The herald., 1897-07-08
THE USUAL MEETING
OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DIRECTORS
Communications Read and Approved
Committees Appointed and
Members Elected

The board of directors of the chamber
OF commerce met yesterday Afternoon
at 3:15. The following directors were
present: Messrs. Bluett, Duque, For.
man. Croft, Hooker, Jacoby, Klokke
Mckinley. Slauson, Story, Waters, Will
lard President Forman occupied the
chair. The following were elected to
membership: G. Stromme, painter and
decorator; j. c. Salisbury. capitalist;
Robert Gordon, restaurant.
A communication was read from the
Turnverein Germania of this city ask
| ing the chamber to sign az memorial to
the city council relative to having the
street car lines continue their services
after midnight. The same was referred
to one of the standing committees. An
| other communication was read from At
torney General w. F. Fitzgerald rela-
tive to the new mining law enacted by
the last legislature. The same was re-
ferred to the committee on mines and
mining. A telegram was read from
Messrs. Foshay, Pierce and Webb, copies
of which have already been published,
and the communication that was printed
yesterday morning was read from w.
A. Reed and fifty others of the Christian
Endeavor delegates thanking the cham
ber for the courtesies extended during
their stay in this city.
The president called attention to the
misera BILE condition of the streets and
requested that some action be taken
toward having the authorities place them
in better condition and to see that the
streets, especially in the business part
of the city, are kept in better sanitary
condition. A committee was appointed
consisting of President Forman, Direct
ors Mckinley and Hooker to confer with
other commercial bodies of the city for
the purpose of uniting on a course of
action to secure from the city authorities
proper legislation toward making the
change.
Appropriate resolutions were passed
authorizing the delegates to the Trans
mississippi congress to be held in Salt
Lake City, July 14th, to use the recent
statement made by the chamber of COM
merce on the San Pedro harbor matter
as a memorial to place before the con-
gress and ask the approval of that
body. After the transaction of routine
Charles Forman, president of the
chamber of commerce, who has been
confined to the. house for week, is out
and about again.
Secretary Virgins says that they are
having dozens of calls for literature at
the chamber every day from the people
who came out on the Christian Endeavor
excursions and are investigating condi
tons with view to buying homes and
ranches and settling here. Mr. Virgins
says that out near Ontario the other day
he interviewed a delegation of men rep
resen ting twenty Illinois families, who
are looking up locations for future
homes for the colony; and they are
tickled to death with the summer cli-
mate they are finding here. They knew
about the moderate winter climate, but
that the summer climate should also be
moderate is gladdening their hearts and
they don't hesitate to acknowledge their |
delight Two men from Michigan were |
out near Downey looking for ranches;
and these are only instances of hun
ireds who are here to stay. Very few
of the Christian Endeavor excursion
people went north; they are going to
spend the whole time allotted to them on
their special rate tickets right in this
section.
Mrs. DR.. Witherspoon of Garvanza
has on exhibition at the chamber par
ticularly handsome Navajo blanket,
that took one woman five years to make.
The colors are rich and fast, because
the blanket has been exposed to the
glaring sun daily for months, and not
a color has faded a shade.
Mrs. A G. Gardner, city, displays
some handsome extra-large, brown
Turkey figs; c. A. Barton, Whittier,
early Richmond cherries; G. S. Falls,
city, a curious but comfortable chair,
made of the stems from the fan palm
leaf; James S. Watson, Eagle Rock,
royal apricote, and Henry Sinner a
5inuous cucumber that looks like a
snake and is in the shape of an S.