On these pages, 261 to 270, we present an exact fac-simile, as it appeared in a Chicago trade-newspaper, of the convention or meeting which we have given in full on pages 234 to 259. It is shown on these pages 261 to 270 as edited before printing, the unnecessary portions being either expunged or rewritten, and in most cases descriptively condensed, while occasionally descriptions occur for acts which were not utterances and therefore not found in notes commencing page 235.

The verbatim report commencing on page 234, as will be seen by the shorthand notes opposite those pages, could only contain the information which the reporter jots down before the meeting is called to order and the actual remarks of the speakers, commencing with the opening words of the president", and the names or titles of the speakers, which the phonographer writes as the remarks are being made. For this reason, the heading of the report as given on opposite page, commencing with the title: " A Notable Event," and including the first and second paragraphs as they appear on that page, are necessarily merely descriptive and not verbatim.

Even the words of the president in opening a meeting, are not printed in a general newspaper report, and they are therefore not to be found on opposite page.

The minutes of the preceding meeting are also neither printed nor do they appear in the shorthand notes on page 235, as the stenographer does not need them, the two lines of third paragraph of report on opposite page fully covering the subject of the minutes, including Mr. Coffin's motion for their acceptance, and the seconding of same by Mr. Pettet, shown on page 234. Similarly with the report of the treasurer, which, when no figures are given, is sometimes condensed as shown in fourth paragraph on opposite page.

By comparing these paragraphs on opposite page with the verbatim wording of same commencing on page 234, the student will also observe quite a considerable omission in this trade paper report. For instance, the answer of Mr. Cox to a call of the president for report of Membership Committee, with the discussion between Mr. Rosenthal and the president, has been condensed into three lines, as shown by our fifth paragraph in report on opposite page.

The report of Mr. Wadsworth, of the Committee on Credits, is similarly treated, while the six lines of last paragraph of page opposite are used in place of nearly the entire latter half of page 236 in our full report.

The first actual verbatim work shown in this trade newspaper report are the resolutions of page 262, indicated by fourth and fifth paragraphs of page 238 of the verbatim report.

Thus it will be seen that some two pages of shorthand have been condensed into the space of a few paragraphs in this trade newspaper report, which is supposed to be a very full one, the condensation, in this case, being caused both by entirely ignoring some remarks of speakers and simply describing others. The words which members use in sec onding a motion and the words of the President in putting a motion, together with the words which he uses in stating that the motion has passed, or not, being never quoted in a newspaper report, no matter how full the report is to be; such matters being simply described as on this and next page, for it will be seen that after the reading of the first resolution on page 262 quite considerable was said by the president and secretary, which appears in complete report on pages 23S and 240, for which, on page 262, the reporter has contented himself with simply writing two words, "So ordered/'

Almost the same sort of condensation has been used on page 262 with the two motions of Mr. Coffin, down to the presentation by the secretary of the second verbatim resolution, and even the motion of Mr. Pettet has been reduced to two lines, the call from the president

A Notable Event

How The Chicago Paint, Oil And Varnish Club Combined An Exchange Of Social Courtesy With Timely Discussion Of The Live Topics Of The Day, In Their October Meeting

Jndge Gresham, the Guest of the Evening.

Thirty representatives of the Paint, Oil and Varnish Club of this city attended the October meeting, at the rooms of the Union League, on Thursday evening last.

After a sumptuous spread, the discussion of which, with social intercourse, occupied the early part of the evening, the club was called to order by the newly-elected president, G. H. Vrooman SecretaryPerson read the minutes of the previous meeting, which were accepted as read.

Report of Treasurer Rosenthal being next in order, that gentleman asked to be excused on the ground that he had only sent out the bills a week ago, and had not had time to hear from more.than a small part of them. He assured the gentlemen present, however, that there was enough in the treasury to pay for the night's dinner, and by the next meeting he expected to be in a position to give a regular report.

Mr. Cox, Chairman of Committee on Membership, stated that his committee had as yet not begun active business, on account of the little time that had elapsed since appointment.

Mr. Wadsworth, on behalf of the Committee on Credits, asked for further time to prepare a report. Granted.

President Vrooman, for the Committee on Naphtha, appointed to regulate the price of Naphtha in small lots, reported that an agreement had been drawn up by the committee and circulated for signatures among the trade. Twenty-three signatures were obtained, and it was the judgment of the committee that further work was necessary.

upon Mr. Hall, for an expression of opinion, being changed from a verbatim paragraph to three lines.

The first verbatim re marks printed in this trade newspaper report arethose whichMr. Hall makes, commencing with the last two lines at the bottom of this page, and even in those it will be noticed that his first words "In this connection allow me to say that," which appear in the verbatim report on page 242, are omitted from the paragraph here, at well