The May Meeting of the Board President Woodward Announces Committees for the Ensuing Year-Report Presented on Matter of Enlarged Quarters-Routine Business The regular meeting of the directors of the Worcester Board of Trade for the month of May was held at the directors' room, 11 Foster Street, at 8 o'clock, Thursday evening, May 11; there being present the President, Mr. Edward M. Woodward, who presided, and the following directors: Messrs. Charles E. Hildreth, S. Foster H. Goodwin, Albert H. Inman, Charles T. Tatman, William Woodward, Ernest P. Bennett, Charles H. Norton, Daniel E. Denny, Herbert H. Fairbanks, Arthur C. Comins, Earle Brown, Gustaf A. Berg, and Frank S. Fay, a quorum. The records of the regular and special meetings of the directors in April were read and approved. The President then announced his committees for the ensuing year as follows: Ernest P. Bennett, chairman Charles L. Allen Albert E. Newton William J. H. Nourse E. Howard Reed Andrew W. Sigourney John W. Higgins Samuel E. Winslow George M. Wright The report, on motion of Mr. Hildreth, was accepted and adopted. The report of the special committee on proposed new commercial organizations was submitted by its chairman, Charles E. Hildreth, after a preliminary statement by the Secretary embracing the action taken by the committee in voting to recommend to the directors that overtures be made to the National Metal Trades Association, Builders' Exchange and Merchants Association to see whether they will co-operate with this organization in securing joint quarters in the Chase Building on the floor immediately beneath the Automobile Club. Mr. Hildreth's report was as follows: To the Board of Directors of the Worcester Board of Trade. Gentlemen: The committee appointed last year to bring about a closer affiliation of Worcester business men's associations beg to report as follows: 1st. That favorable consideration be given to the sixth floor of the Chase Building, 44 Front Street, which the committee have been given to understand can be leased as a whole. 2d. That this lease be taken in the name of the Worcester Board of Trade. 3d. That the said Worcester Board of Trade occupy so much of said sixth floor as may be found necessary for its proposed plans of expansion. 4th. That the Worcester Board of Trade sublet to the Merchants Association, the Builders' Exchange, the Real Estate Dealers' Exchange, and any other Worcester business men's organizations, such rooms as may be required for their needs. 5th. That a special committee be appointed to confer with the Board of Governors of the Worcester Automobile Club now located on a portion of the seventh floor of the said Chase Building, to arrange for securing the social privileges of the Club to any members of the above organizations who may desire the same, it being the opinion of the committee that if sufficient support could be guaranteed the club, they might be induced to take over the entire seventh floor, and then with a substantially enlarged membership bring their dues within the means of every member in our organizations. Respectfully submitted for the committee, Charles E. Hildreth, chairman. Lengthy discussion of the matter followed the reading of Mr. Hildreth's report. Plans procured for the purpose, showing the arrangements of the Chase block on the floor in question and also the entire floor of the Worcester National Bank Building, which is now available for enlarged quarters by this Board if desired, were exhibited to the directors. It was finally voted, on motion of Mr. Tatman, that the subjects of rooms be referred to the special committee appointed for that purpose. The Secretary presented his list of estimates of receipts and expenses for the current year, showing an anticipated. income of $23,575.94 and an anticipated expenditure of $22,733.61, leaving a balance of $842.33. A letter of acknowledgment of the resolutions adopted by the directors of this Board favoring the joint plan of the general government and the Massachusetts Agricultural College's making a soil survey of Worcester county, received from President Kenyon L. Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, was read. A communication from the city clerk of Worcester, stating that the petition of the Worcester Board of Trade for a public hearing on the redesign of Washington Square had been postponed until Monday evening, June 5, at 9 o'clock, was read and referred to the special committee on Washington Square. A communication from President W. E. Robertson of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, asking this Board to send a congratulatory telegram to President Taft on Peace Day for his distinguished services in the promotion of this great cause, was favorably received and it was voted, on motion of Mr. Hildreth, that such telegram be sent. Communication from W. E. Schultz of the Interstate Commercial Travelers' Association of Chicago, Ill., asking this Board to go on record in favor of a