El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-23
8 SECRETARIES
DUTIES DEFINED
Chamber of Commerce Now
Has a Family Tree; Good
Roads Committee.

A chart OF activities was adopted by
the directors of the chamber of com
merce at a regular meeting held Tues
dav afternoon. defining the fields in
which the three secretaries of the asso-
citation are to be engaged. The Chart
in the form of a family tree, showed the
membership as the trunk OF the tree
then the upper part of the trunE the
board of directors. and from the trunk
were three branches, the finance com
mittee, the ways and means committee
and membership committee
Three Departments.
Growing from the ways and means
committee are the three departments OF
the association: publicity, with George
H. Clements as commissioner; civic and
executive. with Malcolm A. Fraser as
secretary. and traffic and Industrial
with a. W. Reeves as director. The
activities Of the three secretaries, as de-
fined. will be: George H. Clements:
Publicity. land and irrigation, conven-
tons and manufactures and new in
dustries; Malsom Fraser: Laws and leg
islation, public health and sanitation,
city interest and public entertainment
education and public improvement; mil
itary. and good roads and automobiles;
A. w. Reeves; cattle Industries, traf-
fic and transportation. trade extension
and excursions.
Good Roads and Autos.
A new committee, and the last to be
appointed by the directors under the
present program, is the committee on
good roads and automobiles. with Max
MOye as chairman. Those to assist Mr..
Moye are c. T. Tryon. Sam B. Gillett
Charles B. Stevens, Seth B. OrndOrff,
Frank Powers and f. NJ. Bannell.
Collection OF Budget.
The collection of delinquent dues and
back assessments on the 1915 budget
was given into the hands of the presi-
dent and secretary OF the association to
pursue whatever course they thought
best; while in the collection Of the 1915
budget fund. Malcom Fraser. secretary.
and A. ". Reeves. traffic director, were
added to the committee on collections
and to have charge Of the winding up Of
the 1915 budget
$1,000 for Farm Congress.
A request from the International Irri-
cation congress that $1,000 be appropri-
ated to carry on the preliminary work
of that organization in FL Paso, was
honored by the directors and the budget
committee was authorized TO make such
appropriation.
Tax Transient PeddIerS.
Maurice Schwartz placed before the
directors the need of a protection for
the retail merchants against the ped
lers and sample stock dealers who
work II Paso for a few weeks and then
leave without contributing anything to
the welfare OF the community. He sug-
gested that a special license be fixed
by the city council upon all such deal
ers in the same manner that St Louis
and Washington, d. c., do The matter
was referred to the committee on public
interests with the request to act
zoo Trees Planted.
Walter Kohlberg. chairman OF the
committee on public improvements. re-
ported that 200 trees had been furnished
at nominal price to the school chill
dren of Ell Paso during the past week
and that more trees would be furnished
before that part Of their civic program
was closed. He stated that the chill
dren were taking the trees home and
planting them.
Those present at the meeting were:
r B. OrndOrff. president: Walter Kohl
berg. otis Coles II. Y. Ellis. Maurice
Schwartz ". G. Roe f. N. Hurd. B. l.
Farrar, J. W. Lorentzen, Malcom A
Fraser. A W. Reeves and George H
Clements.