Several Voices - Wadsworth! Wadsworth! Let us hear from Wadsworth!

Mr. Wadsworth - Mr. President: I have need to congratulate the Club upon the character of the new officers elected and the way in which they have taken hold of business. I know that this Club can be made an instrument of a great deal of good in Chicago. The question has been raised as to whether the jobbers would stand by any agreement that they made in regard to prices on linseed oil. It was a very great surprise to me, and I think to all the members of the Boston Club, to see the way they have done it in Boston. I presume there has never been a case there where they had gone back upon their agreement, except through some misunderstanding, when first started. I know something can be done here, and if we all take hold and help our new officers we can make a success of this Club, and it will be a great thing for us financially as well as socially. It is very much more agreeable for men in the same business to meet socially and for business purposes combined. It makes them feel more generous. We get acquainted with them, and we feel like living and letting live, and we can give quotations after getting acquainted with our competitors, that we would not give otherwise. We feel they are pretty good fellows, after all, and we would rather take a good profit than a small one. I hope we will have a very successful year, that the Club membership may increase, and the interest be a benefit to all of us. [Applause.]

The Vice-President - We would now like to hear from Mr. Pettet.

Mr. Pettet - I move we adjourn.

Mr. President - A motion to adjourn is always in order, but I don't see how you can get out of making a few remarks. We know you can write a good letter.

Mr. Pettet - Mr. President, I call for the question.

The Vice-President - Speak on the Credit Bureau.

Mr. Pettet - As I understand it, the Credit Bureau is a close corporation. I hardly think it would be proper for me to talk about it before company. But, Mr. President, before the motion to adjourn prevails, I want to say a few words in reference to the distinguished General, the upright Judge, who, though he may know nothing about the paint business, has earned our thanks by compelling the railroads to pay something for their paint. I move that a rising vote of thanks be extended to Judge Gresham for his attendance here this evening.

The President - All members in favor of a rising vote of thanks to our distinguished guest will please stand. I am glad to see that all of us are on our feet. We will now be seated.

Mr. Pettet - I move a vote of thanks be also extended to our Entertainment Committee.

Mr. Cox - I second the motion.

The President - Those favorable to the motion will please say aye. So ordered. The motion to adjourn being now in order, if there is no objection we stand adjourned until the third Thursday of next month.

Author's Note. - The student who has finished the business letters, court cases, and the foregoing convention report, has now received practice virtually in all styles of shorthand reporting,for the last named, convention reporting, contains also speeches as well as debate, thereby including oratory, under which head come sermons, ora-ions, lectures and the like, all of which are only different names for the same class of work, known by the general term of speech-making. The student cannot review these exercises too often. They should be practised until they are known so thoroughly that all the phrases may be made almost as written in the plates. Such following of phrasing is not necessary in general, for the same person will not always phrase the same words in the same way, but such familiarity will greatly facilitate the students' ease in phrasing in all work.