The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-12
The CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESI-
DENT, GEN. GEO. II. FORD,

Delivered at the Meeting Held Last Night
Work OF tho Organization for the
Last Year Reviewed Standtng Conn
mittees for Next Year Appointed-In-
vitation to LOGON olive Engineers.
At the regular meeting of the cham
Der Of commerce, held last evening, the
chief feature of interest was the adj
dress by the president, General George
II. Ford. 1t was voted to extend to the
National Association of Locomotive
Engineers an invitation to hold the an
nual convention for 1900 in New Haven
in line with like action taken by the
board of aldermen at their last meet
ing. President Ford announced the ap-
pointment of the following standing
committees of the chamber for next
wear:
Representatives of the chamber on
the advisory board of the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum-Samuel A. CAL
pin and George S. Barnum.
ecrologist-William E. Chandler.
Standing Committees.
Ways and means-Frank H. Sperry,
Pierce N. WEIGH, James D. Dewell, l.,
Wheeler Beecher, Edwin S. Greeley,
Augustus H. Kimberly and 7. AttWater
Barnes.
New enterprises-Rolin S. Woodruff,
Sherwood S. Thompson, George I'll.
Scranton, Emanuel Moses, James A.
Howarth, Nathaniel w. Kendall and
Edward I. Atwater.
Railroads and transportation--Edgar
E. Durant, William H. Douglass, Isaac
NJ Ullman, Abner Hendee, Ralph ].
Miner and Frederick B. Street.
Committee on harbor-Henry G.
Rowe, Nehemiah D. Sperry, Frank c.
Bushnell, Charles I. French, Herbert
Mason, e. Harris Weaver and John c.
North.
Publication and statistics-Norris G.
Osborn, ]. Rice Winchell, Lucius w.
Moody, Morris F. Tyler, Charles E.
Curtis, Cornelius S. Morehouse and
Calvin N. Kendall.
Real estate-Willard c. Warren,
Frederick C. Lun, Samuel A. York, Jr,
Henry H. Guernsey, Edward O.
Gruener Charles W. Whittlesey and
1.eoni w. Robinson.
Municipal affairs-George d. Wat
rous, John T. Manson, Felix Chilling
worth, Frederick B. Farnsworth, Harry
w Asher, Charles W. Pickett, George
f. Burgess.
Town and city improvements-Hen
T. Blake, Eli Whitney, Albert B. Hill,
Henry F. English, Henry w. Farnam,
A. Mcclellan Mathewson, Joseph Por-
ter
Banquet-John H. Platt, Wilson HI.
Lee, M. Sonnenberg, George A. Alling,
F. A. Corbin, b. r. English, Edward G.
auckland.
Neutrality-suspicious. v. Beach, Jo-
seph c. Johnson, Wilson H. Lee, George
W. Lewis, S. ]. Ford, John ]. Jackson,
Walter Allen, Samuel E. Dibble.
Nominations-Henr T. Blake, Sam
uel P. Crafts, George S. Barnum, Hen
ry G. Newton, Charles Kleiner, Robert
Foote, Edward MCGOWAN.
Special committee of ten to consider
project for erecting chamber of com
merce building (continued)-C. s. Mer-
sick, A. H. Kimberly, James English,
L. w. Beecher, H. c. Warren, H. w.
Ring, F. L. Stiles. James D. Dewell,
David H. Clark, S. E. Dibble.
General George H. Ford, was as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen of the chamber: Recog-
nizing the renewed expression of your
confidence in re-electing me to the hon
ored position Of president Of this i'm
portant organization and for a term be-
yond the established custom, this evil
dence Of your regard coming, however,
at a time when I was absent from the
city taking a temporary rest from bust
ness cares and responsibilities, I can
but feel deeply this mark of your APP
probation and confidence; and in ex-
pressing to you my most profound APP
probation of the friendship that it
implies and with it's implied recogni-
ton of the activity the chamber has ac-
CURED under the administration of the
past few years, I cannot assume the
duties of the position without feeling
that the selection was made at the pos
sible sacrifice of others thoroughly
available for the task and who, fitted
by their ability and services, should
have assumed this and other positions
of official responsibility. Especially
would I refer to the popular and able
vice president, Mr.. Adler, whose zeal,
fidelity and conscientious attention to
the interests Of the chamber for years
are known to you all and who has been
of much assistance during the past two
years to the present president, as well
as of great usefulness and value to the
chamber; and who owing to his mod
esty and kindness of heart, which is
universally recognized insisted upon
declining advancement from his pres
ent office: but who now. receives am
pie notice that no sacrifices nor ex-
cuses will be accepted another year by
the chamber that will prevent his selec-
ton as president of the organization for
the years 1899 and 1900, the closing of
the nineteenth and opening of the
twentieth century.
GROWTH OF ORGANIZATION.
With pardonable pride I congratu-
late you upon the steady growth and
increased membership which is now
larger than ever before in it's history
and composed as in the past of men
who have the interest of New Haven
at heart. Also would I congratulate
you upon the friendly and harmonious
relations that exist between the cham
Der and other prominent civic organi-
cations which unite in developing and
encouraging the work of the chamber.
To those who have during the past