Show I 1 11 I 1 COMMERCE 3 CHAMBE 11 I 1 6 agdens foor poor Post postoffice office facilities hade made the subject of debate RESOLE 1101 TO THE STER ll I 1 I 1 ap I 1 huba that clerks alti ls bt be dired aid and raid bj by the tb 1 citizens L Fir aures tailed oter lw climbers tools 0 to o ba be incited Indi ted I 1 I 1 the chamber of commerce ma met in regular monthly cession last even evening ang with president nelson in the chair r V the alon question of Bce fide facilities I 1 was ra raised and thoroughly discussed among the ir embers As every citizen 1 ia Is aware the postoffice post office of avez 0 eh Is in a very tery unsatisfactory condition i and is inadequate to the demands made upon it the question has uton been e en r raised A ased tune and time again a mass I 1 meeting having been held lome ome 1 1 t time ago and a long petition I 1 by thousands thou sandi of persons forwarded to the postmaster post master general I 1 who had said bo he was willing to bear I 1 any in Y advice ic 0 apon the question koth 1 ing ig had bad been done to relieve the situation riuo and mr kingley ley offered th fot lowing resolution which was m nily adopted I 1 resolved ba bv tha the ogden chamber of C commerce orn merce that WHEREAS the population af joeal I 1 ca city ty as well as that of the 1 country has quadrupled within the last lew few years and has doubled within ith I 1 the I 1 laba t two years and I 1 I 1 f I 1 our oar postal rd re 0 1 main nearly the came same as ter tet yeara eadd ago and u i 1 the appropriation role the ogden post postoffice fica office is but litt lomore than ten years ago and WuEn Wn enEAs zAs our postmaster 1 kimball is doing all in me his I 1 power even to using liis his own salary to employ help helfand hel and with all the these s facts which have been repeatedly presented I 1 to the heads of the department at washington by our postmaster ter and also by various special special agents of the V mail bervice as well as by repeated petitions and communications from our citizens ell all to no avail and our mil mail la is unavoidably detained in the office owing to the physical impossibility to handle it with abo limited force now furnished by the tile government therefore be be it I 1 re by the ogden chamber of 1 commerce that we now ask the post master general to appoint and commission five more clerks to assist in 41 the oden ogden post postoffice office said sald five assistants 1 to be elected aud and paid by the I 1 citizens of ogden A all it we vie ask is that 1 their services vices bo be accepted and duly 1 authorized by the department at 1 the expense of ogden citizens resolved that a copy of these I 1 resolutions properly verified by he the I 1 pr president and a be forwarded to postmaster general wanamaker amaker at washington with the urgent u request I 1 that our offer to pay the cost cf of additional coital help be accepted and I 1 their services approved A communication regarding advertising in a salt lake paper was read the proposition wai wall to give the city about three pages in which could be inserted cuts and reading I 1 matter advertis advertising inz ogden 0 no action was taken on the matter the committees appointed to can vats the duea does reported that collections were very hard bard borne some members who I 1 0 are ate delinquent several months und 11 are just jast aa as good as the bank on any other proposition refused to pay 4 president nelson stated that if K 11 all ll A the members would pay their addlin gent quent dues to the committees thi fhe in could be liquidated A reso lution lotion was offered and adopted that i the books of the chamber be audited I 1 and each account ba be examined and a report mide of tha the exact exact condition ol 01 the finances in view of the fact that no member of tho finance committee was I 1 present mr sidney stevens moved that a gentleman gont loman be added to the committee to a adist sisa secretary mcwilliams in auditing the accounts carried I 1 p r I 1 the chair appointed mr air Sulli sullivan a member ember in ol 01 that committee i adjourned c r I 1 |