Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-26
HARBOR DREDGING.

DSinss of the Chamber of Commerce
 Public Parks-President Dewell
 and Secretary Barnes Retire Nathan Easterbrook, IT,, Elected
 President.
 The annual meeting of the New Haven chamber of commerce for the election of officers was held last night at their rooms, 769 Chapel street. Two new members, MT. Trumbull and Frederick c. Lum, were elected. The president then called for a report from the committees. Captain Charles H. Townshend of the harbor com mittee reported plan which had been submitted to the authorities to dredge the harbor and which had been put into &C., tion, and also plan for public wharf which would greatly increase the conven- fences for private yachts and vessels hay ing no landing place of their own and hay ing to pay heavily for the same. Charts were exhibited showing the condition and depth of the harbor in the vicinity of the old lighthouse and new jetty. Captain Townshend remarked that the breakwaters were very important matter, to which the greatest engineers of the country have called attention, and their value has been greatly and foolishly underrated as well as mis-stated by some of the newspapers For the preparation of these charts the cham Der of commerce arc to be thanked. Cap tain Townshend also showed by compari- son of other important harbors of the world how jetty causes the water to take one deep channel, and that it does much to rid the harbor of ice. None of the chair men of the other committees were present, so that no other reports were made; but MT. Easterbrook called attention to the fact that the appropriation of $2OO, ,O0O by the legislature for the benefit of public parks was due to the eff forts of the chamber of commerce. President Dewen then remarked that the statement is one of the papers; that he had said the breakwater was an e1peri- ment, was wreng. He then read the an nual greeting to the members, reviewing the lectures, doings and other occurrences of the past year, and noting that two of the greatest needs of this city were that of a large public wharf and that of a clean and deep haHbor. He also advised an in dustrial review of this city-not for general information of the pub lie regarding the third city of New England. He closed his report with thanks to the chamber for their regard during the five years in which he has been president. The treasurer's report was then read and accepted, and it was voted that the subject of the damage by the empty ing into the harbor of the sewage be re- ferred to the committee on municipal af- fairs It was also voted that the secre- tary's salary be raised to $50, following which the following officers were elected for tho ensuing year-President J. D. Dewell and Secretary Attwater Barnes, having declined longer to l, fill those positions: presidents, T. Atwater Barnes, jr., S. E. Merwin; reporting and corresponding sec- I retary, J. c. Gallagher; treasurer, Wilbur F. Day; directors, George H. Ford, Joel A. Sperry, N. D. Spelry, c. H. Townshend, l John H. Leeds. A hearty and unanimous vote of thanks was voted to President 1 Dewen and Secretary Barnes for their in valuable services to the Chamber of Com 1 merce and the city of New Haven.