50 Tliirti/-.^i.tilt. Annual Mrrting 



Society lias owed it.s treasuivr a good fat sum. 1 understand 

 now, that he h.is got Ids inoiicy l)ack, and I \\(>ul(l like to know- 

 how he worked it. 



Professor Hiigc: He has gone uj)slairs. 



Mr. j\Iee]ian : 1 will liaxc to pass him by then. 

 As a conchision 1 would like to hear from the president of the 

 chamber of commerce of Erie. 



President Arlnickle : j\Ir. Toastniaster, Gentlemen of the 

 American Fisheries Society and Ladies: I have certainly en- 

 joyed meeting with you gentlemen during this convention, and 

 we are giad to have you with us. What I know about the city 

 of Erie would take a good while to tell. One of the things that 

 I can say to you is that we have a chamber of commerce con- 

 sisting of over nine hundred members, and every one of that nine 

 hundred wishes you welcome to the city of Erie, and hopes you 

 may come again. 



We have a city that has entertained some notables, and we are 

 glad to have you come here too. We consider the American 

 Fisheries Society as among those notables. We think that they 

 have done a great deal for Erie. We think that when they have 

 stocked the lake with whitefish and made it possible to take 75,- 

 000,003 pounds of whitefish out of Lake Erie in a year, that the 

 American Fisheries Society has done something for Erie. I 

 know that there are a grc^at many fishermen here. I know that 

 they make their living out of the product of that lake, and I know 

 that we owe their prosperity to a great extent to the stocking of 

 the waters by the fish commission. 



As regards Erie, w(^ have a very prosperous city, a very large 

 manufacturing city. We build more boilers and engines here in 

 Erie than any other city in the world, and have the largest shops 

 in the world for that purpose. We are getting ready to welcome 

 the General Electric Company, which will build a very large 

 factory here in the immediate future, and we expect to have 

 others follow them. Our pros])ei-ity has been coming to us for a 

 long time, liut more particularly in the last six or seven years, 

 since the chamber of commerce was organized. Of course we 

 have otlu'r civic bodies here, but none of them as large as the 



