The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-17
TO TALK BUSINESS.
Lumber Manufacturers to Dis
cuss Freight Rates.
PLANS FOR THE WORLDS FAIR,
Three Big Gatherings to Be Held To-
eay-Designs for State Building
-Businsss Men TO Unite.

This win be q busy day at the Chamber of
commerce. The lumbermen's convention will
oegln az 10 O'Clock, in conjunction with tho
e4eeutive committee of the Washington Worlds
iair commission. An hour later the executive
committee OF the state Board OF Trade will hold
us session, and at o'clock in the afternoon
tnere will be a general gathering of the bust
ness men of Puget sound.
Tne lumbermen will try to devise some means
oi securing for their products lower freight
rates 70 The East; and at the afternoon meeting
'ne business men viii consider the same
question. Representatives from the various
ciaes OF the Sound will be present, and the
enamoer OF Commerce and Commercial Club
" Tacoma will send delegations They will
arrive on the 10 O'Clock train this morning, and
VIII De met at the station by the reception and
.ne TRANSPORTATION committees OF the Seattle
enamOef OF Commerce. This same committee
WIZ SO lar as is possible, meet the visitors
from other cities
Inc iombermeu viii also try 10 arrange for
assisting the Worlds fair committee in getting
'ne exhibit OF lumber at Chicago and the sup
pay OF II needed for the Washington building
there. The plans for this structure will
Do opened today, but DR.. G. V. Calhoun,
Oh the committee, said yesterday that the final
acceptance OF any set would not probably be
MADE until the plans had been sent to the Chi
cago board Of architects for approval. Some an.
pointmen's Will probably be made by the COM
mittee.
To the general meeting in the afternoon the
members OF the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
OF the Seattle Board of Trade, and the business
men OF the city generally are invited
Inc executive committee OF the State Board of
Trade wss to have met yesterday, but only W. T.
Clark, the general manager, and Dr. e. v. CAL
noun, OF La Conner; Will d. jenkins, of What
com; A. T. Partridge, of Tacoma, and w. F.
Rupert, OF Port Townsend, were present.
MI A. E. Partridge, one of the propristors of
the Tacoma Coil, is at the Grand hotel He has
come to the city to attend the meeting of the ex-
eeutive committee of the State Board OF Trade.
he was formerly proprietor of the Chehalis
Nugget.
M. d. Allen, an Aberdeen lawyer, IL at the
Grand hotel. He Is counsel for several mill
companies there, which he will represent at the
meeting OF lumbermen today. His life has
mostly been spent in Ohio, but some nine years
ago he came to Nevada, where he was a mem Der
OF the legislature. He mas been a resident Of
Washington for about year.
Nr. L. 0. Frazier, of the Tacoma Mill Com
pany, and Mr.. w. p. Sergeant, of Buckley, mem
oers OF the lumbermen's committee of three, are
expected In the city today.
Hon. James A. Karr, president OF the Hoquiam
Lumber d Improvement Company, arrived at
the Snoquslmie house last night and will be
present at the meetings today. He il well
known among the earlier settlers of the state
Having come from the middle West to Califor-
MIA in 1855, he came to British Columbia at the
time OF the Fraser river gold excitement in 1853
year later he returned a. far as Gray's harbor
and took up the first claim at the place where
Hoquaim now is. Twice he has been member
of the territorial legislature.
Mr.. James Crawford, OF Vancouver, the state
fish commissioner, is at the Rainier hotel He
viii meet with the Worlds fair commission to
consider the plans for a fish exhibit at Chicago.
DR.. G. V. Calhoun, OF La Conner, il at the
Rainier hotel to attend the meeting of the State
Board OF Trade and the Worlds fair committee