universal two-cent mileage book, was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Railroads for investigation and report. Adjourned. That they are alert to push American products in every way possible is generally true, and Consul Lester Maynard of Vladivostok is a fair example. In a report issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor, he writes: This consulate has distributed a circular letter inviting merchants, importers, professional men, and all others interested to make use of the reading room and catalogue library of this consulate. A carefully compiled card-index system has been arranged. After the letters had been distributed only one week, daily inquiries commenced coming in for American goods, and the result appears to be most satisfactory, as many inquirers have been supplied with addresses so that they might communicate direct. During the past few months it has been noted that certain manufacturers in the United States have prepared expensive catalogues in English and are naturally disinclined to distribute them at random in countries where they probably can not be read, and in reply to these merchants I have suggested that one catalogue be placed on file in the consulate, and in writing to the firms whose names I have supplied they can state that their catalogue is on file here and they may refer to same. This has the additional advantage of the consular officers' being able to translate and explain points which are not clear to the intending purchaser. Catalogues are needed here for machinery of all kinds, as well as hardware and tools. Leading Articles of Exportation and Importation Of the 46 articles of exportation whose monthly export prices are recorded by the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor, 32 show lower prices, 9 show higher prices, and 5 show no change. Of the 38 articles enumerated in the table of monthly import prices, 17 decreased in price, 18 increased, and 3 showed no change, comparing April, 1911, prices with those of April, 1910. The above citations would seem to justify the general assertion that domestic prices are, for the most part, lower than in April last year, while prices abroad are almost equally divided between increases and decreases. Apr. 20. Rev. Raymond F. Holway, pastor of Trinity Church 1895 to 1897, accepts pastorate of Cambridge Methodist Church in Cambridge. 20. George A. McLeod, 21 years a Worcester patrolman, resigns. 20. Bazaar of Boys' Brigade opens in Mechanics Hall. 23. Arthur W. Pryor, conductor, presented gold medal by Worcester Musicians' Relief Association at third annual sacred concert. 25. Report at annual meeting of Y. M. C. A. shows financial gain for year of $2540.77. 26. Board of Trade holds annual banquet in Mechanics Hall, Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland of Washington chief speaker. 26. Seventh annual convention of Massachusetts Retail Grocers and Provision Dealers' Association meets in Y. M. C. A. Hall. 27. Mrs. Clifton H. Mix elected president of Worcester Alliance of Auxiliaries of the Home Missionary Association at annual meeting in Pilgrim Church. 28. Dedication of new organ in Old South Church, presented by Alexander C. Munroe. 28. Annual meeting of Board of Trade. Gustaf A. Berg, Ernest P. Bennett, Earle Brown, Frank S. Fay, Charles E. Hildreth and Charles H. Norton elected directors. Edward M. Woodward elected president; Albert H. Inman, vice-president, and Herbert N. Davison, secretary, by vote of directors. 29. Miss Alice J. Bunce, 78 Chatham Street, appointed director of Mack Industrial School, Salem. May 1. Clarence P. Shedd installed as first secretary of Student Christian Association of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 1. Henry Lewis Johnson, editor of "Graphic Arts," Boston, and Louis Pelletier of "Machinery," New York, speak at meeting of Worcester Publicity Association. 2. John W. Harrington elected president at annual meeting of Worcester Automobile Club. 2. Mrs. George F. Brooks elected president of Hahnemann Hospital Associates at annual meeting; Mrs. J. K. Warren, president for nine years, resigns because of ill health. 4. Henry A. Macgowan elected president at annual meeting of Worcester Unitarian Club. 4. Worcester Oratorio Society re-elects Dr. Carl Crisand president, and all other present officers. 4. State Railroad Commissioners inspect New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co. property in Worcester. 7. George A. Blunt, Worcester's oldest letter carrier, begins fortyfirst year of service. 7. Worcester Real Estate Exchange proposes plan for parallel highways in Greendale. 9. William P. Taylor, educational director of Y. M. C. A., resigns. 10. Dr. Charles A. Peabody, twenty years superintendent of City Hospital, gives up his Worcester practice and retires to his home in West Boylston. 10. Rev. Thomas F. Davies, Jr., rector of All Saints' Church, elected bishop of Western Massachusetts Episcopal Diocese. 