The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-30
LIEUT.. COY. WOODRUFF
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CHAM BER OF COMMERCE.

Interesting Notes from fine RcpOrts--1 ! Five Prominent Members on the
 Death Roll of the Past Year--Vote of
 Appreciation of Services of Retiring
 President Wilson H. Lee-Other OfH-
 cers Elected.
 The sixty-fifth annual meeting or the
 New Haven Chamber of Commerce
 was held in Chamber of Commerce hall
 last evening, President Wilson H. Lee
 presiding.
 Following the reading of the minutes
 the reports of the various committees
 for the year were read. From the com
 mittee on real estate, over which George
 F. Newcomb' presides as chairman,
 very favorable report on the present
 real estate situation in New Haven was
 received. It stated that the real estate
 market had not been so active in years as it was to-day and the signs of even better conditions with the coming or
 spring and of rent time were most Ia vorable. Tn the line of statistics the following figures were embodied in MT.
 Newconlb' $ report, showing the relative condition of the market for the last
 few years taken for the month of Feb
 ruary:
 Quit claims, 1902, 29s; 1903, 3oS; 1904, 300; 1905, AT.
 Warranty deeds. 1902, 38; 1903, 64; 1901, A; 1905, 1OS.
 Sales, 1901, 776; 1902, ss7; 1903, sS5; 1904, I169.
 The town and city improvement com mittee,s report touched on the attempt to establish a. speedway at the foot of
 East Rock which was unsuccessful, and the effort was postponed until more suitable time. Attention was also call ed to the effort of the park commis- sion to raise the $3.OO0 still necessarysto carry out the project for a children's playground in East Rock park. Seven thousand dollars have been raised but the commission has been so far unable to secure the requisite $3,000 to complete the s1o,000 which is needed. Mention was also made of the three new orna- mental additions now under way for New Havens adornment, namely: the soldiers monument on Broadway, the Bushnell memorial and the Bennett fountain MT. Henry T Blake is chair man of this committee
 The new enterprise committee, Lieu- tenant Governor Rollin s. Woodruff chairman, reported the location here through it's efforts of the Cashing Card and, Glazed Paper company, which is lo- cated at East and Chapel streets, and l is at present employing about twenty persons. The membership committee, Henry w Merwin chairman, reported the se- curing of twenty-seven new members during the past year.
 Henry c. Rowe, chairman of the com-' mittee on harbor improvements, read a thorough report on harbor conditions and some of the needs. He announced that his committee was not able to make such favorable report in regard to the results of it's labor as it has done in the past two years. K Necrologist c. G. Morris reported the deaths of five prominent members dur | ing the past year. Oldest in point of standing was Nathan Townsend Bush- nell The others were Marcus Barnes ! Newton, Charles Smith Mersick, Eli Henry Barnes and Judge John Man ming Hall. MT. Morris brought out the interesting facts that MT. Mersick was 1 the great grandson of President IN Naph- \ tl1ali Daggett of Yale and that Judge Hall was a direct descendant ofsJohn and Priscilla Alden. MT. Bushnell was | the gentleman who in 1874 presented | the motion instituting the annual ban quet of the Chamber, the first of which l was held in 1875. '-e@*5.. .9ss | A vote of thanks and appreciation of | the work of Collector J. Rice Winchell | for the compilation of the booklet on l New Haven, and of the printing by the | Price & Lee company was adopted. 1 Ten resignations, mainly of persons who have removed from the city, were | accepted. l A communication from Samuel P. ! Thrasher regarding the advisibility of l the formation of local company to manufacture the Thrasher time system clocks was read and refer red to the committee on new enterpris- | es for investigation. T, The next business was the election of | officers. The result of the ballot was: President, Lieutenant Governor Rolin s. Woodruff, first vice president, Jo. seph Porter; second vice president, Ed | win P. Root; secretary, John Currier Gallagher; treasurer, Herbert c. War ren; directors, John T. Manson, George
 T. Bassett, Benjamin R. English, Geo. H. Scranton, H. Stuart Hotchlxiss. y. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff was present and on rising to make. his | speech of acceptance he was received | with applause. . ... | The Chamber adopted the following vote of appreciation of the work of lthe retiring president, Mir Lee: 1 tJInnn tha retirement of prasidant