BROOKLYN ALUMNI CELEBRATE.

Twelfth Annual Banquet of the Alumni Association of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy Held in the New College Building.

The new college building of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, at 267 Nostrand avenue, near Clifton place, Brooklyn, was given up temporarily to the use of the Alumni Association on Wednesday evening, February 10, for the celebration of their twelfth anniversary. The pharmacognosy room, on the top floor-place of herbs, roots and barks-was for the occasion converted from its usual austere appearance into an inviting looking banquet hall, the walls being hung with American flags and shields and college banners, while the tables, arranged along three sides of the room, were prettily decorated with cut flowers and other ornamental devices. Covers were laid for 100 and over 80 of the alumni, with their wives, daughters, sisters and friends, were present. An orchestra hidden behind a barrier of high palms rendered musical selections during the evening, and afterward furnished music for the dancing, which followed the banquet and was kept up until the wee sma' hours.

Dr. Wm. Muir, who guards so jealously the interests of the college and its alumni, was the recipient of many encomiums for the evident care which he had bestowed on the arrangements for the banquet, and he showed a pardonable pride in the success of the celebration, which was so evidently the result of his watchful supervision.

The following was the menu, which was served by a wellknown Brooklyn caterer

ANNUAL DINNER OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, B. C. P.
February 10, 1904.

New College Punch.

Columbia Ice Cream.

Celery.

Cigarettes.

Tenderloin of Beef à la A. A. C. P.
Stringless Beans.
Bisque à la Medico.
Fancy Cakes. Macaroons. Lady Fingers.
Coffee. Cigars.

Dr. Frederick P. Tuthill was toastmaster, and ably and pleasingly discharged the functions of his position. Owing to some delay on the part of the caterer it was 11 o'clock before the coffee was reached, and after this and the cigars had been distributed Dr. Tuthill rapped for order and extended greeting to the assembled alumni and guests, availing himself at the same time of the opportunity to express fitting appreciation of the presence of the ladies-an innovation at alumni dinners which he said he hoped to see permanently adopted. He then introduced Prof. Geo. C. Diekman, of the New York College of Pharmacy, who told the diners how a Manhattanite was impressed by a Brooklyn college gathering, much to the credit of his hosts, of course. Congratulating the college authorities on the possession of so handsome and so well equipped a college building, he said he could understand the sense of pride which must animate the faculty of the college, both on this and on the Alumni Association, which, after all, was the real backbone of the institution. "The New York College authorities," said he, "were late in awakening to the value of the alumni association, but its worth is now fully established. A canvass of the present junior class has revealed the interesting fact that 75 per cent. of its members had been sent to the college by members of the Alumni Association."

In responding to the toast "The Brooklyn College of Pharmacy," Dr. Wm. Muir described the beginnings of the college from the time when afternoon lectures were given at the rooms of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society, in Classon avenue, down to the present day. He said that 15 years ago the need of some course of instruction for beginners in pharmacy had been felt by the pharmacists of Brooklyn, and the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society had undertaken then to give afternoon lectures at their rooms. About 14 years ago a regular college course was instituted at their hall in Classon avenue. The col

lege speedily expanded and, becoming cramped for room, larger quarters were secured on Franklin avenue. The facilities there were in turn soon found to be inadequate and a movement was accordingly started for the purchase of a site for a new building which should be devoted entirely to college purposes, with the result that was before them. The great impetus which pharmaceutical education had received during recent years was attributable, he said, to the enactment of better pharmacy laws, and these laws had been invariably advocated by pharmacists themselves, though intended primarily for the public benefit, and sometimes bearing harshly upon pharmacists. At the present time an effort was being made to procure the passage of a law making the holding of a diploma from a recognized pharmacy school or college of pharmacy a prerequisite for examination by the Board of Pharmacy. This proposed legislation should, he said, have the support of the alumni of the college, and he urged his hearers to support the bill now before the Legislature by writing to their Assemblymen and Senators to urge its passage. He referred to the reduction of the debt of the college by the wiping out of all the mortgages upon the building, and closed with a fervent hope for the future prosperity and success of the Brooklyn College.

Charles S. Erb, president of the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, spoke for his association. He humorously prefaced his remarks with the statement that the toastmaster had evidently forgotten his clue and was calling on the Board of Pharmacy instead of alumni representatives, for two members of the board had already responded and he constituted the third. He then seriously advised the members of the Brooklyn Alumni Association to get all graduates of the college interested in its work, and thus strengthen it. Now that the ladies could participate in the annual dinners of the association, it was surely on the high road to the prosperous future that he wished for it.

Dr. W. C. Anderson responded to the toast "The Alumni Association of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy." Professor Anderson is as popular in his own Borough of Brooklyn as he is among the pharmacists throughout the Union, and he could not be heard for several minutes owing to the vociferous cheering with which he was greeted. Judging from the happy expression on the faces of those before him, one would think, he said, that they had all just passed their final examinations. He expressed the pleasure he felt at the presence of " Dr. " Erb and Dr. Diekman, and improved the opportunity to assure those gentlemen that the alumni of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy stood always ready to support the New York College in any movement for the betterment of pharmacy. He spoke feelingly of the pleasure it afforded him to look in the faces of the "boys" who had studied under him, to get a glimpse behind the scenes and hear them discuss their successes and the fortunes (?) they had made in the retail business. Now that the alumni had a home of their own, he trusted they would do everything possible to increase the interest in the association and the college and never let the friendships formed in student days die out.

