The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-04-18
N. ]. EXPOSITION.
Newark Board Of Trade
Asks the Cooperation
Of the Jersey City
Board.
POST OFFICE COMMITTEE REPORTS
Congressional Visit a Great
Success = Davis Associa-
ton Thans,ed.-
POST OFFICE COMMITTEE REPORTS
Congressional Visit a Great

The Board of Trade held its resuiai
monthly meeting last night, IN the eouise
of which a communication from the Ne"
ark Board of Trade was received ashlli7 ali7
the Jersey City Board to cooperate "isiti
it in making the proposed state lAApo, e,
sition q. success. The matter was relerieo
to the proper committee
a communication was also received from
tbe National Board of Trade asking LOT
endorsement of the bill before Congress
for reimbursement in the matter of postal
rates on all second-elass matter. 1iAis
,,,at+or p,ss referred to the Committee on
Postal Matters.
Still another communication was
ceived from the Commercial Cluo oi y,
Paul. Minnesota, which is exertlns i1seii
in an agitation looking forward 10 sne
irrigation of certain Western plains. ms
was referred to the Committee on ran
roads and Canals.
On top of this came another commune
cation evidently from crank. Ihe let-
ter bore the signature of the Great Bear
Spring Company, and the writer COM
planned that the delivery of election MAJ
ter greatly interfered with the general
delivery of postal matter. BUSINESS men
and all classes of citizens, the writer oe-
clared, are thus greatly Inconvenience
The writer had written also to Poetmaster
Wanser, who had referred the eommunl-
cation and his answer to the Board Oh
Trade The representative of the Sreat
Bear Spring Company had engaged IN the
task of attempting to have substitute OF
additional letter carriers appointed by the
Government and is evidently desirous OF
securing the cooperation of the various
City Boards of Trade throughout the
country to further his scheme. Mr. wan
ser's reply was to the effect that a
limited number of carriers does not permit
of any change"
The Board passed several resolutions,
one of which endorsed the efforts of those
behind the Congressional bill to reorganize
the consular service. and another approv-
ing of the adoption of bill giving greater
scope TO the present interstate commerce
law.
Humphrey w. Carr reported when
called upon to report matters in con-
junction with the subject of differential
railroad rates, that he had written to the
Interstate Commerce Commission and re-
ceived reply to the effect that specific
cases must be cited before an investiga-
ton is made
Robert Anderson reported upon the re-
cent visit of the Congressional Committee
no Public Grounds and Buildings. He.
Aaid special stress upon Mr.. Rappleye's
felicitous speech at the dinner rendered
the visiting Congressman at the clubhouse
of the Robert Davis Association, in which
he declared that red-hot Republicans and
red-hot Democrats had crossed the same
threshold in efforts to secure a much
needed government improvement.
Mr.. Russell made similar report. He
expressed the belief that the Board of
Trades committee should be continued
and should secure option on property so
as to avoid the wiles Of land selling
sharks. He recommended vote of thanks
to the Robert Davis Association for the
use of it's splendid clubhouse on the occa-
ton of the dinner rendered the visiting
Congressman.
The resolution of thanks was unani-
mously endorsed.
Mr.. Mount of the committee appointed
to look after riparian rights matters, told
what had been done by the committee. He
claimed that under the Hall act the citv
was entitled to. all the water front ends
OF the Streets ana ne suggested thdl lite
committee should go before the Riparian
Board and have the lines definitely fixed.
This suggestion was adopted.
C. K Wells, a Western manufacturer,
who desires to locate his plant in the
East, asked for certain information. The
Secretary was authorized to forward him
the recent report of the Committee on
Commerce, of which A. j. Corcoran is
chairman, setting forth the advantages of
Jersey City as a location of factories.