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should be furnislied upon three days' notice. The commission, I 

 believe, suggested five or six days' notice. That works a hard- 

 ship upon the shipper in this way: We don't know until we get 

 the report of Wednesday's market whether we want to ship for 

 Monday or not, and we probably have to load by Saturday for 

 IMonday. By giving three days' notice on Wednesday, after get- 

 ting the report of the market, we should have the ear furnished 

 by Saturday for the next shipment. This will of course necessi- 

 tate the railroads keeping these double-deck cars at division points 

 along the line, and we thought that was' not asking too much. 



Upon motion of Mr. Drury, duly seconded, the report of the 

 committee was adopted. 



(Xote: This report was presnted to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. That body, however, fixed the notice at five days, w^ith the un- 

 derstanding that if this did not work satisfactorily to the shipper, they 

 would give it further consideration. Written notice is not required. 

 — Secretary.) 



President Sykes: We will take up the reports of the chairmen 

 of the different congressional districts in regard to the selection 

 of their directors. 



The roll of districts was thereupon called by the secretary and' 

 the following nominations made : Second district, E. D. Baird, 

 North English ; fourth district, William Larrabee, Clermont ; 

 sixth district, J. F. Eisle, Malconi; eighth district, Jerome Smith, 

 Corning ; ninth district, James Boiler, Griswold ; tenth district, 

 J. R. Doran, Beaver. The above named persons were thereupon 

 unanimously elected. 



President Sykes : The next committee to report will be that 

 on resolutions concerning the death of ^^Ir. Hamilton Wilcox, 

 director from the ninth district, and Senator Ames is chairman 

 of that committee. 



The report of the committee was presented by 'Mv. Ames, as 

 follows : 



IX MEMORY OF HAMILTON WILCOX. 



Whpreas, In the wisdom of Almighty God, the hand of death has taken 

 from our midst our brother and fellow-worker, Hamilton Wilcox; and, 



Whereas. In view of his long services in this body as director, signi- 

 fying at all times his willingness to sacrifice personal comfort to public 



