Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-07
New Haven Chamber of Com-
 merce.

l PreS1dent-(jOy6TnOr H.B $. Recording secretary-Harry Prescott | Treasurer-Wilbur F. Day.
 CoIector-C w. Scranton
 Directors-ChArles Peterson, James D. Dewell Joel | A. Sperry, T. A. Barnes John H. Leeds. l Mr. Trowbridge called attention to a re- port from John E. Searles, jr., who was the | representative of the New Haven Chamber at Il the annual meeting of the National Board of | Trade held last December in Washington, D. | C. Mir. Trowb-idge remarked that the Cham | Der had been very ally represented by MT. | Searles, who had filled important positions at | the meeting. The report named various i'm l portant measures which the National Board I discussed and acted upon, among them the ! draft of an act for new national bankrupt | law, which was acted upon by the executive | committee of which MT. s. was member. ! Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce l in Baltimore, Boston, Bangor, Bridgeport, Il Detroit, Indianapolis, Newark, Pittsburg | Providence, Philadelphia, Trenton, San \ Francisco New Haven and other places were Il represented. Silver coinage, tariff on sugar, | withdrawal of goods in bond for use at sea, commercial relations with Canada, postal telegraphy national board of health, adul- t terations of food and other subjects were dis | cussed at the meeting.
 | Mr. Trowbridge said it was an ception- 1 ally interesting meeting, and the fact that the | New Haven Chamber was the oldest but one | in the country gave New Haven extra promi- hence before the convention. MT. Seartes report was adopted and ordered filed ! New members were voted in last evening as ! follows:
 | Samuel A. GaIpin, Gen. Frank D, Sloat, Col. Amos J. Beers, Franklin J. Hart, | G. Edward Hine, William D. Clarkson, Andrew B. Hendryx, William H. Moseley, Charles F. Graves, Lewis L. Morgan, | William G. Cook, Stephen M. Wier, | Alexander McAlister, Herbert c. Warren, | Nathan Easterbrook, jr.
 On motion of Mir. Lewis, Mir. Sherman, | signal officer of New Haven, was voted an ! honorary member.
 Remark was made tha as Mir. H. I. Kim | ball, of Atlanta, Ga., a former prominent ! New Haven gentleman was reported now in Boston, that he be invited to visit New Ha-
 ven and publicly state the facts in regard to l the great International Cotton Exhibition to 1 be held next fall at Atlanta, Ga, in which I enterprise MT. Kimball is one of the most | prominent men. It was so voted. It was \ remarked that New Haven having so large an ! interest in southern trade, and having man. | ufactures which it would be well to place in ! the exhibition, it would be very desirable to
 receive a visit from this former townsman, | on the subject, if he could make it conven- tent.
 It was voted to hold the annual banquet,
 and Messrs. Charles Peterson, John H.
 Leeds, James D. Dewell, E. $. Wheeler, ! George H. Ford, T. A.. Barnes, H. H. Bun nell E. s. Greeley, A. H. Kellam and H. G.
 Lewis were appointed committee to arrange | for the event. Gen. Greeley wished to be
 excused as probably at the time of the dinner ! he would be on a visit to the Pacific coast, ! but was not excused
 ! The public topic of the proposed annexa- tion of a part of East Haven to New Haven was brought up.
 ! Ex-Mayor Lewis said that the matter of an- | nexation was one in which he took deep in- ! terest He said he was an advocate of an- | nexation. While considerable debt would | come with it, it was probably no more than \ the grand list of the portion it was desired to ' annex would take care of. But I am \ looking to the future, not only of ' the city of New Haven, but of the | State. I believe that the whole shore line | of the harbor on both sides should belong to \ New Haven (applause), should be under the ' control of New Haven. Now the city of New Haven has taken a very decided and deep in- ! terest in this matter. In 1872 the project
 was started, when was Mayor, of harbor commission. It was seen that private inter l ests were taking away public interests, there ! fore application was made to the General As- sembly for 8 harbor commission for the port | of New Haven, and that result was obtained. | Mir. J. T. Platt, who was then in the Council, ! at my request went to Boston and found the | laws and regulations in use by the harbor commissioners of that city. The commission \ has, think, been of great benefit to the city ! of New Haven. It has established lines, pier I heads, bulkheads and defined what encroach- ! ments were for the good of the city. There | were other and later amendments which gave \ 8 commissioner each to East Haven and ! Orange, but they have not the interest in the case that the commerce and the mercantile | interests of New Haven demand If we get ! this shore line attached to New Haven it will be to the interest and increased prosperity of | New Haven. At present many have no idea | of the importance of this subject. Their at tention has not been called to it. When you tell them that New Haven is the ninth port in commercial importance in the na- ! tion they open their eyes. It is so. We are the ninth, and furthermore our custom ' receipts amount to $1 ,OOO per day. I want to live to see not only East Haven shore be- long to New Haven, but to stand on the ridge where Ik Marvel's is and see the East Haven ridge as part of New Haven. (Applause. Mir. Lewis said that the objection urged by 8 committeeman in Hartford, that annexation would make East Haven small town, had no weight, there were plenty of towns no larger in Litchfield county and in our coun- ty, and elsewhere. But go to Wallingford, go to Waterbury, to Derby, to Middletown and ask them where their supplies come from
 that carry on their mills and shops They will tell you they come from our harbor.
 Take Hartford, Springfield, western Massa-
 chusetts. New Haven harbor is better for
 western Massachusetts than Boston port is.
 
 port is nearer for them than Boston's. All the people in the State are interested in hay ing New Haven control it's own harbor. No town in the State has spent dollar for the improvement of New Haven harbor except New Haven. The United States helped pay for Prof Bache's coast survey and New Haven paid the rest, which was thousands and thousands of dollars.
 MT. Wm. B. Goodyear supported annexa- tion and spoke of the views of beautiful seen cry commanded from the East Haven Heights, and of Boston which had annexed everything around it. He also spoke of annexation as to its prospective importance.
 General Ford spoke in favor and of the effect on the valuation of real estate in East Haven as important consideration.
 MT. Peterson presented the following reso- lution:
 At meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the city of New Haven, held April 9th, 1881, it
 Resolved. That the proposition pending be- fore the General Assembly for the annexation of portion of the town of East Haven that part of the harbor under the Jurisdiction of East Haven to the town of New Haven, meets approval It is manifestiy important that New Haven should own its own harbor aud have control thereof, and do most earnestly the subject upon the attention Of the Honorable Senator from this district and the Representatives of New Haven and that they urge its importance upon the Honorable General Assembly that necessary steps may be taken to make this an nexation.
 Resolved. That the president and Hon. Henry G. them to the Honorable this and the two Representatives from New Haven without delay.
 James D. Dewen favored the resolutions and spoke of conversation had with Fair Haven East man and of the general call for annexation. It was matter anyway that went to the people to decide, if passed
 General Greeley, MT. Barnes and Mir. Parmelee favored delay that the matter might be made the subject for future meeting
 MT. L. H. Freedman moved to refer the matter to committee of three. A vote was taken and Che Chamber voted by large ma jority in favor of the resolutions. Adjourned
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