Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-16
THE AMERICAN BANKERS
IN ANNUAL SESSION.
TWENTY SEVENTH CONVENTION
WAS OPENED An MILWAUKEE,
YESTERDAY.
THE ATTENDANCE WAS LARGE,
NEARLY EVERY STATE IN THE
UNION REPRESENTED.
More Than One Thousand Mcms
hers. aud ~ More Prosperous Than
Ever Beforc--AW Outline of the
Addresses and Reports.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, October 15.--
The tewenty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the American Bankers Associa-
| ton began here at 10 o'clock to-day
with bankers from nearly every State
| in the Union in attendance. The menu
bers of the association represent a cons
bined capital of over sS.00o,000.
President Alva II. Trowbridge. OF
New York, called the convention to or
der and introduced Alexander J. Bur-
rowes. president of Marquette College.
who delivered the invocation.
David S. Rose, mayor OF Milwaukee.
welcomed the bankers to the city, and
]. w. p. Lombard, president of the
Milwaukee Bankers Club. extended q
welcome on behalf of the local bank
ers.
The reply to addresses of welcome
and the annual address OF President
Trowbridge followed.
| President Trowbridge, after responds
ing to the addresses OF welcome on be-
half of the association, said:
"The American bankers are not mar
rowed In their sphere OF action by the
portals of their business institutions.
They have wide views of things per-
tanning to the prosperity of the ma
ton, and of the world, for some or our
members are International bankers
and they have conserved the interests
of the general public.
aue ara eatbered TODAY where We
exnected to have gathered three weeks
ago TO-DAY IN a husinese session of tho
aesoe,atlan As we were prenarinz sc,
meetinp ut the earlier date the world
waa sbocLed nv a torrfbla crime ut
puffalo which cost the life Of our be-
loved chief mapistrate. There are no
mora lovaI citizens than the bankers:
there are none to whom law and order
we have stood over the bier of our
dead. anger at the murderer has soften
cd In the admiration and veneration for
| the man who sleeps. while we think
OF his great work for this nation in
every condition of life A man above
his fellows by reason of his richer char
aeter he had done for us in the de-
yeloprnent of our commercial and finan-
cia1 greatness what NO man has dona
before. and whether we now or have
heretofore adopted his opinions. we
gratefully accept their results 80 have
the world acknowledge. as 1t has in tho
mast month. that the United States
/ could produce such a man adds materi-
ally TO the glory OF our country. Some
of MS enjoyed personal friendship with
the j,lustrjous dead and so are person.
ally bereayed. To such we offer con-
dolenees which might be congratu.a-
tons In that they have had intimate
dissertations with such man.
..,,ni from Tho nast n tho nres-
ont N Il our dutv TO see to If that
,,n.ho r,,raa 90 fbis character hecome
,s',aaa,,,,a a. th;s 1onn The Greatness
80 ~ Ifn,or 4. 80 tborouybIv estab-
,,saod nat aven tbia great calamity
con NOT hinder our proeress and the
NO., who rras;des in orr highest Office
- MI a.,,sa hos unao,,htadlv come
80. az or,d sor sucb time no this
= :, =, tandor 10 him due LOYALTY even
Ill mo mourn orr ruler dead,
1an,a prancb secretarv If thu
! :, ,
-. sho.,;no N. ,oembershin and
naso,,,.oa. 80 tha .ssoci.t,or ~ have in.
aroasaa as ,o1,ows. san+ernb ar lat 1900.
pat1, ,,,a,, hors,in aa1. animal dues.
eco 7oo os4ohor ,o,h 1oo, paid mem-
sen,,,,n sroa. rr,oI d,,es SEQ sso
=. ~. ost voar tha association lost
ooa ,,au,har. thr,ugb failure ,iouida-
g. 80 w;tbdr,wal reducing thu
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