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right. [Applause.] With the permission of 

 your distinguished chairman, and in accord with 

 the beautiful sentiments which he has just 

 expressed with respect to the home and the 

 fireside, I am goini? to say to you now why 

 this hotel is named Gayoso. There are not 

 many men in Memphis, probably, who linow 

 the reason, but on account of the beautiful 

 tribute which your president has paid to woman- 

 hood, to the ladies who have come with this 

 distinguished association, I thinli it not inap- 

 propriate to make that statement. This hotel 

 is named after Don Gayoso, the last governor- 

 general of the Louisiana Purchase, which, as you 

 will remember, embraced the state of Louisiana, 

 but also included the territory up to the western 

 banli of the Mississippi river, embracing Arkan- 

 sas, and all across the line, and extending to 

 the Pacific ocean, the purchase of which was 

 made by President Jefferson from Napoleon IIL 

 The last governor-general of this great terri- 

 tory was the great Don Gayoso, who died at 

 the age of forty-one years. As one of the last 

 acts of his life, in the year 17S4, liaving his 

 encampment and headquarters in what is now 

 called Hopelield, opposite us, this being the 

 third Chickasaw blood upon the Mississippi 

 river — he came across the river in 17S4 to cele- 

 brate, as he said, the birthday of his master, 

 the king of Spain. After he had celebrated that 

 day he wrote a letter to his dear wife in Spain. 

 He said he came across upon a flotilla with 

 cannon and with music and on dress parade, 

 and celebrated the occasion ; that it was a 

 beautiful day, as this day is, and, to quote 

 Lord Byrcm, "So clearly beautiful that God 

 alone was to be seen in the heavens." He wrote 

 further : "There is but one thing lacking to 

 make it a perfect day, and that is your dear 

 presence. But I hope to see you soon, and 

 until that time I count the months, the weeks, 

 the days, nay, the hours, till I can he in your 

 dear presence." The God of the universe struck 

 him down before he could see his beloved wife, 

 and now I think it is not unfit and not in- 

 appropriate that his memory should be remem- 

 bered today, and that this great hotel should 

 be named after Gayoso, the man who loved his 

 wife and loved his home, and who paid a tribute 

 to womankind that is imperishable, and that 

 can never fade away. I lliank you. l.Vpplause.] 



Tor San Francisco Sufferers. 



President I'alraer ; Gentlemen, before enter- 



The beautiful city of San Francisco has been 

 practically wiped out of existence by the de- 

 structive forces of nature imprisoned within 

 the earth. When the news first reached us of 

 that catastrophe, our minds could hardly grasp 

 the full import of the devastation that had 

 been wrought, and as the details have come 

 to us from day to day our hearts have throbbed 

 in sympathy and bled in pity ; but pity, unac- 

 companied by action toward relieving the dis- 

 tress of those upon whom that pity is bestowed, 

 is of little avail. I therefore believe it to be 

 fit and appropriate, that before we enter upon 

 any part of the regular busiuess of this meeting 

 some action be taken toward raising a sub- 

 stantial relief fund to be wired in the name 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 to the chairman of the finance committee at 

 San Francisco. I realize that many of us have 

 already contributed to funds of this descrip- 

 tion, either through our lodge work or through 

 local relief organizations, or in some other man- 

 ner, but I do not believe that there is a man 

 present who has as yet satisfied the demand that 

 l:ias been made upon his sympathy by the suf- 

 ferings of those people. They are the largest 

 hearted and the most generous race of men 

 and women that the world has ever produced. 

 In bringing this matter to your attention, I do 

 not urge it upon you as a duty, but I simply 

 present it to you as an opportunity to com- 

 pare your generosity with theirs if you were 



said in reference to this proposition has already 

 been said much better than I could say it or 

 would attempt to tell you. The only thing to 

 do now is to "dig" quick and plenty, and I move 

 you that a committee of five be appointed to 

 gather subscriptions and return them to the 



EARL PALMER, PADUCAH, KY., DIRECTOR. 



Ing upon the regular program prepared for this 

 session, I desire to call your attention to a 

 matter that, in my opinion, is of paramount 

 importance. A great calamity has recently be- 

 fallen a large number of our fellow citizens. 



FRANK F. FiSII, INDIANAPOLIS, SECRE- 

 TARY. 



the sufferers and they held the purse string. I 

 do not expect any large contributions, but I be- 

 lieve w'e should ail do something, and by doing 

 that, we will put this association on record 

 as following out the principles and the spirit 

 that has always prevailed in our deliberations, 

 the spirit of fellowship and of brotherly love. 

 I will be pleased to entertain a motion that this 

 ' matter be now immediately considered by this 

 assembly, sitting as a committee of the whole. 



Alex. Lendrum ; Inasmuch as we all have num- 

 bers, I think in order to facilitate this matter, 

 it would be well to annoint a secretary to call 

 off the numbers of those who subscribe. You 

 may put down No. 26 for .$25. 



President Palmer : Before doing that I would 

 like to hear a motion, in order to carry this 

 aloncr upon parliamentary lines. 



W. A. Bennett : I make that motion, Mr. 

 Chairman. 



Motion seconded by W. A. Bonsack, and car- 

 ried. 



President Palmer : Mr. Sondheimer, will you 

 tell us about San Francisco? 



Mr. Sondheimer : Mr. Chairman, and gentle- 

 men of the convention, everything that can be 



J. WATT GRAHAM, CINCINNATI, TREAS- 

 URER, 

 secretary or to the treasurer of our association 

 for disposition. 



Mr. Bonsack : I would suggest, Mr. Chair- 

 man, that if any one is not prepared to make a 

 cash subsci'iptiou, we make a note of the sub- 

 scription on a card, and that it be paid later. 

 President Palmer : The committee is to pro- 

 ceed up and down the aisles and take the names 

 and amounts, and the payments will be made to 

 the treasurer of the association or to the secre- 

 tary. The treasurer will hold the money until 

 the time to send it on. I will appoint upon 

 that committee Max Sondheimer, Alex. Lendrum. 

 W. A. Bonsack, W. A. Bennett, J. W. Thompson. 

 The committee is going to see every member 

 of the association before it submits its report. 

 Every member is going to see the committee 

 and the results will be reported at one of the 

 sessions of this convention. Not one wicked man 

 is going to escape. 



With the permission of the membership the 

 roil call will be omitted, but cards will be cir- 

 culated among those present in order to get a 

 full roster of those in attendance. 



Mr. Sondheimer : You will have to send out 

 to the racetrack to get the full attendance. 



President Palmer : Mr. Sondheimer is out of 

 order. The next business is the reports of olB- 

 cers. The president is now ready to submit his 

 report, but before doing so, the president of 

 the Lumbermen's Club desires to make an an- 

 nouncement. 



W. R. Barksdale : Gentlemen, the committee 

 in charge of entertainmeut desires each and 

 every member present to register in the hotel 

 at the private booth of the club, where he will 

 get his number and tickets for an excursion 

 tonight. We want every gentleman of this 

 association, with the ladies in attendance and 

 friends, to be with us. The boat leaves the 

 wharf between half past seven and eight. To- 

 morrow night there will be a banquet, to which 

 you are all invited, but we want your name on 

 the register in order that you may get your 

 ticket for the banquet. 



President Palmer : The first busiuess coming 

 before the meeting is the officers' reports, and 

 the president heads the list, so I will now read 

 my annual address : 



President's Address. 



To the members of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, assembled in annual meet- 



