The age-herald., 1899-01-27
WILL MEET NEXT IN BOSTON
President and All the Other Officers
 Were Reelected.
REORGANIZATION WAS COMPLETE
Scope of the Federation Will be Greatly Enlarged, and the Revenues Great ly Increase6-Work of the
 Last Days Session.

Cincinnati, January 26.-The fourth annual | convention of the National Association of | Manufacturers adjourned tonight to meet | next January in Boston. This has been the largest and most important annual meetig | in the history of the association. At is said to represent now more capital than any | other organization in the country, not eX- | cepting the National Association of Bank CTS. It has been organized only few years, and if its growth continues as 1t has during | the past four years it will be the strongest I organization of invested interests in ex- | istence.
 l The movement was inaugurated at this l convention to increase the revenues so that the association will have agencies with | warehouses in all parts of the world. The association at this meeting was prac- tically reorganized to include much
 larger membership at home, and also many more agencies in foreign countries for the
 disposal of American wares.
 Ohcers Re-Eleeted
 President Search and the other officers
 were reelected, and the headquarters re- main in Philadelphia, with branch offices in
 New York, Boston, Chicago and Cincin- nati.
 In selecting place for holding the next
 annual conventio, the Paris expositio was a peculiar and potent factor It has been cus- tomary to alternate between the east and
 the west, and this was the time for an eastern point to be selected, but owing to the growing interests in manufacturing in
 the south, it was desired by may to have the next meeting in New Orleans. After Commissioner General F. w. Peck,
 of Chicago, had delivered an excellent ad
 dress on the Paris exposition and fully ex-
 plained what would be done at Paris next year for American manufacturers who de-
 sired to exhibit their goods, he invited the association to hold it's next annual meeting in Paris and he described the advantages of such an arrangement so that many favor ed it. A compromise was then made on Boston, from which place members could sail for Europe after the next annual meet ing
 MT. Peck referred to the friendly rela- tions which now existed between the north and south and advised that they be extend ed to the countries of Europe, for which the exposition offered the fullest opportuni- ty.
 Tine Exhibit at Paris Commissioner Peck and his associates were occupied all day and tonight in con- ferring with the manufacturers about their exhibits at Paris, and it was reported that
 more had been done today than had yet
 
 interests of American displays at the Paris
 exposition.
 The most careful attention was given to
 enlarging the scope and influence of the
 association, the protection of patents and
 trade marks to the classification df
 freights and all manner of reforms in
 transportation including the mails and ex-
 press companies; to objectionable legisla- ton well as to beneficial legislation and to all matters pertaining to commerce and to the industries, but nothing political or in any manner not germain to business was presented.
 The question of expansion was not brought up because of its political charac- ter. There was no reference to labor or ganizations or any of the questions that pertain to the relations between employers
 and employees, but every attention was paid to the methods of producing manufactured goods, transporting them and selling them
 Even the evenings have been spent in
 meetings that were mingled with business
 as well as with social pleasures and the l>closing reception tonight was a brilliant conclusion of the work of the week.