Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-10-11

Tho Annual Meeting aud Election
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Tho Annual Meeting aud Election
OF officers.
The Board of Trade met in annual $685.
sion Thursday right ia their new rooms
in the Crosby q Hill Building. President
Daniel W. Taylor was in the chair. The
transactions of the evening were opened
with an address from the chairman who
congratulated the members on the aug
picious commencement of the new years.
work. With prospects of large eddi-
ton to the membership the indications OF
Increased interest among the citizens with
what the board IL attempting TO accom-
plish in various directions for thegood Of
the city, and the pleasant surroundings
of their new rooms he trusted that oil
would take vigorous part and make added
fort for pushing forward all public bus
mess. He closed his address with CON
gratulatory reference TO the fact of tho
establishment of tho Postal Telegraph
Company in Wilmington.
Secretary e A. Van Trump then read
the following report:
To tie Board of TFdds-G GENTLEMEN
Your Secretary pegs leave to report that for
the first time In q number OF years he is
able to announce that regular monthly
meetings. with one exception, have been
held during the past year. The member
ship has grown considerably, rs a conse-
quent result the attendance and interest
tiave greatly increased. Your officers
having received an advantageous offer OF
the rooms OF the Builders' Exchange
deemed 1t for the interest of the board to
accept it. and trust you will approve their
action. Tho president will give the details
OF the transaction. 1t is with great salts
fuctlon am sbleto report that all bills and
indebtedness OF every description is paid.
That We commence the new year in our
now quarters free OF all liability and with a
surplus In the treasury.
The reports Of the secretary and treas.
urer were adopted.
Upon election of officers for the ensn.
ing year the following were declared
elected: President, Daniel w. Taylor;
Vice president, George w. Bush. DR.;
Treasurer, james Bradford, and Seere-
tsry, Z. A. Van Trump.
Upon the report Of the committee on
navigation George w. Bush brought the
attention of the board TO the dilGpidated
condition of the guards at the Third
street bridge. It 10 an obstruction to
navigation. Notwithstanding the fact
that the matter has been reported to the
levy court, nothing has been done. The
Board OF Port War6ens has made COM
plant In regard TO it, and the tug cap
tains state that navigation of the Chris.
tiana 10 continually endangered by the
condition of the guards. The secretary
was ordered to send communication to
the levy court from the board.
Upon the suggestion of Colonel Milo
W. Locke, the secretary was instructed
to send communication to the Directors
OF the Street and sewer Commission upon
the fact of the general absence of street
CORNERS of any indication of the names of
the streets. Strangers and some citizens
are uninformed Of the proper names Of
many of the newer avenues and streets
and have difficulty in finding iheir way
about the oity.
The following new members were i'd
mitfed: Crosby d Hill, Tatnall Brothers,
Hartmann & Fehrenbach Brewing Com.
pany. John O. Farra, w. B. Clark
Joseph Stoeckle, Mullin q Pierson, John
p. Donahee, and the Barlow & Thatcher
Spinning Company.
A communication was read from the
secretary of the National Board OF Trade
Philadelphia, inviting the Wilmington
board to its association and to partici-
patton in the annual meeting in Chicago,
November nth. By motion 1t was de-
oided to Join the association and to ap-
point a delegate at the November meeting.
II was ordered tnat the regular monthly
meetings Of the board be changed from
| ThuFydRY to Friday nights.