The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-13
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
REGULAR MEETING HEED IN
 RUILDERS' EXCHANGE.

Important Resolution Onered Dy Johh A'
 Manson Relating to the Kimberly Ave-
 nue Bridge-Committee to Investigate
 the AdvisabiIity of Erecting a Chamber
 of Commerce Building.
 A regular meeting of the chamber of commerce was held last evening in the Builders Exchange rooms. The follow ing gentlemen were elected to member ship: s. H. Reed, w. s. Bryan, Reilly
 r. Smith. Joseph II. Macdonald and
 Hobart B. Ives.
 The fact that the meeting opened with thirteen members present bore no
 weight with the president, General
 Ford, and the un1ucl1y number was soon broken by the entrance of eX- Judge Pickett
 General Ford announced that the sec
 retary of the Philadelphia Museum would ascertain before the South Amer-
 ican delegates started on their tour in
 what line of business each was engag-
 ed, This information will be forwarded
 to New Haven so that the New Haven
 manufacturers may make the acquaint-
 ance of those gentlemen interested in
 the products which they manufacture.
 General Ford also said that the dele
 gates were not coming to New Haven
 on a social visit, but to be informed in
 the lines of business in which they are
 interested as buyers.
 Secretary Gallagher read letters from
 Senator Hawley and Congressman
 Sperry acknowledging the receipt of votes of thanks passed by the chamber for the work of the Connecticut delega- tion in congress in acting upon recom- mendations of the chamber Letters
 were also read from Professor Brush, Dean Wayland of the Yale law school and Dr. Herbert E. Smith of the Yale
 medical school accepting elections as honorary members of the chamber and
 expressing thanks for the same. General Ford announced that Presi-
 dent Dwight had informed him person. honorary member,
 The amendment to the charter of the chamber, empowering 1t to hold real
 and personal estate to the amount of
 $500, 0,000 and authorizing 1t for the pur-
 pose of purchasing or improving such property to issue stocks and bonds,
 which was drawn up by MT Blake and recently passed by the legislature, was adopted.
 A communication was read from the chamber of commerce of New York city calling attention to the Paris exposition l to be opened early in the year 1900. The | New Haven chamber of commerce was asked to adopt an inclosed resolution to the effect that President Mckinley be
 asked to recommend the appropriation
 of a sufficient nm to provide for a creditable exhibition there of agricultu- ral and manufacturing interests of the United States. The communication was referred to the executive committee. The same disposition was made of a | communication from the Municipal | league of Chicago advocating the es- | tablishment of United States depart ment of commerce and industry, mat | ters pertaining to which are now in l cluded in different and inappropriate | departments. The communication also | favored the inclusion in the proposed 1 department of a tariff bureau to which l contemplated changes in or reyisions
 of the tariff schedules might be referred | for investigation and report, and | through which such revision may be | treated as matters of science for ex- perts rather than for partisan politics. | On motion of Wilson H. Lee it was l voted that the president of the cham Der be authorized to appoint com
 mlttee of ten to look into the advisa.- | bility of erecting a chamber of com | merce.
 | John T. Manson brought to the. at | tention of the chamber the fact that | that an attempt is now being made by | the town of Orange to have an act passed by the legislature compelling the l town of New Haven to pay one-half the | cost of any bridge which may be or dered by the government to be built across West river on Kimberly avenue. | MT. Manson called attention to the act | passed by the legislature in 1895 where | by New Haven was to pay one-half | of the cost of building and maintain | ing a drawbridge across West river at | that point whenever the building of
 
 | government. He stated that the town l of West Haven Is now attempting to have the word draw stricken from
 this act and leave 1t so that New Ha- ven would be obliged to pay one-half | the cost of any kind of bridge which
 may be built. As the bridge is 1000 feet across the town line in Orange, MT. 1 Manson argued that such .a burden on | New Haven would be unfair and said | that New Haven was only willing to pay half on drawbridge because such ] a bridge would enable shipping to pass | up West river to the New Haven shore | of the stream. He then presented the 1 following resolution:
 Resolved, That in the opinion of this l chamber the private act of the leglsla- | ture of this state, approved June 26, | 1895, in reference to bridge over the | West river on Kimberly avenue, in the 1 town of Orange is an equitable act which should stand unchanged. David c. Sanford said that he under stood that a bill was to be presented to | legislature, providing for a change in | the town line between New Haven and | Orange so that the line would extend l along the middle of West river and thus | bring one-half of the bridge within the | town of New Haven. MT. Sanford said l tha+ be DraI1a Tuesday of +biC xUeaIr