Arizona republican., 1909-04-25
DEMAND FOR
 MORE. ROOM Urgent Needs of the Phoenix
 Board of Trade
 QUARTERS TOO CRAMPEO No Room For Public Meet ings or For the Proper Dis play of the Accumulated Exhibits--E Paso's Exam pie Should Be Emulated.
QUARTERS TOO CRAMPED

Secretary George W. Cowgirl, of the board of trade, has received the following invitation from the Fl Paso chamber of commerce. It is repro duced in full, first as a courtesy to Fl Paso, but more particularly to point a moral.
 The Board of Directors of the Fl Paso Chamber of Commerce cordially extends an invitation to you and as many members of your organization as can come. to attend the opening of their new home about May 18th. The exact date will be later an nounced in plenty of time to allow you to make arrangements to come
 The Fl Paso Chamber of Com merce will enjoy the distinction of being the first commercial club in Texas to own its own building. The building will be an imposing two story structure and basement. The exterior will be constructed of hand some pressed brick, a Texas produc- ton. and the interior will be of Ital- ian marble, mahogany and old oak, with hard wood floors throughout. It is a building of seventy-five feet by seventy eight feet, to cost S50,00O.
  ness streets of the city. The plans for the building have been very care fully prepared to meet all the re- quirements of a practical Chamber of Commerce. The first floor is de- signed to accommodate the different departments of the organization. hav- ing an auditorium with seating ca pacity for six hundred, and exhibit
 L. cony floor will be temporarily rent ed for offices. and the basement will be set aside for luncheons, smokers and similar entertainments.
 The building will be brilliantly lighted inside and out with hundreds of electric lights.
 "Our organization has a member ship of five hundred and is one Of the strongest commercial clubs in the state Extensive preparations have been made for a good time as well as an instructive and educational one and it is especially desired to have as many commercial secretaries in attendance as can possibly attend, at which time we can hold con vention and take up any matters that are of interest to our organization and when I hope to be able to or ganize all clubs located in this dis trict having similar conditions to meet and contend with, into a body of active, energetic workers for the purpose of practically advertising the extensive mineral, agricultural and industrial resources of the great southwest and to formulate co-opera- tive plans to direct systematic and rapid development.
 'I will thank you to acknowledge this letter, strain point to be with us and advise me if we can expect you"
 The moral is that Fl PasO is up and doing things. She is giving her chief commercial organization loyal and enthusiastic support, which en- ables it to provide itself with. suit able quarters. Phoenix should be do- ing the same thing. It is not eX- pected that Phoenix can build it's board of trade a s5000O building just yet, or any building at all, but it is easily within reason to suggest that that institution should be pro- vided with quarters that are not only comfortable, but big enough to dis play the excellent exhibits of pro- ducts now assembled together with those shortly available, to say noth- ing of an assembly room large enough for a fair sized gathering of the mem bers to assemble for conference, and in a room where they can hear each other speak without yelling.
 The Phoenix board of trade has done more for this city and valley in an industrial way than all other To- cal influences put together, and it IS expected will continue to do so, but it must have larger and better quar- ters before it can do anywhere near what it might do. Secretary Cowgirl at the present time has the room damned full of exhibits that must be decentIy cared for if they are to be preserved, and no visitor will deny that they are a most effective adver- tisement to all tourists who come here. But in addition to those things on display he has slowed away in a dark room, numerous other exhibits that cannot be displayed for the two reasons that there is neither room nor show cases in which they may be safeguarded. The silver trophies cannot be carefully cared for under present conditions, and a lot of stuff that is well worthy of display has to be kept under cover and out of, sight. much of it out of the building during warm weather because of the inappropriate room which during the summer is almost a furnace. He also has a cellar full of stuff at his resi- dence, placed there only for safe keeping.
 Yet with all this economy of space there is room for the proper placing of less than fifty chairs on the oc- casion of a public meeting, which as sembiages are quite frequent and would be more so if the quarters were suitable. The mass meeting last Thursday was a good illustration.