The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
To-day's Proceedings of the
Liquor Dealers.
Detailed Account of Business
Transacted.
Banquet, and Final Exercises
To-day.

men at tnelf HfSC DAY session up 10 the
hour of adjournment, was in great demand
and compliments for its enterprise were as
thick as the ''leaves in Vallambrosa To
day the sayings and doings of our visi-
| tors, after the hour of adjournment yester-
day, are faithfully chronicled
Owing to the very early hour in the
afternoon at which adjournment till this
morning was effected, there remained con
siderable time before dark for general
sight seeing which was quite generally
made use of. A very large proportion of
the delegates took carriages, and under the
skillful pilotage of Mr.. A. E. KnIckerbock-
er and other efficient members of the local
committees, visited the ever interesting Is
land and other noted resorts in this sec
ton, returning in time for tea most favor
ably impressed with the great natural
beauty of Rock Island and vicinity.
THE EVENINGS ENTERTAINMENT.
Meantime the committees were hard at
work preparing Turner and Armory halls
for the dance and banquet, the former be
ing held i'll Armory hall. and shortly be
fore 9 o'clock Bleuer's splendid string
band, about ten pieces, which had taken
position on the platform, Struck up" a
lively waltz At this time there were be-
tween one and two hundred delegates in
the hall and but three ladies, therefore the
prospects for much of dance seemed de-
cidedly slender However some of the fun
loving German visitors, determined not to
lose the benefit of Bleuers excellent music
event at it" Immediately with each other
and INDUCED in the dance to the utmost.
About $50, however, the ladies began to
appear in fair numbers and the evenings
programme proper was entered upon.
There were "a numbers upon the list, the
round dance preponderating, although
there were few quadrilles for the particu
lar benefit of amateurs. Right here, with
due respect to the young ladies of our
beautiful city, who graced the occasion
with their presence, it must be admitted
that the bulk of the shower of compli-
ments for rare comeliness descended upon
the young married ladies who were par
ticularly bewitching. While the dance
progressed many of the Chicago visitors
seated themselves at tabl undere the
gallery, and with an accompaniment
of clinking glasses toasted their Mayor
Carter Harrison, who had just returned from
Europe. At midnight there was an inter
mission for supper and all hands were
marshaled for the banquet hall. After
eating the very substantial supper with
which the tables were loaded, the toasts
were in order, as published in yesterdays
ARGUS with Mr.. KickerbockeI who stood
upon the stage, as POSTMASTER. The
propositions and responses were in good
taste and many of them, notably that of Mr. |
Schuster, of Chicago, quite effective. The |
whole being enlivened with witty sallies |
by the POSTMASTER. After the banquet |
the merry party returned to Armory Hall |
and thence till about o'clock when the |
party broke up, everything having passed |
off in a satisfactory manner.
THIS MORNING
the convention was called to order at |
1890 by President Reisch and the first |
business in order being the reports of com |
mittees that of the committee on by laws |
was first in order read thus:
To the third annual convention of the |
Liquor Dealers and Manufactures Pro- |
tective Association of Illinois,
Gentlemen: -Your committee on by- /
laws respectfully recommend the following /
changes of the by laws.
1. That the name of the association be /
changed to estate Protective Association |
of Illinois.
2. That the presidents of the various |
districts be entitled to a seat and a vote in |
the state convention by virtue of their /
office and that in addition to such repre-
sentation each district be entitled to one
delegate for each ten members.
3. That new district be formed to be /
composed of the member of the Milwau-
kee and Chicago Brewers Association.
4, That a member of one district, who
removes from his district into another be
entitled to admission into the new district i
without the payment of an admission fee,
provided he was at the time of such re-
moval member in good standing and
applied for admission into the new district
within so day of his removal.
That the territorial limits of the dis
tricts be so changed as to correspond with
the senatorial districts as fixed by the last |
General Assembly, and that the numbers
of the districts be made to correspond |
with the numbers of the senatorial districts |