Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-07-17
BOARD Of TRADE
ELECTS OFFICERS
w ell Atten d e d
Meeting of Local
Business Men
BRODHEAD TO Be PRESIDENT
Tree Planting, Good Roads,
and Chautauqus Some Of
Topics Discussed.

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A. H. Brodhead. .Presiden1
John P. Wagner. .... Vice President
j. A. Rolls ...............Se Secretary
w. F. Owen Corresponding Secretary
Carl A. Bishop. .......... Treasurer
l.. B. Prince, Paul A. f. Walter, r
J. Palen, B. M. Read, Jose d. Sena, A
H. Brodhead and John P. Wagner
trustees.
These are the officers to whom thu
destinies Of the Santa Fe Board o.
Trade were entrusted by well at
tended meeting last evening in the
Offices of the Santa Fe Water anG
Light Company.
l.. B. Prince presided and in calling
the meeting to order reviewed brief
ly some of the work accomplished by
the Board of Trade, the oldest com
mercia& organization in the South
west. The New Mexican hopes to
print the address in full at future
date.
J. E. Clark, Rupert F. Asplund, W.
d. Hayes, V. L. Bean, Raymond
Haacke and Jacobo Chaves were elect
ed to membership.
The committee on tree planting re-
ported that the penitentiary authori.
ties have offered to plant and main
tain trees from the penitentiary to
Montezuma avenue, there to connect
with the Boulevard already planted
by the Board of Trade from the de-
pots to the Plaza. It was also ex
plained that the penitentiary authori-
ties would construct a sidewalk the
entire distance, asking merely that
the property owners pay for the brick
The committee was instructed and
authorized to purchase the trees next
spring and to have them boxed and
praise for the public Sspiritedness OF
the present penitentiary management
was expressed.
The committee on publication call.
ed attention to the new Santa Fe
county pamphlet prepared by it and
now in press and paid for in part by
the Bureau of immigration and in
part by the New Mexican Printing
Company, SO that it will be no ex-
pense to the Board of Trade.
Professor ]. A. Wood, for the joint
committee on Chautauqua made an
extensive report which is reproduced
ON another page. AS soon as the re.
port is also made to the Commercial
Club, the Board of Trade will ask the
Commercial Club to join in call for
"a public meeting at which the Chau-
tauqua matter is to be fully dis
cussed.
A resolution of thanks to the Santa
Fe Railway Company was adopted
expressing appreciation of the fact
that a new depot is being erected at
Santa Fe while another one has been
constructed at Lamy, and asking for
the speedy rebuilding of the Harvey
house at Lamy.
The matter of good roads received
considerable attention, w. F. Owen,
and Mayor Jose d. Sena, asking that
the Board of Trade join in move
ment that will result with eliminating
the practice of distributing the road
fund among precinct supervisors in
stead of applying it to one good roads
project and pushing it to completion
Attention was called to the good
work that Governor Curry and Mayor
Sena are doing for roads in Santa
Fe county and the fact that the board
of county commissioners has giver
$1,000 toward completing the Scenic
Highway to the Pecos. The matter
was referred to special committee
to be appointed by the new president
sof the board.
Mayor Jose D. Sena urged the
Board of Trade to attend the meet
ing on Monday evening in the Com
mercial Club rooms Of the members
pf the City Council and citizens to
discuss the matter of building sew
ser system for the city.
Other topics were discussed al
length and It was eleven O'Clock
when final adjournment was taken
The meeting was one OF the most en-
thusiastic and best attended held fol
"a long time and betokens that the
community is awakening to it's own
advantages and prosperous future.
This morning President A. H
Brodhead announced that he had ap
pointed L. B. Prince and Jose D. Sena
as delegates to the Trans-Mississipp1
Congress at Denver, Colorado, and Or
John B. Wagner, as delegate to the
Irrigation Congress at Spokane.