This clubhouse is on the beautiful Sioux River near Riverside Park. It offers tennis, boating, golfing, swimming in a splendid new pool, and bowling along with the facilities of the clubhouse. The Riverside Boat Club and the Shore Acre Boat Club also have beautiful clubhouses on the shores of the Sioux, adjoining Riverside Park. They have boating, tennis and bowling and other facilities that make for an ideal club. These clubs are peculiar to Sioux City. There is no other city in the inland part of the United States which has such a splendid collection of these clubs. The Council Oak Boat Club has been taken over by the Y. W. C. A. and is used as a permanent summer camp. The Country Club covers a large acreage on the northern edge of the city where the clubhouse and 18-hole golf course is located. It was first organized in 1905, but moved to its present location about six years later in order to give more room. It has a large membership from the business and professional men of the city. One of the most beautiful scenes in the vicinity of Sioux City is to be had from the entrance of the Country Club, overlooking the low rolling hills and winding roads of Iowa. The golf links lead up hills and through valleys, making a sporty and delightful course that is enjoyed by golf enthusiasts. The Morningside Country Club was recently organized with an excellent golf course. The Y. M. C. A. for men, and the Y. W. C. A. for girls, offer recreational education for the youths and older people who do not have the opportunity or inclination for outdoor sports. Both have well equipped buildings in the business district, easily accessible to all. The Y. W. C. A. has a new building that houses its swimming pool, cafeteria and club rooms. The Y. M. C. A. has a large number of dormitory rooms together with swimming pool, gymnasium and cafeteria. The Elks, the Masonic bodies, the Eagles, and other fraternal orders maintain elaborately equipped club rooms in their own buildings. As this is being written the Knights of Columbus are preparing to erect their clubhouse. One Hundred Two ___________________ Sioux City's Public Utilities Give Real Service to People Street railways, electrical service, gas and telephones owned by private corporations—water system municipally owned. IN the last 50 years Sioux City has built up a system of local public utilities that serve the city in an efficient manner. The water supply is municipally owned and controlled. A series of deep wells supply cool water the entire year to over 15,000 homes. Giant pumps pull the water into the large reservoirs in Grandview Park, one of the highest points of the city. From a little insignificant horse-car line in 1884, the street railway system has grown until today practically every corner of the city is reached by street car lines. In 1890, the horse and mule drawn cars gave way to electric cars. A number of different lines were in operation at that time, but were later taken over by the Sioux City Service Co., which was purchased last year by the Sioux City Gas and Electric Co. All car systems in the city are now under the same management and ownership, giving transfer privilege on all lines. One interurban line runs across the Missouri River to South Sioux City, Nebraska. Gas and electricity are furnished the homes and business houses of the city by the same company, the Sioux City Gas and Electric Co. Steam for heating purposes is also furnished by this concern to the commercial blocks in the retail district. The first gas company was organized about 50 years ago. An electric company was organized 18 years later, and in 1901, the two were combined into the Sioux City Gas and Electric Co. Sioux City was one of the first western cities to install telephones. The first line was put into operation in December 1, 1880. It was then known as the Sioux City Telephone Co., and was later called the Iowa Telephone Co. The switchboard of this first company had 50 lines. In a few years a long distance line was placed to Sargeant Bluffs. Today there are two companies operating in Sioux City with a total of over 18,000 connections and with long distance connections to every part of the United States. The Sioux City Telephone Co. is a local concern with automatic service in operation throughout the city. It was one of the first companies in the United States to install automatic telephones when they were invented and placed on the market near the beginning of the present century. The Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., formerly the Iowa Telephone Co., is an associated company of the great international American Telephone and Telegraph Co. One Hundred Three _________________ Printing and Publishing Important Industry in Sioux City Sioux City's publishers in position to handle largest jobs—annual business amounts to over two and a half million dollars. PRINTING and publishing, while classed generally with manufacturing, deserves special mention here. So great has been the growth of the printing Industry in Sioux City that now any size job or class of printing can be done efficiently. The first newspaper appeared here in 1859. There are now two large dailies in the city and several business publications. The two dailies each have the best of news service including Associated Press and others. The Journal is housed in--a large home where all kinds of printing is done. A lithographing plant, a bindery, and an engraving plant are part of the equipment under this one roof. Several daily editions and a large Sunday edition are issued by the Journal. The Tribune confines itself to the publishing of a daily paper with several editions. They carry numerous feature articles and cartoons along with the news. The Daily Live Stock Record is published at the stock yards and is the market paper of Sioux City. Farmers and stock raisers of the territory look to the Live Stock Record for their market reports. The Daily Commercial Reporter and the Sioux City Stylus are daily legal and business publications. Morningside College students issue a weekly newspaper. The high school students also issue their own publication. The Morningside news is a weekly paper devoted to the interests of that part of the city. The Swedish Monitor is printed in the Swedish language. The Chamber of Commerce issues the Sioux City Spirit of Progress as a news magazine for its members and as a booster publication for the city. Alongside of the printing and publishing business has grown the engraving business. Sioux City now has two plants daily turning out printing plates to be used all over this territory. Their importance to the business of the city is evident only when it is considered that scarcely a newspaper, publication or piece of advertising matter goes out without some halftone, zinc etching, stereotype or electrotype being used. Over a dozen job printing plants, ranging in size from one-room shops with one or two presses, to large plants with two cylinder presses and half a dozen or more automatic presses, linotypes, monotypes and automatic folding machines care for the general printing of the city. The combined business of all these establishments exceed two and a half million dollars annually. One Hundred Four
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