St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-17
The MILLERS MEET.
Fourteenth Annual COnven-
ton Of the Flour Makers
Opens To-Day.
The Census Is Finished--A
Great Many Duplicates
Found.
The Minneapolis Retail Gro
GERS Form a Sugar
Trust.
Why a Man Said He Was a
Horse Thief--The Cross
ingS Case.

The fourth annual session of the Mill
erS' National association will meet in
Harmonic hall at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. twill continue in session for three
days, and Secretary Frank Barry and
President F. L. Greenleaf both say that
in point of attendance the convention
of 1890 promises to be the most success
full one ever held. The West hotel will
be the headq uarters of the delegates.
and already the com mittee having the
matter in charge has secured every
available room for the visiting millerS,
whose daily output of flour aggregate
10000 barrels, or 2,940,00O pounds. The
delegates will represent the largest
business interests in all sections of the
country, and it is possible that one or
two may bring credentials from foreign
lands. In all there will probably be
5000 delegates present. The executive
committee, which consists of A.R.James,
of Buffalo. N. Y, chairman; s. d.
Seamans, of Milwaukee; Homer Bald
win, of Youngstown, O.; G. B. Cole, of
Chester, H.; G. G. White, of Crete,
Neb.: P. H. McGill, of Baltimore, Md,
and John M. Turner, of Mandam, Neb.,
were in session at their rooms in the
West hotel yesterday, and arranged
programme of the business to be trans
acted, which will be carried out. The
convention will be called to order at 10
o'clock by President F. L. Greenleaf, OF
Minneapolis, who will welcome the del
egates and make the annual address.
After the minutes of the last convention
have been read by the secretary the an
nual reports will be received from the
secretary, Frank Barry, and the treas
urer, S. Ii. Seamans. after which an adj
journment will be taken for dinner.
The convention will reassemble at 2:30.
The afternoon session will be taken up
in receiving report from the commit
tee on export bill of lading, which will
he finally disposed of. In the evening
the delegates and visitors to the conven-
ton will visit the Harris theater and
listen to "Olivette."
The session tomorrow will be taken
up with the report of the committee on
revised constitution. The present con-
stitution expires at this session and the
committee having the matter in charge
have tried to present one that will meet
the demands of the millers in different
parts of the country. The afternoon
will be spent in all excursion to Lake
Mrnnetonka. The session on Thursday
morning will be devoted to receiving
reports from the committee on uniform
weights OF sacked flour and bran and
the reports of the delegates to the inter
national convention of millers at Paris,
France, discussing communications and
the election of officers. The afternoon
session will be taken up with unfinished
business, and the convention will close
with grand banquet at the West in
the evening. At the banquet covers
will be laid for between 600 and 700
banquet ever given in the Northwest.
The committee having the arrange
ments in charge has in its treasury
s1O,27O with which to entertain the
visitors, and there is no doubt but what
they will carry away with them pleasant
memories of the hospitable way in
which they were treated while in Min
neapoIis. The election of officers will
take place on Thursday, and the presi-
dency will probably go to Buffalo, n.
Y. President Greenleaf said yesterday
that under no circumstances would he
be candidate for reelection, as his
private business now took all his time
and he would not have the time to give
the office the attention itrequlres, A. Il.
James, who is now the first vice presi-
dent of the association, will probably
succeed Mr.. Greenleaf. Word was
received at the headquarters of the
committee yesterday that train OF
eight cars bearing 800 delegates to the
convention was on It's from Chicago to
Minneapolis and that it would arrive at
s O'Clock this morning. The party is in
charge of slocal committee consisting
of F. C. Pillsbury, III. B. WhitmOre, +.
E. Holmes, and Chas E. Penschied, who
will escort the visitors from Chicago.
The two large rooms in the eartern
end of the West hotel fronting on Henne-
pin avenue have been given up to eXhi-
bitors and probably more complet dis
play of milling appliances have never
been made. Everything in the way OF
mill furnishings, from water wheel to
a grain elevator, is shown. AS there
is no shafting in the hotel of course
the tactual working Ofthe different
machines cannot behown, but every
thing bis set up in the same way
it would be in mill, and the
idea of what the machines are
for and estimate what kind of work
each will do. There are rollers, pack
ers, screeners, fans, scales. boiling
machines and the thousand and one APP
planes which go to make up the
paraphernalia of a Touring mill. In
the rotunda there is an interesting
exhibit made by the Northwestern
Miller, consisting of several large
frames mounted on easels and contain
ing the photographs of the most prom
inent millers in the association.
In preparing the programme the
executive committee have carefully
avoided calling upon any one to present
long, dry paper upon any question,
and the main topics to be discussed are
those of paramount importance to the
trade. The present bill of ladlng is
anything but satisfactory, and it is
almost certain that new bill will be
adopted. There is also considerable
dissatisfaction over the present system
| of sacking flour and bran. and an at
| tempt will be made which will prob
| ably be successful to establish standard
weights for packages. The association
has now outgrown the constitution and a
new one will be adopted, which 1t is
hoped, will suit needs of the millers in
the different sections Of the country.
| The executive committee, which, has
| the matter in charge, spent yesterday
afternoon and evening in preparing the
| different articles with this end in view.
Mo CATTSE FOR ALARM