The labor world., 1899-09-16

The organization Of the Duluth I'm
provement association was accomplished
yesterday afternoon and the promoters
have strong hopes that it will be an i'm
portant factor in future in Duluth's
progress. The association is designed to
! take up those lines of work that have
been handled by the chamber of COM
lnerce in past years with much success.
What the Duluth men that are interest
! ing themselves in the new organZatior
| would like and hope to achieve is to build
up an institution that will stand for some
/ thing like the Duluth chamber of COM
| merce in its palmy days. The Duluth
chamber Of commerce was big factor
once but the efforts to rejuvenate it have
been futile for some time. 1t has been
thought best to form a new organza ton
| with aims and purposes much the Same
| the result.
as those of chamber of commerce and
| the Duluth Improvement association is
OFFICERS were elected and committees
Iappointed yesterday. The executive COM
mittee will devise ways and means to pay
! the setretary's salary, the office rent and
| incidentals, and these expenses will be
the main thing in financing the institu-
| ton. 1t was at first designed to have in
addition to the central society, auxiliary
societies. or associations at West Duluth,
West End, Lester Park and Lakeside.
/ This idea has been abandoned and the
entire city will be represented in the
same body, both as to membership and OH
committees. J. M. Giddings of Silberstein
& Bondy suggested that it would be un-
wise to have branch associations as there
would certainly be less effective work
| accomplished than if the entire work was
directed and done by one body. He said
| he had witnessed in Scranton and else
where failures of the branch association
idea. Mr.. Giddings presented the matter
| in SO strong a light that the branch propo-
| hilton was dsregarded.
| The report of the committee on organi-
| zation when presented for the considera-
| ton Of the meeting, of which Luther
| Mendenhall was chairman and Thomas e.
Hill secretary, contained five names on
ca ch Of the committees. On motion of c..
E. Lovett, the committees were author
lied to fill vacancies ana instructed to add
| two additional names to each committee.
l.
officio members Of all committees. Fol-
lowing is a list of the officers and COM
mittees OF the Duluth Improvement asso-
citation, as reported by the committee on
organization, and adopted by the meeting
yesterday:
President, Luther Mendenhall; first
vice president, John Panton; second vice
president, M. Bunnell; secretary Thomas
E. Hill treasurer, F. J. Pulford.
Executive committee-Chairman, J. A.
Ferguson; T. A. Patrick, G. G. Hartley,
A. NJ Marshall, w. M. Hubbard
Reception and entertainment committee
Chairman, C H. Graves; Ray T. Lewis,
H. Truelson, J. T. Greatsinger, T. W
Hopes
Committee on manufa ctories- Chair
man, Michael Kelly; John M. Thomas, A.
Fl. Simonds, H. r. Smith, c. A. Duncan,
Committee on streets and alleys-Chair-
man, Michael Morris; B. silberstein c. P.
Frank, r. A. Webster, L. W. Nichols.
Committee on parks and public grounds
Chairman J. D. Ensign; A. B. Chaplin,
c. F. Leland A. c. Weiss, J. J. Moe.
Congressman Morris was among the
citizens at the meeting for purposes Of
organization of the Improvement associa-
ton and he was called on for few re-
marks. He responded by saying that he
would be glad to be of any assistance to
the organization that lies in his power.
One matter in particular he suggested
should receive the attention of the asso-
ciaton and that is the condition of Du-
luth's streets. lie said that out side of
Chicago the streets of Duluth were the |
dirtiest of any city that he has seen |
Congressman Morris said there can be no
good reason why the streets are not kept |
in cleanlier condition and the holes in
the pavements repaired.
Hanson E. Smith made a few remarks
in which he said that he was ready to |
do all that he can for the Improvement of
Duluth and to encourage any institution
that is organized to that END.
J. M. Gddings, in addition to his re-
marks n opposton to the branch associa- |
ton idea, suggested that the association |
might do some effective work toward get |
ting special lowest rates by boat and rail
to Duluth. In the East he said he has
frequently mot people that had the trip |
to Duluth in view but who complained !
that it was very expensive.
The date of the next meeting Of the as
sociatIon will be announced later.