Evening journal., 1915-01-15

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Real Estate Division Report
A. B. Moore, former chairman of
the Real Estate and Building Trades
Division. reported as follows.
Following your verbal request that
| should give to you as former
chairman of the Real Estate and
building Trades Division of the
Chamber of Commerce a report on
tho activities for the period ending
in the fall of 1914. ! beg to advise
you that in the spring Of 1914 there
were five we'll attended meetings
held and that one meeting was held
in September prior to the Member
ship Campaign. since which time
there have been no further meetings
The discussion of various matters IN
our division bore fruit in the pass
ing OF a resolution of suggestion and
recommendation to the Board Of Di-
rcctors of the Chamber Of Commerce
that the members do not contribute
to public. semi-public OF charitable
funds without the approval of the
Board of Directors. in the appointing
of a committee for the investigation
o. fire prevention in the city of Will
mington. which committee has as
yet made no final report, the ap-
pcintment of committee 10 investi-
gate the comparative advisability Of
water meters at the curb and in the
individual property, which committee
has not made its final report and the
adoption in the September meeting
of a platform of more or less den
nitc activities which we're to have
been started promptly in the fall Of
1914, but which through various cir
cumstances over which the writer
has had no control, have not been
started. This platform very briefly
suggested the investigation of the
methods OF New Castle County ac-
counting, the legalizing and further
ance of the good work done by the
Board of Assessment, Revision and
Appeals in the 1914 city assessment
and investigation of methods used in
other towns and cities in the layout
os suburban plots, so that they may
conform TO city regulations at such
time as the corporate line of the
tigation of the possibility of stan
dardizing the profession of architec-
turc so as to protect the owner Of
property and the contractor.
Inasmuch as there have been no
fall meetings since September. the
methods of this Division have not rs
yet started.
If l may be permitted to personally
recommend. ! would state that from
the many inquiries which have
personally had as to why we have
not had any further Division meet
ings. | would like to suggest the ne
cessity for an immediate calling to-
gether of our Division if we propose
to keep up and increase the interest
which has been started in our par
! ticular Division, as we'll as in the
Chamber of Commerce as a whole.
From the many other questions
/ which should properly come before
our Division, one of the most perth
nent is the question of the determin-
alton of the width of city streets and
: building lines in various parts of
! Wilmington, so that there would
perhaps be some more uniform plan
of operation than is now the case.
May Dissolve Company.
T. Allen Hilles reported as follows:
To the President and Members of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Gentlemen-At special meeting
Of the Board OF Directors Of the VIII
mington Development Company held
this date, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted by the
vote of the five directors present:
Resolved that we. the directors of
the Wilmington Development Com
pany, deem It advisable to close out
the affairs of said Company and dis
solve said corporation at an early
date unless the Board of Directors
or the Membership Council of the
Chamber Of Commerce can furnish
good and sufficient reasons why the
Company should be continued in ex-
istence."
Respectfully submitted.
T. ALLEN HILLES.
President
Attest: VIM f. Kurtz, Secretary.
Mercantile Section Work.
David Snellenburg, Chairman of
the Mercantile Section, reported as
s follows:
y ~ AnN AtolNtnA hlu htlNntIH VI Tue
S Chamber of Commerce.
Gentlemen-As chairman of the
Mercantile Section until the adop-
tion of new bylaws in November,
desire to submit the following report
covering activities of the section
during that period. together witt
recommendation and suggestions foI
future work:
The Section was organized carly
in 1914 and l feel justified in say.
ing. has been uniformly successful
in all the undertakings proposed.
As proof that our Section has beer
active during the past year cal
your attention to the following
events:
Two dollar day sales; sprin.
style week sale; Delaware business
mems dinner; school opening weel
sale; automobile trade excursion
excursion and outing to North East
Nd; a membership campaign con
Quoted by the section in May; inau
guration of a system TO regulate
miscellaneous Advertising; reduction
OF excursion trolley fares to vii
mington from points along the Ken
nett Square Trolley Line.
I regret to report that one of thu
most important committees Of tn
Section, namely the Shop At HON,
4 Committee has never even organized
This was due in part to the dificultl
in securing a Chairman. The worl
.ql OF this Committee Is. think, i'm
portant and should do valuable worl
during the coming year.
While the officers and committe
. i chairman of tho Cacfion aivra,,c ,,,cl