The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-26
BUILDERS OF VEHICLES
THE FIRST BUSINESS SESSION OF THE
ASSOCIATION Is HELD.
Nominations for the Offices Are Made
John A. CASA Smoker.

ISOLATION was held yesterday afternoon in
the hall of the House of Representatives. at
the Statehouse. The meeting was first called
to order In the agricultural room, but ii
soon became evident that the place was not
large enough TO accommodate the crowd and
President Parry broke off in the middle Of
his opening speech to adjourn the meeting
10 the larger and more imposing hall. Mayor
Taggart was to have delivered an address Of
welcome. but he did not show up. President
Parry apologized for the mayor by saying
IL was the first time Mr.. Taggart had ever
been lost in the shuttle in this town.
President Parry in formally opening the
meeting. said that since the associations
last convention Providence had seen fit to
bless the country in matters of state and
that era of great prosperity had begun.
He urged that advantage be taken Of the
prosperity and that 1t be guarded. He sug-
gested that the next convention be held on
the Atlantic seaboard and that after il had
adjourned the members go aboard ship and
attend the Paris exposition in a body He
said the automobile manufacturers had been
Invited TO join the association and many of
them had done 1t time the makers
of accessory lines should be taken into men,
bership. he said
III. c. McLear of Wilmington, Del, secre-
tary and treasurer Of the association. re-
ported that the receipts of the last year
were A,55S.4S, and that that amount added
to the balance on hand at the beginning of
the year made a total of $S,99122. The ex-
penditures were s52O575, leaving a balance
Oct. l. 1899, of s3.75S47 He stated that the
membership was 633 and that thirty men,
bers had been lost during the year, most OF
them because they had failed to pay their
dues.
NOMINATION OF OFFICERS.
The important business of the afternoon
was the nomination of officers. The election
will take place this afternoon. Morris Wood
hull, Dayton, o.; Henry c. Staver. Chicago,
Ill; F. W. Judkins. Merriman, Mass, and
T.. NJ Bailey Amesbury Mass. were NOM
mated for president. President Parry ap-
pointed nominating committee to name
the other officers to be elected. The COM
mittee's report was as follows:
For Vice Presidents-G Fl. De Golyer,
u Lambert Hollander, Amesbury, Mass. :;
n @. SHEPPARD, New Haven. Conn; c. w
EgGen' Milwaukee; Wis; William Glesen-
tcoit: Mich; w. r. Timpkin, St Louis. Mo. !;
=: u. Anderson, Rock Hill, s. c.; G. L.
ss 81 pa,, p Barnssyille. Ga; II. A. Muckle,
port Ia; d. A. Ainslie Richmond, Va: c.
. CAREY, Camden, n. j, and Schuyler Col
Members Executive Commttee-c. F.
hhlmoaIl. Chicago. ILL.,; c. d. Firestone
ST1 aSn O.; B. Judkins. Merrimac.
Tom Connolly. Dubuque, la. 800
Secretary and Treasurer-H. C. McLear
wilmington. Del.
n, The report of the condition of the tech
nlcal school OF the association at New York
ssnOOWeo IL TO be in excellent condition but
sl,Uu was asked for the institution Sub-
co. sdsiptlons started in lively way and nearly
nittee was appointed to solicit contributors
" make up the desired amount
AN INTERESTING ADDRESS.
me speaker OF the afternoon was John
A Cass. OF Philadelphia, a prominent car
riage manufacturer and one of the oldest
members Of the association. He gave a
thorough discussion of international
Trade" He said In part:
~ IT is bright morning in August. 1899
Two great ocean steamships are lying at
northern part of the city Of PHILADELPHIA.
FOR many days large force of men has
D Dseh KEPT 6usy transferring TO their
facLous hoius large quantities of manu-
i,actured articles from freight cars which
line the railway tracks and barges which
stand out on the broad river
Among the transfers are locomotives
steel rails, bridges. threshing machines
stationary engines, agricultural implements
m l equipments and a hundred
can mechanical skill and the product OF
american work shops. They have come
miner miner from the mills and factories of Phil
adelpnia and all the country round about
they are here because people of other coun-
tries have ordered them sent here fo- ship
nalI o,r Tney make up part Of what we
national trade.
.'One ship is bound for Odessa, on the
Black sea In European Russia. The other
clears for Vladivostock. In Asiatic Russia
on the far distant shores of the Sea of
Japan. The one win steam almost due
eastward ca war, for 100 miles, the other should
America, but the .Nicaraguan canal remains
unbullt, and she must, therefore round
me stormy Cape and plow her way through
more than 1900 miles of sea- or else go BY
the way OF the Suez canal, a distance of
1900 miles. These ships are steaming
away from country where civil and re-
| hgloCs liberty are the common birthright
or man, TO unload their freight in coun-
try where one man holds autocratic sway
over all others. From region of the earth
where the fruit of liberty is seen in an ex,
hfbition of industrial skill which is the
wonder of the world, they go to cast
anchor In the harbors of n country where
the manufactures are few and unimpor-
| tant, and where the methods of tilling the
SOIL are, in many respects, as primitive as
| In the days of Abraham"
The speaker gave a resume of the history
| OF america, and, ending with the war for
humanity in Cuba, said:
| But as no man can do a good deed In
| this world without its reacting In benedic-
/ ton upon his own head, so is ii with ma
| tons 1t turns out that war undertaken
/ FOR the sake OF humanity has other and far
| reaching effects. man may be able 10
| make the very best possible carriage but
| he does not add largely to the sum of hu-
man comfort unless he allows people to
| know about il. And II he hopes TO profit
| largely from his superior skill he must as.
| suredly make II known that he is sl<illful
| We had for years been producing many
things which were better than similar
| things made anywhere else, but the people
no large plan for making IL known. Indi
| vidual manufacturers advertised their
| goods occasionally in other countries buf
| there was no concerted plan by means OF
| which The superiority of American produc
tons could be brought to the attention o.
| the world.
1.-The war with Spain supplied this lack
IL gave US our opportunity. The boom O.
| Dewey's guns was heard in all the earth
1t fixed the attention Of the nations OF
America. AS the war proceeded II becam,
| evident that Americans know how TO max,
CURED but little investiga ton to convinc
| the world that We can make good machine
| for other purposeS-for all purposes II
short, the war furnished the American
manufacturers with free advertising In al
the markets OF the globe.
LAS a result American manufactures begil
to be called for more largely than ever be
fore. Even England. mistress OF the Sc
and for some decades holder OF the scepte
OF commerce, recognizes our superiority an
places with an American firm an order for
great bridge 10 span an African river whic
her armies must cross. The export idei
| takes possession of the Nation. One ma
conceiveS the notion of great export ex