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play of Colorado honey and beeswax. We 

 have made arrangements to secure a photo 

 of it, and hope to present it in Gleanings 

 at some later date. 



In Agricultural Building there were sever- 

 al displays of honey and wax made by sever- 

 al of the States. There was one exhibit of 

 wax in the form of a magnificent piece of 

 statuary that was finer than any thing I 

 had ever seen. This I hope to present to 

 our readers at another time. 



In the Japanese pavilion there was a Jap- 

 anese hive, some chunks of beeswax, and 

 some bottled honey. Beyond these I did not 

 see any other honey exhibits. 



If the bee-keeping industry could have 

 been given a quarter of the space allotted to 

 some of the minor industries we could have 

 made a fine showing; but it seems the man- 

 agement, rather than give an industry rep- 

 resented by over half a million bee-keepers 

 in the United States, and whose total output 

 is something like fifteen milHons of dollars 

 annually, gave the space that we ought by 

 rights to have had over to the liquor interests. 

 And, by the way, there was beer everywhere 

 at every restaurant; and Agricultural Build- 

 ing itself, the largest building that has ever 

 been constructed in the world for exhibition 

 purposes, contained most magnificent dis- 

 plays of bottled liquoi's. So numerous were 

 these displays that one would almost think 

 that the great Agricultural Building was 

 mainly liquor and nothing else. Beer was 

 the only cheap thing on the grounds. It 

 was in evidence everywhere. At several of 

 the booths I could get milk or a cup of coffee 

 for 15 cts., or a mug of beer (which I did 

 not order) for 5 cts. Many drank beer as a 

 matter of economy in place of coffee or milk. 

 As if it were not enough to have the liquor 

 interests represented all over the grounds in 

 the form of magnificent beer-gardens and 

 drinking-booths, in which men, women, and 

 children drank ad libitum, there were im- 

 mense beer-pavilions aud beer-gardens just 

 outside of the grounds. At one of the gar- 

 dens (I don't remember whether it was just 

 outside of the fairgrounds or not) a certain 

 bee-keeper I know, whose word can not be 

 questioned actually counted over 2500 people 

 drinking beer at one time, seven-tenths of 

 whom were girls. This state of things in 

 this enlightened country is disgusting to a 

 large class— certainly the better class— of 

 people in this land; and I hope the like of it 

 will never be seen again in or around a great 

 world's fair in the United States. 



A. I. R., while listening to the above, 

 which I read from my manuscript, remarked, 

 "What shall the harvest be as a consequence 

 of teaching young girls to drink beer in this 

 wholesale way, especially when these young 

 girls get to be the mothers of future gener- 

 ations that are to hold and save this nation 

 of ours?" 



NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICERS OF THE NATION- 

 AL bee-keepers' association. 



It will be remembered that the Board of 

 Directors of the National Bee-keepers' As- 



sociation authorized the General Manager to 

 issue a call, in August, for postal-card nom- 

 inations from the members, indicating the 

 pi-eference of the writer for suitable per- 

 sons to fill the ofl^ces to become \acant in 

 January next. According to the ruling of 

 the Board, these card nominations were to 

 be counted Oct. 1, by the General Manager 

 and one other member of the Board of Di- 

 rectors, and that the two men receiving the 

 highest number of votes for their respective 

 office were to be considered candidates for 

 such office, and to be published in the bee- 

 journals at once. In accordance with that 

 ruling, the General Manager has appended 

 a list of the ofl^ces to become vacant, and of 

 the nominees suggested. The two highest 

 are given in the first column. But the Gen- 

 eral Manager, in conversation with me, stat- 

 ed that he thought it better to give all the 

 other names that had been suggested for 

 each office. The following, therefore, will 

 explain itself: 



president. 



TWO HIGHEST. 



•J. U. Harris. 

 C. P. Dadant. 



vice-president. 



C. P. Dadant. 

 J. F. Mclntyre. 



Others voted for— Dr. 

 Miller, G. W. York, A. J. 

 Cook. A. I. Root, E. T. Ab- 

 bott, W. Selser, G. M. Doo- 

 little. R. C. Aikin. E. W. 

 Whitcomb, R. Taylor, H. E. 

 Hill, W. Z. Hutchinson. 



Other.s voted for— Geo. 

 Brodbeck, G. W. York, Dr. 

 Miller, G. M. Doolittle, W. 

 L. Coprer.shall, J. Hall, J. U. 

 Harris, E. R. Root, W. Mc- 

 Evoy, O. L. Hershi-ser, J. 

 Johnson. H. Moore, W. H. 

 Laws, W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 H. H. Hyde, R. C. Aikin, F. 

 Greiner, F. Fouch, E. T.Ab- 

 bott, W. Selser, F. Benton. 



SECRETARY. Others voted for-W. H. 



Mr rr xi t v.- Laws, S. A. Niver, L. 



W.Z.Hutchinson. gcholl, E. T. Abbott, G. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck. Davidson. 



GENERAL MANAGER. 



N. E. France. 

 L. Scholl. 



Others voted for — F. 

 Muth, H. E. Hill, J. F. Mc- 

 lntyre. G. Brodbeck, W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, J. A. Green, 

 ■J. Heddon, A. J. Cook, E. 

 Pratt, W. Alexander, H. 

 Mendelson, A. CarmichatI, 

 W. Stolley, E. Gannson, M. 

 Dearby. 



Others voted for— W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, G. Brodbeck, 

 F. Muth, M. A. Gill, W. L. 

 CoK-gshall, G. W. York, E. 

 Secor, C. P. Dadant, H. Sur- 

 face, J. Rouse, E. S. Love- 

 sy. W. Gary. J. U. Harris. 

 H. Mendelson, C. Stewart, 



E. Alexander.F.Rauchfuss. 



Others voted for — Dr. 

 Miller, H. H. Hyde, J. Q. 

 Smith, E. T. Abbott, F. L. 

 Aten, L. Scholl, E. R. Root, 



F. Brown, W. H. Laws, W. 

 O. Victor, H. S. Feri-y, F. 

 Benton, E. J. Atchley, W. 

 O. Victor, G. Dittmer, H. 

 Lathrop, Emma Wilson, C. 

 Stewai-t, L. Stachelhausen, 

 E. Atwater. 



r^All nominations were counted Oct. 1 by N. E. Fi-ance 

 and E. F. Nehls, as per order of Board of Directors. 

 (The above names are in same order as the number of 

 votes received.) 160 members enrolled at St. Louis. 



DIRECTOR-To succeed 

 „„i E. W. Whitcomb. 



E. W. Whitcomb. 

 H. H. Hyde. 



, DIRECTOR-To succeed 

 W. Z. Hutchinson. 



R. L. Tavlor. 

 L J. Q. Smith. 



DIRECTOR-To succeed 

 .U. Toepperwein. 



U. Toepperwein. 

 E. S. Lovesy. 



