The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-02-28
CHAMBER Of COMMERCE I.
Committees Hereafter 10 he
port Every A0niIl.
a Committee on Education to
be Added to the List of
Standing Committees.
The Committee on Manufac-
lures to Make a Full Re-
port Next Thursday.

The Chamber of Commerce met on
Thursday evening, with President r.
III. DOdd in the chair. There was q
scanty turnout, on account, doubtless,
of the change of the time of holding
the meeting from Friday to Thursday
night.
The first business transacted was the
reading, ny the secretary, of the
amendment to section three, of article
five, of the bylaws, so that four mem
bers of the board OF directors, instead
of six, Will be empowered hereafter to
transact any business that may come
before it.
The President reported that Mr.. R.
a. Barney had been appointed chair
man of the special committee on
organization of freight interests, with
power to select four other members to
complete the committee.
Secretary Wedgewood reported that
the committee on statistics we're busy
at work in accordance with DR.. Gash's
motion passed at last session. Don
r. Coray was now in Salt Lake city
looking up data in relation to Utah
ores, and was expected to report soon.
Judge Jones thought the chairman
of each committee should be required
to make report of their doings to the
Chamber at least once a month They
should be given to understand that
matters will not proceed as easily as
they were allowed to last year. If the
chairman will not do so, some action
should be taken, so that the interests
OF the public might not be neglected.
The speaker hoped the President of
the Chamber would, at theuclose of
the present year, have the privilege of
making more satisfactory report
than was the case at the end of last
year.
MI. E. A. Wilson moved that the
secretary be instructed to call for
report from the chairman of each
standing committee to be made by the
first meeting in April.
ID. ID. HOutz moved to amend by
requiring each committee to make a
report of work done the first meeting
in each month, after the first day of
April.
The motion as amended was carried.
Ben. R Eldredge said when a visi-
tor to PROVO asks a resident what
manufactu Provo has, he says we
are pre-eminently manufacturing
town. If that be true then we should
certainly make a showing to that eff
feet. Now we have committee on
manufactures, and the speaker moved
that the secretary be authorized to re-
quire them to make a report at the
next meeting.
Judge Jones suggested that it would
be good idea. whenever any person
comes to town with view to engag-
ing in any industry, for any member
of the Chamber to take them and in
troduce them to the President,o or mem
Der of the committee on manufac-
lures, and see that they were shown
around and every possible inducement
eXf iA1lu9 ttathem to locate here
C--rnotion of Judge Jones the reso-
luton offered by him at the last ses-
sion, proposing that the city purchase
the Courthouse and grounds from the
county, was laid over for one week.
E, A. Wilson thought the Chamber
should haYe standing committee on
education. Not only should one be
appointed from an educational stand
point, but from "a financial stand
point. We must talk more and do
more about the erection of education
al institutions, such as commercial
college, ETC. We say great deal about
street car lines, railroads, and other
improvements, yet none of these re-
suit in so much public benefit as do
colleges and academies. The pros
poets are, with some encouragement.
thatwe will have an academic structure
in this city costing about 800 900. He
thought, therefore, that a committee
on education should be appointed.
Oscar B. Young said it was we'll
known fact that there was piece of
property endowed to the B. Y. Acad-
envy the proceeds from the sale of
which were to be used to complete
this year the B. Y. Academy building
1t was the duty of the Chamber of
Commerce to encourage the subject of
education, and bring it before the
people.
Ben R. Eldredge had thought of the
matter considerably There were some
doubts about getting railroads and
Therefore, if we have to fall
back on our reputation as an educa-
tional centre, he would move that the
board of directors, by the next meet
ing, appoint good, live, energetic
on education.
On motion of D. D. Houtz the meet
inc adiournnd one yyank