The Washington bee., 1907-09-14

as a result he coud show present and
voting twenty-five dentists After all
expenses of his Office had been paid he
had on hand ready to turn over to the
treasurer the sum of thirty-hve dollars
an unprecedented achievement Fiji
teen firms had been secured as exhibit
ors for this convention, and next year
there would be exhibits from Negro
manufacturing chemists and producers
OF medical supplies. DR.. Lotion proved
himself to be a most valuable worker
for the development of the dental sec
ton of the organization.
DR.. w. E. Hunter reported the sur
gical section to be in process of or
ganization. and that he woud be able
to make a very encouraging report OF
its work later. DR. ]. R Francis, presi-
dent of this section, and DR.. E. Z Green
of Macon, Ga, is secretary. DR.. L. H.
Singleton, of Washington, is president
of the dental section. In this section
the work of DR.. c. Summer Wormley,
of Washington, is deserving OF especial
mention.
At the afternoon session Thursday,
the decks were cleared for a battle
royal in the election of officers for the
ensuing year. DR.. w. c. Alexander, Of
New Jersey, presented the name OF DR..
H. Floyd Gamble, OF Charleston, w.
Va. for the presidency; DR.. H. Stanton
McCard. in an eloquent speech, named
DR.. w. H. Wright, of Baltimore; DR..
w. NJ. Sinclair, of Philadelphia, placed
in nomination DR.. w. E STAIRS, of Dec
tur, Ala. The esconding addresses Of
Drs. c. w. Childs. K. F. Boyd, J. K.
Francis, P A. johnson and others arous-
ed the enthusiasm TO high pitch for
the respective candidates. and DR.. StoTrs
capped the climax by Withdrawing his
name and seconding the nomination Of
DR.. Wright. When the smoke OF battle
and cleared away, Gamble was found
TO have received ffy-eight votes to six
ty-two for Wright. The enthusiastic
supporters Of Wright thereupon gath
cred their favorite upon their shoulders
and rushed him to the platform. This
scene was repeated little later when
DR.. Charles Roberts was elected vice
president, after a hard fight by DR..
Childs. The list OF officers was filed
ont as follows:
Secretary, DR.. J, 4. Kenney, Tuske-
gee. Ala; assistant eccreary, DR.. l. A.
Lawrence. Elizabeth, n. J.; treasurer,
DR.. a Wilberforce Williams Chicago,
H.; corresponding dental secretary DIR.
( L. II. Henderson, Baltimore; correspond
ing pharmaceutical secretary, Dr. Philip
D. Lee, Milledgcville, Ga
New York was selected as the next
place of meeting, last week in August
1908. The announcement made by DR..
P. A. Roberts. OF New York, was greet
ed BY loud cheers. A telegram OF con-
graduation from Secretary A. B. Hum
phrey. of the Constitutional League, was
read by DR. Sinclair.
| The reception at Lyric Hall Thursday
night closed the festivities of the ses-
sion, and the next morning a party
numbering TWO hundred left by steamer
} for the jamestown Exposition, TO wit
ness the exercises III connection with
Physicians Day." Saturday, and to
take part in special services at Hamp-
ton. arranged for Sunday, with side
| trip to Buckroe Beach The party was
in charge of DR.. A. NJ Curtis, char
man of the committee on exhibit IN
medicine and surgery, and manager OF
the emergency hospital on the Negro res
ervation at Jamestown.
The local committee at Baltimore,
! headed by Dr. w II. Wright, merits un-
stinted praise for the lavish manner in
which the proverbial hospitality OF
Marylands metropolis was dispensed, and
his election TO the presidency was d
fitting recognition OF his energetic and
. faithful labors The National Med
ical Association shows a substantial
growth in numbers and influence yeaI
by year and its annual meetings are
luminous landmarks in the history Of
the Negro people n the tri-partitie sci
ences which it so capably relresents.
DIR. w H. Wright, the n vly-electeC
president of the National Medical Asso
citation, is a graduate of the medical de
partment of Yale College. Class of 1900
and is native of West Virginia. II,
has practiced in Baltimore for sever
years, and IS higly respected by al
classes in the Monumental City. He i
thirty-two years of age.
! KENTUCKY GIVES DR.. WASH
INGTON AN OVATION.
Louisville, KY, September ].
This has been Gala week in Louisville
The Supreme Biennial Conclave of tht
| KNIGHTS Of Pvthias of T1rth America