Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-04
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CONCLUDED. NEW HAVEN CAPITALISTS.

A Pleasant Reception Given In Kan.
 sas City by the Commercial Club
 Three Hundred Guests Present.
 Western uen and Eastern Men. =
 In Kansas City last Friday night big reception was given to the officials of the Kansas City Suburban Belt Line and the Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith rail- way company by the Commercial club in it's rooms in the Exchange building. ELI. Martin, president, A.E. Stilwell, vice presi- dent, and E. P. Merwin (of New Haven, Conn., director of both roads, and Rich ard Gentry, general manager of the Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith railway, were present as the guests of the club. About twenty-five of the officials and business men of Kansas City, Kan, were also present by invitation. The attendance numbered near ly 300.
 President JIM. Patterson called the meet ing to order at $50 o'clock. He said he had been requested by the club to have the meet ing held for the purpose of showing to some extent the appreciation of the membership of the club of the energy of the gentlemen who built the Suburban Belt Line and sev- enty miles of the Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith railway.
 Nr. Allen, the first speaker, reviewed various enterprises that had helped build up Kansas City. Proceeding he said: 'It is remarkable evidence of our growth" :" said MT. Allen, "when a few of our citi- zens can build a railway seventy miles long without putting single bond upon it and without the people of the city know ing about it." MT. Allen then went on to tell how the business section of the city had gradually left the North End of the city and gone to the vicinity of Twelfth street. The city was spreading out, and in the shifting that had been going on the North End had to a great ext.nt lost it's prestige. But the enterprise of the men who had built the Suburban Belt line and the Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith railway would make property in that part of tho city again valuable.
 ing was Edward P. Merwin of New Haven, Conn. The Kansas City Journal says:
 "Mr. B. P. Merwin, one of the directors 8 of the new roads, told about his first visit to the west about two years ago. Before coming to Kansas City he went to Omaha, but that city was so dead and uninterest- ing that he concluded not to invest any of his capital there When he reached Kan sas City he was charmed with it and car ried the story of it's wonderful develop ment and resources back to his friends in the east. 50 far as the Kansas City, ,Neva- da and Fort Smith railway is concerned, he said, we in the east have put little money into it, and when you are ready to go little further south with it, call upon us and we are ready to put in more.'" Speeches were also made by Colonel T. B. Bullene, H. J. Latshaw, L. E. Irwin and Judge c. L. Dobson, in which they commended Messrs. Martin, Stillwell, Mer- win and Gentry for their enterprise in building the two railroads. Judge Dob son said that upon the line of the Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith railway the town of Amoret had grown up within two weeks. It has five hundred population and two banks.
 MT. Gentry extended an invitation to the members of the Commercial club to take a 1 trip over the line of the Kansas City, Ne vada and Fort Smith railway, after which ! the meeting adjourned