The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-10
CHAMBER HOLDS
ANNUAL MEETING.
Following Election Of Officers,
Members Attend Enjoyable
Banquet.
CITY ALDERMEN IN SESSION
Bond Issue Ordinance Is Not
Rccalled-Other Peters
burg News.
CITY ALDERMEN IN SESSION
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iclcpHOne 1900.
Petersburg. Va. January =.
The annual meeting OF the Chamber
Of Commerce was held tonight in y. J..
Hill Camp Hall, ana tao Iu.IomInp Of
Ulcers were elected for the ensuing
year: President. Hatcher 5. Seward,
First Vice President, G. c. Wrlgnt:
Second Vice-President, L. C. Kent.
Board of Governors, II. S. Seward. O.
G. Wright, e. Z. Kent, \. ". Gray.
hdwara Eigenbrun, w L. Po..e.
Richard II. Mann, i. NJ Dalton, PaI
- Hopper.
The presidents report OF the opera
lions of the chamber during the past
year and containing many suggestions
Us TO the future, was submitted After
the business meeting the members I'D
journed to the Stanford iIotcl to par
take of the annual banquet, winch was
an elaborate affair. VIM. b. McI,wainc
acted as toastmasicr, and among those
who Responded 10 the regular Ioasts
were: Mayor George Cameron. Jr., w.
+. Dabney, OF the Richmond Chamber;
the itev. e. p. Dandridge Z. l.
Quarles. of the Greater Baltimore Com
pany: Cabs. I. Lassiter. and others,
Each speaker was assigned a special
subject.
Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting.
The SIth annual meeting OF the
ISOLATION organized in 1925. was held
last night in the rooms OF the aHsoc!a-
tion. and the following officers and
directors were elected for the current
year:
President, william E. Poole; Vice.
President. John w Hays: Secretary
and Treasurer. William II. Baxter.
Directors-C. Z. Williamson, DR.. I.
J. Burgess. T. ]. Meredith. James Y.
bell John L. Harvell
The venerable and esteemed VIII
liam II. Baxter was elected secretary
OF the association in 1861. and has held
that office for tlfty-one consecutive
years-a recognition of his yalue BILE
and efficient services.
The report OF the secretary and
treasurer submitted last night was a
detailed statement of the debts and
credits OF the association. and shows
cash balance in the treasury at the
beginning of the year of 36.l2s71
After the business meeting the mem
oers adjourned TO the Masonic Temple
and nartooS OF the annual banquet
The association Is now bhilding a
handsome seven-s:ory office and bust
ness structure on Its property at
Sycamore and West Tabb Streets. at
cost of @l2s.ooc.
petersburg Educational Association.
meeting OF the officers and com.
mittees OF the Petersburg Educational
Association will be held tomorrow
night in tho rooms OF the Chambe. of
Commerce. Nm address Will be do
hvered by ]. II. Binford, executive sec
rotary OF the Cooperation Educational
Association of Virginia. who Gomez by
invitation. Mr.. Binford's talk will be
In the nature Of instructions and sug-
Sestions az to the work OF the Petors.
burg association.
Child Burned to Death.
william Jones, the three-ycar-old
child OF Eva Jones. colored. was burn
ed to death carly this morning An the
mothers homo on ST. Matthew Street
The mother, II is said left the two
children In r. room while she went out
In the neighborhood TO get some water
When she returned she found hcr NJ
tie boy dead His clothes had caueh.
fire from the CRATE, and no one being
present to aid him, he persisted Of hist
burns.
Meeting of Board of Aldermen.
The Board OF Aldermen held Its Jan
uary meeting last night, with seven
OF the twelve members present. There
was no recall OF the bond issue ordin-
ance which was defeated at me pc,
cember meeting, and probably the ord
nance viii be allowed to sleep for
some time al least. No important
committee reports were submitted, and
the business of the meeting was main.
~ routine. Reports OF the City
Treasurer. City Auditor and other Of
hcials were received and filed Con-
currence was voted i'm the action of
the lower branch in advancing the