Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-10
petition, had expressed themselves ready to

A. A. Van VOORHEES, was anxious to have
II street improved, and said every prop
erty-holder on his block was in favor of
it, and he believed that if a committee
would take hold of the matter and canvass
for signatures q large number of blocks
upon II street would be found ready to i'm
/ prove. He wanted such a committee ap-
pointed.
Mr.. Hopkins desired to have | street in
Guided in the canvass to be made for sig
| natures, so as to have that street improved
| along with H street.
| Mr.. Van VOORHEES, favored a movement
to have as many streets graded and grav-
eled as possible, as it was a benefit to ad-
| joining property and to the city.
J. W. Wilson moved that committee of
| five or more residents OF H street be ap-
pointed TO circulated petition along that
street, asking to have the street improved,
and to present the petition, when sufficient
had signed, to the Board of Trustees for
| action.
| Mr.. Hopkins wanted | street included
with another committee OF five. Mr.. Alsip
desired n street to be included. E. O.
Crouch wanted Q street remembered, and
others spoke for Twelfth street, from III TO
| the levee, and Tenth street, from n TO r
streets. Finally motion was adopted to
appoint canvassing committee of five or
more for each of the streets named from
among the residents upon them, and ac-
cordingly the following were selected:
! Committee for II street-P. C. Drescher,
T. NJ. Lindley, \. A. Van VOORHEES,, l.. l..
Lewis, L. Tozer, c. Lagos and A. A. Red
| dington.
Tweifth-street Committee-Frank Rub
staller, w. b. Hamilton, II. S. Beals. j.
Donahue, Mike Bryte, G. Zimmerman and
H. Bennett.
| Committee for street-A. S. Hopkins,
George NJ. Mott, f. r. Dray, C. II. Hub
bard c. L. Wright and A. L. Frost.
Committee for n street-M. f. Odell F.
NJ. Shield, Sparrow Smith, Dr. William
Ellery Briggs, E. X. Alsip, P. Wolf, Jr.,
Joseph Burns and Nelson Cole
| Committee for o street-M. ]. Dillman.
| G. B. Katzenstein, G. X. McClatchy, C. II.
Eldred, E. A. Crouch, A. G. Sweetzer, A.
Hebron, J. 4. Parker, Z. Coms;ock, j.
| Gebert, and Leland Howe
Committee for Tenth street-P. Murphy.
f. Ebel, T. H. Wallis. John Ryan, and D..
| Eiers.
Joseph Steffens rendered his resignation
as Chairman of the Committe upon Manu-
| features, upon the ground that he had so
many other duties, both in the association
and elsewhere, that he could not properly
attend to the duties of the position. The
resignation was accepted, and J. NJ. Avery
elected Chairman to I'LL the vacancy.
The subject of manufactures was some
what extensively discussed, and a warm
| interest manifested III the rebuilding of
the pottery works of n. Clark, recently
burned, just east of the city. Finally the
Secretary was, by motion unanimously
adopted, instructed to invite Mr.. Clark to
be present at the next meeting of the AS
ISOLATION M If h..h a h1a 70 a. ~. &.
ne communicate by letter what he requires
in order to decide in favor of rebuilding
his establishment.
The matter OF the new Postoffice build
ing was brought up by the Secretary. and
Postmaster Stephens was called upon con-
corning the present status of the move
ment for new Government building for
this CITY,
Mr.. Stephens stated that few DAYS since
he received letter from the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, at Washington.
asking for an explanation of the situation,
and 10 furnish facts to justify the $4,000
increase IN the appropriation, proposed by
Representative McKenna's bill. In reply
to this he had made full statement of
facts, similar 10 what had been furnished
the Secretary of the Treasury some months
since. and which was published in the
RECORD UNION at the time. 1t stated the de-
STABILITY purchasing the additional 40 feet
OF ground on the east side of the site already
purchased, the large increase of business
transacted by the Office here, and the in
creased facilities and room that is indicated
will soon be required to transact the Post
office business, etc. Mr.. Stephens submit
ted copy of his report thus made. and
thought 1t would be very serviceable to-
wards getting the extra appropriation
through Congress If copies of the report
could be made and furnished to Senators
stanford and Hearst, and Representatives
Mckenna, Thompson and BiggS, as thew
would then have the facts Immediately be-
fore them. He was unable however, to
make copies with the clerical force at his
command.
On motion of Mr. Steffens the Secretary
was requested to have copies made and i'm
mediately forwarded to the Senators and
Congressman named.
Mr.. Alsip said he desired to make state.
ment concerning the action of the State
Board OF Trade in relation to the matter OF
procuring the counties to make exhibits at
the Mechanics Institute Fair He referred
to the comments made in the RECORD
UNION upon the subject, and said that the
real situation was misunderstood in
fact, that the action really taken by the
State Board was not correctly
reported in the San Francisco
papers. He said that it was evident at
the meeting that, as the representatives of
the interior and northern counties were
absent and those Immediately around the
bay only present, the motion in favor of
making exhibits at the Mechanics Insti-
tu.e Fair and ignoring all others was likely
to prevail That he did all he could to
prevent such action. but that A. T. Hatch,
who has grudge against the State Society,
pressed the matter in favor of the Mechan-
les institute, which is running its show
in opposition to the State Fair. FINALLY
sAid Mr.. Alsip, seeing how the matter
was going to end. l made motion to
amend the proposition of Mr.. Hatch's so
that the committee which was appointed is
to look after the matter of county exhibits
for both the State Fair and Mechanics In
stitute exhibition" This, he said, left tn
State Board of Trade free from beng COM
mitted to the one-side policy of champion
ing the Mechanics Institute exhibit, as
the SAP Francisco papers had represented
the Board to have done
The m aotinp thaD adjourned