ST. LOUIS BUSINESS.

St. Louis is Aggressive in Corraling Trade according to an article by Mark H. Salt in the June issue of the American Business Man. After the following introductory head lines the writer says: City on the Mississippi a Firm Believer in Advertising Itself and Its Manifold Advantages as a Commercial Center-Its Amazing Growth in Population and Structural Beauty Since the World's Fair-Far Reaching Plans of the Buyers' Club to Attract Merchants to the City-Huge, Costly Structure Planned for Their Convenience.

"There is probably no city in the West which makes, and makes successfully, such strenuous efforts to attract business to its merchants, as does St. Louis. The near proximity of Chicago does not daunt the St. Louis man; he figures that in certain respects, he has an advantage over the Chicago man, and boldly pushes out into territory in search of trade that the Chicagoan considers peculiarly his own. Broadly speaking, the St. Lousian considers that his legitimate trade territory is bounded on the north by Canada, on the east by Pennsylvania, on the west by Utah, while the entire south and a large part of Mexico are his natural heritage. The fact that Chicago is included within these geographical lines makes no difference in St. Louis; Chicago is as much a field for exploitation to the St. Louis merchant as is Memphis, Tenn.

"It is doubtful if there is any city in the West which has made such rapid strides forward in the past four years as has St. Louis. Generally the fact that a World's Fair has been held within a city's borders has been sufficient to cast a blight over its advancement for several years later. It was so with Philadelphia after the Centennial in 1876, and it was so with Chicago after 1893. But there was a reason for this depressed condition in both these cities which did not exist at St. Louis. In both Philadelphia and Chicago previous to the opening of their exhibitions there was a wild speculation in land and buildings. People flocked to them by the thousands and prepared to reap a fortune in six months from the millions of visitors who were certain to come. The rush of investors brought about an inflation of values and a glut of buildings which after the close of the exhibitions were without occupants and caused a general depression in values, which it required some years to

overcome.

"At St. Louis this condition did not obtain. It was not, however, because there was any lack of disposition on the part of its citizens to make similar speculative ventures, or because the prospect was not an alluring one to the thousands of speculators who always see in World's Fairs the stepping stone to easy fortune. It was due to entirely different causes.

"At the time the St. Louis Exhibition was planned and during the four years required for its construction, the country was on the high level of prosperity. Labor was fully employed in every line of industry,

and it was only by offering the most tempting inducements in the way of wages that sufficient labor could be obtained to erect the Exposition buildings. Carpenters, masons, plumbers, electricians, and every branch of skilled labor obtained from two to three times the normal rate of wages, and even for unskilled labof double the usual rates were necessary to obtain the needed help.

"As a consequence, building operations of every kind were practically prohibited in the city and its environs. Even if a property owner was willing to pay the rate of wages that had been established by the Fair and could obtain the labor, the prices of all kinds of building material had reached staggering proportions. The few buildings that were put up under these conditions cost appalling figures, and speculative activity was decisively checked.

"Hence the suspended activities of St. Louis have been booming since the close of the Exposition. The business section of the city has been practically transformed since that time, and skyscraper after skyscraper has gone up, until the sky line from the Mississippi River looks like a section of New York or Chicago. It is the same way in the residential portions. Acres and acres of land that were formerly destitute of a building of any character have been covered with beautiful dwellings, and the habitable portion of the city has been pushed far out into what were formerly suburbs. Population has grown at a surprising rate, and it is probable that the next census will show a million or over for the city.

"As the city has grown its industries have also expanded. St. Louis has always been a great commercial center, and the city is full of wealth. It was a great trading point before Chicago existed, and while Chicago checked its growth somewhat and cut into its trade, it never stopped it. It boasts today some of the largest commercial concerns in the United States. The Simmons Hardware Co., of St. Louis, has no rival of anywhere near its size; the Cupples Woodenware Co. is the greatest in its line in the country; the Meyer Brothers Drug 'Co. does more business in its line than any other establishment in the country, while the Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. and other firms in that line have made the city practically the center of that industry, and have wrested the supremacy from New England, which has held it for generations.

