The age-herald., 1899-08-03
Should Not Be Oyer 16 or 26 Per :. Cent. Increase. HELD THE REGULAR MEETING Movement to Have Street Car Line
 Extended to Wylam. THE BIG TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION Invited to Meet in This City in l9oo- Freight Bureau and Fire Insur-
 ance Rates Were Fur
 ther Discussed
THE BIG TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION

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 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the
 Board of Trade was held last night in Elks' nall, corner of Fourth avenue and Twen- tleth street, and several important mat ters were up for consideration. communication from the citizens of Vivian requesting the assistance of the merchants of Birmingham in securing the extension of the Ensley line of the Blr- mingham Railway and Electric company to that suburb under a proposition from the company endorsed and the matter placed in the hands of the proper com
 mittee to cooperate with the Wylamites
 in bringing about the desired results.
 The rent question was also touched upon,
 ard an Jnvitation was extended to the h. ternational Typographical union to hold it's
 annual meeting in this city next year. In the absence of President Chalifoux the meeting was called to order by II. II. Sinnige, first vice president, at S:30 o'clock. Roll call was dispensed with and the min
 utes of the previous meeting were read and approved
 There was no report from the board of
 control, the absence from the city of a
 number of the members of the board pre-
 venting the holding of the regular meet ing in the afternoon. All applications and business were passed until the next meet ing.
 Insurance Rates
 Under the reports of committees, Chair
 man T. L. McGowan. of the insurance com- mittee, reported that his committee had been actively at work with the local in- surance agents and the board of aldermen to increase the efficiency of the fire depart- ment by additional men and apparatus to secure first-class rating for the city, and that their efforts had borne fruit in the shape of an estimate from the chief of the fire department which had met with the favorable consideration of a number of the aldermen and would probably be granted. The report was adopted, and on motion a vote of thanks was extended to the con-
 mittee for it's earnest efforts in the move ment
 Chairman Sinnige, of the freight rates
 committee, reported that his committee had
 cooperated with the Whoesale Grocers sociat tion in organizing and establishing the Birmingham freight and traffic bureau,
 which he thought would prove of vast benefit to the merchants of Birmingham. Secretary Beck, of the new organization, was called upon and briefly outlined the workings of the bureau and pointed out it's beneficial effects upon the commercial in- terests of the city. MT. Beck stated that the expense of the bureau was being borne by A few merchants, and that inaSmuch as all would receive the benefits he thought
 that they should join in and share the ex-
 pense, which would be nominal.
 Discrimination in Rates
 He expressed the opinion that the dis-
 eliminating freight rates against Birming-
 ham was one of the greatest evils with
 which the merchants of Birmingham have
 to deal, and cited number of instances
 where these discriminations were glaring.
 The bureau, he said, was organized for the
 purpose of dealing with these questions
 and was in charge of young man who is
 thoroughly competent to deal with them Chairman Klotz of the suburban trains
 and excursions committee reported on the
 Board of Trade Day celebration, and stated
 that that part of the program consisting of
 the fireworks display, which was prevented from being carried out by the rain, would
 be carried out at an early date.
 He requested that temporary loan of s66
 be extended the committee to pay outstand-
 ing bills, and recommended that vote of
 thanks be extended to the press of the city,
 the mayor and board of aldermen, the po-
 lice commissioners and to all who contrib
 uted to the success of the celebration The report was adopted and the request and recommendations concurred in. The question of securing the extension
 of the Ensley line to Wylam was brought up in the following letter, which was read by Secretary Ryan:
 "Wylam, Ala. July 29th. 1S99-Mr. H. H. Sinnige, Vice-President BoaA of Trade
 Birmingham, Ala. Dear Sir.-I have been
 requested by the citizens of Wylam to
 present to your honorable body matter
 in which we feel that the business men of your city are almost as much interested
 as are We. The matter I wish to present is this: We want the electric car line ex- tended 10 our town from Ensley City, and
 the Electric Railway Company has inform
 ed us that if we will subscribe the sum of
 g. 300 they will extend the line and will issue to each subscriber the amount in tickets over any of their lines that he sub scribes for. We cannot raise the required amount in our little suburb and want to ask the business men of your city to sub scribe for $500 or 800 worth of the tickets. We feel confident that should this line be extended to our suburb it would benefit the people of Birmingham to a very great ex- tent. If you will kindly place the matter before the board at its next meeting l will be. as well as the people of our little suburb under many obligations to you. Yours very truly, JOSEPH MARTIN" Mir Martin and Adam Pow of Wylam were present and were granted the privil- ege of the floor Both spoke in behalf of the proposition and stated that at present the 1,5OG inhabitants of their little town were practically cut off from Birmingham. and that the extension of the line would prove greatly beneficial, not only to the people of Wylam, but to the merchants of Birmingham as we'll.
 They stated tEet books of loc tickets