New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-18
HOTEL-KEEPERs IN COUNCIL.
THE UTILITY OF COOPERATION URGED
FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STATE AssocrA'
rIoy-oFrfCFRs AND COMMITTEES CHOSEN.
uBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TYrBuxE1

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STATE AssocIAr
rIoy-oFrfCFRs AND COMMITTEES CHOSEN
lBI TELEGRAPH TO THE TgrBUSEl
Rochester July 1.-THE first annual meeting
of the State Hotel Association was held in this
city today There were about so hotel men presents
Mayor Parsons delivered an address OF welcome,
after which the president Of the association, w.
ID. Garrison, delivered q thoughtful address, in
which he reviewed what had been accomplished
by the association during the one year OF Its
existence He referred specially to the work
which the association had done to prevent some
wildcat legislation In referring to his idea OF
cooperation among hotel men he said:
In my address last winter at our semi-annual
meeting in Ncw-York City, I spoke Of concens
trated action In the purchase OF goods by oup
hotel interests in large centres. Western pas
per, whose editor was present, made this poinb
the subject OF an editorial and hoped and trusted
and used some ,other prayers that that mighS
mover come to pess, a. no saw In tho steel ana
iron copper and sugar trusts such combinntiop
of moneyed interests .hat It was ruinous 10 tho
people at large Now our wise editor IL ho had
not had his head full OF trusts, would have seen
that my remarks could only mean cooperation
Of consumers We are not manufacturers or pro.
ducers OF our supplies. We consume As wa
all know, consumers may combine and by 50
doing derive much benefit therefrom and servo
the public in better and more satisfactory man
ncr. Let me say here that the hotel supply men
often put upon hotels that may not be prompt
in payments as they think they should be such
outrageous profits as viii in most cases ruin tho
hotel in time.
Il hope this association will yet see the tima
when there will be established large headquar-
tcrs where all hotel supplies can be purchased as
low, if not lower, than the large hotels do now.
Take the matter of envelopes. The trust puts its
price for | 90, 600, 200 900, and so on, up. Now.
does not this look as if we would have TO cons
bne for self-nterest purchase large lots so that
the smaller as well the larger hotels can be sup
piled at reasonable rates? / could go on through
the list and show you that large hotel co-opers-
tive coparnership for our supplies could De MADE 70
pay and the profits would come back to all VINO
invested money in it, and would supply the otncr
houses at so email profit that it would pay them
also to buy of this cooperative copartnershlp.
The business of the afternoon was the election
Of officers and the appointment OF committees.
The president was authorized to appoint commit
tee of fifteen, to be known as the Excise COMMITS
tee, whose duty is to confer with the ieglsatlvo
committee on the codfcation and revision OF the
excise laws of the State to see that no injustice
is done the hotel men,
The following officers were elected: PRESIDENT
W. p Garrison; first vice president, w II. SANGER
treasurer, H. j. Rockwell; secretary. w. A Rose1
kran/ 4, .
Vice-presidents were chosen representing tho
Senate districts Of the State as follows:
LIST and i'd c. n. Reed lid and WITH. A. W. Fosterf
Yth, Lyman Rhodes; With F. T. Keeth; With F. NJ.
Coleman; With, Charles Sprague; IXth. H. H. Brock
way; Xth Charles B. Deklyn XIth, II. G. shannonf
XIIh r. Kirkpatrick; XIIIth. J. w. Hasted; AIVths
j. E. Laster; XVIII II. S. Balm; XVIII, H. c. Willard
XVIIth, Z. o. Roessle; XVIIIth. H. S. Clementsf
XIXth, S. D. Brown, XXth s. T. Phelpsf
XXIst +. w. Hayden; XXIId G. E Ashley; AAllldx
C. " Lansing; XXIyth. w. G. Leland; XVIII. p Be-
Brayton; XXvIth. c. S. Ayeril; XXVIIth Smith IL
Newman; XXYIIIth Snas Remington; XHlXth- L. P-
Olmstead XXXth W. J. Jackman; AXXIst, IL D.
Roesser; XXXIId, A.. NJ. Sherman.
Executive Commlttee-A. L. Ashman. chairman; J. III.
Bresin T. O. Roessle II. H. Brockway. T. L. Merrlhelds
]. @. Matthews, w. A. Rosekranz, Z. I. Wall
legislative Committee-J. H. Bagley, ir., chairman Js
w Hannah Charles Sprague, w. g. Leland j. +. WALL
s H. Newman, w. G.. HurbeFt f. II. Proctor, G. ouaek-
! enbush
Excise Commi,tee-w. D. Garrison, chairman E
| L. Merrileld James II. Breslin, j. c. Matthews,
| H. H. Brockway Z. o. Roesse, G. W. Hurlbert.
| John w Hanna K. W. G.. Leland j. III. Daglcy s. s.
! Clement z. b. Brayton, h. G. " Lansing and Ii. d.
! RosseT.
The meeting adjourned to meet in New-York
| in January, 1889 This evening the hotel men
and their friends visited Powers's Art Gallery To-
| morrow they will be driven around the city ana
! make an excursion on Lake Ontario.