10. Five thousand dollars loss by fire in store of A. S. Lowell Co., Main and Foster Streets. 10. Coal plant of Harry W. Kimball, better known as Fred W. Wellington yards, Southbridge Street, destroyed by fire; loss of $50,000. 15. Rev. William J. Taylor, pastor of All Souls' Universalist Church, elected president of Worcester Ministerial League at annual meeting in Association Hall. 15. Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, addresses Worcester Congregational Club at its thirty-fifth annual festival in Mechanics Hall. 16. George F. Booth re-elected president of Worcester Playground Association at annual meeting in Board of Trade Hall. 17. Mrs. Charles C. Baldwin re-elected president of Woman's Clubhouse Association at annual meeting; financial gain of $1500 for year reported by treasurer. 17. Mrs. Charles H. Morgan re-elected president of Y. W. C. A. at annual meeting. 18. Worcester Public Education Association observe Peace Day by mass meeting in Mechanics Hall; speakers, Baron D'Estournelles De Constant, member of The Hague Court; Hon. Samuel J. Elder of Cambridge and Prof. George H. Blakeslee, 18. Rev. Dr. Daniel Merriman, pastor emeritus of Central Church, presents town of North Conway, N. H., with new hospital containing twenty beds. 19. Seventh annual convention of New England Osteopathic Association meets in Bay State House. City Affairs Apr. 21. Joint Standing Committee on Streets votes to recommend $16,527 worth of street construction. 24. Further hearing in City Hall by Gas and Electric Light Commissioners on price of city lighting. 24. Board of Aldermen give hearing on petition of John C. MacInnes and other merchants for widening of Park Street. 29. Stamp sales at Worcester Post-office for month of April total $38,675.91, an increase of $4421.80 over April, 1910. May 1. Joint Convention by City Council hears protests against location of tuberculosis hospital on Belmont Hill. 2. School Committee votes to recommend purchase of property of Church of the Unity on Elm Street for purpose of extending Classical High School. 2. County Commissioners determine Worcester's apportionment of county tax for 1911 at $131,936, the same as in 1910. 14. Street Commissioner Frederick H. Clark and Assessor Arthur H. Burton attend third annual Conference on City Planning at Philadelphia. 15. Mayor James Logan signs contract for three automobiles for Police Department at cost of $9997. 15. Mayor James Logan recommends to City Council immediate purchase of property on Peter Brook for watershed purposes. 15. City Council adopts order for Meade Street schoolhouse at estimated cost of $97,000. 19. Public school records show gain of 600 pupils over 1910, the total now being 23,152. Industrial April 20. Standard Woven Fabric Co. plans to build new factory in Worcester immediately. 21. Joint Standing Committee on Water vote to recommend $16,127 worth of pipe construction. 23. William L. Dives, Jr., Co. incorporated for $5000 under Massachusetts laws to do general machinery business. 24. J. W. Bishop Co. awarded contract for erection of addition to Harvard University Clubhouse. 24. Norcross Bros. Co. pay $30,000 for three parcels of land adjoining present property on Shrewsbury Street. 24. New $12,000 plant for ice cream making opened by Tait Bros. on Arctic Street. 24. Wright Wire Co. awards contract for brick addition to galvanizing department, 124 by 40 feet, to E. D. Ward. 25. Norcross Bros. Co. secures contract for twenty-one-story building in New York for United States Rubber Co., to cost $1,500,000. 26. Preliminary summary by Census Bureau of Worcester manufacturers shows striking gains from 1904 to 1909. 26. Central Building Co. secures contract to erect $85,000 library presented to town of Northbridge by Edward and Arthur F. Whitin.. 26. Herman Lucke Co., jewelers, incorporate for $10,000 under Massachusetts laws. 27. James Thompson, manager of Whitcomb Envelope Co. division of United States Envelope Co., resigns to accept position in sales department of Norton Co. May 1. John J. Adams, die manufacturer, 31 Mechanic Street, plans new factory building to replace present one. 1. Scranton Coal Co. reorganizes for $10,000 under Massachusetts laws; William Marcy retires from concern. 8. Merchants National Bank buys R. F. Taylor property adjoining present building. 12. William H. Coughlin, superintendent of Worcester Electric Light Co. since it began business, a period of over twenty-seven years, submits resignation, to take effect July 1. 16. Fred H. Smith elected superintendent of Worcester Electric Light Co. 19. E. D. Ward secures contract to erect $18,000 power house at Uxbridge for Worcester Suburban Electric Co. Necrology Apr. 22. Rev. Stillman H. Record, formerly New England missionary of the American Sunday School Union, 84 years, 4 months and 10 days old, of acute indigestion, at his home, Grove Street. 28. William H. McClennen, former Worcester fur dealer, at his home in New York at the age of 85 years. 