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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Nineteenth Hoo=Hoo Annual 



Accordiug to the time-honored custom of 

 the order, at niue minutes past nine on the 

 ninth day of the ninth month, the nineteenth 

 annual convention of the Concatenated Order 

 of Hoo-Hoo was called to order in the Palace 

 Hotel, San Francisco, Cal. Supreme Bojum 

 Hugh W. Hogan, of Oakland, occupied the 

 chair, announcing that the proceedings would 

 be opened with an invocation by Eev. Dr. 

 Kader, of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, 

 San Francisco. 



To addresses of welcome by the governor 

 of California, James N. Gillett; the mayor of 

 San Francisco, P. H. McCarthy, and by Al- 

 bert H. Elliott, a Hoo-Hoo of California, 

 responses were made in happy style by W. A. 



H. J. MILLER, INDEX, WASH, THE NEW 

 SNARK OF THE UNIVERSE. 



Hadley, Snark of the Universe, and ex-Suark 

 Piatt B. Walker. 



The Supreme Bojum then turned the gavel 

 over to Snark Hadley, who proceeded at 

 once with his annual address, in which he 

 reviewed the work of the year, dwelt at 

 some length on the death emergency fund 

 recently put into force by the order, and 

 touched on other important questions. 



Scrivenotor Baird was then called upon to 

 present his annual report which covered the 

 details of membership, finances and con- 

 catenations held during the year in admirable 

 manner. 



The session then adjourned until Saturday 

 morning at nine o'clock. 



SATUEDAY'S SESSIONS 



On reconvening Saturday morning the first 

 business was the announcement of commit- 

 tees. In order to give the committees oppor- 

 tunity to meet the convention adjourned 

 until two 'clock in the afternoon. 

 Report of Committee on Suggestions for 

 Good of Order 



Snark Hadley called the members to order 

 at three in the afternoon, when T. M. Shields, 

 of Seattle, was called upon for the report of 

 the committee on suggestions for the good of 

 the order. This committee first took up con- 

 sideration 

 of * ques- 

 tions brought 

 up at the joint 

 meeting of the 

 House of An- 

 cients and the 

 Supreme N i n f 

 held last No- 

 vember at Chi- 

 cago. The first 

 suggestion con- 

 sidered was that 

 o f regulating 

 formal and in- 

 formal "on the 

 roof " f u n c - 

 tions. The sug- 

 gestion of the 

 Chicago confer- 

 ence that ban- 

 quets be held 

 between six and 

 eight in the 

 evening and 

 eoncaten- 

 ations earlier in 

 the afternoon it 

 was recommend- 

 ed be rescinded, 

 and that the 

 matter be left 

 to the discretion 

 of the Viceger- 

 ent Snarka. This 

 recommendation 



wab voted upon and passed. 



In the matter of securing positions for 

 Hoo-Hoo through the office of the Scrive- 

 uoter, he keeping a record of all applicants 

 to be embodied in his annual report, it was 

 decided to make no change, leaving the 

 handling of this as it was formerly con- 

 ducted. 



The next subject considered was the sug- 

 gestion of the Chicago conference that a 

 committee of nine, composed of six lumber- 

 men and three lumber newspaper men, be 

 appointed to formulate a plan whereby the 

 order might be of service in the forest con- 

 servation movement. This the committee 

 also recommended passed over. A spirited 

 discussion was aroused by this suggestion of 

 the committee, which by way of a reason for 

 this action stated in its report that the 

 matter should not be left to a committee of 

 nine who probably would not accomplish 

 anything, but that each individual Hoo-Hoo 

 should take an active part in the conserva- 

 tion movement. To this it was responded 

 that what is everybody's business is no- 

 body's business, and that the best plan 

 would be to have the work concentrated in 

 the hands of a committee which would make 

 an effort at least to show the world that tne 

 order was truly interested in this important 



HOO HOO AT ANNUAL BANQUET, PALACE HOTEL, 



