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CHICAGO, ILL, DEC, 15, 1904, 



VoL XLIV— No. 50. 



The Kinetoscope at Bee-Conventions. 



Mr. Ernest R. Root is a versatile man. He can do so 

 many different tilings, and do them all so well. His latest 

 attempt is the management of a kinetoscope, by which 

 moving pictures are thrown on the screen — pictures in 

 which every motion is shown just as if the very pictured 

 thing itself were in actual operation before your eyes. 



For instance, the hiving of bees, looking for the queen 

 in a colony, and, in fact, every motion made in the manipu- 

 lation of a hive and colony, or the hiving of a swarm, are 

 presented in perfect life-likeness. This was the very in- 

 teresting feature of the Wednesday evening session of the 

 recent Chicago-Northwestern convention. The hall was 

 crowded, and the whole performance was greatly enjoyed 

 by all. 



This was the first appearance of moving bee-pictures in 

 the United States. They were of English manufacture, 

 and so were of English hives and English methods and 

 manipulations. The usual quick action of the apiarian 

 operator as the result of a bee-sting was fully appreciated 

 by the duly initiated observers. As an experiment, live 

 bees were caged between a double glass and also reflected 

 on the screen. The way the shadows of these bees scurried 

 around was certainly surprising as well as amusing. 



In addition to the kinetoscopic exhibition, Mr. Root 

 also, gave a stereoscopic display, showing various pictures 

 of the factory and apiary of The A. I. Root Co., besides 

 portraits of many prominent bee-folks, apiaries, parts of the 

 bee — such as the tongue, eyes, sting, etc. — and many other 

 pictures "too numerous to mention ". 



Mr. Root is a great entertainer with his stationary-and- 

 moving picture exhibition. He gave the same show both 

 at the Cincinnati and the Minneapolis convention since the 

 Chicago-Northwestern meeting. Don't fail to witness it if 

 you can possibly attend any convention or other place 

 where it may be given. 



National Nominations and Elections. 



Relative to an item published recently concerning the 

 nomination of candidates for the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, Mr. H. H. Hyde, of Bexar Co., Tex., writes us 

 as follows : 



Some time ago in an editorial item in the American Bee 

 Journal, the position of the Texas Association was criti- 



cised in regard to its action in selecting a candidate tO' 

 succeed a National director. I hesitated to say anything 

 sooner for fear of being accused of electioneering, but now 

 that the votes are all in I will explain. 



Mr. France notified us that the term of our director ex- 

 pired with this year, and advised us to select at our meetingr 

 our candidate to succeed the man whose term expired. 

 Having his written advice in the matter, the convention' 

 proceeded and selected as its candidate F. L. Aten. It 

 was our purpose to present his name at the National Con- 

 vention, but the writer was ruled out of order. If we did 

 wrong in selecting a candidate we are sorry for it, as doubt- 

 less Mr. France is also, and wish to assure one and all that 

 it was not a piece of electioneering at all, as we thought we 

 were doing the right and proper thing. 



I want to criticise our methods of electing National 

 officers, and at the proper time I will present to the mem- 

 bers a plan that I have in mind that will at once be fair to 

 to one and all, give every one the same show, and will pre- 

 vent undue influence being exerted for any certain candi- 

 date. H. H. Hyde. 



We think Mr. France was in error. A director of the- 

 National located in Texas is just as much a director for 

 Illinois as for Texas. So an association in Texas would 

 have no more right to make a nomination for the successor 

 to any director residing in Texas than would an association 

 in Illinois or Wisconsin. Directors are not elected by or 

 for districts or localities, but by and for the whole mem.- 

 bership. 



Again, to have publicly nominated any one at the St, 

 Eouis convention would not only have given such named 

 person an unfair advantage, but it would have been con- 

 trary to the ruling made by the Board of Directors, which 

 decided to have nominations made by mail before Nov. 1, 

 1904, the regular election then to be held in November. 



The above is the way we understand these matters. If 

 we are wrong concerning them, we will be glad to be cor- 

 rected. 



ProKrams for Bee-Conventions. 



The success of a bee-convention does not depend en- 

 tirely upon the program, or the lack of program. An im- 

 portant part of the convention is the social part, the meet- 

 ing and shaking hands with old friends, as well as with 

 those who have previously been known only through the 

 pages of the bee-papers. In this regard nothing ever has. 



