The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
FIRST MEETING IN THEIR NEW
 QUA RTERS LAST EVENING.

Reports Of Several Committees Heard
 Three Hundred Dollars to Furnish
 tHr New Room Suggested That the
 Band stand Be Moved-Improvesnc nts
 by tho Harbor Committee.
 The Chamber of Commerce held a fairly well attended meeting i'll US new
 quarters in the Moses building on
 Chapel street last night. Their new quarters consist of one very large meet ing room at the rear of the secohd story of the building, and a smaller room which will be ueed as an ante room, just across the hallway
 The large assembly room ot cou1se looks rather bare as yet, but the com E1ittee on ways and means having m charge the furnishing of the room IS going right to work and before the next
 meeting of tfe chamber 1t wilt be com fortably, yet not elaborately. fitted up and when completed VIII oouotless make ore of the most pleasant assem- ply rooms in the city
 The meeting last night was the first that has ever been held py the local chamber in room that it could call its own, and it was indeed very grati- fying to the members that they were at last permanently located. Previously they have been knocking around the city in one meeting place one night and in another, another.
 President Adler said he had had long talk with Mir. Moses, the owner of the building with regard to having the name of the building changed. In stead of having the building called the Moses MT. Adler suggested that it be called the Chamber of Commerce building. Mir Moses said he would be glad to put out sign to that effect. It was moved, seconded and passed that the chamber accept MT. Moses proposi- tion and that the molten be referred to the building committee.
 There were several reports made dur ing the meeting, the first of which was that of the ways and means commit tee of which Frank H. Sperry is chair man. MT. Sperry told the members about how much it would take to fit the room up in a comfortable manner. President Adler said that at a meeting held last December it was voted to give to the committee on ways and means $500 for the purpose of securing meeting place. Now the new meeting place has been secured the question before the house last night was how was it going to be furnished? There was much discussion on what was nec- essary to be bought and finally it was voted to authorize the committee to expend sum not exceeding $500 on furniture for the room. and that the committee go to work at once.
 The committee on new enterprises was the next to report Colonel Fox said there were several new enterprises that were very desirous of locating in or about New Haven and that they would be of great value to this city. He mentioned the great amount of work done by the New Haven Wire company and other large industries and said that there was great chance to locate in this city some splendid new enterprises that would be of great cred- 1t to New Haveners. Colonel Fox said that if there were any New Haveners who wanted to invest there was little doukt that something new could be To- cated here.
 H. c. Rowe reported to the harbor committee. He said that owing to the formalities that were necessary to be undergone the work of the committee had not as yet materialized
 MT. Adler said he had had a talk | with an official of the New York road l and that the road would doubtless act | in conjunction with the Chamber of l Commerce, if it was approached By l so doing improvements could be made | at the wharves and other places, there l by drawing business to this city and l inducing commerce.
 General E. E. Bradley was not in | favor of being dependent on the Con- solidated road for he said, it could at any time shut its doors on the Cham- | Der of Commerce. He wanted the l committee to see if it was possible to make the necessary improvements alone.
 J. D. Dewell made some suggestions on improvements that might be made at Long wharf that would be not only beneficial to the road but to the general commerce of the city.
 J. c. North reported for the commit tee on improvements. He referred to the bandstand on the green and said he didn't think if was in the right place I place, and place that would meet with more favor was place somewhere between Center and United churches. Then the flagstaff could be put wlere ! It belonged.
 If the bandsteud is to be moved at all," broke in MT. sperry, "let 1t keep on until it gets to the rolling mill"
 It was finally voted to refer the sug- gestions made by the committee to the town and city improvement committee. Mir. Platt of the banquet committee exported that Wednesday, November had been decided upon for the annual This was considered a little .oo early so the date was changed to he following Wednesday, November 15. An interesting account of the an- lual meeting of the State Board of Trade in Mystic was given by MT. Dew Ill. The meeting adjourned at 10 ,'clcck.
 WfLLINGFORD. At the residence of q praol,or | ,