The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-23
TO ALL SALT LAKERS
An Earnest Address From the
Chamber of Commerce.
SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

PECIAL MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE '
Meeting TO be Held Tomorrow Evening, ut ,
Which Important Measures will be Dis
cussed-Your Aid Needed.
The following address to the citizens Of
salt Lake city is of utmost importance and
mould receive the most careful consldera-
ion of every property owner, business
nan and resident of the city of Salt Lake.
The chamber Of commerce is anxious to
undertake work of the great
est present and future benefit to Salt Lake
city and the entire inter mountain country,
but in order TO DO it on scale that will be
productive of results, they will require
and should be promptly and freely
given the hearty cooperation and active
support of every man who owns property,
does business, or expects TO live III Salt
Lake city And nov is the time to put
their shoulders to the wheel:
To the Citizens OF Salt Lake City:
At a meeting of the membership commit !
tee of the chamber Of commerce, that most
vital of all questions now presenting them |
questions, that of developing the member
ship or the chamber, was considered and
the following plan was unanimously
adopted
A special membership committee, con
ssting of thirty members OF the chamber,
was selected to act III conjunction with the
regular membership committee, the board
of directors and the president and secre
tary as a general membership committee,
for the narIiril lar work in hand
These gentlemen were so appointed and 1t
is urgently requested that not single one
OF :hern viii fail TO respond to the slight
call now made upon him, but that he will
bear in mind that this committee is not
complete without his personally assisting
in the discharge of this work. There is
rot name upon the committee that was
selected without consultation and deci
sion that the gentleman was the very per
son needed upon that committee. There
fore, i'll order that it be thoroughly effective
IN accomplishing results, the committee
must be entirely and unanimously ener
getic
The following named gentlemen were
chosen as the additional members of the
general committee:
George Arbogast, Rudolph All
J. H, Bennett j.. c. Coffin.
William Carroll j. G. Conklln,
| John J. DAILY, Henry piawoodey,
! j. Il. Dooly =. c. Ewing,
]. X. Gillespie j. +. Grant,
| j. A. Goodhue, John A. Groesbeck,
| a. L. HYDE, .. J. HOLSTER,
| John I. Lynch, T.. A keSSler,
| y. W. Madsan c. p Mason,
Elias Morris, W. A. Ne den,
Samuel Paul Henry Siegel
! William Sloan, henry q. SHELL
x. N. Thomas, n. Treweek,
! NJ. H Walker j. Fl. White,
A. L. Williams
This committee is to be part of the reg
ular membership committee, which con
sists of the following gentlemen: H. G.
Whitney. II. w. Lawrence, S. b. Wester-
field, H. B. Clawson. il, and ]. t. Davis.
This entire combined committee is to act
in conjunction with the eleven members OF
the board of directors, the president anC
the secretary. Each and every one of the
above mentioned gentlemen is earnestly
appealed to TO be present, without single
failure. at their meeting in the chamber Of
commerce tomorrow, Monday evening, thu
9th, at { 80 O'clock sharp, for the purpose
of compiling a complete list of all person.
: in the city whose interests ar
such that they should be member
of the chamber of commerce
This list will then be subdivided anC
a given number of names allotted to eacl
/. member of the general committee, VIII
= will present to each of those named in hi
a list the reasons for and the benefits to b.
derived from becoming member of tn
chamber OF commerce.
1t is earnestly hoped and confidently ex
% pected that with the proper sort of effor
IS put forth at this time, that the member
snip of the cham Der can be increased I
S fully 400 1t is now a little more than tw
e hundred, but within the past tire
:. weeks with no united or even special IL
u dividual effort, the membership has il
creased thirty. This matter is of mo:
e vital Importance to Salt Lake city q
:, whole and not to the chamber of con
- - MERGE alone. Particularly at this time
20 is it of paramount Importance. This yea
of 1890 will do more to shape or to unshaE
= the destiny of the city of Salt Lake tina
,e any subsequent five years of her exis
n ence. There are certain steps which 81
i'd must take and take them now. "What
Id everybody's business is nobody's busint
is well established truth. There is
ye person or organization, that will Inaugural
g, these steps, but the chamber of commerce
IS, In order, however, to be assured OF succe
Do in the directions indicated, the chamb
n. must have not only the requisite funds
< its disposal, for the iudicious and econou
cal Announcements of measures for the city
ed general welfare, but il must also have t
he moral support, the hearty and active
al operation of the representative and ent
n getic men in all lines of business, trad
~ ana PROFESSIONS III One city Oh Sdlb Lake
e. While the revenues of the chamber
nd commerce, 10 be derived this year frC
regular dues, may be adequate for meeti
=. the ordinary expenses of the chamber,
er nothing OF an especially important char;
nd ter were undertaken, still they will pro
er wholly inadequate for any other effor
20 The revenues from the present memb
al, ship would reach about six thousand
a lars this year, but taking into conside
~ ton the fact that their new quarters in I
If board Of trade building viii have to
equipped within that time the margin /
40, for active work will be quite smi
nd II, rs expected, the membership will
he increased 10 400, the income of
ger chamber, from in tistion fees and dues Y
ir reach $4,000 With such a foundation
,as build and rely upon, the directors of
i iaG chamber would feel that they could
inS7 tualIy undertake a great many oesirat
It's, hutnoi separately expensive enterprises
for presenting Salt Lake in a proper mann
led where it would DO her the most good. II
can then see their way clear TO inauguI
ing and carrying out some matters of
greatest and of immediate necessity 10
city of Salt Lake and the territory
i e Utah.
lm We ask on behalf of the Chamber
Commerce, the hearty co operation of