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WHY NOT COME TO COLUMBIA ? 



At the last meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, a proposition 

 was made to select a perminent home for the Society. At this home the summer 

 meeting should be held — the winter meeting, as now, being distributed to different 

 sections of the State. This proposition was unanimously approved by the Society, 

 and had the meeting been held elsewhere than in this city, Columbia would have 

 been chosen the permanent home. 



The question will doubtless come up at the winter meeting to be held next 

 month in Fulton. We hope the ; delegates from the Boone county Horticultural 

 Society will go prepared to urge the invitation extended here on behalf of Colum- 

 bia. The advantages to this city, to the University, to the Agricultural college, 

 from the annual meeting here are too obvious to need enumeration. The Horti- 

 culturists are wide-awake, earnest, educated people, and their friendship is most 

 valuable. 



We can promise the Horticultural Society as hospitable welcome and as pleas- 

 ant and profitable meeting as could be secured in the State. Let the Society make 

 Columbia its home.— Columbia Herald. 



REPORT OF CORRE:^PONDEISrCE WETH THE RAILROADS. 



Chicago, Oct. 17, 1893, 

 L. A. Goodman, Esq., Westport, Mo. : 



Dear Sir— Referring to your letter of October 12, just received, requesting 

 reduced rates for the Missouri State Horticultural Society, to be held at Fulton, 

 Mo., December 5-7. 



Please fill in the information requested on the enclosed blank, and return it 

 promptly, that we may determine as to whether the proposition is one which can 

 properly be submitted to our lines for vote. Under our rules, the granting of reduc- 

 tion is primarily dependent on the number in attendance, and we are required to 

 have a reasonable assurance that there will be an attendance of 2.50 or more — exclu- 

 sive of ministers or others holding half-fare permits or commutation tickets- 

 traveling over lines in the territory of this Association, before we can properly 

 submit for vote of our lines proposition providing for reduced rates. 



In the event of unanimous vote in favor of granting reduced rate on certificate 

 plan, such reduction , under our rules, can only be made effective where the attend- 

 ance amounts to 250 or more persons, as indicated by certificates they hold, show- 

 ing that thpy have paid full one-way rate on going trip, or purchased round-trip 

 excursion tickets to the meeting point reading from or through our territory. If, 

 on the other hand, the expected attendance from our territory is less than 250, It 

 will not be practicable, under our rules, to grant the reduction, and therefore, 

 unnecessary to submit proposition for vote. Respectfully, 



B. D. Caldwell. 



Chairman. 



In answer to this, I wrote the Chicago & Alton, the Missouri Pa- 

 cific and the Wabash, urging the worthiness of our cause, and that it 

 was impossible for us to secure the 250 persons, but that we were 

 entitled to the rate by all means. 



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