The herald., 1911-04-20


men and property owners assembled
for the purpose of organizing a Com
mercial organization for the purpose
of looking after the welfare of this
side CT the river. A temporary Or
ganizatiOn was effected a few weeks
ago at the office of The Herald, when
the meeting was adjourned to meet at
Pythian Hall, Monday night. to organ
ize permanent organization. George
koppel, who acted as temporary chair,
man, called the meeting to order and
announced the purposes of the organi-
cation. and after Howard Koppel was
selected as temporary secretary, a
vote was taken as TO whether or not
it would be advisable under the cir
cumstances to organize the body. The
vote resulted unanimously in favor of
a permanent organization. Mr.. Kop-
pei then announced the first order of
business would be the election of the
president, and Jos. w. Lennox, the
contractor, was elected by acclama-
ton. Mr.. LennOx then took the chair
and after very appropriate address,
assured the members he would do his
utmost and strive for the welfare of
the West Side. The next order of
business was the election of a vice
president, and Peter S. Lawton was
unanimously chosen for this position.
Frank c. Duvic, our hardware mer-
chant, was also unanimously elected
secretary, and Jules Bodenger, of the
Algiers COrnice and Plumbing Works,
was unanimously chosen treasurer.
The officers of the association having
been selected, the next order of bust
ness was the selecting of a name for
the new association, and here a spirit
ed contest took place. 1t was first
discussed pro and con as to whether
or not the word Algiers should prefix
the name of the association and many
reasons We're given why Algiers should
not be used, but all the argument
brought forth against Algiers could
not offset the sentiment of the small
majority of one by which it was car
ried that Algiers should prefix the
name of the association-the vote
standing IL to II. 1t was then decided
to continue the old Algiers Improve
ment Association, as fully two-thirds
of those present were still members of
the old association which has not had
a meeting for about a year, and the
body is now to be known as the AL
giers Improvement Association, oper-
ating under charter.
Peter S. Lawton, Geo. Koppel and
DR.. c. V. Kraft were appointed a COM
mittee to submit a new set of bylaws.
The following committee on member.
ship was also appointed: Peter WHEN.
c. Cieutat and Jules Bodinger. 1t was
also decided at the meeting that the
Association would devote its efforts
to the big things affecting
this side of the river, j. e., the building
Of factories, the promotion of our water
front, extension of the electric railway.
a Union depot. a Belt line, the Immi-
grafton and Naval stations, the lighter
age system and many other important
subjects. Several important things were
brought up before the Association by
VIM. H. Ward, Frank c. Duvic, Henry
Acker, Eugene Dyer, all of which were
deferred until the next regular meet
ing, when a board of directors, or an
executive committee will be either
elected or appointed. The regular
meeting of the Association in the fu-
ture will be held in Pythian Hall on
the first Monday of the month at 1880
,. m. The members of the Association
we're very optimistic regarding its sue
cess and when they adjourned it was
with a determination that each one of
he members present would exert spe-
'ial efforts to secure at least one addi-
ional member. The property holders
md business men who did not respond
% the call as advertised in The Herald
If last week are again invited to send
n their application as members. The
ollowing were entered as charter
members: Eugene Dyer, Major r. S. |
'tearnes, Hon. NJ. S. Mahoney, ]. E.
iuckins, R. A. Tansey, Albert Twick-
er, Frank C. Duvic, ]. Creighton Ma
hewes, E. w. Burgis, j. j. Manson,
Peter S. Lawton, Senator Robt. O'Con-
Tor, Hon. Geo. w. Foster, Joseph w. |
-ennox, VIM. H. Ward, George Koppel, |
Toward Koppel, Judge Peter Clement,
Charles Featherling, Louis G. Webert,
Jhas. Cieutat, Jules Bodinger, Hon.
Peter Vezien, DR.. c. V. Kraft.
Just before the close of the meeting |
Peter S. Lawton made an interesting
address,, which was attentively list
ned to