The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30
TRAVELLING MEN
MEET At HOME
Annual Discussion of AT.
fairs as Found on the
Road.
President Elect William McKin.
lev Sends the Organization a
Message of Thanks.
Election ef o. fcers to Serve the
Pacific Coast Association Next
Year.

The Pacific Coast Commercial Travel
ers' Association held their annual meet
ing yesterday afternoon at Native Sons
Hall, ]. C. Eubanks presiding and A. G.
Baldwin and A. w. Weill officiating as
secretaries.
Prior to the regular order of business
Chairman Eubanks read the following
letter, received by him in response 10
a congratulatory message wired to Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley at the time of his
election:
Mr. j. C. Eubanks, President Pacific Coast Com
gercial TrdveierS's Association, San Francisco
Cal.-MY DEAR SIR: return my hearty thanks
Tor your telegraphic message OF congraInla-
ton. Yours very truly, W. MCKINLEY.
The report of the secretary was received
and heartily indorsed. 1t shows an in
crease of forty-six members and one OF
$1,000 in finances during the present year.
The embership now is 353 and there is
$40. 900 on hand. The payments on death
rates, including $500 entailed in 1895, when
r. Porterfeld passed away. was only $1,000
this year, A. D. Simpson being the other
,laveier who pushed his way beyond all
com mmercial limits. But 5 l15 was expended
from the relief fund.
The secretary treasurer's report con-
cIudes with showing of only $52S actual
expenses for 1896, as against $232o spent
the year previous.
The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows:J. c. Eubanks, president Te-eiected);
w. f. Peterson, vice-president; A. q.
Boldeman. secretary (re-elected); b. b.
Galland, treasurer; diIectors-H. Morgen-
thau, A. Hampel, II. L. Judeil. [. B.
Thompson. A. WE'LL, Nate Jacobs and the
officers heretofore mentioned.
r. ii. Davis was the sire at the associa-
tion's high links, held in the basement OF
the Native Sons Hail after the honr when
all but commercial tourists had retired to
bed last night.
The worthy sire was assisted in arrang-
ing programme by ii. s. Morgenthan,
chairman of the entertainment commit
tee, and between them they managed 10
get every talented drummer in the audi
ence to participate. Some few profession
ais. engaged for the occasion, appeared as
amateurs alongside the imprumptu stars
that shot across the stage.
Freda, a beauty from Honolulu, de-
lighted her audience Tor few moments
with the newest dances from the islands.
She was almost tame, asit were, compared
to warm belt" stories told by The boys.
These stories were entirely centre nous"
as Sire Davis said. He added, also, that
unwilling ears might as we'll go outside
and listen to the patter Of the rain. Such
stories as were told after that were enough.
to make the earth quake with laughter as
the sun goes down in deepening bushes.
The attendance included several hun
dred travellers and their friends, and be-
ginning tomorrow, as this migratory
class starts out on the. commercial high
way, there will be newsep pidemic of stories
sprung on the unsuspecting country Gus
toner,
Among those present were:
J. C. Eubanks, W. F. Peterson, A. C. Bolde-
man, B. B. Galland, H. Morgenthau, ~ F.
Frost A. w. WE'LL, "A. L. WE'LL. Andy Hempill,
j. B. Treadwell, Fred Harges, r. H. Davis. Ed
Lowenb berg, F. c. Chinn, H. L. Judell, Felix
Cohn, w. j. Barrett, 7. E. Dunno, w. w. Hass,
W. F. Brandt, Jack Levy, c. r. Stewart, w.
Berolzheim, Charles Heinemann, J. Kosmin-
sky, ]. T. O'Brien. Frank SIlverston. S. F. Wal
ter, Joe Levy, T. F. Bonnet, H. c. Masser, W.
Atty, Oscar Boldeman, c. s. Jacobs, NJ. Sayan-
nan. L. Rocker, James Dewitt, Joseph Scheide-
ler f. ]. Johnson. J. p Blunt, S. Shlreck, Jo-
seph Cockrill, Laurence Bettman, Charles Eze-
keils, ]. A. Marscnuik, Max Cohen, II. II. Ell
liot, F. H. Judd. Simon F. Juda, Joseph H.