Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-20
COMMERCIAL CLUB
DOLLAR DINNER PLAN
Douglas Business Men Have
Admirable Idea of Bringing
People Together,

DOUGLAS, Feb. 19.-(Special.) -
Some seventeen business men of
Douglas, assembled yesterday in the
rathskellar Of the Hotel Gadsdep for
| the purpose OF organizing a chamber
OF comerce, decided that the best way
to get at the people of Douglas is by
way of their stomachs, and so dol
lar dinner was hit upon as the like
Hest method of getting a big represen-
tative audience together and the most
fedcitous occasion for talking over
the project. This dinner will be held
within the next two weeks, probably,
| the exact date of which will De SET
| this afternoon at meeting of the
temporary executive committee ap-
pointed yesterday. a.
This decision followed q long dis
eussion of the chamber of commerce
project by wiiin-to-do-all-they-ca
and enthusiastic group of business
men, number of talks and the for
nation of temporary organization to
act until 1t shall be deemed advisable
to make the organization permanent.
This organization at present consists
of ID. H. Johnston, chairman; James
Logic, secretary; ID. II. Johnston, L.
c. Hanks, w. NJ. Adamson, c. E.
Howe and George H. Kelly, executive
committee. This committee will not
only have charge of the arrangements
for the banquet but will constitute
themselves a boosting committee who,
between now and the night of the
banquet, will talk up the event and
dispose of tickets. Before adjourn
mept yesterday more than eighty tick
cts were disposed of to the business
men present which is an assurance
already that the banquet will be wen
attended
A Get-Toeether Event.
This dollar dinner is going to be
one of the big events in the history
of Douglas. It's going to be a get
together banquet where every man in
Douglas will have the opportunity of
rubbing elbows with his fellows. Ev-
erybody viii have the chance of be-
coming better acquainted with his
neighbor, and the feeling of good will
such an affair will create is going to
mean a whole Tote for Douglas. The
dinner itself is going to be one of the
best Manager Jones of the Gadsden
can turn out and that means a great
deal. Already the promise is given
that he shan't make a cent out OF it,
talks and speeches and suggestions of
the short, crisp, breezy kind that will
strike the auditors in the right spot,
and none will be so long that 1t will
bore anyone. About five minutes will
be the length of each speech, and
that's a-plenty g..
Good Spirit Shown.
The business men who assembled
yesterday have the right spirit. They
were rather few in number and this
was attributed not so much to lack
of enthusiasm in the organization of
the chamber of commerce as It was
to the iII-timed hour selected for the
meeting. They did not care TO form
permanent organization with the
few present and decided upon tenn
porary organization cand then the dol
lar dinner as an extra incentive to get
the people together at an hour more
suited to their convenience.
The business men yesterday were
given the benefit of the ripe expert
ence had in the organization or COM
merciaI bodies by W. C. Humphrey,
the FL Paso photographer and Htho-
grapher, and Carl Drake. Mr.. Humph-
rey's talk was in his characteristic
vein-fuIl of ginger and replete with
ideas. He made it plain that Douglas
has broken all records of every con-
ceivable sort in Arizona and has much
to offer for the man in the east who
has nothing but money and time to
spend. 1t is that kind of a fellow
Douglas wants to bring here, Mr..
Humphreys said, and in order to get
him an advertising campaign will have
to be started. This, he suggested,
would have to be done by a man
born to the trade of city-building-
man chock full of ideas with the dar-
ing and ability and the hacking to exc
cute them. Such man cannot be
found everywhere, he said, and the
chamber of commerce should wait I'M
til such a man is found and he should
be paid high salary.
Mr.. Drake, who has been widely as
ISOLATED with various commercial org
anizations elsewhere, made an inn
pressive talk to the business men in
which he recounted some of the ex
periences he had had and drew from
them conclusions of value to those
behind the present project.
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