The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-05
Bur1inqton to wake Up.

4 Bound to obtain bigger and greater
things for Burlington, representative
business and professional men filed st.
Mary's Guild Hall last night and organized
a Board of Trade. A committee, which
had been appointed at a previously held
informal meeting, to perfect the details of
organization made their report, which was
unanimously adopted 1t embraces the
purpose and scope of the work which is
set out to be accomplished, and was
patterned after the constitution and by
laws of Trenton.
Among the improvements suggested for
the endeayor of the new organization are
the requirement of new manufacturing
concerns, the identifying of the city, the
paving of all the business, as well as the
residential streets, as early as practicable;
the securing of transportation rates favor
able to the city; the advertisement of
Burlington in concerted way; the build
ing of more houses for mechanics; to Of
fer inducement for people in contiguous
manufacturing towns to go there, and,
in fine, to promote the interests of and l.
expand the city in every legitimate way
Theodore F. Ellis presided at the meet
ing as temporary chairman, George @.
Gum serving as secretary. After the ac-
ceptance of the organization committees
report the secretary enrolled thirty eight
members to start the organization. A mo
ton to make these charter membe is mis-
carried because it was objected tt at. CIV
ing to the storm prevailing, at least that
number more of leading citizens. those
who had ever been foremost in he pre-.
liminaries of the new body, were pre-
vented from being present, although they
would like to be enrolled as original mem
bers A substitute motion to held the
next meeting on February II 10 allow
these men to join on the same stsndinq
as those who enrolled last night, was car.
ried. At that session the various stand
ing committees will also be appointed.
Subsequent to that the regular meeting
of the Burlington Board of Trade, the
official name given the organization, will |
be held on the first Monday Of each
month.
The following officers were elected:
President, W. E. Schermerhorn Ifrst vice
president, E. II. Burgis; second vice pres
ident, John K. Mallory; treasure, William
r. Conard; secretary, George @. Gum;
secretary, William A. Glasgow;
trustee to serve one year, J, Troilu
Rogers, C. Pancoast Smith ana Edward
Rigg, Jr, trustees to serve two years,
Herbert Zelley and Louis Russi
A proposition which was made for the
new body to absorb the old Burlington
Association was voted down,
It being the concensus of opinion that the
two bodies could accomplish greater re-
suits for the city working separately but
A matter not discussed at the meeting.
but which was informally talked about
prior to the session and which created no
end OF favorable comment, was the assur-
,ace by several leading financial men
present that the proposed bridge connect
ng Burlington and Bristol on the Penn
'ylvania side was almost an assured fact.
One man said that the details E&G 15sn
worked out, and that engineers had esti- 4
mated the cost, which will approximately
De 100000. The Secretary of War has q
llso been communicated with, and he has
his inquirers that governmental Z
anction will be all that is necessary to !
build the bridge. Ii
1t had previously been thought that !
would have to be obtained from /
he two states. The bridge will be of the
traw character, with openings for navi- !
cation on both sides of Burlington island {
where the main channel separates into /
wo leads. The distance from shore to 7
hore is about mile, but the island of S
100 acres upon which each section of the I
proposed structure will rest will greatly
horten this distance. A large portion of
he island is owned by the city, and is
lsed as public park, which it is expect s
I'd, the bridge will greatly popularize.
Private capital has been enlisted to be- !
gin work on the span as soon as the re-
Iuisite authority has been obtained At |
present more or less Anticipated ferry
ystem is the means of transportation be
ween the two populous shores
1t is expected that the newly organized s
Board of Trade will at once lend its active /
moral aid to the projected enterprise