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a lo\ ing cup may it always run over to you in the good wishes
of the Executive Committee of this Association and your friends
its members. (Applause).
M r. D r u r y : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: This
I must say. is a surprise. The words of commendation uttered by
Mr. Puehta in themselves, 1 think, are a very decided reward
for my efforts in behalf of the Association. Of course this is
something I can always treasure and look upon with a great deal
of pleasure and satisfaction, as it will always connect me with
the members of this Association.
Twant to say, gentlemen, I thank you very much, and though

closing my connection with the Association officially, I shall al­
ways be heartily in sympathy with its aims and objects and ready
to do anything to have it continue along its successful lines. Gen­
tlemen, I thank you. ( Applause).
P r e sid e n t S t r o n g : I s there anything else to com e before
the m eeting?
Mr. P u c i i t a : Why not have the Secretary-Treasurer’s re­
port ?
M r. D ru ry : This report, as suggested by M r. Strong, is a
little too long to go into at present. I had perhaps better confine
myself to generalities.
I will simply give you a general idea of what we have been
doing, and begin on the supply end of it.
(The Secretary-Treasurer’s report was afterwards read at
the Executive Session, and is to be incorporated in the minutes
of that meeting).
M r. M cI n to sh : I think it well for the members to be in­
troduced to our new Secretary and that we look him over.
P r e s id e n t S trong : Mr. Anderson, our new Secretary.
Mr. A nderson : Mr. President and Gentlemen: I certainly
appreciate the cordiality of this greeting, and I am pleased to be
identified with you in the work in which you are engaged. I have
had some little to do with organization work. I know something
of its trials and of its tribulations; I know something of its suc­
cesses and possibly of its failures, but I have noticed that organiza­
tions which succeed are comprised of human beings just the same
as those which fail and the same as those which meet with