The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
RESTING upon ITS OARS,
The HalfMillion Club Hands Its
Work Over to Other
Societies.
Having Started the Machinery for
Improvement, the Parent Body
Awaits Results.

An important meeting of the executive
committee of the Half-million Club was
held yesterday. There were present
Messrs. Crocker, Bouvier, Bunker and
Rich. Very little time was occupied in
discussion of the subject under consider
alton, which was satisfactorily presented
in the following report and resolution by
the officers of the committee:
To the Members of the Ha!t-million Club, San
Francisco Cal: The Half-million Club has
been in existence since eight months, starting
out with the excellent purpose of developing
and unifying the State of California, and there
by coincidentally increasing the population of
Sun Francisco to 100000. 1t finds encourage
ment in some parts, and obstacles in others.
The executive committee feels justified in re-
porting that the work accom- plished to date is
in full accord with the intents and desires of
the organizing members of the club. But we
now find that the fields pres esumed to afford US
the best opportunities Tor work are practically
entirely covered by other public-spirited
bodies. Internal improvement in the City and
the advancement OF home products and manu-
features are covered by the Merchants Asso-
ciatIon and the Manufacturers and Producers
bodies are made up TO a large extent OF men,
bers of our club.
The work of development in the interior of
the State ana of advocating its advantages
abroad is being handled by that very impor-
tant body, the State development committee
Club, and its existence is directly traceable to
our efforts in the Estate unity" excursion of
last spring. The State development committee
has done most excellent work at Atlanta in the
way of daily lectures on California, accom-
panied by stereopticon views cooking exhibits,
etc. The funds of the Half-million Club (the
amount collected from the annual dues) are
now exhausted. In view OF the circumstances
the executive committee has decided not to
call for further dues at present, and to dispense
with the office and stenographer, allowing
matters to stand thus until some public neces-
sity calls for special work
1t is hoped that this action will meet with
the approval of the members. Communica-
tions may be addressed to room 1, third floor,
Mills building. Respectfully,
III. j. CRoCKER, President,
ALFRED BoUvIER, Secretary.
The Half-million Club has set in motion
the machinery that is to accomplish the
object for which the body was originally
organized. With the Merchants Associa-
tion looking after City improvements, the
Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
ton upholding the interests OF the pro-
ducing element and the State develop
ment committee drawing together the
various sections in the interest of the
whole State, but little is left for the Half
million Club to attend to now. To con-
tinue to assess its members would be to
divert money from other channels that are
on the same lines of the policy of the club.
in the movement for general advance
ment is the State development committee,
of which the club is the parent. The most
prominent citizens of the State have taken
hold of the parts assigned to them and
they are working in harmony with the
central body and in the interests of the
whole. AT the same time their efforts,
while not loudly heralded, have been pro-
ductive of results that will soon be made
manifest in the increasing prosperity of all
parts of tine State.
Such as these were the expressions of
the Half-mill;on Clubs executive officers
as they arranged business preparatory to
retiring from the field of activity as body.
1t must not be misunderstood that the
Half-million Club is dead. The organiza-
ton and mem bership will still be preserved
and both will be very much in evidence if
the occasion demands. AS it is the men,
bers are active in lines of work in other
special organizations, but all upon the
lines mapped out by the Half-million
Cluh