New Britain herald., 1915-02-25
MERCANTILE BUREAU
 DINNER AT BELOW
Secretary Andrews Will Explain Benefits Of Cooperative Delivery.

A departure from former Cham Der of Commerce meetings will be made next Tuesday evening when the Mercantile bureau will have a mem bership meeting in the Hotel Beloin preceded by d dinner served by the management Secretary A. H. An drews has selected this occasion as the time when he will present the results of the investigation of the committee on cooperative delivery and will explain to the merchants why such a system should be adopt ed in New Britain.
 The dinner will be served at 6:45 and the business session of the bureau will follow. It fs expected that the meeting will be over by o'clock so that members of the bureau may hH other engagements afterward It is believed that a system of CO., operative delivery irf New Britain would mean a great reduction in the expense of those merchants who now make deliveries. Some interesting facts revealed by the investigations will be disclosed Tuesday evening. The Legislative Problem. a The Chamber of Commerce is ex- periencing further difficulty fin its ef- forts to give it's members and the gem eraI public information in regard to legislative matters. The problem arises, it is said, from the lack or efficiency on the part of the state in the handling of the bills and, as now constituted, the system favors star | chamber sessions and pays little atten- ! tion to bringing legislative matters to | the attention of the public. | It was announced in the Herald | some days ago that, through the cour- 1 tesy of the state librarian, photo- l graphic copies of the bills presented would be furnished the Chamber of | Commerce here. A number of such photographic copies were secured. | Now, however it has been decided that this privilege cannot be extended beyond the bills already received be- | cause it is felt that 1t will be es- tablishing @ precedent which will cause great inconvenience to the state library It is said that the | New Britain Chamber of Commerce | is the only organization which has
 been accorded this privilege beyond 1 the departments of state government. Greene In Hartford Today. A representative of the chamber l must now go to the state library and l make copies or digests of the originals 1 which are on file. Assistant Secre- | tary Greene was detailed on this duty
 today. This in itself may not be diffi-
 cult. except for the fact that no com | plete list of bills presented has yet | been prepared and the chamber has
 been intprmed that the printed list
 will not be ready until at least the | 18th of March. At that time, how
 ever, hundreds of bills will have had | their hearings.
 1 Because of these difficulties, it has | been found necessary to watch the 1 bulletins ch day and from the title | determine what bills are apparently | of interest. That in many cases will l leave the chamber only two to three | days to take copies of the bills and | present them to the board of directors ] for consideration and action if the 1 chamber is to be represented at the l hearings.
 | It is believed that the Chamber of Commerce will be able to get copies 1 of all bills after favorable action has l been taken on them by the commit ] tees and before they are presented for 1 the vote of the legislature. The in- l fiuence of New Britain will then ex- | tend only to its own representatives l and senator which will be of much 1 less value than that which might be obtained by an appearance before the committee.
 Digests of several bills before the legislature that are of interest to New Britain have been sent out to members this week.
 Director in Rural Lcnguc. Secretary Andrews has been elected a director of the Hartford County Rural Improvement association as a representative of New Britain and will attend a field day of the league in Unity hall tomo orrow and a directors | meeting at 10:15, when the appoint | ment Of county agent will be con | sidered.