Alta California
September 13, 1849
NOTICE.—We, the undersigned, citizens and merchants of San Francisco, being of opinion that the formation here of a Chamber of Commerce, similar to those existing in the great Atlantic cities, would greatly benefit the trade of this territory generally, adn of San Francisco in particular, by enabling teh commercial and trading interests to combine for the promotion
of measures tending to such a
result: and would further prove of great advantage by affording the community a tribunal
of arbitration, inl which disputes arising
out of mercantile transactions, might be arranged
on equitable bases, thus avoiding the
expenses and delays of litigation, request all
persons taking ail interest in this matter, to
meet us at the School House, San Francisco, o3n Thursday, the 23d hist., at 8 o'clock, P.M., to discuss the question, and to elect the
members of such a chamber, and board of arbitration,
if it shall be considered expedient:
Mellus, Howard & Co.,
Sherman &, Ruckel,
E. Mickle & Co.,
Winter & Latimer,
Starkey, Janion & Co.,
Alfred Robinson,
Osborn & Brannan
Salmon & Ellis,
William H. Davis,
Ward &. Co.,
Cross, Hobson & Co.,
Robert Wells & Co.,
Finley, Johnson &. Co.,
Simmons, Hutchinson& Co,
Thomas B. Winston,
Ward, Mersch & Co.,
Cleemau & Neilson,
Benj. Reynolds,
Gillespie & Co.
San Francisco, 6th August, 1849 34tf
The Log of the Empire State
Geneve L. A. Shaffer was an American author and member of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Shaffer was also appointed the special representative of the San Francisco Examiner on the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Commercial Relationship Tour of the Orient. She wrote The Log of the Empire State (c1920).
"Before we had reached the Golden Gate we acted like some great happy family, eager to enjoy every minute. After we stopped waving our tired arms to the crowds of friends on the docks and the last bouquet aimed at the Mayor's tug had landed in the bay, small groups, with radiant faces, discussed what do you suppose? No, not the crossing of the Bar, but the opening of the ship's bar. As you know, Uncle Sam seems to consider the dry law impossible on the water."