Obituary.  511 
Chairman,  Jas.  M.  Good,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Secretary,  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  Chicago,  111. 
Associate,  J.  H.  Beal,  Scio,  O. 
The  section  adjourned  at  12  P.M.,  and  it  was  suggested  that  in  the  near 
future  the  Association  must  extend  the  time  of  its  meetings  in  order  that  the 
papers  on  educational  matters  be  considered. 
Section  on  Commercial  Interests. — The  first  session  was  almost  entirely 
occupied  with  the  question  of  free  alcohol,  and,  after  a  lengthy  discussion, 
which  grew  very  warm  at  times,  it  was  decided  to  appoint  a  committee  to 
report  at  a  future  session.  The  second  session  was  at  first  devoted  to  the 
"  cutter,"  but  later  the  free  alcohol  question  came  up,  and  a  set  of  resolutions 
were  presented,  of  which  the  vital  one  was  as  follows  :  "That  the  payment  of 
rebate  on  internal  tariff  on  alcohol,  under  section  61  of  said  act,  be  confined  to 
alcohol  used  in  the  manufacture  of  those  products  in  which  the  alcohol  used  is 
so  changed  as  to  lose  absolutely  its  chemical  and  physical  properties,  including 
the  class  of  chemical  compounds  known  as  the  ethers,  chloral  and  chloroform." 
After  much  discussion  the  resolutions  were  adopted.  Geo.  J.  Seabury  was 
elected  chairman,  and  F.  Chalin  secretary  of  the  Section  for  the  ensuing 
year. 
OBITUARY. 
Wm.  Norwood  Needles,  Ph  G.,  Class  1845,  died  at  his  residence  in  German- 
town,  Tuesday  morning,  April  17,  1894,  aged  70  years.  He  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, his  father  being  Edward  Needles,  who  kept  a  drug  store  at  Twelfth 
and  Race  Streets.  In  his  early  years  he  adopted  his  father's  profession  and 
attended  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  graduating  in  the  Class  of 
1845.  After  a  few  years  devoted  to  the  drug  business,  he  relinquished  it  and  be- 
came connected  with  the  oil  firm  of  Allan  &  Needles,  carrying  on  business  at 
Delaware  Avenue  above  Chestnut  Street  for  more  than  twenty-five  years.  In 
1874  he  retired  from  business,  removed  to  Germantown,  and  devoted  his 
time  to  his  garden  and  the  cultivation  of  flowers,  of  which  he  was  extremely 
fond.  He  was  a  devoted  husband  and  father.  His  wife  and  one  daughter  sur- 
vive him,  the  latter  being  the  wife  of  Frederick  J.  Kimball,  President  of  the 
Norfolk  and  Western  Railroad.  The  late  Caleb  H.  Needles,  Ph.G.,  who  was 
formerly  proprietor  of  the  pharmacy  at  Twelfth  and  Race  Streets,  was  a 
brother.    His  remains  were  interred  in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery. 
Ernest  Bartram,  Ph.G.,  Class  of  1867,  died  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  Wednes- 
day, May  9,  1894,  in  his  forty-eighth  year.  He  learned  the  drug  business  with 
Thos  S.  Wiegand,  Ph.G.,  at  Fifteenth  and  Race  Streets,  and  when  Mr. 
Wiegand  sold  his  store  he  remained  with  Samuel  T.  Jones,  Ph.G.,  the  pur- 
chaser, and  graduated  from  the  College  in  1867.  After  his  graduation,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Bullock  &  Crenshaw,  at  Sixth  and  Arch  Streets,  for  a 
short  period,  and  becoming  tired  of  the  drug  busiuess,  he  abandoned  the  pro- 
fession and  went  upon  the  stage,  and  was  a  very  successful  actor  of  old  men's 
parts.  He  was  a  member  of  Wm.  Gemmill's  Stock  Company  in  the  old 
Chestnut  Street  Theatre,  and  afterwards  was  "  on  the  road  "  with  a  number  of 
theatrical  companies.  His  last  appearance  in  Philadelphia  was  with  the  Roland 
Am.  Jour.  Phavru. ) 
October,  1894.  J 
