Thursday, October 17, 1889.

Dinner at 6:00 p. m. Thirty members present.

Meeting called to order at 7:30 o'clock by President G. H. Vrooman.

The President - The meeting will please come to order. We will listen to the reading of the minutes of last meeting. The Secretary will please read them. [Minutes read.] You have heard the report of the Secretary of the September meeting-what will you do with it?

Mr. Coffin - I move it be approved as read.

Mr. Pettet - I second the motion.

The President - It is moved and seconded that the report of the Secretary be approved as read. All in favor will please signify the same by saying aye. Contrary, nay. So ordered. The report of our Treasurer is next in order.

Treasurer Rosenthal - Mr. President, your Treasurer respectfully asks to be excused from making a detailed report to-night. I have only sent the bills out a week ago. Part of them have been paid, but not many of them. Anyway, I can assure the gentlemen there is enough to pay for to-night's dinner, and by next meeting I expect to be in position to make a regular report.

Mr. Cox - I move the Treasurer be excused from making a detailed report.

Mr. Pettet - I second the motion.

The President - If there is no objection, the Treasurer is excused from making a detailed report, and his verbal one is accepted. So ordered. A special meeting of the Club met at the Sherman House on the 22d of September, for the election of officers and the transaction of some unfinished business. The Executive Committee was there authorized to appoint the committees on membership and entertainment. The Committee on Membership is A. G. Cox, Frank Hayes, and E. C. Lynn. We will now hear the report of the Membership Committee.

Mr. Cox - Mr. President, I believe, so far as I am concerned, I have not got down to active business yet, and I would ask to be excused from reporting this evening.

Mr. Rosenthal - Mr. President, permit me to call your attention to the fact that the report of the Membership Committee goes to the Executive Committee, and not to the Club dinner. There is no occasion for a report of the Membership Committee in open meeting.

The President - Mr. Rosenthal is correct in this respect, that the Executive Committee acts upon all applications and elects members to the Club, but it has been customary heretofore that the chairman of the Membership Committee report to this meeting the names of such members as have been elected, for the information of this Club. If there is no objection, the Membership Committee will be excused from a detailed report. The report of the Entertainment Committee you have had before you for some time; I heard no objection to its particulars, and I believe most of them have been placed on file. [Laughter.] At the first convention of the National Association held at Cleveland, in January last, a resolution was adopted relating to credits, the idea being to control the terms of sale and the discounts for cash. This subject was taken up at our May meeting and discussed, and referred to a committee composed of John Wadsworth, John F. Weare, and A. G. Cox. Is that committee ready to report?

Mr. Wadsworth - Mr. President, I was not here at the time I was appointed on that committee, and nothing was done since. I would like further time.

The President - The Committee on Credits asking for further time, if there is no objection it is granted. At the May meeting there was a committee on Naphtha appointed-Mr. Mutchmore, Mr. Burns, and myself. The idea is to regulate the price of Naphtha when sold in small lots. As soon as practicable, your committee came together and drew up an agreement which was circulated for signature among the trade, obtained twenty-three names, and there we stuck. I can not say that the outlook is very brilliant for an agreement at the present time. You have heard the report of the Committee on Naphtha; what action will you take?

Mr. HaYes - I move that it be granted further time.

Mr. Wadsworth - I second the motion.

The President - If there is no objection, the request is granted. This, I believe, finishes all the reports of the general and select committees. Miscellaneous business is now in order.

Mr. Rosenthal - If I am not mistaken, the meeting of the National Association will take place in January. Will it be in order to elect delegates to that convention? I raise this question so early because it will probably be necessary to instruct our delegates in certain matters, ana as we have only one meeting in a month, we will have only two meetings before the convention takes place. I would move that the Secretary be instructed to lay before our next meeting nominations for delegates to the National Convention to be held in Detroit, and also such instructions that we may see fit to give.

Mr. Coffin - I second the motion.

The President - It is moved and seconded that the Executive Committee at our next meeting present nominations for delegates to the National Convention to be held at Detroit, with such instructions as is thought best to give them. All in favor of the motion please say aye. Contrary, nay. It is carried.

Secretary Person - I have been handed the following resolution, Mr. President:

Whereas, A great change has taken place in the white lead industry, caused by the consolidation of private firms into the National White Lead Trust, which has had the effect of placing the manufacture of white lead upon a more profitable basis; be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of this Club that the rebate now being allowed to the jobbing trade is inadequate and unsatisfactory, and we respectfully ask the National White Lead Trust, when formulating their plans for the coming year, to arrange for a more liberal rebate to jobbers, and also take into consideration the claims of paint grinders for an equitable price on dry lead.