The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-05
NEW QUARTERS.
Business Mems Association
To Make a Change.
Interesting and Largely Attended
Meeting Held Last Evening.
Will Occuy the Second Floor Of the New
Sheldon Building Co.'S Structure.

Inc regular monthly meeting OF the
Business Mems Association was held last
evening at their rooms in Music Hall and
proved to be important and interesting.
After the usual collation., President
Lyman b. Goff called the meeting to order,
the attendance was large fully 100 men,
bers being present. The minutes of the
last two meetings were read and approved.
The action on the recommendation that
the Board of Tax Assessors be composed of
one man was continued until the next
meeting. Messrs. Jesse Linton and Her
bert Z. Thayer were elected to member
ship. The report of the committee on the
need of the association for more room
were called and they rendered the follow
| ing:
Contrasting the two proposed quarters
and the terms of the leases everything Is
in favor of the Mason building, socalled.
The present quarters of the association are
| in rooms with angular walls, without ven-
| tilation, and so dark that it is necessary to
use the electric light during the daytime.
With the proposed addition the rooms
will be still less attractive on account of
| the many angles in the partitions. The
Mason building will give the exclusive
use of the second (upper) floor, which will
| contain more than 2 1-2 times the square
| feet of the present quarters, including the
| additional room suggested; the ceiling
will be twelve feet above the floor, with
numerous skylights, giving all the light
| and ventilation necessary.
The relative cost of the two proposed
| quarters is as follows:
Music Hall, $14C0 per year, with esti-
mated cost of assembly room $50 addi-
tional; Mason building, 1888 per year;
The report was listened to with close at
| tention, and r. X. Millers motion that it
be accepted was the opening for consider
| able discussion. Mr.. Barnefield inquired
If the $11O0 mentioned in the report in
cluded the use of the assembly room. Mr..
Carpenter said that the mems association
should occupy the best building in the city
and was pleased TO know that so far they
had. The landlord had granted all privi-
lodges asked in Offering to enlarge the
| rooms and give them all the space required.
1t seems to the speaker as though 1t was
| stepping down to go from a fine building
| to an ordinary two story one, where the
| fiat roof would make it hot in summer and
cold in winter, the present quarters were
very comfortable. He hoped the matter
would de thoughtfully looked into before
a change was made.
Mr.. Barnefield wanted to know il the
association could get a good title? The
| President thought an explanation called
for and Mr.. Sheldon explained that good
and substantial building would cost $25,
| 600. Mr.. Sheldon said something about
his buildings being called straw boards
and some people would doubtless like to
have him erect a ten story one, but he was
not doing business that way. He then en-
tered into details regarding the building
| to be erected. The cellar would be a deep
one, and the building would run back the
entire depth of the lot, the cellar would be
divided and the front of the building
would almost entirely iron and plate glass.
| The rooms on the second floor furnished
as well as any first class building in the
| city and be in narural wood. The exterior
finish of the second floor would be finished
| in Roman pressed brick with buff terra
Gotta trim. The floor space would be II
feet front by so feet and the roof would be
| carried up on an average of 18 feet, the
| space between the ceiling and roof would
be ventilated. After speaking of the
means that would be adopted for ventila-
tion, Mr.. Sheldon said that regarding
| quality the building would be as good as
any building in Pawtucket or as any that
| was likely to be built.
After some further discussion Mr. Lucius
B. Darling said that when a change was
made 1t should be to go into building of
their own, the city was large enough to
| support restaurant and club as i'm other
cities Of the same size. Considerable dis
cussion followed regarding the cost of fur
nishing and other incidentals followed.
| Mr.. Arnold said there was a good atten-
dance and it was proper time to take up
| the matter.
Mr.. Metcalf favored remaining i'm the
present quarters, other things being equal,
although all Joined in respect to the bull
der of the new structure.
On motion the question was decided by
ballot and the result was yeas 81, nays AZ.
The session closed with an interesting
lecture by N. w. Littlefield entitled "Zig-
| gag through Great Britain and Holland.n