Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18
MEETING OF MOROCCO MEN
Session of the National Asso-
citation, Thursday.
A TALK BY PRESIDENT POSTLES
He Points Out an Obstacle to
Successful Business.
The Association Votes to Recommend No
Change In the Tariff, whereat Some of
the Members Protest--A Banquet Fol-
lows the Business Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 12.-The
Both annual meeting and banquet of the
Morocco Manufacturers National Asso.
citation was held at the Manufacturers
Club yesterday.
At IL o'clock, q. m, the business |
meeting of the association was held, at |
which General j. Parke Postles of Will
mington, Del, presided, until he, feel
ing unwell, requested Vice President A. |
b. Martin of Lynn, Mass, to preside.
After some unimportant business was
transacted, Mr.. Charles A. Meurer asked
to have read newspaper article on the
depression of the leather trade. This
was done, and the tone of the article
moved General Postles to comment on
II. He said:
To my mind one of the gravest obstacles
10 the successful conduct of our business is
the abnormal demand at present for
medium grades of stock, from which 1t is
possible to make fine shoes. OF the medium
and lower grades of small fine skins we
can sell more than we can get at any time;
of the finer grades it is impossible to dis
pose at profit. The only solution of this
difficulty that / see is that we shall agree
among ourselves to raise the prices of the
grades that are in demand and make them
deaIer to the public. Then, If we get pay
Ing prices on the medium grades, we can
reduce the prices on the superior stock,
and we can put the latter into service. IL
doesn't require a resolution formally
adopted by this organization; all that is
needed is a realization of the disagreeable
fact, and general determination to
remedy 1t on the lines of this suggestion.
1t will not pay to do business unprotitably
or at loss. l only offer this as hint; it
has the merit of practicability.
During the executive session, it was
learned, resolutions were adopted recon-
mending the idea of leaving the tariff as
1t stands and dropping the Wilson bill
altogether. Several Of the members OBJ
jected to the resolutions, us they said
"the meeting was not q political but a
business one" The Wilson bill any
way, one member said, does not affect
the leather manufacturer materially.
The banquet began about $50 o'clock
in the afternoon, and was brilliant
affair. The table ran the entire length
Of the room, and was U shaped. At the
head of the table, as POSTMASTER, sat
John X. Cunning. president of the Tenth
National Bank. On his right was Mayor
Stuart, aud on his left General j. Parke
Postles.
After the banquet the toasts were
offered Mayor Stuart responding to the
first, philadelphia.
The other toasts were responded to by
Judge Ashman, Hon. II. B, Bayley Of
the Shoe and Leather Reporter, Howard
l.. Townsend, Esq, Henry Burk ant
others.
Among the guests, besides those
named, were:
Philadelphians-John Mundell, Jr.
John I'll, Harper, George IT, McNeely
William +. McNeely, j. P. Matthew, II
Il. Chambers, E.dThoinpson, A. i. Burk
L. N. Haag, @. j.. Matthews, John G
Taylor, Ii. K. Adams, A. A. Guigues
A. g. Wood, W. E. Adams, Frederick
Stout, II. L. Townsend, j. L. Quigley
w. S. jackson, w. Broderick, A. w
Wright, j. Wickert, III. s. Sherwood
James L. Klein, ]. S. Snodgrass, w. II
Stockton, W. Pierson, Charles A. Neurel
Felix Hanlen, Joseph ID. Nevill, L.
Dixon, John w. Fenlen, G. w. Cham
bers, b. 3. Obinger, q. w. Allen, Isaa
Sauef, j. s. Reihle, Charles Zandell an
New Yoke. It. Glbbon, j. Frower
field, Isaac II. Bailey, George l.. RIOS,
]. Stevens Ulman, H. Anderson, |
Rossbach, Charles ANDERSON, j.
Orr, g. Schaumann, j. e. Templin,
w. Day, r. H. Foerderer, Willai
Friel, w. Frank McDermott and Aarc
We'll.
Wilmington, Deli. Parke Postle
Charles Baird, r. d. Baird, w. II. Bar
William Beadenkopf, William V. Bon
James Crooks, p ]. Ford, J. S. Dob
w. j. McClary, G. z. Postles, j. V
Scott and A. P. Stephenson.
Boston, Mass.-Richard Young,
Lynn, Mass.-J. j. Donahue, A.
Martin, A. II. Weber and N. Weber,
Bal,imore-S. A. Atkinson.