The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
LUMBER DEALERS MEET.
ANNUAL SESSION VAS HELD IN
 THIS CITY YESTERDAY
Meeting Followed by n Banquet at the Tontins Hotei.- Officers Elected, Re- ports Read and Changes Mnde in the

ports Read and Changes MRde in the
 By-Iaws and COnstttution.
 The Lumber Dealers association of
 Connecticut held it's annual meeting
 yesterday morning in this city and
 about fifty prominent dealers from all
 over the state were present. The meet
 ing was held in the Chamber of Com-
 merce hall, and was presided over by
 Everitt J. Lake of Hartford. MT.
 Lakes report, together with those of 1 the secretary and treasurer, Louis A.
 Mansfield were very encouraging to the
 members, who believe that the coming
 year will be one of the most prosperous
 in the history of the association. Officers for the year were elected and 1 there were several interesting discus- sions. President Lake expressed his | appreciation of the honor that had been conferred upon him and he left fully repaid for all the sacrifice of time and labor that had been made. He spoke ] in high terms of the association and of the good work that it had done and he urged upon the members that they should try to keep out illegitimate deal CTS and to protect each other.
 He then went on to say that the con- dition had been very much improved in the last ten years. Generalization of industries will have marked effect on the work. Necessity of reporting sales from wholesalers to consumers; in Judgements must be investigated. It is necessary to get every dealer in the state as a member. He said: Be loyal to the association as a member.
 Secretary and Treasurer Mansfield of this city then read his report in which he said that in the association work the wholesaler was unprepared. The methods of the present were entirely different and we had to meet shrewd circumvention and Yankee concealment. The consumer did not know how to meet it. It was found that buying in large quantities was difficult. He said they must meet them as an organiza- ton and must protect the members of this organization.
 The roll call was made by the secre- tary and it showed that forty members and firms were present. It was shown that by the report of the treasurer there was last year $3,02 on hand and that there was now $2S47.
 Then the general business was taken up and reports were made by Justin Peters of the Pennsylvania Lumber h. surance company that the losses paid during the year were $5,752.29 on about 2,S20 900 of lumber insured.
 w. C. Johnson of the Massachusetts r eI,A hot there were 113 losses during the year of less than $103000 in the aggregate and that only one of the losses was con tested.
 There were several changes in the by laws and constitution.
 A schedule of dues was arranged to the satisfaction of all present, and af- ter that the officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Elliott B. Bronson of Winsted; vice president, J. $. Tomlinson of Bridge | port; secretary and treasurer, Louis A. | Mansfield of New Haven; directors, | George w. Hill of Rockville Everett J. Lake of Hartford, Charles D. Barnes of | Charles s. DeForest of | New Haven, M. D. Randall of East | Norwalk, E. P. Pelton of Essex, Henry | c. Hill of Clinton: insurance director, Charles E. filling of New Haven; dele l gates to the national convention. F. J, Lake of Hartford, Louis A. Mansfield l 1f New Haven and E. B, Bronson of | 
 The annual banquet of the associa- ion was held in the Tontine hotel after he meeting and several of the mem- )ers spoke. The toastmaster was the etiring president, MT, Lake.