The Detroit times., 1911-02-20
||RsT DAY BRINGS
NEW members
Doerd Of Commerce Boost Cam.
ppisn Starts With Rush 800 in
Ten Days Mark Set.


the Board OF Commerce rooms at
12:15 Monday afternoon. They mad
fost returned from the first days
f ooIicitation for new members oil the
Board OF Commerce, and the result
ofptheir labors was total OF 81 new
n Implications.
The daily quota is 50 applications,
total OF 500 In the ten days which
the membership campaign will last.
+ Therefore, the members OF the COM
. mittee had a right TO be pleased. If
f The work progresses in the same pro-
norton In the nine days which re-
4 main, they will get many more than
& the 500 members desired. The cam
paign was started promptly at 10
o'clock Monday morning by Mayor
F. Thompson. All of the workers gath
cred at the Board of Commerce build
ing at 9:45 and at 10 o'clock they
were In automobiles hurrying away
70 get reams of application blanks
Y niSned
The first days work was confined
4 to the downtown districts. But this
(. locality was worked thoroughly. The
4 only men not solicited were those who
happened to be out for lunch when
{ the committee called
The first man to get his name en-
m application blank was w. j.. Jor-
dan. the Lafayette-blvd. tailor. Pro-
pinquity accounts for Mr.. Jordan get
\, ting this record. Ii is reported that a
oolicitor had him already Tined up"
and dashed across the street to get
I his check and signature as soon as
the mayor gave the word TO go.
The others who applied for mem
. bership as result of the first days
solicitation are: John @. Dietz, Oscar
+ Webber, J. l.. Weber, James B. Web
( Der. Edgar G. Behr, o. p. Hawiey,
~ A. Peavey, s. B. Dusinberre. +. c.
. Dunbar, VIM. Hughes Clarke, Morris
y 0rRbowsky, Carl l.. Brumme, +. b.
Eby, Malcolm McKinnon, Milford
Stern, Frederick j. Winter, Jr., Nell
Z Barnes. John II. Thompson, Jacob
Kolb, w. +. Jordan, G. w. Blanchard,
/; Charles s. Mcdonald, James G. Pierce,
n. w. Odds, James III. Mcdonald, G.
Es1socke, w. j. Boyer, Walter G..
Taepke, A. A. MacDairmid, Jr.. =. III.
Leith, Carl M. Green, j. f. Dun, j. II.
Gould. Fl. f. James, Leo. NJ. Butzel,
John M. McKerchey, c. C. Hildebrand,
+ 3. H Broadwell, w. M. Moore. Julian
@. Dickinson, Herbert C. Leech, John
/. p. Frazer, Gus Sonnenburg, c. s.
0reenwood, nj. Greenwood. A. E.
Rosengarten, Sam Smitt, +. p. Strik-
er,sC. b. Marshall, J. G. Hamblen, ID.
Herbert A. DAILY, K. A. Morris, James
+. y. Geddes, A. G. Pitts, Frederick Sea-
rave, ID. A. Johnston. Donald A. Mac
Kenxie, r. H. Boynton, Rowland M.
Conn0r, r. Il. Berger, Edward b.
8palding, w. b. Groverman, Henry c.
Corns, M. Woolsey Campau, c. e.
Huyette, r. J. Wynne, J. z. Dubois.
Robert Y. Ogg, p. J. Schmidt, Patrick
~ Hart, Robert M. Dalton, Thomas l..
Dalton, Thomas l.. Dalton, Albert
Kern, J. o. Howard, Charles III. Gull
yer, Elmer s. Moon. c. s. Crane, Geo.
Hnrland, Fred e. Gordon, F. Z. Heck
ert, Thomas II. Norris, William Win
This IL the best yet, said
Chairman Hugh Chalmers, as the so
lloitors turned In their reports This
a better than had expected, though
n certainly hoped for good show
Our FIRST days work is extreme
" encouraging. We know for GER
tninty now that we shall have no
0imculty In getting the 500 members
Ne are after. And We have set
poce for ourselves. All we have to
90 - to keep up the work at this
rate and We shall have more than
LOCO members In the board when the
o1zQpaign II over.
IT must be remembered, too, that
)wo are new at the work; we haven't |
4A1rly got started yet"
The workers are also greatly en-
couraged by the fact that 90 many
opplications are coming In by mail. |
. 4he personal letters and circulars
0igfributsd by the board are having
their effect. Twelve applications
came by mail Monday morning In
starting the members of the commit |
to away this morning, Mayor Thomp-
oon wished the Board of Commerce
+ al success In its campaign. He was
liberal In his praise of the work
which the board Is doing and said
that every Detroiter should feel IL
A honor to be asked to join the or
gan1sation.