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Irving to do, to prepare food for the future. 1 am trying to 

 make good men out of bad boys. I hope to see you at our 

 builchng today at noon wlien you adjourn, that you may see 

 those boys and see how busy and how active they are. The 

 floors are all filled with them, reading and studying. There 

 is no lying, no swearing, no fighting. I have to tell them 

 fish stories every now and then ; and I have to be a member 

 of this society in order to get truthful material. (Laughter.) 



I have the pleasure of introducing Mr. George E. Pome- 

 roy, one of our leading citizens and an active member of 

 the Castalia Trout Club. But note this — not as a matter 

 of record, however — no one of the Castalia Trout Club 

 fellows ever invites me to their stream to fish. Why? 

 Because they know that I will clean it out for them. (Great 

 laughter. ) 



Mr. George E. Pomeroy, Toledo, Ohio : I certainly am 

 very happy indeed to have you with us in Toledo. So far 

 as the invitation to you to visit our club at Castalia is con- 

 cerned, we have Mr. Clarence Brown here who has given 

 attention to that matter. He was not here when I told 

 Mr. Gunckel I would be pleased to explain the situation, 

 but he has come in since, and I will ask him to give you the 

 details of what we are offering you on Thursday. 



Mr. Clarence Brown, Toledo, Ohio : Mr. President and 

 Gentlemen : By direction of the President of the Castalia 

 Club. I am here for the purpose of extending to your 

 Society an invitation to visit the preserve of that clul) at 

 Castalia, and I understand you have just accepted for 

 Thursday of this week. We will arrange, if you can indi- 

 cate something like the number, transportation froiu tlie 

 hotel to the club grounds. The cars of the Lake Shore 

 h^lectric Railway pass the door here, and they also pass 

 through our premises. It is a run of about two hours. 

 We have made arrangements to charter the cars necessary 

 to accommodate you all, and we will be glad if you will fix 

 the time when it will suit you to leave and the time when 

 v(^u desire to return. We can very easily take von down 



