The Pensacola journal., 1910-05-07

Quite a number were not in the au-
ditorium at the time, and were not
registered in consequence.
Mr.. D'SAUSSURE ENTHUSIASTIC.
Secretary DeSaussure, OF Jackson,
vile, one of the livest members OF
the association, was o nhis feet about
this time and said some good thing
about the convention and the history
of the association. He said that from
very small beginning, the assOcia-
tion had grown in membership to 110
state and IL national banks, and he
urged that every bank in the state
become members, and no bank should
be out of it.
SOME TELEGRAMS.
kilograms were then read by the
secretary. One came from the State
Bankers in session in California, con-
veying good wishes to the Florida
bankers for a successful conven-
ton.
H. E. Taylor, vice-president of the
association, who wired from Gaines
vile, expressed personal regret that
he was unable to be present.
The Board Of Trade of St. Angus
tine, and the mayor of the same city,
each telegraphed an invitation for
the convention to meet there next
year.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
President Hardee then delivered
his address. Reading from notes, he
was heard with close attention. The
address follows:
1t is with much pleasure that we
find ourselves again assembled in
this the seventeenth annual cOnven,
tion of the Florida State Bankers As
~
years that have passed since our or
ganizatiOn have we met in the thriv-
ing city of Jacksonville and been cor
daily welcomed there by the hospita-
Bile Metropolis of Florida. We have on
one occasion gone far south, down
among the orange groves of the pro-
posed Pinellas county, and splendid
meeting that was which We had in
beautiful st. Petersburg. A year
ago we assembled in Middle Florida,
in the city of Live Oak, and this be-
ing my home town its natural modes
ty precludes my using any adjectives
descriptive of that occasion, but this
is the first time that the bankers Of
Florida have met at any point in the
western section of the state, but all
along this splendid city of Pensacola
has been beautiful to behold, and the
first time that we were Sufficiently
urged" the convention accepted the
invitation, and as a result we are
with you today. We are proud of
Pensacola, we appreciate her for
what she is and for her splendid his
tory, for her great men and for her
solid and progressive financial insti-
tutions. And Florida as a state con-
graduates itself that, notwithstanding
few years ago there were rumors
that this good section would eventu-
ally be a part and parcel of the great
state of Alabama, you dispelled this
agitation, and are today part and par
eel of the greater state of Florida.
1t is we'll that bankers of the state
should form themselves into an AS
sociatiOn and should assemble in con
vention each year for the discussion
of those matters and things which
make for the interest of the fraterni-
ty. In the congregation of people
there is power, and in the multitude
of council there is wisdom, and so
our coming together for the discus
sion of subjects assigned, and the So
cial intercourse of its members, we
incorporate as our own the good
methods and correct ideas of those
similarly engaged as ourselves. l
would dispel the idea if such exists,
that our meeting is simply that of