The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-13
|0USTON BUSINESS LEAGUE
~ Of Standing Committees APP
pointed for the Year.
|op 4 BETTER COAST DEFENSE.
80. would Like 20 Have some of
,hat $50, 900. Ooo--'rexas Tobacco
Culture.

AZ meeting OF the OfnceS ana directors
,hc Houston Business League held yes-
.rday morning at IL o'clock. there were
rssent w. a. Childress. G. II. Mildly. w .
Cleveland, Ed KAN. II. H. Dickson
M H. f. MaoGregor. Directors r. Nj.
ohnston, G.. A. Mistrot, Rufus Cage and
Hacker are at present absent from the
ity. H.,
The minutes OF the preceding meeting
are read and approved. 81
A imposition from an Indiana shoe fat
~ was read. and after being discussed
some length was turned ever to the
nnmittee on manufactures. ii
Tho Importance of tobacco culture. and
hs necessity OF making this city mar
At was taken up and discussed at length.
No newspaper agitation OF the question
I'd been read by each and every one OF
no directors present aud all seemed con-
kInced that there was a great deal in the
nture of this particular industry. Tho
mretary was Instructed to open corre-
rondence with leaf dealers, cigar makers
nd tobacconists generally in oil portions
n the country, and secure Such ini1rma-
inn as will be Of value to business men.
IN. Chiidress related the conversation he
IA had with Mr.. Owen Smith of Willis,
q well as gentlemen in other Texas
towns and said there would certainly be
large acreage, and that 1t was expected
Fiat thu business community here would
HAZE hold OF the matter and make Houston
4 market. Talks on the subject were made
M Messrs. MacGregor and Cleveland. A
fnture meeting will be called to discuss
This matter, and at that time experts Will
he brought bsfore the meeting so that
business men of this city can get the bene-
m al their ideas as well as their expert
tnce.
The following resolution was offered by
Mr.. II. +. MacGreGor and unanimously
adopted
BE 1t resolved, by the officers and di-
rectors of the Houston Business League,
Thai the attention of the war department
| Of the United States be directed to the
/ fact that the only protection for National
defense for the 500 miles of the Texas
| coast is at Galveston, and that same is
INADEQUATE Tor the purpose. therefore ii Is
RESPECTFULLY requested that in the dispcsl-
|tlon of the $4,000 900 appropriated for Ma
| tiopal defense, that the erection of add
ftional Notifications at Sabine Pass, la
Porte, Velasco, Corpus Christi, Arkansas
Pass, Brownsville and other points be pro-
yided.
President Childress announced the fol-
lowing committees to serve for the bal
apce OF the year 1898.
Committee ON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. y.
Dickson, chairman. c. H. Milby. vice
chairman; c. Pilot, e. w. Taylor, 7. H.
Thompson, w. b. Chew, j. j. Mckeever,
c. H. Milby, John Lyons, &c. Y. Hart
we'll, l. Meyer. Hubert S. H. Wilson, c.
schwarz, c. ID. Wolkarte. A. Moscr, G. J.
Boring, j. b. Hamilton. r. G. Boring, e.
A. Peden, +. Hacker, j. l. Campbell. L.
J. Tuffy, George A. Gragin.
Finance and auditing committee-H. L.
MaeGregor, chairman; Henry H. Dickson,
John +. CARROT.
Committee on transportat.on-R. NJ.
chairman; H. Hamilton, F.. B. Cushing,
Frank Bonner, c. S. Penfield, j. l.. Mitch
ell, H. Brown, A. Hampe. F.. g. Colby, G.
A. Mstrot. Max Dlenstag.
Committee on membership-Rufus cage
Chairman; E. x. Dillingham;, vice CHAIR
man; Ed Kiam, N. l.. Mills, Theo Boring, |
@, F. Parker, F. j. DeMerrtt, II. Ra-
pkael
Committee on statfstics--H, II. Dick |
son. chairman; G. r. Shearn, vice chair
man; p. p. Hamblen, E. l.. Dennis, j. J |
Pastoriza, H. M. Curtin, VIM. Read, j. V.
Dsaly, A. A.. Szabo, p. w. Cave.
Committee on reception and entertain
msnt-F. A. Reichardt, chairman; Abbott
Co,krell, vice chairman; Gus Fredericks'
G. Grunewald, B. A. Reisner G. W. nahl,
Adam Clay, ]. 2. Castor, VIM. Rice. b.
F. Weems, w. D. Cleveland H. b. Rice.
Charles Helm. W. T. Boyle, w. j. Han
cock e. C. Crawford, II. R. Rolf D, A.
saphet, ]. F Meyer, Justin 9. White: ).
?. Shosser, James T. d. Wilson, Sam
Brashear, Gus Schultz, l.. Houseman, r.
Alkemeyer, A. G. Allen. J. ]. Wolf, Ed
Browne. G. @. Rugers w. S. Wall.