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he had hopes of going to it some time, so he can appreciate 

 all sides of the subject. 



I will call on our next speaker before we havQ any dis- 

 cussion on the address just given, so that we can ask the 

 questions regarding both markets at the same time and I 

 will try to give them to the proper man to handle. Ouv 

 next speaker is Mr. Walter Webling, whom I have known 

 for sixteen years. He is a modest man, and when I asked 

 him to come before us today he immediately thought of the 

 head of his firm in England. He wrote Mr. Simonds and 

 tried to get him here. Mr. Simonds might have been here 

 and talked to us on foreign markets had it not been for a 

 A-ery destructive fire in Glasgow. I have never heard any- 

 one say a word against Mr. Webling who knew him. Every- 

 one who has criticised him that I know of has been someone 

 who has exported apples that landed either in a poor condi- 

 tion or on a broken market. Anyone who has been in Mr. 

 Webling 's office or, I think, in any other exporter's office, 

 and watched the market will never criticise the honest ex- 

 porter. 



I present to you Mr. Walter Webling. (Applause). 



FOREIGN APPLE MARKETS. 



Mr. Walter Webling of Boston. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: — Public speaking is an 

 art I am entirely unfamiliar with, but when your worthy 

 president approached me in the kindly manner characteris- 

 tic of him, I felt that I must do my small part. I have jot- 

 ted down a few facts in a rambling sort of way, which may 

 be of interest to you. I believe it is in just such gatherings 

 as these, where ideas are exchanged and methods discussed 

 to improve conditions, that each may gain that knowledge of 

 the other fellow's trials and tribulations that will tend to 

 show him up in not so black a picture as he has sometimes 

 been presented. A better understanding between the man 

 who grows the fruit and the fellow who comes between him 



