The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-02-05

of the city held a rousing meeting
Monday evening in the Commercial
club rooms and perfected perma-
nent organization, which has been
discussed in business circles for some
time past. A large number of the
most prominent business men and
merchants of the city were in attend
ance and officers were elected as fol-
lows: President Richard Windsor:
secretary, L. A. Dash; treasurer, H.
C. Kohls. A committee was appoint
ed to draw up articles of association
and bylaws, and also a committee to
investigate certain illegitimate prac-
tees injurious to the merchants of
the city.
This association is to be patterned
after those in existence in other
cities all over the country, and the
merchants of this city from now on
expect to present united front to
all attempts to work them with fake
advertising and other schemes of all
kinds which are constantly being
urged upon them individually and
which they as individuals are unable
to defeat.
The association will be known as
the North Yakima Business Mems
association, and the secretary will
hn
salary, and will devote his whole
time to carrying on the work of the
association.
Resolutions were adopted and
signed by all present urging all the
business men, merchants and pro-
fessional men of the city to join the
association, and sufficient financial
support was pledged to guarantee
the success of the work.
Some of the purposes for calling
the meeting are shown in the follow.
ing letter sent out as call TO the
merchants:
This meeting is called for the pur-
pose of organizing an association of
the merchants and business men of
North Yakima. and this call is the
result of the efforts and meetings re-
Gently directed toward that end, with
which you are no doubt already fla
miliar.
Such associations are row in exist
ence in many of the business centers
of the country and the numerous
benefits derived therefrom are caus-
ing their general organization in pro-
gressive business communities.
Among the general benefits to be
derived from such an association,
and which we hope to secure for our
selves by such an organization, are:
Protection of members from graft
irg. advertising schemes, such as the
recent Market Day proposition which
took several hundred dollars from
the city merchants without giving
them any return; trading stamp
propositions; lottery contests, etc.
To be accomplished by investigation
and united action with reference
thereto.
Adoption and maintenance of a
system of credit regulating the ex-
tension of credit in all lines of bust
ness and thereby preventing loss by
bad accounts.
Agreement and method in dona-
tons to charitable institutions.
Regulation of the discount evil.
Use of our influence and power in
securing municipal ordinances res
ulating and restricting sales by
transient merchants, and securing
the enforcement of existing laws pro-
tecting us from peddlers and solicit
tors.
Agreement relating to days and
hours of closing, employment of help
and many other matters too numer
Gus to mention, where cooperation
Is valuable, which will occur to every
business man upon moments re-
Fiction.
To accomplish these aims by
means of such an association, 1t is
planned to elect secretary, provide
him with an office where members
may go. and require his services to
be devoted to carrying out the OBJ
jects OF the association. 1t will be
his duty in addition to those usually
performed by that office to conduct
necessary Investigations. either alone
or in conjunction with "sifting
committee" and to act as a kind OF