The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-30
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this organization. New enterprises and
factories have been erected here
through the influence of your commit
tee on new enterprises. Appropriations,
too small, 1t is true, have been secured
from congress for the deepening of the
channel in our harbor, and a petition
| is now before the house committee
| from this chamber asking for a new
survey Of the harbor, increasing the
width of the channel from sixty-tive to
| five hundred feet.
FACTORY SITES, ETC.
A record of all the factory sites and
| real estate for factory purposes is COM
piled and kept for record and shown to
parties contemplating business organi-
cations or change Of location.
| Interesting papers and addresses have
| from time to time been read and deliv-
cred, and we hope during the coming
year to be favored with others on live
| topics.
| have mentioned these few instances
of the work Of the chamber that are so
recent that they can readily be recalled
by any of u.s. merely as an assurance to
our members and friends that we are
doing more work and accomplishing
more than perhaps we even realize our
| selves.
COMMITTEES, 1886.
In appointing the committees for this
year have not hesitated to break loose
from former precedents, especially
when a committee during the past year
has shown inactivity. l have endeav-
ored to appoint to the several positions
those men who seemed, by education,
occupation or disposition, best adapted
to the work that may be demanded of
| them in their several capacities, with
the sincere hope that every chairman
will call his committee together at once
and that the chairman of the various
committees will consult with each 9TH
er, each and all in consultation with the
committee on commerce, appointed by
| our common council, and that the COR
dial relations that have been establish
ed between the city government and
the chamber of commerce and it's com
mittees be cultivated and continued.
RECoMMENDATION
In the first place. wish to refer to
the fact that the salary paid to our
secretary is entirely inconsistent with
the requirements of the position, and
recommend that it be increased to a
sufficient amount to enable him to de-
vote more time to the chamber, to act
as secretary for and meet with every
committee whenever they require, and
perform other work of this character
which would not be implied under the
present conditions A suitable office
| oh J,a ~ a. t,vy tJ,n
correspondence and other parapherna-
liza of the chamber at his command
A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
! BUILDING AS AN INVEST
MENT.
We should have a building of our
own, prominently located in the center
of the city, a model, such as would do
credit to the chamber of commerce; an
ornament to the city; standard of
architecture, and an example of con-
| venience; not an immense building.
possibly an office building exclusively,
but the main object to be achieved is a
| suitable place for the chamber and 9th
er organizations with few hundred
members to meet under comfortable
and proper conditions; and equipped
with a hall to accommodate $50 to 200
people, with six adjoining parlors OPEN
ing off from this audience hail. one of
which the chamber should occupy for
themselves as an office for the Secre-
tary, and affordingIa a proper place for
the care of the various books, statis-
tics maps, manuscripts, etc, in their
possession, that have accumulated
over period of years, becoming more
and more valuable each year. The
4 five remaining parlors surrounding this
audience hall would readily be taken
by other organizations with the audi
ence room for special occasions. I am
confident that organizations like our
selves are suffering for suitable ac-
commodations of this character, organ
izations that do not require the expense
and outlay of large hall of this char
acter continuously, and would gladly
pay the amount that would be very re-
munerative to the owners for condi-
tions such as I have described. Our
charter permits us to buy and sell and
own real estate. Such building can
be built and bonded, and the bonds will
be far more secure, profitable and reli-
able as an investment than one-third
of the investments that members of this
chamber have made during the past
twenty five years, in western loans or
holes in the ground in the sides OF
mountains at distant points. If this
same money had been put in a build
ing of this character, or in factory
buildings on the North Haven mead
ows, New Haven to-day would have
been twice the size she now is and the
investors would not only have had an
ample return, but be able to see Their
principal now.
I trust that the members of the cham
ber will take up this matter and con-
slider it seriously. Refer it to the prop
er committee or a joint committee OF
ways and means and new enterprises
confident that, properly developed, the
investment will be a safe and profitable
one Tt can be as easily financed as
any railway, telephone, water or elec-
tric light plant, and would prove not
only profitable as a home investment
but a monument to the chamber
A capitalist need not hesitate to in
vest any amount in such an enterprise
Do not confuse it with the matter Of
public spirit or subscription, but re-
gard it purely and simply as a good
investment.
MEMBERSHIP TO BANKS AMI
CORPORATIONS.
We should invite to our membership
not only individuals but banks and cor.