The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-07-11
Brownsville Business Mems Club.


business men OF said city, known
and styled as the Board of Trade;
that during said month OF May
there were organized two other
leagues of business men of Browns
vile with avowedly the same prin-
ciples and for the same purposes,
viz:-the upbuilding and advance
ment of the city OF Brownsville and
the country contiguous thereto.
Subsequently, it appearing to the
members OF these various organiza-
lions that the maintenance and sup
port of three business leagues in a
town of the size OF Brownsville
would be an economic waste and a
loss of energy, it was deemed ad-
visable to unite these various clubs,
amalgamating the membership IN
one body at a meeting to be called
by the presidents of these various
clubs, said meeting to be composed
of the boards of trustees of the sew
eral clubs, the presidents aud vice
presidents of each acting in their
ex-oficio capacity as members of
said boards of trustees.
Wherefore, in pursuance of a call
jointly issued and signed by Capt.
Vim. Kelly, Pres. of the Board of
Trade, and P. E. Blalack, Pres. of
the Business Mems League, and of
the Commercial Club, a meeting of
the said officers of the various clubs
was held at 400 p. m, May %,
1906, in the office of F. Yturria for
the purpose aforesaid, of harmonic
ing the three organizations then
existing.
With Capt. Kelly presiding and
A. A. Browne as secretary Of said
meeting, after discussion ard delib-
Grafton as to a satisfactory method
of arriving at the desired end, it
became the sense Of the meeting
that each club, or TIE representa-
tives of each as there met together,
appoint one person TO act for it and
that the three persons thus chosen
confer together and submit to the
body a proposition for compromise
"a method by which they might
arrive at a compromise.
Capt. VIM. Kelly, for the Board
of Trade. w NJ. Radcliffe for the
Business Mems League, and G..
T. Porter, for the Commercial
Club, after comforting together
submitted the following report
which was adopted by the meeting:
That the three business organiza-
lions then existing, upon ratihca-
ton by the several clubs which this
meeting represented, from and at
ter the date of such. ratification,
cease to be and exist as separate
organizations and be amalgamated
and merged into one body TO be
composed of the entire membership
of the three several bodies, and
with the further provisc that no
person holding all Office, whether
Federal, State, or City, nor any
Banker, nor officer Of any Bank,
nor Bank employee, nor politician,
shall ever be eligible to hold office
in the new organization.
Whereupon Chairman Kelly cali
ed for the election Of officers for
the new organization, with the fol
| lowing result:-P. F. Blalack was
elected President; W. 4. Rutledge
and J. K. Morris, viCe-presidentst
L. Brulay, 7. Crixell 5. c. Tucker
c. H. Thorn, and J. K. Combe
Directors of the new Organization
The name by which the new orga
nizaticn shall be known is The
Brownsville Business Men 5 Club
This being Tuesday, it wa:
agreed that the various clubs nee
on Thursday night following anC
take action on the proposition sub
Initted at this meeting, either ratify
! ing or rejecting the same; on Thurs
day night the various clubs met a
their several places OF meeting wit
, the result that the Commercial Gu