"The commercial bodies of St. Louis have always been good advertisers. The merchants composing them not only believe in advertising their own wares, but they believe in advertising their city. They have striven to make it attractive to buyers and have held out all kinds of inducements to attract them there.

Each one of the army of drummers that traverses the country for St. Lonis houses is an advertising agent for the city also. If a mercantile house sends out a bill to a customer, the envelope will also contain some literature expatiating on the attractions of St. Louis and the advantages that it offers to the small merchant in the way of trading facilities and social enjoyments. These commercial bodies are expending $100,000 a year on just such advertising, and the result is that St. Louis is one of the best boomed business cities in the country and it is reaping its legitimate reward."

NECROLOGY.

Mrs. James G. Baker, of Fairfield, Ill., died, June 22. She was the wife of a prominent pharmacist of that city and one of the esteemed ladies of the community.

J. S. Bugg, died at Morganfield, Ky., March 8, 1908. Uremia was the immediate cause of death, although

he has suffered with rheumatism since 1895. He was born January 15, 1848, and had been in the drug business for many years. He was a Mason and highly esteemed by all who knew him.

Carl Engel died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Manhattan, Kansas, June 10. He was born in Zonsdorf, Germany, October 30, 1844. With his family he located in Watertown, Wis., when eleven years old. When sixteen years of age, he went to Milwaukee and learned the printing business. In 1865 he located at Leavenworth, Kansas, and a year later moved to Manhattan. He first opened a general store and later gave particular attention to the drug

business.

James L. Hazlett, of Hearne, Tex., fell from a car on the figure 8, at Electric Park, Galveston, while attending the state association meeting. He sustained injuries which resulted in his death. He was one of the prominent, active and always attentive members of the state association and will be greatly missed from the annual conventions. Before entering the drug business on his own account at Hearne, Mr. Hazlett was with the Meyer Brothers Drug Co., at Dallas, Tex., and previous to that, with the home firm at St. Louis.

JAMES L. HAZLETT.

MATRIMONIAL.

Clark-Mohan.-John L. Clark, of Seneca, and Miss Lizzie Mohan, of Easton, Kan., were married June 9. He is a prominent business man of Seneca and popular in social circles.

coming convention the expenses of the New York Ph. Cutting Out the Requests for Contributions.-Atits A. will be financed with the funds voted by local organizations and there will be no requests for manufacturers or wholesalers to chip in to pay the freight. The N. A. R. D., also, has come to the conclusion, so far as it can at present through the sentiment of its executive committee, that the manufacturers and jobbers ought not to be placed in a position where they cannot refuse to pay towards the expenses of entertaining the delegates at the annual conventions. For this reason, the plans for the Atlantic City convention of the N. A. R. D. do not so far provide for "entertainment," but there will be plenty of it and the delegates need not feel that they are under obligation to anybody for enforced contributions.

There is absolutely no legitimate reason why the annual convention of the N. A. R. D., the N. W. D. A., the State Pharmaceutical associations or the meetings of local associations should be made the occasions for soliciting contributions from anybody who has business relations with the members of the organizations. The money paid over in these instances is never given with a free heart and eventually the recipients of the tribute, if we may call it that, must pay the cost. The druggists of the United States are not beggars and now that the example has been set for them there is no reason for continuing to let a few persist in tactics which discredit the great majority. Programmes without advertisements are so inexpensive and in so much better taste there is no reason for mixing trade with pleasure and mental edification-especially when the thing is done at the cost of the self-respect of a majority of those who are presumed to be benefited, while the men who pay the freight view the whole proceeding with ill-disguised contempt.-[Pharmaceutical Era.

SUNSHINE-PROSPERITY.

Date of 1909 Meeting.-This will be the third Tuesday in June.

Place of 1909 Meeting.-The following committee was instructed to select the location for the 1909 meeting: Francis Hemm, chairman, St. Louis; Wm. Mittlebach, Boonville; D. V. Whitney, Kansas City; Dr. A. H. P. Ohning, New Hampton; Louis Grother, Cole Camp.

