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this year; perhaps their selection might 

 not suit; if you do not want it to be 

 held on this date, it is your privilege 

 now to say so; if you wish to decide 

 the day you want it, you can do that 

 now. 



Mr. Arnd — I make a motion that this 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention be held two 

 days during the Live Stock Show; then 

 the date of the Wisconsin Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, and these other ones, 

 can be fixed a year ahead — they can 

 make their days accordingly; In other 

 ■words, I make a motion that the Chi- 

 cago-Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention be held in Chicago two days 

 during the Live Stock Show. 

 Mr. Baldridge — I second that motion. 

 Mr. Pyles — In this connection — I be- 

 lieve it would be well for the gentlemen 

 to include in their motion, certain days 

 of the week — Thursday and Friday, or 

 Wednesday and Thursday; it might be 

 well to know,- a year ahead, what days 

 ^he convention will be held, during a 

 certain week. 



Mr. Arnd— ^^^ednesday and' Thursday 

 — but you may not be able to get the 

 hall; to have the motion read some 

 time during the Fat Stock Show I think 

 would be well. 



Mr. Dadant — I might say in that con- 

 nection, we discussed that here, or at 

 .Springfield— whether it made any dif- 

 ference whether we had it at the time 

 of the Fat Stock Show, and they came 

 to the conclusion that it did not make 

 any difference — that bee-keepers came 

 to the convention and not to the Fat 

 Stock Show, although it was my 

 private opinion it did make a difference. 

 Mr. Arnd — A great many people come 

 to the Live Stock Show who are bee- 

 keepers — the rates are low then. 



Pres. Huffman — Do you have refer- 

 ence to the hotel rates? We get no 

 other rate. The one objection to hav- 

 ing it at the time of the Fat Stock 

 Show was the hotel rates; usually they 

 tuck it on, and mot only that, it was 

 difficult to find a place to stay; you are 

 over-crowded here in Chicago when 

 you have a Land Show and the Live 

 Stock Exhibition here; we from the 

 country realize it, while you who live 

 here don't realize it; you have a home 

 to go to, (but we have to find one. The 

 only way to do that is to write ahead a 

 week and send in a dollar or two and 

 tell them you want a room; let them 

 locate you ajid then you are all right. 



The motion was that we have our 

 'next meeting two days while, the Fat 

 Stock Shovi'' is in session. 



Mr. Cavanagh — There are two things 

 to be considered, one is the outside 

 drawing power of the Stock Show as an 

 advantage to get a crowd to attend the 

 Bee-Keepers' convention; there are dis- 

 advantages — and one is the hotel rates. 

 If we can arrange the rates in the 

 hotels (the railroad rate makes no dif- 

 ference) for the bee-keepers, as I think 

 we can very easily do, why not hold to 

 our original date? There is an ad- 

 vantage in having an occasion of this 

 kind on a uniform date every year. 



Pres. Huffman — If we can get the 

 hall. 



Mr. Cavanagh — I think the thing for 

 us to do is to leave it with our Com- 

 mittee and let them decide; give them 

 our expression in the matter of what 

 we believe now will be best; I think 

 the motion ought to be lost. 



Mr. Pyles — The State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association for a number of years held 

 their meeting at the same time that the 

 Odd Fellows were in convention; we 

 Avho go down to Springfield found it 

 ^vas a hard mater to get accommoda- 

 tion; sometimes there were 7 or 8 in 

 a room, in order to find a place to sleep ; 

 the cheapest kind of hotels were 

 crowded to the liinit. This year the 

 Odd Fellows met in Peoria, and the bee- 

 keepers met a month earlier, and I have 

 been informed they had as good a meet- 

 ing as they ever had and they had no 

 trouble in finding accommodation. 



I believe the same thing holds good 

 in Chicago as in Springfield. We could 

 stay here in this hotel, but I don't want 

 to stay in the main part of town; I 

 want to get away from the noise; I can 

 get accustomed to the roar of the bees 

 but not to the noises of a city. 



Mr. Arnd — Chicago is not nearly so 

 congested as to hotel service as they 

 used to be. In the last three or four 

 years, in Chicago there have been put 

 up two or three enormous hotels ev- 

 ery year, and you will find the hotels 

 are not crowded in Chicago like they 

 were three or four years ago. There is 

 a new hotel that is going up here this 

 year with 1,000 rooms in it; the rates 

 are going to be from $1.00 to $2.50 and 

 that is the way it has been for the 

 last 4 or 5 years. There have been 

 erected the La Salle, the Blackstone, 

 The Sherman House — ^why, dozens of 



