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Show Wholesale Dry Ms t Men Elect Officers S Next Annual Conference of Assoda- j Hon to Be Held inv2Te"W Xork, as It Was This Tear. I NEW YORK, Jan. 2L At tho second E closing Bcsslon of the Wholesale Dry I Goods association's annual meeting I there has been protracted discussion on m the custom of the direct soIcb to re- E tailors by manufacturers and comrrils- F sion merchants. Twenty prominent I New Tork commission merchants and n representatives of mills took part in I the discussion, which lasted several S hours. Manufacturing representatives, ns well n3 commission merchants, 1 promised to co-operate with tho as- Boclatlon In an effort to save the job- bcrs. I Before the Jobbing question came up I the association considered the report of g a c iminlttee appointed to go Into the R subject o' tl.o extension o Ihc parcel j post system of doing business. Much i opposition was expressed toward any P extension of th parcel po3t. nnd it I was decided that managers of the as- S soclatlon shouM lay the views of the I wholesalers before their local reprc- I scntativea. I Discussion of the middleman was then taken up. Papers were read by I representatives of thpse interests de- i clarlng that many largo manufactur- I ers. Including those represented jjj through the large commission-houses, who are absolutely dependent upon the H Jobbers for the great sharo of their M business ns It is conducted at present, 5j have so little regard for those that aro their best customers that they are sell- 1 Ing many retailers, tho natural cus- f tomers of those same Jobbers, at prac- tically tho same prices. Widespread I formation of syndicates in the smaller i cities, whereby the local merchants pool I their orders and deal directly with the t manufacturers, also was condemned. When the talk was over no rules wero j proposed, but the meeting indorsed sng- I gestlons made "In various capers und I tho niombrrK of the assocl-Clm fx- f pressed the belief that the practice of ft vhe manufacturers would be lens prv- I a.ent hereafter. It was decided to hold the next conference In New York, i Officers were elected as follows: I President, J. K. Burnham, Kansas a City; first vice-president, J. W. Scott, Chicago; second vice-president, Ed- R ward S. Lewis, St. Louis; secretary- C treasurer, Douglas Dallam, New York; g executive committee, W. N. Moore, H Kansas City; Robert Geddes, Indlanap- ( oils; Stuart Shllllto, Cincinnati; W. W. Wheeler, St. Joseph; F. J. Goll, Milwaukee; F. K. Stoepel, Detroit; e George H. Partridge, Minneapolis; J. M. Kaater, Baltimore, and Charles W. Blodgett, Boston. |