Mo. Ph. A. T. A. Officers, for 1908-9:

President, H. C. Jeffries, Kansas City; First Vice-President, Till T. Duncan, St. Louis; Second Vice-President, D. R. Dunavan, Kansas City; Third Vice-President, John Baer, Boonville; Secretary, Oscar H. Ott, Sedalia; Treasurer, Adolph C. Meyer, St. Louis; Ass't Treasurer, Ed. G. Orear, Maryville.

Council:-Dan Liddy, Kansas City; Ed Hunter, Kansas City; C. M. Coon, Kansas City; Geo. Parsons, Kansas City.

Meetings and Conventions at Pertle Springs in 1908.- Missouri State Pharmaceutical Association,

June 7 to 12. Young People's Missionary Movement, June 12 to 20. State Epworth League, July 14 to 18. Missouri Baptist Assembly, July 19 to 26. Missouri Bar Association, September 10 to 12. Pertle Springs Fair, September 15 to 18.

Twenty-five Years of Continuous Membership entitles a person to become a life-member of the Mo. Ph. A. The following were reported in this list by Treasurer Mittelbach:

Solomon Boehm, W. C. Bolm, Henry Fischer, Chas. Gietner, J. M. Good, W. P. Hagee, Francis Hemm, Dr. G H. Chas. Klie, Ernst Riecker, H. F. A. Spilker, W. W. Thornton, F. A. Uhlich, Dr. H. M. Whelpley, all of St. Louis; J. F. Llewellyn, Mexico.

The Mo. Ph. T. A. Retiring Officers were:
President, Dan Liddy, Kansas City.

First Vice-President, H. C. Jeffries, St. Joseph.

Second Vice-President, T. T. Duncan, St. Louis. Third Vice-President, D. K. Dunavan, Kansas City. Secretary, Oscar H. Ott, Sedalia.

Treasurer, Adolph C. Meyer, St. Louis.

Assistant Treasurer, Ed. G. Orear, St. Louis.

Council.-B. S. Hubbard, Will Berryman, J. C. Stradal, C. W. Loomis.

Mo. Ph. A. Officers for 1908-9:

President, D. V. Whitney, Kansas City; first vice-president, Wm. K. Illhardt, St. Louis; second vice-president, Anton Bur

Retiring President, J. V. Murray, Warrensburg. venich, St. Joseph; third vice-president, H. O. A. Huegel, St. Louis; treasurer, Wm. Mittlebach, Boonville; secretary, H. M. Whelpley, St. Louis; assistant secretary, J. C. Thumser, St. Louis.

Council.-A. Brandenberger, Jefferson City; J. F. Llewellyn, Mexico; L. A. Seitz, St. Louis; Ed. G. Orear, Maryville; Otto F. Claus, secretary, St. Louis.

Exhibits at the Mo. Ph. A. meeting made their appearance this year for the first time during several years past.

F. C. Whitman, of Warrensburg, chairman of the committee on exhibits, reported the following:

Iron-Kola, St. Louis.

Orangeade, Rochester, N. Y. Hire's Root Beer, Malvern, Pa. Allen's Tame Cherry, Lima, O.

McCourt Label Cabinet, Bradford, Pa.

T. E. Lippincott Soda Water Co., St. Louis.

The Travelers' Want to Return to Pertle Springs next year, but there seems to be a desire among some of the druggists to take the meeting away from Pertle. But those familiar with the success the association has had from year to year while meeting here are much averse to any change and think the association will make a mistake. The secretary says there is not a place in the state equal to Pertle Springs for a meeting of this kind. That is saying a great deal, but it is the cold truth.-[Warrensburg Star.

The Mendelssohn Quartet has received almost sufficient practical experience to be entitled to registration in Missouri. The members are always welcome and add much to the entertainment feature of the conventions. In the above picture, we have; standing to the left, Edward Zaenglin; seated in the center, Theo. Westhus; seated to the right in the front, J. C. Lavine; seated to the right, rear, J. C. McConnell.

