Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-08
THE H00S HOGS ARE CONCAT ENtT|NG Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo, Will Open at Atlantic City Today. SHARK OF UNIVERSE Is on Hand-Growth of the Order Ex.
 ceeds All Previous Records-MOre
 Than 2,5OO Initiated During Past
 Twelve Months.
SHARK OF UNIVERSE

the arrival in Atlantic City of the Su- preme Shark of the Universe, accom- panied by the Bojum, Scrivenoter, JabberOwck, Custocatian, Arcanoper, Gurdon and Senior and Junior Hoo- Hoo, the Supreme Nine is assembled for the sixteenth annual meeting of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, which will open here tomorrow. The men bearing these fear-inspiring names are in reality exceedingly pros- business men, all being engaged in the manufacture or sale of lumber. In addition to the officials, hundreds of other lumber States, Canada and Mexico are arriv- ing for the annual session. The meet ing will begin tomorrow morning with the annual assembly of the Osirian cloister, followed in the afternoon by the annual initiation ceremony. The business session will be called to or der by the Shark of the Universe, A. c. Ramsey of Missouri, at nine min utes after nine o'clock of the morn ing of the ninth day of the ninth month, the same being Monday.
 The principal matter to be ccnsid- cred at the session is that of ad- herring more closely to the clause of the constitution governing eligibility to membership in the order. This provides that only manufacturers or dealers in lumber, owners Of timber lands, newspaper publishers or edi- tors, general railroad officials and manufacturers of saWmill machinery shall be admitted. It is alleged that in several places, notably in Texas, a number of men wholly ineligible have been admitted by local vicegerents. This will be made the subject of some vigorous comment by the Shark of the Universe and methods by which to prevent a recurrence in the future will receive considerable attention at the meeting. It is alleged that dras- tic example will be made by this Tex as vice-gerent.
 The growth of the order during the last year exceeds all previous records, and the membership rolls now con- tain the names of nearly all lumber men of North America Nearly 2,o0o men have been initiated during the last welve months and concatena- tions have been held within practical ly every state and territory of the Union, every province of Canada aad every state of Mexico, as we'll as one at Shanghai China. The latter was the first concatenation ever held out side the American continent. It will be followed shortly by meeting of the order at Sydney, N. s. w.
 Considerable interest is manifested in the election of officers, which in- cludes all the members of tn Supreme Nine. The Eastern delegates are de- termined to capture the office of the
 
 have put forward John L. Alcock, the we'll known hardwood lumber export CT of Baltimore, for the office. Orig inally a Western order, the HOo-HOO has now spread all over the East and the members in this section will put up a formidable fight to elect their man. This is the first general meet ing to be held in an Eastern city, re-
 cent annual meetings having been held in Oklahoma City, Portlad, Ore, and St. Louis
 The Concatenated Order of Hoo- Hoo-Supreme Scrivenoter H. Baird of Nashville, Tenn, editor of the off, cial organ, is insistent that the name i is Hoo-Hoo, both singular and plural, and not Hoo-Hoos, as it is usually written-had tits origin in the little town of Gurdon, Ark, on January 21, 1892. tran wreck detained a num- Der of lumbermen, railroad officials and newspaper men in the little town for a day, and that day of leisure re- suited in the inception of what has since become the greatest social or ganization in the world based upon community of business interests. Among the original HOo-HOO in the lit tie Arkansas lumber village were B. A. Johnson, now editor of the Ameri- can Lumberman, Chicago; William 5. Mitchell, business manager of the Lit tie Rock Democrat; William E. Barns, editor of the St. Louis Lumberman; George Kimball Smith, secretary of the Southern Lumbermen's aSSOcia-