WASHINGTON. OFFICERS 1896-97. President, L. C. Whitford, M. D., Seattle; First Vice-President, J. H. McDonald, M. D., Olympia; Second Vice-President, J. M. Miller, M. D., Latak; Secretary, R. L. Chase, M. D., Edmonds; Treasurer, Frank Brooks, M. D., Seattle. OFFICERS 1897-98. President, L. C. Whitford, M. D., Seattle; First Vice-President, D. T. Richards, Kirkland; Second Vice-President, W. M. Smith, Montesano; Treasurer, Frank Brooks, M. D., Seattle; Recording and Corresponding Secretary, R. L. Chase, M. D., Edmonds; Eclectic member, J. H. Hoxsey, M. D., Spangle. Annual meeting was held at Tacoma, September 21, 1898. WEST VIRGINIA. OFFICERS 1896-97. President, H. M. Campbell, M. D., Parkersburg; First Vice President, G. R. Fox, M. D., Clendenin; Second Vice-President, A. J. Diddle, M. D., Winifred; Recording Secretary and Treasurer, Mary S. Baron, M. D., Wheeling; Corresponding Secretary, L. S. Riggs, M. D., Wheeling. Annual meeting was held at Parkersburg, May 12 and 13, 1897. OFFICERS 1897-98. President, L. S. Riggs, Wheeling; First Vice-President, W. F. Crow, Glen Easton; Second Vice-President, W. D. Cline, Williamstown; Recording Secretary and Treasurer, Mary Baron-Monroe, M. D., Wheeling; Corresponding Secretary, L. N. Yost, Fairmont. Annual meeting was held at Fairmont, May 3 and 4, 1898. 421 WISCONSIN. OFFICERS 1896-97. President, Frank P. Klahr, M. D., Horicon; First Vice-President, C. E. Cole, M. D., Prairie du Chien; Second Vice-President, H. H. Norris, M. D., Prairie du Sac; Treasurer, J. F. Stillman, M. D., Kilbourn; Recording Secretary, T. H. Vernon, M. D., Hillsboro; Corresponding Secretary, W. A. Pratt, M. D., Warrens. Annual meeting was held at Milwaukee on the last Thursday in May, 1897. OFFICERS 1897-98. President, C. E. Cole, M. D., Prairie du Chien; First Vice-President, G. R. Hill, M. D., Kendall; Second Vice-President, Mary Montgomery, M. D.; Secretary, W. A. Pratt, M. D., Augusta; Corresponding Secretary, P. G. Hankwitz, Milwaukee; Treasurer, J. F. Stillman, M. D., Kilbourn City; Eclectic members of State Board of Medical Examiners, C. E. Quigg, Tomah, and H. M. Ludwig, Richland Centre. Annual meeting was held at Milwaukee, May 24-27, 1898. RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY MAYOR RAUSCHENBERGER, OF MILWAUKEE, MAY 25, 1897. PROF. J. V. STEVENS, CHICAGO. Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen: It is indeed a pleasing duty that has been assigned to me. The very courteous and cordial welcome that has been extended to us by your Honor, the mayor of this great and beautiful city, the justly-famed metropolis of Wisconsin, demands that one of our orators should have responded to it, and that I shall be unable to adequately voice the feelings and sentiments of our Society is their misfortune at this time. The orators of our Association must have escaped the eagle eye of our President; and it would appear at present that some one (or perhaps more than one were implicated) endeavored to play a practical joke upon our Society by suggesting to him. that he appoint me to this position. Possibly all of the guilt rests on him. If so, he is entitled to plead lack of intimate acquaintance with me in extenuation of his error. I can think of no reason myself why I should occupy this position at this time; but possibly the facts of my having practiced my profession in this State for eight years, the undeserved honors conferred upon me by this Association in the past, and my continued active membership in it after my removal from the State, may account for it. Our Society has only met in this enterprising city of yours once before, Mr. Mayor. The fact that but few representatives of our school of medicine (comparatively speaking) have chosen to locate here is the only reason I can think of for our not having been here oftener. No one has especially invited us to come here until now; and we have been strongly urged each year to go to some of the smaller cities. in the State, and thus have heretofore seemed to fail to recognize the many advantages possessed by this "Queen City of the Great Lakes," so ably pointed out by you; but, sir, I am sure that we shall come here again soon and often, when as a Society we understand how cordial a welcome awaits us. You have good reason to be proud of having demonstrated the especial fitness of your city as a convention city by the very satisfactory manner in which you have entertained national conventions recently, which, I have no doubt, will attract many others in the future. To one living in Chicago, as I now do, a trip about your well-kept city emphasizes very forcibly our own lack of uniformity and cleanliness, and speaks eloquently of your municipal honesty and successful and economical administration of city affairs to all visitors. Your greater elevation above the level of the lake than obtains at the site of your younger and larger sister city just referred to, makes this task somewhat easier, and adds to the natural beauty of your city. The uniform courtesy of your citizens, and the absence of any visible detrimental effects upon their conduct because of their use of one of your productions which has "made Milwaukee famous" throughout the world (I do not refer to Milwaukee brick), constrains me to believe that all of it that can cause viciousness is shipped to Chicago and elsewhere, as such evil effects are so much more easily discernible there than here. I shall expect one of our number residing here to prove in his paper that your surroundings are so salubrious and strictly sanitary that no possible excuse could be found for any of us to locate here to practice our profession. So I shall predict that all will return. home, after the business of the Association shall have been concluded, with hearts warmed by your kindness and courtesy, and the onerous burdens of our professional work lightened for many a day by our recollection of them. I trust, sir, that no occasion for the exercise of your promised clemency toward any of us may arise; but we thank you for your kind offer just as heartily, and will bear it in mind, because in a great city like yours one never knows what may happen to him. |