The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-10
OUR PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
Good Words Spoken in Its Behalf by
Friends.
The Objects OF the Exchange and
When 1t viii Meet.

The Portland Fruit and Produce Exchange
has secured quarters in the Board of Trade
rooms, and will hold meetings ON the first
Saturday OF each month A meeting will be
held THIS afternoon at 4 p. IN. to perfect the
organization and transact other business
Inis exchange is destined to do much good
not only to the individual members, but to
the city. The object of the exchange, as
stated in the bylaws, is ''to provide a suit
able room or rooms in the city of Portland,
to promote just and equitable principles of
trade, to establish and maintain uniformity
in commercial usages, to correct abuses
which may exist, to acquire and preserve
valuable business information, and generally
to advance the interests of the fruit and pro-
duce trade in the city of Portland"
The New England Grocer of July 9Th has
good word to say for the Portland Fruit
and Produce Exchange. 1t gives the full
list Of officers, and considerable space is de-
voted to description of the exchange and
the business done in Portland in the produce
line.
The following comes from the city of great
enterprises:
CHICAGO, July 6, 1885,
M. James II. Hall, President Fruit and Produce
EGchdnge, Portland Me-:
Dear Sr,-We are pleased 10 acknowledge re-
cept OF your letter, accompanied by bylaws Of the
Fruit and PRODUCE Exchange of Portland, recent
y organized. We congratulate our Down East
nelghDors upon this evidence OF commercial en-
terprise, and wish the organization all possible
success. Anything we can do in furnishing you
aaily or weekly reports of Chicago markets will
pc cheerfully done without other expense TO you
imam cost OF telegram or postage. We find the
organization OF those engaged in handling the
produce and frui. supplies of the country q very
important adjunct 10 commercial progress. We
shall mail you copies of our bylaws at early mail
When we can serve you in any way do not hest
tate to command us. BY the way, we are collect
the partiesJ the wholesale produce commission
firms business addresses in our annual dir sctory.
which appears this month.
we shall esteem it a particular favor ii you
would have collected for us the business cards of
those firms engaged in handling produce and pro-
visions in your city in a wholesale way. and for
ward TO US; we believe such directory is es-
pecialy valuable TO the producers and shippers of
the northwest, as well as to the dealers and COM
mission men at large distributing points. Should
any OF your members have occasion to visit Cbica-
go please say TO them We shall be glad to have
them call at this office and make themselves
known, or II they do not come, when they wish TO
make any inquiry as 10 commercial matters we
shall be glad to serve them.
Trusting our invitation will not be considered
other than cordial,
am with great respect
Your obedient servant,
X. NJ LITTLER.
Secretary of the Produce Exchange of the City of
Chicago.
Surely it pays to keep up with the times,
and the organization of the Portland Fruit
and Produce Exchange is step in that di-
rection. 1t will bring the Portland mer-
chants into more prominence, and will re-
suit, we hope, in even greater prosperity to
them