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MEETINGS OF EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



At a meeting of the Executive Board, called by the President, at the 

 Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, September 4, 1875, there were present: 

 President E. S. Hull, Messrs. L. K. Scofield, J. E. Starr, and O. B. 

 Galusha. Ex-President W. C. Flagg, being present, was invited to a 

 seat with the Board. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Galusha, from the Committee on Preparation for Exhibition ot 

 American Fruits, etc., by the American Pomological Society, reported as 

 follows : 



The committee appointed by you, at your annual meeting in Springfield, to procure 

 suitable halls for the accommodation of the meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society, in Chicago, and for a national exhibition of fruits, in connection therewith, met 

 at the office of the Prairie Farmer, in Chicago, May 11-14, and thoroughly canvassed 

 the matter; also, in connection therewith, ascertained as well as they might that very 

 little money could be raised in the city — in accordance with the i-esolution passed by 

 you at the annual meeting. 



Upon receipt of a message from Hon. J. P. Reynolds, Secretary of the Board of 

 Directors of the Inter-State Exposition, we visited the Exposition l:)uilding, and conferred 

 with that Board. The result of this conference was a proposition from them more 

 favorable to us than the one submitted at the last annual meeting of your Board, which 

 proposition was accepted by us subsequently (May i8th). This proposition and 

 arrangement comprised the following stipulations and conditions : The Inter-State 

 Exposition Board were to set aside seven thousand feet of space in the soutli end of the 

 Exposition building, half upon the main floor, and half in the gallery; they were to 

 furnish suitable tables and shelves for the fruits, gas lights in the evenings, and police 

 force the same as in other portions of the building. The entire expense of decorating 

 this portion of the hall, receiving, arranging and caring for the fruit, and keeping the 

 tables in good order, was to be borne by the State Horticultural Society. 



A proposition was also received from Mr. J. B. Drake, proprietor of the Grand 

 Pacific Hotel, through Mr. H. D. Emery, Special Committee on Hotels, offering a fine 

 hall in the hotel, fitted up to seat from three hundred to five hundred people (as 

 needed), free, provided the hotel was made and advertised as head-quarters of the 

 American Pomological Society, pledging also a reduction in price of board of fifty cents 

 per day from regular lates, and offering a banquet suitable to the occasion, at three 

 dollars per person. 



These propositions were submitted without coment to the officers of the American 

 Pomological Society, and also to the Executive Board of this Society, and approved by 

 all, except that two members of the Executive Board did not approve the clause relating 

 o a banquet. 



On motion of Mr. Starr it was 



Resohed, That this Society give a banquet to officers and non-resident members of 

 the American Pomological Society, in accordance with the proposition of Mr. Drake. 



