The herald., 1897-09-23
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AN EXCURSION TO THE COUNTY
FARM PLANNED
Communication on Various Subjects
Employ the Attention Of the
Board

OF commerce met yesterday afternoon at
s:15. The following were present: Di-
rectors Forman, Groff, Hooker, Jacoby.
Klokke, Mathuss, Mckinley, slauson,
Story. Waters, Willard and vetter.
President Forman occupied the chair.
A communication was read from the
board Of supervisors inviting the men,
bers of the chamber to inspect the coun-
ty farm, and suggesting that Tuesday
September 2sth, would be the most con-
venient for the board of supervisors to
accompany the members and show them
the farm. The invitation was accepted
and the secretary instructed to issue
notices to the members
The secretary announced that the
Terminal Railway company, through
General Manager Hynes, had also Of
fered the services of its road to carry
the members Of the chamber Of COM
merce to and from the farm on the date
above mentioned at 1920 p. M, returning
at or 5 o'clock as suited the conven-
,ience of the members. 1t will be ar
ranged so that the members wives can
attend.
The board of supervisors Of San Ber-
nardino county announces that for lack
of funds the board will not be able to
make an appropriation for an exhibit
of San Bernardino county products at
the Omaha exposition next year. This
communication also called attention to
the fact that the report in the daily
papers stating that the board had de-
cided to withdraw its support from the
county exhibit of the Los Angeles cham
ber of commerce was incorrect. The
matter only referred to the Omaha ex-
position. San Bernardino's exhibit will
remain intact and be addeS to as occa
sion demands.
The Oil Burning and Supply company
called attention to the fact tht the speci-
fications drawn up for surfacing the
streets of this city were prepared with
the express purpose of barring out the
use Of domestic products. The matter
was referred to the committee on man
ufactures. with instructions to make
every effort possible to have the speci-
fications so changed as to give an op-
portunity for local firms to bid on street
work.
executive committee Of the Santa Fe
system, wrote that desirable room in
New York could be rented and an ex-
hibit maintained there until March, 1898,
for the sum of $4,000. The communica-
ton was filed. --...,.-.,-
Secretary Virgins announced that he
had gathered estimates on the proba BILE
cost of public fountains and was now
waiting for the cost Of delivery.
Resolutions were passed heartily
thanking ]. Ross Clark, the manager of
the Alamitos sugar refinery, the South
ern Pacific company and Messrs John
Muir and Charles Shepard for their
courtesy during the recent excursion to
the sugar refinery.
The following new members were
elected: James H. Hurin (mining bro
ker), Briggs, Spence & Co. (fruit ship
pers), O. ]. Sutton (real estate), George
L. Cole (physician), Lee Chamberlain
Qron and steeD, J. F. Evans tretired),
Giuseppe Sormano California Star
Winery), Murray, White & Schofield
(whole sale fruit and produce), c. j.
Fox (capitalist), Sunset Fruit and Pro-
duce company (W. D. Hamman, man.
ager).
The chamber succeeded in getting a
very unique photograph yesterday aft
ernoon, the only one Of the kind ever
taken in Los Angeles county. 1t is Of
a pineapple grove on the ranch Of j. B.
Rapp, Cahuenga. 1t will be reproduced
and placed in the Klondike pamphlet,
IL, 900 Of which are to be issued The PAM
pillet Is now in the hands Of the printer.