48 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MENU. 



Pottage a la Priutauiere. 



Long Island Wafers. 



Olives. Sweet Pickles. 



Fincassee of Chicken on Toast, 



Whipped Potatoes. Sweet Peas. 



Cabbage Salad. 



Candy Wafers. 



Vanilla Ice Cream. Assorted Cakes. 



Cafe Noir. Rusks. 



The repast being OAer President Farrand called the people to order 

 with these words: 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, Members of the State Horticultural 

 Society — At this, the closing session of the day, we think that every mem- 

 ber of this society present can feel to congi'atulate himself, for while 

 what we have had is good, the best is yet to come. There is nothing that 

 could add more to the finishing touches of this splendid day's work than 

 the pleasure I take in introducing to you as our toastmaster, Mr. George 

 E. Eowe, of Grand Rapids. 



Mr. Rowe, in introducing -Judge Duell, the first speaker, told of a 

 lecture he recently listened to by a man known over all the United States 

 as one of the greatest pulpit orators of the age. He was talking about 

 his travels and especially dwelt upon his trip through California and 

 the wonderful feats of Mr. Burbank, but during all the fifteen minutes 

 devoted to him not one word that he said of him and his accomplish- 

 ments was true. The speaker had simply gathered from newspaper re- 

 ports and hearsay material that with an excellent imagination he had 

 woven into a fine story and was telling it to vast audiences but the story 

 was not true, and if he had had any practical knowledge of what he 

 was talking about he A^ould have known that it was not so. "The time 

 has come," said Mr. Rowe, when we want definite infonnation about 

 things. The truth is none too good. We want to hear on subjects of 

 interest to us from men who absolutely know what they are talking 

 about and have really seen the things they are describing. I have great 

 pleasure in introducing to you my friend. Judge Duell, of Harbor 

 Springs, who is going to talk about the Grand Traverse region, and he 

 will tell you nothing that he does not know for he has lived there. 



The judge then took the floor and indulged in a few complimentary 

 remarks concerning the work of the society, the town with its improve- 

 ments, but which in one respect had not changed in twenty years, since 

 he was last there — "the mud is just as deep now as it was then. (Laugh- 

 ter.) Otherwise, the city has improved wonderfully." He paid a high 

 compliment to the ladies present and then launched into his subject 

 and for fifteen minutes laid before his audience facts and figures as to 

 the population, resources and future possibilities of this great region 

 almost bewildering, so that one unfamiliar Avith it could hardly fail to 

 be almost amazed of what was in the future for this broad stretch of 

 country. He closed with a most earnest appeal for civic righteousness, 

 declaring that the greatest good would never come to us as a people 

 until each citizen in his place did his best to bring about that state of 

 perfection where the utmost, by proper methods, is brought forth from 



