The Washington herald., 1918-03-20

ARE UNIT FOR
GROWTH
Chamber Of Commerce Ex-
tends Membership Cam
paign; New Goal, 800.
THE HERALD BUREAU.
r. Z. knight & Son,

S1S1 King Street
Alexandria, Va, March 19.-More
than 100 memberships had been re-
ceIved for the new Chamber of Com
merce up to closing this afternoon.
1t now seems certain that the new
goal of 800 will be attained without
a great effort. Many other member
| ships are expected within the next
few days. In the event the new goal
set is not reached a number of MEM
bers of the Chamber of Commerce
have signifed their intention of under
writing the remainder to make up 500.
When the work of reorganizing was
first begun the goal set was 60O To
many this number appeared entirely
too high. However. when the three
days whirlwind campaign was COM
pleted the record stood 672.
Members Of the Chamber Of Com
merce who promoted the movement
are greatly pleased with the results
thus far accomplished and point to
the fact that practically every line or
business in the city is represented in
the new memberships, and also that
many not identified with any line OF
business also have taken out member
ships in the new organization.
Information blanks today were
sent out to the new members and
also bills for a years dues, payable
in advance at the rate of $25 a year
for each membership. On the blanks
sent five bureaus are given and
they are as follows: Civic, manu-
factures and jobbers, conventions
and publicity. retail merchants and
traffic, and transportation and ag-
riculturak
The persons interested in one or
more are expected to mark off
which OF the bureaus they are in
terested in and return the same to
the chamber OF commerce.
OF interest to members will be a
classified directory and buyers
guide" which will be distributed
widely. 1t will contain the names
of the members and also a classi-
fed business list.
Several hundred employees OF the
! Virginia ShipbuiIding Corporation
at noon today heard patriotic ad-
| dresses, which were delivered to
them at the company's plant Mt
Jones Point by DR.. ]. H. Sheppard
and Corporal Frank H. Street, rep
resentatives of the national service
section Of the United States Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation. The
speakers were introduced by B. w.
Morse. vice president and general
manager OF the Virginia Shipbuild-
ing Corporation.
The speakers told the employees
that they were engaged in a patriot
ic work and called attention to the
Importance of the work in which
they are engaged. which will, they
were told, help win the war.
A largely attended meeting of st.
Mary's Catholic Church War Saw
ings Society was held tonight at 1880
o'clock in the Lyceum.
Members of Seminole Tribe Of Red
Men Will pay fraternal visit to White
Eagle Tribe, of Washington. D. c.,
tomorrow "wednesday night. They
will leave here on the Z O'Clock train.
The Washinstonians will return the
visit April 2 at which time the degree
team Of White Eagle Tribe will con-
fer the three degrees of the order.
Miss Mary McTamany, 20 years old,
who lived in Fairfax County several
miles west Of this city, died Sunday
morning at the Alexandria Hospital
Her funeral will take place at $50
O'Clock tomorrow wednesday, morn
ing from st. Mary's Catholic Church.
Postmaster W. NJ. Smith, this city,
will open a branch postoffice at Camp
Humphries, Va, tomorrow.
The liberty loan committee meeting
to have. been held this morning has
been postponed until $50 o'clock TO-
morrow morning, in the rooms Of the
chamber of commerce.