The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-21
LOCAL MANUFACTURERS.
Regular Meeting Of the Local Association
Held Yesterday.
PROPOSED BY.LAwSuSANlAOuSlY ADOPTED
ship Discussed mt Considerable
Lcnyth-Sccrctary's Report.

HOUSE yesterday WternOOE Will III un-t
usually large attendance present. Presi
dent II. c. Mosehart presided, and Sec
rotary f. c. Crawford was at his desk.
The minutes of the last regular meet
ing were read by tho secretary and adopt
cd, The same action was taken in tho |
matter of the minutes OF recent special |
meeting.
Under the head OF reports OF commit
tees the secretary read for the second time
the bylaws of the association as pro-
pared by the bylaws committee. Mr.. +.
M. Burke moved that the bylaws be adopt |
ed as read, and the motion was unanl-
mously carried
The secretary presented the following |
communication, which was received and !
given out for publication:
To the President, Officers and Members
of the Houston Manufacturers Assocla-
tom Gentlemen-As your secretary and |
treasurer, l feel ii not inappropriate, af- |
ter nearly four months. to lay before YOU
as see It, and the facts will warrant, a
statement of the good already accomplish
ed the obstacles overcome and the prospec-
tive work to be done, as well as difficulties
W pc SUI IHuuhtSu, w VIC chu thts WI -
an association, may continue to grow in
importance and to have beneficial results
TO ourselves, the city of Houston and the
State of Texas. There are few of our
members, in my opinion, who fully realize
the importance OF, the work we have in
hand, the good we are doing and the in
iuence we are having on the industrial in
terests in and about Houston. Each one
is so busy attending TO his own duties
that he does not give the association the
thought and attention THAI its Importance
demands. We must remember that in the
disqualification and corporation of our ef-
forts lie our strength rs an association. |
am glad to say that those who have at
tended the meetings regularly are ready
| to say our association has accomplished
| much good and is an established success
! In October last, when the promoters be-
gan their work of organization, they were
| told that their efforts were in vain. AL
| that time the press of this city was not
| giving its columns to the earnest support
| of our home manufactures as 1T should
| Today many of the papers of the State are
| devoting themselves to this end and more
| especially the city press. which is doing
valuable work in line with the associa-
! ton and the Situation, and is using
| every energy to create public sentiment
| in favor of the use of home manufactured
| goods and the purchase of supplies from
| horne merchants. In our opinion your or
| gan, Ine SltudllOn mas iuiiy 'hs
| expectations of this association, has stirred
the press to new zeal and awakened the
minds OF the public 10 the Importance OF
its work Tho press has also copiously
extracted from the Situation and in.
dorsed the efforts of this association, well
knowing that without the maintenance and
| establishment of manufactures, Houston
will retrograte instead of advance. Az
this time there are but few manufacture
ing institutions in this city not TO be
found in our directory. and we fully pc.
ljeve that in tEa near future these VIII
join us in our good work since ONT or
sanitation there have been established
Several new factories, such as was needed
in conjunction with the older ones to make
Houston a market and give her reputa-
tion az a manufacturing city. In conse,
ouence of new life enthused by the gooa
work of this association, assisted ny inc
nress new hope and courage is IN eVl,
dence among our manufacturers, ana
hriehter prospects for Houston in the
minds of the people.
For further usefulness and development
an the part of this association, IL is NOW
necessary to bend every EFFORT TOWARDS co
oneration in the work we have IN manu.
~ r,ouIding public sentiment in the inter-
este of home manufactured products anu
in no way can this be more efectuaiis
done than by regular attendance on oui
,nnnthIy meetings and carefully reading
,'The situation and everything III 'he
city press touching this subject
WY E. c. Crawford.
Secretary and Treasurer.
~
finder the head of new business Mr.. ~
= pust read portion of Governor Say
ors inaugural address, when naa uirep'
hearing on the work being done by tne
association. In this connection the speaker
tool, occasion TO refer to the Sooo WORN
kin, done for the cause by the nress Oh
,hs state. He attributed this to the EFFORTS
os tho association and its organ, the Situ-
. otion. Mr. Rust also read seVerai eo'p
o.naatory paragraphs regarding the asso-
c,o,ion and the Situation as pnblishcd IN
the st. Louis Manufacturer oil fe'en'
Issue. al,
Mr. e. n. Gray, in response to CALL
doliyered a short address, In wh'ch nc ISoN
oosion IN thank the members present
. for the courtesy shown him by mem uu'
} ing his work among them. lie hao' W
said given the subject OF home manula.
,,ring considerable thought, aud ne ieI
that thrre was enough interesting mA.te'
In 1, 10 All u volume. the Manuia ~, ~,
ers' association was dealing speHin 800
| with The matter In hano, WINE VIC S'ot
4 Excbanee and the Business League wer'
/ handling IL in a general way II was es-
ssntial. he said. that the members OF .ns
association take an interest In the worh
and attend the meetings. Nothing cou,e
ha done without the aid of the press. n'
eaid and the efforts of the situation wer'
hainr ably seconded by The Post and othe,
: ,'sne1s Of the State, The situation snonlt
, rsceiye the support Of the members OF ~
pssanization 10 the end thai. its Hor,l
: u,irht be medc all the more effective. )
y ,nas the nucleus OF a great ana gran'
,ay,, and should be helped along
president Mosehart brought up thc suo
iect al the apparent editorial inaorssn.vn
~ the situation Of PROPOSED iurhllu,.
! Misunderstanding company, making me poin
t ,hst Inc public might he led TO lnier INA -.
: nc ASSOCIATION as body innorseu ~
onncern spoken OF. lie asked TOT an ga
rass,on from the editors CT the SITUATION
Mr.. Crawford. in reply, said that MANI y,
It ,ooinries were absolutely necessary ., IN
0 ,ro,vth OF a city Railroads ana oihs
bnsiuess enterprises could not elone
. Senended on. He explained the melnoa
o undcr which the paper was being eohuuss
n I'd making the point that, with the prese,,
90 ,isino nafranage there was no prom