The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1911-05-26
Business League.

Business League.
The meeting on Monday evening was
an interesting one though not largely
attended. The following officers were
re-elected:
President-George W. Arnett.
Vice President-Elmer Helms
Walter +. Hayhurst
Treasurer-Jonathan NJ. Lambert.
The committees will be announced
later.
The address of f. Spencer Miller,
Esq, on the subject of Government
by Commission" was extremely inter-
esting and greatly enjoyed by all who
heard it.
The following is the Secretary's re-
port of the proceedings for the past
year:
Lambertville, N. J., May aad, 1911.
TO The LAMBERTvILLE BUSINESS
LEAGUE:
The following is a report of the pro-
ceedings of your Executive Committee
tor the term now ending.
There have been thirteen meetings
of the joint committees besides num-
Der of meetings of subcommittee, all
OF which have been well attended.
There are fifty-six members OF the
league who have paid their annual fee
for the past year.
The correspondence during the year
has been extensive, covering many sub
jects, some OF which will appear from
the following summary
INDUSTRIES.
PAPER FIBRE. Soon after our or
ganization we took up correspondence
with plant for the manufacture of this
material. After some personal inter
views and correspondence on the sub
ject with reference we were not able to
come to satisfactory understanding,
and finally failed to get response from
the party interested.
CHILDREN's CARRIAGES. We had
factory in view of this nature and were
assured that our proposition was salts
factory, but as yet it has not material
lied. We are given TO understand
that the parties still have the project
under consideration.
Cur GLASS. We have had two
propositions of this kind in correspon-
dence under personal conference. In
both cases parties proposed that we
should furnish them with plants with
out satisfactory guarantee that they
would be able to operate successfully,
or in any way secure their permanency.
Moron CARS. We have had two
propositions of this nature under con-
sideration; both OF them resulted in a
proposition that if we would SUBJ
scribe to larger amount of capital
stock than any other place, we could
secure the location.
SHOE FACTORY. We had a propo-
sition OF this kind under long and fav-
orable consideration, and seemed
about to reach favorable conclusion,
but were finally notified that parties
had the same proposition we offered
made them by another city together
with considerable subscription to cap
ital stock which we felt unable to guar
antee.
PAPER MILL We have had consid-
cradle correspondence with one or
more concerns on this subject but with
out result.
TOILET ARTICLES We reached an |
agreement with concern for the man
ufacture of these products, and in line
with our agreement secured subscrip- |
tons to the amount OF Two Thousand |
Dollars to purchase site, and subscrip-
tons aggregating Fourteen Thousand
Dollars for bonds to erect plant, but
after much correspondence and negoti-
ations we found ourselves unable to Sc
cure definite and satisfactory agree
ment upon particulars relating to our
contract, and finally after much delay
we felt obliged to withdraw our propo-
sition
We have had many other inquiries
and commercial propositions, none of
which are probably of sufficient inn
portance to receive further notice.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.
Correspondence on this branch of
our work has been particularly extern
sive and has covered very large num-
Der of subjects. And we have partici-
pated in two conferences OF other COM
mercial bodies of this state, one at
Newark on the subject of "Railroad
rates and one at Trenton on the sub
ject of Commission form of govern
ment." Among the other subjects OF
correspondence which may be men
toned are: Peace arbitration, Public
utilities, Fair weights and measures,
and other subjects We also took
some part in a discussion relative to