Those Who Talked at the Mo. Ph. A. meeting and took an active part in the proceedings are as follows: W. S. Amos, W. T. Bland, Dr. A. H. P. Bohning, A. Brandenberger, W. C. Bender, Dr. Otto F. Claus, Frank J. De Cou, F. R. Dimmitt, P. H. Franklin, Charles Gietner, Louis Grother, Ed. Hamill, Francis Hemm, H. O. A. Huegel, Charles R. Judge, J. F. Llewellyn, A. C. Meyer, William Mittelbach, Ambrose Mueller, J. V. Murray, M. J. Noll, Ed. G. Orear, Dr. H. M. Petit, F. W. Robinson, Ed. G. Schroers, L. A. Seitz, J. C. Thumser, F. C. Whitman, D. C. Whitney. The Mo. Ph. A. Retiring Officers were: President, J. V. Murray, Warrensburg. First Vice-President, D. V. Whitney, Kansas City. Second Vice-President, Wm. K. Ilhardt, St. Louis.

Third Vice-President, Anton Burvenich, St. Joseph.
Treasurer, William Mittelbach, Boonville.
Permanent Secretary, Dr. H. M. Whelpley, St. Louis.
Assistant Secretary, A. F. Zimmerschild, Kansas City.
Local Secretary, T. A. Montgomery, Warrensburg.
Council.-L. A. Seitz, chairman, St. Louis; A. Brandenberger,
vice-chairman, Jefferson City; Dr. Otto F. Claus, secretary, St.
Louis; Paul L. Hess, Kansas City; Ed. G. Schroers, St. Joseph.
The president, permanent secretary and treasurer are mem-
bers ex-officio.

Mo. Ph. A. New Members, 1907-8:
Althoff, A. J., Higginsville.
Brummall, L. Don., Salisbury.
Carter, Doran R., Holden.

Frey, Jacob J., No. 2744 Cass Avenue, St. Louis.
Grabenschroer, Fred W., No. 4248 Hunt Avenue, St. Louis.
Green, Frank, Jr., Maryville.

Kinder Linwood U., No. 2201 E. Eighteenth Street, Kansas City.
McKinney, J. F., Eighth and Troost Streets, Kansas City.

Meyer, Charles E., St. Charles.

Miller, John G., Sr., Warrensburg.

Miller, John G., Jr., Warrensburg.

Nelson, Roger H., Fifteenth and Troost Avenue, Kansas City. Koppenbrink, Jesse E., Higginsville.

Rhodes, C. C., Lincoln.

Slusher, W. S., No. 3255 E. Twenty-seventh Street, Kansas City. Schneider, J. A., Concordia.

Stephens, Clinton F., Oak Grove.

Stukenbroeker, F. W., Owensville.

Suppan, Leo, No. 2648 Russell Avenue, St. Louis.

Wertemeyer, A. F., Jr., St. Charles.

Pharmacists in the Employ of the United States have long attracted the attention of the A. Ph. A. state associations and the N. A. R. D. On motion by Francis Hemm the following resolutions were adopted at the recent meeting of the Mo. Ph. A.

WHEREAS, Progress in all branches of science of medicine is necessary for the safeguarding of the public health, and WHEREAS, The safeguarding of the public health is an important duty of governments, therefore be it

Resolved, That the members of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association in meeting assembled, heartily endorse the efforts that are now being made to improve the medical service of the army, navy and the public health and Marine Hospital services of the United States.

Resolved, That we particularly endorse the measure known as "H. R. 16091," entitled "A bill to regulate the appointment of pharmacists in the public health and Marine Hospital service of the United States, and to fix their pay and allowance," believing that the enactment of this bill into law would result in improving the status of the pharmacists engaged in this service and a corresponding improvement in the service itself.

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the president of the United States, to the secretary of the treasury and to the surgeon general of the public health and Marine Hospital service of the United States.

Report of the Mo. Ph. A. Committee on Papers and Queries. We have diligently bestirred ourselves for several months past, endeavoring to secure contributions for the present meeting.

We were promised contributions enough, which if they materialize before we get far along into our sessions, will occupy all of our time hearing and discussing same.

Your committee also called special attention to the association medals, which are offered for valuable and able papers.

In submitting questions to elicit papers we thought we would try the scheme of concentration of effort on only a few and submitted the following: