Show I NINE BECOME DIRECTORS PROGRESS MADE IN ORGANIZING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Business Men Accept Positions on tho Board and Effective Work Is Promised There was a good beginning made In the organization of < Chamber of Commerce Com-merce last night at the Kenyan hotel Of the fifteen business men selected as probable directors by the canvassing committee eight were present and accepted ac-cepted directorships J G McDonald vas made a ninth director and It was decided then to adjourn until tonight by which time the six vacancies It Is expected will have been fled Those present were Spencer Clawson David Keith G T Odcll Henry Slegcl J C Cutler J H White E B Wicks J G McDonald J W Houston W N Williams Wil-liams Henry Dlnwoodey Temporary Chairman Houston read letters of declination from M IT Walker and T G Webber and David Keith at first f also declined on account of his intention to be away from the city a part of the winter but upon general request ho finally decided to accept a directorship Spencer Claw bon on being called to the chair expressed ex-pressed a strong sentiment favoring a Chamber of Commerce as a commercial necessity He said he was a member of the last Chamber for six years and felt it his duty to make some sacrifices for the mercantile good of the community I com-munity so he would accept a directorship director-ship The others Were similarly minded mind-ed some as Mr Cuter holding It was more or less of a disgrace that so large a city as Salt Lake should bo without a Chamber of Commerce and Mr Dln woodey said It was essential to the welfare o the city that it should have such a commercial organization Mr Houston declined a directorship because there was one real estate man already on the board and said that several of the moneyed men of the city had told him they feared lest the new Chamber of Commerce might be used to inaugurate another real estate boom like that In 1SSO and 1890 Ibis Mr Houston sad was not Intended The process of organization will bo resumed tonight at the Kenyon and the sentiment among the business men who attended last nights gathering was that the project would he a success suc-cess |