The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-22
MILLERS GO TO SCHOOL
OPERATORS RECEIVING INSTRUC-
TION OF GRAIN EXPERTS.
Fraternity of Operative MiIIers Meets
mt Board of Trade-Demonstra-
tions of the Art of Milling.

Trade Hall yesterday afternoon and were
welcomed to the city by Mayor Bookwalter.
They were not, however, the natives who
have furnished tragedy and romance on
Hoosier soil, but the delegates to the
seventh annual meeting OF the Fraternity
of Operative MilIers, whose sessions will
continue through the week. This organiza-
ton. which has 500 active and 200 honorary
members. includes only the superintendent
and head millers. About 800 will be in at
tendance to-day.
The organization is educational. II
meets annually TO receive instruction from
experts in milling and to witness demon
STATIONS of the most advanced systems.
The value Of the organization to the mill
ing business, which is the largest industry
in the world, is made evident by the assis-
lance given by the mill owners. Its sole
aim is to improve its membership in the
art of milling 1t does not deal with the
wage questions.
The meeting was called TO order by Pres
ident o. NJ. Friend, of Hannibal, Mo.
Mayor Bookwalter made a welcoming ad-
dress creating enthusiasm by his enconium
on the miller and his responsibility. Pres
ident Friend responded. Some preliminary
business was transacted and the following
committees named by the president.
Auditing-D. F. Meyers. Dolores. Col:
Henry Sherman, Germantown, ILL.,; F. X.
Stark, Springfield, Mo-
Resolutions-E. H. staphani. Belleville.
ILL.,; Z. II. Litchfield. st. Louis; j. F.
Dauber, Newton, Kan; Edward Lehman,
Nominating L. Bassett Grand Rapids
Mich; T. J. Becker, Galveston, Tex; Theo.
Ismutt Murphysboro, ILL.,: Henry Stark,
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Constitution and by-laws-W. T. Perkins.
Hannibal Mo-; James Milne, Cairo, H.;
J. T. Briggs, Pittfield' IL; L. PhllliPis'
Every delegate was provided with re-
vOlving fan. the gift of the Operative Mil
Ter, the organ of the organization.
PRESIDENT FRIENDS ADDRESS.
In his address to the delegates President
Friend said he had attended the meeting
OF the Millers' National Association here
in 1873. and heard welcoming speeches by
/ Thomas A. Hendricks and "Bluejeans" Will
liams. He said since that time the organi-
cation of millers. in their different spheres,
had developed the art until America led
the world. He alluded to the first great
work of organization, the defeat of the
patent sharks" as he called them, who
sought to obtain great amounts from the
millers for alleged infringements. Amer
| lean millers," he said, were the first to
/ perfect the operation of milestone grinding,
/ the first to introduce elevation by machin-
/ rying of sacks. They were the first to take
/ up the publication of middlings by atmOs-
| pheric processes. and il remained for Amer
lean millers TO put roll grinding, practiced
/ over two centuries ago. into practical use.
/ Since the organization of the operative
millers he said there had been a constant
| scientific view of the minutia leading TO the
/ most perfect and profitable manufacturing
| Chemical Laboratories were now features
/ of mills, and the scientific study was de-
/ NelOplng the highest and most conscientious
/ regard for the qualities of the manufac-
lures. The education of the millers has
/ been transmitted TO the farmers, so far as
seeding. fertilizing and growing grain is
\ concerned
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME.
Secretary ]. F.. Mueller. of Chicago, in
his report TO the association, outlined the
scope of the present meeting as follows:
1--WE. first of all, consider the raw ma
] -grain-beginning with its growth and
/ gradual development in. the field, showing
/ scription showing the formation of gluten
in the berry will be given, also conditions
! affecting the constituents of gluten, de-
posit of ash and formation of the berry
| Following this will be a study of gluten In
! it's developed stage, including practical
| demonstrations of washing gluten from diff.
ferent f1ours and baking them. Then will
come a study of fiour-testing and finally
| practical demonstrations of bread baked
| from different flour streams from one mill
showing how the proportions of ash in diff
| ferent streams produce a different loaf"
Last night the delegates enjoyed a trolley
| party and boat ride at Broad Ripple. Thi.
morning David Childlow, of Chicago, will
| demonstrate natures process in blendine
| flour in the wheat berry. In the Afternoon
| there will be demonstrate by w. A
Schoening and S. T. Connolly, of the Child
| low Institute, Chicago, and a practica
| demonstration of baking by Professor Child
| low. For these demonstrations mill ma
| chinery, chemical apparatus and a bakine
oven will be used in the hail. There is {
| large cereal exhibit also.