The San Francisco call., 1896-06-05
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
The New Board of Directors
Elect Its Officers for
the Year.
Forty-Eight More Names Added to
the M mbarship Roll - The
Charter Question.

| The newly elected directors of the Mer-
chants Association held their first meet
ing yesterday. There were present: A. S.
Baldwin, Charles Bundschu, James S.
Conwel, W. &. Doane, F. w. Dohrmann,
William Doxey, A. G. J. Fusenot, Hugo
D. Keil, Manfred S. KohIberg, Henry
Michaels, R. f. Osborn, Maurice A. Roth
child, Joseph Smonson, Vanderlynn
Stow and Frank A. Swain.
The first bu ,iness was to organize the
new board, and the following selections
were made:
W Dohrmann, president; NJ. S. Kohlberg,
first vice president; A. S. Baldwin, second vice
president, and Vanderlynn Stow, treasurer.
J. Richard Freud was reelected secretary and
attorney of the association; Louis NJ. King,
as slstant secretary and superin tendent OF the
street department; Ernest Mccullough, con-
sulting civil engineer, and Miss A. Wiener,
stenographer
The president appointed the following
directors upon the three standing COM
mittees:
Public affairs-Baldwin. Kohlberg, Stow,
Swain and Conweu.
Publicity and promotion = Keil, Doxey,
Doane Bundschu and Michaels
Trade and fnauce-Kohlberg, Osborn, Fuse
not, Simonson and Rothchlld.
The directors instructed the secretary to
send a letter to each of the presidents of
/ twenty-five Improvement clubs, CONNER
cial bodies and the Trades Council, asking
| them to send two delegates to the conven-
| tion decided upon at the annual meeting
of the association, held May %, relative to
the adoption of the new charter. The
resolutions adopted at that meeting were
sent to the organizations mentioned.
| The board referred the subject Of the
next tax levy to the committee upon pub
| lie affairs with instructions to thoroughly
investigate the subject and report its re-
! suits TO the Finance Committee of the
| Board of Supervisors.
The following business men sent in their
! applications for mem bershIp, and all were.
unanimously elected as regular members
| of ne Merchants Association. The mem
| bership includes 452 business houses:
Albion Lumber Company; Boston Woven
! Hose and Rubber Company; California Can
neries Company; n. Clark & Sons; Collins &
Wheeland; Consumers Yeast and Vinegar
| Works; FiremGu's Fund Insurance Company !;
Glsddiug, Mclean & Co.; Glindemann &
! Schweitzer; Globe-MacCabe Company; Marcus
| s. Harloe; David n Hawley; Herman Hevne-
man; Hlrschtelder Meaney; Edward Hol-
land; Holmes & Edwards Silver Com
pany; Insurance Company OF North America !;
! G. NJ Josselyn Co. L. H. Kohn; Kragen
! Furniture Company; Kullman, Salz g. Co. Lane
! e. Copnelly; G. Leipnitz & Co.; w. Loaiza &
! Co; Mandel, Pursch d. Wiener; E. Martin &
| Co.; Alex McCord & Co.. John Middleton; G. A
| Murdoch & Co.; Nevada Bank of San Francisco;
! Daniel Norcross&Co. ;Pacihc Lumber Company
Parafine Paint Company; Pernau Brothers &
Pitts Company; ]. ]. Pfister Knitting Com
pany; Reed & Goodman; Charles C. Rfedy :;
! c. B. Rode & Co.; Rothschild & Ehrenpfort;
! San Francisco Novelty and Plating Works !;
! William A. schultz Il Sons; W. Selschopp &
| Van Bergen & Co.; Voss, Conrad g. Co. Wilson
! Brothers; Wolters, Schein d Co.