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continent. We have a health department on wliich we spend over 

 $1,000,000 per year. 



We have the best lighted city in the world. Our light is produced 

 by public ownership, previous to which we had private ownership. We 

 found we could operate by public ownership at about one-third of the 

 cost. Private enterprise is riglit behind our public ownership invest- 

 ment because we furnish them a first-class service at a nominal cost. 



We have over 2,000 acres in parks. We provide athletic fields for 

 56,000 athletes. That is one reason we made such a good showing at 

 Amsterdam this year. We realize there is nothing better for our young 

 people than athletics and playgrounds. We have 86 athletic fields. 

 Our buildings are substantial. Any building over two and a half 

 stories has to be fire-proof. 



We have over 600 miles of paved streets kept good and clean by 

 the municipality. 



We are delighted to have you here. I hope your convention will 

 be profitable, and if there is anything that you want that you have 

 not got, come up to the city hall and tell us. We want you to go 

 away feeling that you have enjoyed your visit. 



I miglit just say a few words about the exhibition which just 

 closed its 50th anniversary. It is the largest exhibition in the world. 

 We have invested $13,000,000 in the buildings exclusive of the grounds. 

 We had over 2,000,000 people go through the gates this year. It is 

 run by a board of directors and we have co-operated with that board. 

 Last year we put up a new building out there at a cost of $1,200,000. 

 To show that public ownership pays, the exhibition, after paying in- 

 terest and sinking fund, paid into the coffers of the city of Toronto 

 last year $250,000. We are the only people who make a big exhibition 

 pay, and we do it under public ownership. 



Doctor J. Russell Smith of Columbia University, paid tribute 

 to the memory of the late J. F. Jones as follows: 



Since our last meeting this association has lost one of its most 

 useful and loyal members. In the death of J. F. Jones of Lancaster, 

 Pennsylvania, many members of the association have lost a valued 

 friend and the northern nut industry has experienced the greatest loss 

 it has thus far sustained. 



Mr. J. F. Jones typified many of the things I like to think of as 

 being characteristically American. He was a self-made man, a good 



