Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-08-17
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AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
Many Members Present at
Session LastNight--V t--Various
Subjects Discussed.

A well attended meeting Of the
Board of Trade was held last evening
in the office of the Santa Fe Water
Company, with Ex-Governor l.. Brad
ford Prince presiding and w. G..
Schnepple, secretary The animated
discussions in which every one pres
ent participated indicated the great
interest that is being taken by the
Board of Trade in matters appertain-
ing to local affairs, and while the diff
ferences of opinions were pronounced
at times, vet upon final action there
was a unanimity that betokens a de-
sire to "pul together" for the benefit
of Santa Fe A. H. Brodhead accept
ed the position of corresponding sec
retary.
It was announced that within year
Santa Fe would have an ice factory
and probably a new opera house, as
the Santa Fe Elks have been rendered
the necessary funds by the Occidental
Insurance Company of New Mexico
and Arizona, and that the Elks would
Immediately go to work to raise the
amount needed to guarantee the insur-
ance company the safety OF the pro-
posed investment. The new commit
tee on publicity was instructed to
draft pamphlet descriptive of Santa
Fe with view of its early publica-
ton.
The committee on industries urges
residents to patronize home industries
and home merchants to the fullest eX-
tent possible.
The committee on membership re-
ported a systematic plan to secure
new members, so that every business
man and property owner would be
asked eventually to join the organiza
tion. The complaint was voiced that
those mostly benefited by an active
commercial organization have thus far
kept aloof from it.
New Mexican's Good Work Appre-
cated.
The work that the Santa Fe Daily
New Mexican has been and is doing
for the benefit of the community and
it's progress was strongly emphasized
in a discussion over a resolution ask
ing the New Mexican to desist from
criticizing local affairs, which was
unanimously tabled, as it was the
opinion of the board that just crti-
cism of local affairs is beneficial to
the interests of the community and
necessary for advancement and
growth lin fact, that it is the duty of
the local press to call attention to de-
fects that should be remedied if the
criticism is made for the purpose of
Improvement and not in spirit of
personal malice.
1t was also deemed well to bring to
the attention of residents and especial
ly taxpayers that the Santa Fe Water
and Light Company is furnishing free
to the city the water for street sprink-
ling purposes and that any deficiencies
in that service must therefore be laid
to the door of the city authorities in
not providing sprinkler and driver
and ordering him to sprinkle the prin-
cipal streets regularly. 1t was also
announced that the water and light
company furnishes free the water used
in Fairview Cemetery, as we'll as to
water the trees along Montezuma and
Don Gaspar avenues and that on ac-
count of the impoverished condition of
the city treasury no charge is being
made for street lights.
The city authorities were again
urged to abate the nuisance caused by
the dumping of large quantities of
manure along the bank of the Santa
Fe River, near the Don Gaspar ave-
nue. bridge and within full sight of the
Capitol grounds.
A. Staab reported that the mayor of
the city promised to secure the open
ing Of public road on the north bank
of the Santa Fe River as far as the
Canon street bridge, so as to prevent
the use Of Palace avenue by the heavy
penitentiary teams, and that after this
has been accomplished to have Palace
avenue placed in first class condition.
The necessity of sprinkling the
streets, cutting the weeds not only on
public thoroughfares but also on pri-
vate lots, as we'll as other matters of
minor Importance were fully dis
cussed. The necessity Of new depot
at Lamy as well as at Santa Fe are
to be impressed upon the Santa Fe
Railway Company, and the New Mex
ican was urged to continue it's agita-
tion for these much needed improve
ments.
Petition for Railway Mail Service on
Santa Fe Central.
A resolution was adopted asking the