The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-20
STATE BOARD OF TRADE
ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD HERE
 YESTERDIY.

Lieutenant-GovernOr DeNveI Reelected President-Other Officers Elected-Im- portant Matters Discussed -Resolu- Haven Harbor-Interesting Report by Henry c. Rowe.
 The annual meeting of the State Board of Trade was held in the new rooms of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, Tyler building, yesterday. The convention met at 1O:3O o'clock
 In calling the convention to order President Dewell invited all the mem bers to dinner at the New Haven House. MT. Dewel said he hoped that all the members would remain to the dinner.
 New Haven members present were J. D. Dewell, Dr. Charles A. Lindsley, Wilson H. Lee, F. H. Sperry N. w. Kendall, H. c. Rowe, w. c. Warren, Charles E. Curtiss, J. c. North, H. T. Blake and C. S. Mersick
 T. H. Mckenzie was appointed tenn porary secretary. Secretary Warren soon afterward arrived and assumed the secretary's duties. MT. Warren is the new secretary of the board, having been elected to the position on the resignation of the former secretary, Major T. Attwater Barnes Mr. Barnes was not present yesterday. He and his wife are on a pleasure trip in Canada
 The secretary called the roll of mem- bers as follows: Theodore Beach and l.. A. Camp, Seymour.
 D. A. Upson, zalmon Goodsell, A. M. Wooster, G. w. Goodsell, James B. Wilson and Dr. N. D. Wordin.
 Rev. Archibald Wheaton. John s. Beatty, Mystic.
 P. H. Woodward, George A. Fair cild, Patrick German, Francis c. Pratt, Charles F. Cooley and J. Samu- els, Hartford.
 Adam Reid, A. Rathbone, C. H. Preston, c. B. Chandler, George $. Smith, Norwich.
 D. w. Turchell, T. H Mckenzie, Southington.
 Zalmon Goodsell, Bridgeport.
 The report of the executive council was made by President Dewell and is ais follows:
 You have assembled for the ninth annual convention. The various sub- jects which will be presented for dis cussion and action have been prepared by the executive council and are sub- mitted in the hope that free CD ex- pression will result and your decisions in keeping with the same conservative judgment that has characterized this honorable body in the past.
 Since our last session at Meriden, October IS, 1897, a brief but decisive war between our government and Spain has been waged; peace measures are now being considered by com mission from each nation and the out come of it all can only be surmised at this time.
 It will be eminently proper for this non-political organization to deliberate on the great and grave subject of our possible foreign possessions.
 By invitation from the Massachu- setts board your chairman, in company with T. A. Barnes of New Haven, M. B. Schencle of Meriden and Zaimon Goodsell of Bridgeport, attended a meeting of New England representa- tive business men in Boston, March 22 last, to consider various subjects, but principally to encourage by legislative procedure and endorsements of boards of trade some plan for the representa- ticn of New England's varied manu- featuring industries at the Paris expo- sition in 1900. The gathering was a large one and the speeches in the line of extending our trade in manufac- tured products with the world on a larger scale than at present. This subject is also worthy of your high considera tion
 The matter of selecting the place for holding the next annual meeting was left to the executive council to decide. The board was invited to meet at Mystic by Mr. Rathbun of that place next year.
 Henry c. Rowe, the chairman of the committee on the improvement of New Haven harbor, made report. The committe consists of Henry c. Rowe, chairman; Zalmon Goodsell, Bridge port; Eli Birdsey, Meriden This com- mittee went to Washington and ap- peared before the congressional com- nlittee on rivers and harbors.
 Mr. Rowe said:
 At the last annual meeting of the state board of trade a committee of three was appointed to accompany @ delegation of the chamber of commerce of New Haven, the harbor commission CTS and the city of New Haven to Washington to urge important im- proyements for the harbor of New Ha- ven.
 The state board of trade decided unanimously at that meeting that the promotion of the commerce of the state of Connecticut by water is a very inn portant factor of our prosperity.
 While we all recognize the fact that we have great and efficient railroad system, we know at the same time that there is no competition in freights, ex- cepting by means of our commerce by water Even our great railroad system receives it's freight to great extent from water shipments to New Haven and other ports. No less than 692 041 tons of freight are received in one year