The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-16
v. B. CONKEY TELLS
PURPOSE OF MEETING
A Number of Region Notables Are
Present as Guests and East Chi
cago Man Compliments Hammond
Manufacturerers on the Broad
Policy 1t Has Aadopted.

The Hammond Manufacturers' asso-
citation gave banquet at the Hotel
Majestic last evening, at which sever
al matters of importance were consid-
cred, chief among them being the mat
ter of deep waterways and providing
for the disposition of the sewage of
the region.
| The association started right by be-
coming a member of the Calumet Deep
Waterways association, which Is now
composed of nearly all of the civic or
| ganizations of the Calumet region and
| is I'm a position to wield a great infiu-
ence In securing appropriations from
congress for deep waterway develop
ment.
Covers Laid for Twenty-eight.
The dinner was given yesterday at
80 p. m. and was attended by rere-
sentatives from the following manufac-
turers:
American Maize Products Co.
/ F. s. Betz Co.
w. B. Conkey Co.
Chamion Potato Machinery Co.
| Chicago Telehone Co.
Enterprise Bed Co.
Hammond Distilling Co.
Hammond Pure Ice Co.
Hammond Lumber Co.
Home Lumber Co.
Hammond Boiler Works.
Paxton Lumber Co.
Preble Machine Co.
Reliance Elevator Co.
Reid, Murdock Co.
4 Speciality Muslin. Underwear Co.
Simplex Railway Appliance Co.
Stewart Machinery. and Manufacture
ing Co.
Straube Piano Co.
Standard Steel Car Co.
A. c. Torbert & co.
United States Metal Refining Co.
Western Grain Produce Co.
Together with the following invited
| guests:
g. W. Ross.
Jacob Schloer.
E. F. Johnston.
| Judge Hembroff.
L. L. Bomberger.
After dinner had been served and the
last of the courses had been removed
Mr. W. B. Conkey stated the purposes
of the meeting to be to consider the
matter of becoming a member of the
Hammond Manufacturers association
Outlines History of Kindred Body.
Judge T. NJ c. Hembroff, the presi
dent of the Calumet Deep Waterways
association, then outlined at som,
length the history of the association
the reason for which it was organized
the things it exected to accomplish, to
gether with the advance that has beer
1 made in its brief history
Judge Hembroff was followed by MI
George w Ross of East Chicago. VIII
: complimented the Hammond Manufact
, urers' association on the strong busi
: ness policy it has adopted in its polio,
: to embrace in it's membership all of tn
: manufacturers in Hammond and vicin
:. ity.
He spoke of the enormous capita
that was represented at the meeting
! the influence of such an Organization
in helping progressive enterprises o
: community, and of the possibilitie
for future development of the vari
e Gus industries porviding conditions ar
: favorable.
S He said the progress of all of tn
d industries of the region was contingen
upon proper conditions existing. tn
chief of which being it's effective dis
position of it's sewerage with whic
consideration was linked, the questio
: of deep waterways which would aug
:, ment its natural location as a manu
: featuring center and drawing attentfo
to the geographical position of the dis
trict situated.
r. A. Murray Turner then spoke of tn
Importance of such a body acting
ic furtherance of the plan, Of the valu
y of manufacturing plants consisting, 9
d they do, of one of the chief sources
; wealth and the power of their unite
d expression in the furtherance of a
l. objects proposed for the welfare of al
l. Thereupon, Mr.. John Fitzgerald mad
10 motion. seconded by Mr.. jacobson
2. that the Hammond Manufacturers a.
In sociation now become a constftuel
DR.
fCnnffnued nm mage II