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couples, directed by a tall colored gentle- 

 man in a long tan coat and a high hat. 



On Thursday afternoon the entire party 

 ■was photographed in front of and on the 

 new postoffice steps, a reproduction being 

 printed as a supplement to this issue. 



Thursday evening the instaJlatlon of offi- 

 cers and the embalming of the snarli "was 

 a public ceremony and was pulled off at 

 the Pabst Theater. The theater was filled 

 up by 8 o'clock and prior to the ceremonies 

 the Lyric Club, a local organization of the 

 best vocal talent of the city, rendered the 

 following program: 



Winter Song Bullard 



The Club. 



"Hans Rap" (Knickerbockers). . .DeKoven 



Mr. C. A. Pettibone and the Club. 



"Kentucky Babe" Geibel 



The Club. 



Two Little Irish Love Songs Lohr 



Mr. Daniel Protheroe. 



"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" Smith 



The Club. 

 The Merry Miller (Rob Roy). .. .DeKoven 



Mr. O. F. Bird and the Club. 

 Estudiantina (Spanish student song).... 



LaCombe 



The Club. 



Then came the installation of officers by 

 the seer of the House of Ancients, Boiling 

 Arthur Johnson. It was a beautiful and 

 dramatic presentation and was received 

 with great applause. 



The embalming ceremonies were an Im- 

 pressive rite and concluded the evening's 

 entertainment. 



Special cars were in waiting at the 

 theatre door and a majority of the party 

 rode out to the Jahrmarket — a German 

 street festival and carnival. They pro- 

 ceeded at once to make themselves at home 

 and missed nothing that was going on in 

 that popular resort. They heard the Ger- 

 man bandg, admired the beauty of the bar- 

 maids and partook of the beer, sausage 

 and sauerkraut. It was altogether a suc- 

 cessful wind-up of the meeting. 



THE SOUVENIRS. 



On arriving each delegate was instructed 

 to register and receive a number and 

 badge. The official badge was furnished 

 by the Chain Belt Company of Milwaukee 

 and was said to be the finest ever gotten 

 up for that purpose. It consisted of a silk 

 purple ribbon, on which was printed in 

 gold letters, "Compliments of Chain Belt 

 Company — Milwaukee — 11th Annual — Mil- 

 waukee— 1902." It was mounted at the top 

 and on the white enamel base the word 

 "Hoo-Hoo" was printed in black. Sus- 

 pended from this was a miniature chain 

 belt and hanging to the chain was the em- 

 blem of the order inscribed on white 

 enamel with a gold border surmounted by 

 an eagle perched on a flag. 



* * * 



The official program was a swell affair, 

 the front and back cover was printed 

 black on celluloid, the whole fastened to- 

 gether with two buttons at the top, on the 

 face of which was the black cat emblem. 

 Inside was a list of the different local com- 

 mittees and order of business, together 

 with a reproduction of photographs of the 

 Pfister Hotel, the new Allis-Chalmers 

 Works and the Filer & Stowell Company's 



plant. 



* * * 



One of the features of the convention 

 was the "Daily M'eouw," issued by Pack- 

 ages each day, chiefly for the purpose of 

 recording the attendance at the meeting. 

 It was a novel and helpful publication. 



* * * 



The big saw institution, E. C. Atkins & 

 Co., Indianapolis, came to the front in their 

 usual and handsome manner with a souve- ' 

 nir that was pronounced the finest thing 

 going. It was a rolled-gold watch fob, the 

 fob itself being a minature circular saw, 

 on which was inscribed on one side the 

 company's trademark, "Atkins Always 

 Ahead," and the firm name and on the other 



side a replica of the late Ellas C. Atkins, 

 the founder of the firm. 



* * * 



The Gilbert Wood Split Pulleys were 

 advertised successfully with a fine little 

 celluloid pocket rule. 



* * * 



The D. Clint Prescott Company, saw 

 mill builders, Menominee, Mich., and Chi- 

 cago, ppepared especially for the occasion 

 a very fine catalogue. The very first thing 

 you see on opening the book is a picture 

 of D. Clint Prescott, with the remark that 

 "Supposed by many to be over 100 years 

 old, or dead — but he isn't." The following 

 pages show some very handsome repro- 

 ductions of the different machines manu- 

 factured by this iirm. 



A FEW STRAY SHOTS. 



Frank Shell, who held the post of chair- 

 man on the committee of arrangements, 

 simply covered himself all over with glory 

 and was made Junior Hoo-Hoo on this 

 year's supreme nine. There are those who 

 say, too, that one who worked up such 

 a great meeting as that and showed such 

 executive ability should head the supreme 



nine next year. 



* * * 



W. S. Johnson, who was chairman of 

 the finance committee, was naturally in- 

 strumental in making it possible to pro- 

 vide such lavish entertainment. The Mil- 

 waukeeans could hardly have selected bet- 

 ter leaders for raising (he dough and plan- 

 ning the program than Johnson and Snell. 



* * * 



Messrs. Priestly and Landeck were as- 

 signed the pleasant duty of especiall.v look- 

 ing after the ladies, and they so industri- 

 ously supplemented the efforts of the la- 

 dies' reception committee that by the third 

 day Landeck was so worn out he was able 

 to look after only one lady. We don't 

 blame Gus, either, for she was a mighty 

 fine lady. 



C. H. Mueller, G J. Landeck, E. G. Clark, A. L. Annes, F. M. Snavelv, M. C. Moore, D. C. Fraser, H. A. Coleman, F. D. Clinton, 

 W. E. Priestly, G. P. Noble, F. N. Snell, J. j. Williams, Wilmer Seig, W. S. Johnson. 



MEMBERS OP THE COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS, MILWAUKEE. 



