sorrow.

This roster of our honored dead, while not an unusually long one, bears names that charge this occasion with more than a common In such a membership as ours it is inevitable that each year some of the veterans to whom we owe the upbuilding of our industry should leave us. This is Nature's decree to which we are called upon to submit without vain repining. The past year has been no exception in this mournful respect, bearing away from us as it did, with many of our friends still in the fulness of life and vigor, some of our most honored and beloved veterans, men who while helping to make the brewing industry great and important, illustrated in their daily lives the cardinal virtues of good citizenship.

A brewer of this worthy and by no means uncommon type was

the late Bertrand Adoue, long the leader of our industry in Texas, whose eloquent voice has so often been heard in our councils. Mr. Adoue was a son of France. Born at Aurignac, in that country in 1841, he came to the United States in his early youth, first settling at New Orleans. He founded a great banking as well as brewing business in Galveston and was prominently identified with other enterprises in the Southwest. His work as head of the Texas Brewers' Association in bringing about a reform of evil conditions in the retail branch of the trade and thereby proving that the business is no more inconsistent than any other with order and decency, gained for him a national reputation and the special gratitude of our membership. It was the achievement of which he was rightly most proud and it has placed his name high with the conservers of our industry. A foremost citizen of his home city and State, his death called forth the highest tributes of esteem and was universally lamented.

The name of Frederich W. Mueller in this list of our dead causes an unusual pang of sorrow, so vital and fresh is the spell of his warm personality upon many here present. Mr. Mueller was born in Berlin, Germany, and had attained his sixty-fifth year. He was President of the Pittsburgh Brewing Company; eminently successful in business, honorable and exemplary in all the relations of life. He was a man of exceptional culture and breadth of mind, and labored for his ideals both in the industry to which he devoted his great abilities and in the province of the citizen. A devoted member and a former Trustee of this Association, it is hard to realize that he has fallen out of the ranks and can no longer march with us. Long be his memory cherished!

It was said of the late Jacob Moerlein, third son of Christian Moerlein, who founded the brewing business in Cincinnati which still bears his name, that no man in that city gave so much of his wealth to charitable objects and none more carefully sought to conceal the fact or claimed less credit for his philanthropy. He was especially beloved by his employees for the zealous interest he unfailingly manifested in their welfare, an attitude which is the rule rather than the exception among employing brewers. Mr. Moerlein was never attracted to public life, content to use the influence arising from his great wealth for the best interests of the community. Few deaths have been more generally mourned in his native city.

Charles C. Schmidt, who died less than a month ago in his home city of Wheeling, W. Va., had been greatly honored by his fellow citizens. The fact that he was three times chosen Mayor of Wheeling may testify to the esteem in which he was held by the whole community, irrespective of political divisions. Mr. Schmidt also served in other public capacities with credit and dignity. He was associated for many years with the Reymann Brewing Company.

George Hauck, who died at Rondout, N. Y., in his eightieth year, was a fine type of the sturdy German brewer, who brought the double gift of beer and true temperance to this country. Mr. Hauck was born at Klingenmunster near Rheinfalz, Landau-onthe-Rhine, in 1832. Liberal in his charities, zealous toward his civic obligations, he possessed the entire respect of the community where he spent the greater part of his long life.

Philip Zorn, founder and President of the Zorn Brewing Company and a leading citizen of Michigan City, Indiana, appears among the worthy veretans whom we have lately lost. He was born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1837. No man more fully possessed or more richly merited the esteem of his fellow citizens.

Still another who had well overpassed the Psalmist's limit was John Wetterer, of Cincinnati, a prominent and successful member of our industry. Though a pioneer brewer, Mr. Wetterer was not German born, being a native of Cincinnati and ranking with its foremost business men.

John Emmerling, founder and head of the Emmerling Brewing Company, Johnstown, Pa., died last May in his sixty-first year. Eminently successful in business, he was honored for all public and private virtues. He was born near Philadelphia, sprung from the sturdy German stock that has entered so deeply into the life of that State.

Time forbids a more particular mention of other departed friends in this list, all of whom, notwithstanding, are equal in our love and remembrance.

Your committee begs leave to submit the following Resolution, and we would respectfully ask that it be adopted, according to custom, by a rising vote:

RESOLVED, that we deplore with sincere grief the calling hence of our beloved friends and associates named in the roll of dead for the past year, amiable and lovely as they were in their lives; and it is further resolved that the Secretary be directed to draw up and

transmit to the relatives of our departed friends a suitable memorial of our sympathy and condolence.

Respectfully submitted,

J. CHRIS. G. HUPFEL, Chairman,

EDWARD RUHL,

GUSTAVE PABST,

H. A. POTH,

CHARLES WIEDEMANN,

E. H. FAUST,

ADAM MUELLER,

Committee on Condolence.

THE PRESIDENT:-Gentlemen, you have heard the request of the Committee on Condolence, that we adopt this resolution by a rising vote. Let us, therefore, rise and pay this mark of respect to our deceased members.

The resolution was accordingly adopted by a rising vote.

THE PRESIDENT:-We have next to hear the report of the Nominating Committee, Mr. Pabst, Chairman.

MR. PABST:-Mr. President, the Nominating Committee submits the following:

JULIUS STROH, Detroit.

New Trustees.

WM. J. LEMP, St. Louis.

FRANK FEHR, Louisville.

G. L. BECKER, Utah.

S. B. FLEMING, Fort Wayne.

Membership Committee.

AUGUST GOEBEL, JR., Chairman

EDWARD RUHL

JOHN F. BECKER

W. F. HARRINGTON

HERMAN STRAUB.

THE PRESIDENT:-Are there any other nominations to be made? There being none, gentlemen, as you have heard the report of the Committee on Nominations, what is your pleasure?

MR. SCHARMANN:-I move that the Secretary be instructed to cast one ballot for the gentlemen nominated by the Committee. THE SECRETARY:-Mr. President, I have cast one ballot for the entire ticket, as nominated, and declare the nominees duly elected.

THE PRESIDENT:-Mr. Secretary, will you kindly read the names of those gentlemen who have just been elected?