28. George W. Warren, ex-captain in Boston fire department, aged 81 years and 2 months, of pernicious anemia, at home of his son, George W. Warren, Jr., 6 Freeland Street. May 3. Thomas Wiggins, Civil War veteran, aged 71 years, 1 month and 19 days, of neuralgia of the heart, at home of his daughter, Mrs. Luther E. White, 40 Lake Street. 3. John Luby, of law firm of Crandell & Luby, aged 38 years and 12 days, of heart disease, at his home, 14 Queen Street. 3. Thomas Jones, contractor and builder, 78 years, 5 months and 12 days old, of hardening of the arteries, at his home, 15 Goulding Street. 4. Chester K. Babcock, building mover, aged 94 years, 4 months and 13 days, of old age, at his home, 809 Main Street. 5. James McCann, thirty-five years a baggage-master on Boston & Albany R. R., 71 years old, of heart disease, in his home, 214 Southbridge Street. 8. John O'Neal, thirty years superintendent of Darling Woolen Mills, aged 67 years, 4 months and 15 days, of apoplexy, at his home, 1382 Main Street. 9. Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, pastor of Free Church in Worcester in the fifties, instrumental in raising Worcester Company of Fifty-first Massachusetts Regiment, preacher, author and Civil War veteran, of old age, at his home in Cambridge. 12. Edwin Taylor Morse, Civil War veteran, 71 years, 6 months and 15 days old, of operation for gall-stones, at Hahnemann Hospital. 12. John H. Prendergast, of firm of Cotter & Prendergast, 207 Commercial Street, 52 years old, of carcinoma of the liver, at City Hospital. 14. L. D. Benton Fowler, grocer, 55 years, 1 month and 20 days old, of dropsy, at his home, 1 Mason Street. 15. John C. Redding, 92 years, 7 months and 7 days old, of old age, at his home, 1 Glenwood Street. 16. William H. Bliss, 60 years, 7 months and 23 days old, of Bright's disease, at his home, 100 Main Street. 16. James E. Mansfield, Civil War veteran, 71 years, 7 months and 22 days old, of old age, at his home, 6 Florence Street. 17. Thomas B. Goodspeed, Civil War veteran, 70 years, 7 months and 25 days old, of cerebral embolism, at 625 Main Street. Competition in Argentina A recent issue of the Daily Consular Reports contained a report from the Vice Consul General at Buenos Aires, which is of interest to Worcester. The report in part follows: The competition for the Argentine trade is daily growing greater. A large German agricultural-implement store was opened in a central location in Buenos Aires in 1910. It is a branch of a large firm that maintains other houses in Sao Paulo, Puerto Alegre, and elsewhere in Brazil. English and Irish agricultural-implement exporters are also becoming very active. The Russians are competing with us in the steel-rail market. German and Dutch electrical goods are pushing ours hard. German typewriters are being actively introduced. The large communities of these nationalities materially assist the extension of their trade. There are not more than 4000 citizens of the United States in Argentina. Two years ago the dental preparations of a well-known New Jersey house were introduced into Buenos Aires. They were so well pushed and proved so successful that the largest order ever sent out for goods of this kind went to the home office in August, 1910, and a cable was sent to hasten delivery. Our automobile trade with South America is increasing very rapidly. While 28,787 cars valued at $240,453 were sent to South America in the calendar year 1909, 73,567 valued at $519,160 were exported thither in 1910, an increase of 116 per cent. While exact data regarding Argentina's automobile importations in 1910 are not yet available, it is believed that a greater number of cars than ever before were introduced there from the United States. One of our largest firms sent a highly trained young man, with instructions to learn the language, study the situation carefully, and then sell automobiles. The first shipment. was all sold while he was still learning the language. He is keeping at it steadily, and will probably do a large business, as he has now studied the situation sufficiently to import exactly the kind of car that is wanted. The increase in export trade has come to the United States in spite of many contending factors, while greatly Spanish and Portuguese languages in the United States aided by others. The amount of instruction in the has not increased at a satisfactory rate. It is in the secondary schools that the deficiency is most marked. The establishment of the Boston High School of Commerce in 1906 marked an era in modern-language instruction in the United States. Three years of Spanish are required there, including Spanish bookkeeping, commercial correspondence, and conversation. This is taught by a Spaniard from Barcelona, a trained student of his own language and literature. Some other schools have followed this example, but the total number of secondary schools in the United States where commercial Spanish is properly taught is very small. |