After reading a letter of regret from Prof. H. W. Schimpf, Dr. Tuthill closed the proceedings with a strong appeal for an extension of interest in the work of the college on the part of the members of the Alumni Association and the druggists of Brooklyn generally. It was 11.40 o'clock when the banqueters adjourned to an adjoining class room, which had been cleared for dancing, and continued the festivities to the tune of two steps and lanciers until long after midnight.

Among those present were Prof. and Mrs. William C. Anderson, Dr. and Mrs. Frederic P. Tuthill, Prof. and Mrs. George C. Diekman, Dr. William Muir, Miss Jennie Muir, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Erb, Mr. and Mrs. G. Tompkins, Dr. Joseph L. Mayor, Thomas J. Keenan, Miss L. Preston, Frank G. Goelz, Miss Udaville Hoffmann, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar C. Kleine, jr., Dr. Edward Kleine, Miss Louise O. Fuhrman, Francis A. Ginty, Miss Harriet E. Brouwer, H. C. A. Lauer, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hillis, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rehfuss, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bussenschutt, Mr. and Mrs. David Strang, Dr. and Mrs. I. V. S. Stanislaus, William H. Smith, jr., C. Ginelish, Miss A. Frazee, Guy Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Mulvaney, Mr. and Mr. Charles

F. Keale, Frank A. Joel, Dr. Joseph Kahn, Prof. and Mrs. A. P. Lohness, D. J. Thompson, Dr. and Mrs. F. Morris, Miss M. M. Ditmars, Miss R. E. Hegeman, W. D. Hegeman, A. E. Hegeman, Charles H. Stage, jr., Miss Kit Collins, John B. Heurer, Charles Gustafson, jr., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harloe, J. McNamara, Rudolph Burkhardt, Miss Alice Kunkel, Charles Kunkel, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Perkins, F. G. Leslie, Miss Mabel Cook, J. W. Bruckmann, R. B. Martin and Dr. Walter Bryan.

THE KINGS COUNTY ASSOCIATION.

College Building Now Free from Debt-Work of the Legislative Committee-Some Opposition to Anti-Cocaine Bill,

The usual monthly meeting of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society was held at the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy on Tuesday afternoon, February 9. Oscar C. Kleine, jr., president, occupied the chair, and A. E. Hegeman recorded the proceedings. In opening the meeting, President Kleine announced the extinction of the debt upon the society. Three mortgage notes for $1,000 each, and held by Prof. W. C. Anderson, Dr. William Muir and Adrian Paradis, were paid, and in the presence of the members of the meeting, each was destroyed. Referring to this, President Kleine said: "Our society is to be congratulated upon its success. The organization is now the strongest and healthiest pharmaceutical society in the United States. When we bought the ground upon which this building was to be erected we had only $5,000, and $3,500 was needed. This amount was advanced by three trustees. While every man in the society has done his share to help the society along, one man in especial has done a great deal. I refer to Dr. William Muir."

Reporting for the Legislative Committee, Dr. Muir said that since the last meeting he had called on the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington and discussed with him a proposed change in the internal revenue tax on the sale of alcohol by druggists. Secretary Shaw had told him that the present was an inopportune time to suggest changes in the law, and that next year would be a better time to press the amendment.

On Dr. Muir's motion, a vote of thanks was extended by the society to Congressman Frank E. Wilson, for courtesies shown to its representatives. In regard to State legislation, Dr. Muir summarized the provisions of the "prerequisite clause bill," which had been introduced in the Legislature by Senator McCabe.

Opposition has developed in some quarters to the Syracuse Druggists' Association bill to regulate the sale of cocaine. Mr. Paradis said that there had been too much legislation already and that it would only make matters worse to attempt a remedial bill.

Professor Anderson defended the bill and Dr. Muir showed that many States had cocaine laws, it having been demonstrated that the public needed protection from the drug in question.

The proceedings were brought to a close by the reading of a paper on Radium, by Luther F. Stevens.

An amendment to the tax law to exempt the property of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society from taxation has been introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Marshall, of Brooklyn. Section 4, Chapter 908 of the Laws of 1896 is amended by Senator Marshall's bill by the addition of a new subdivision, 19, which includes in the provisions of this section real property from which no rent is derived, and personal property situated within any city of the first class and belonging to any pharmaceutical society of any county within such city, providing that such property be used exclusively for the purpose of such college and that the exemption on such property in the counties of Kings and New York shall not exceed $100.000, and in any other county $50,000.

This exemption from taxation is worded in practically the same manner as the preceding subdivision, which exempts like property of medical societies, which, in New York and Kings, is exempt to the extent of $150,000.

DRUG INCORPORATIONS. Certificates of incorporation have been filed since our last of the following new concerns:

The Capudine Chemical Company, Raleigh, N. C. Directors -Ashley Horne, W. W. Mills and Henry T. Hicks. Object, to manufacture the Capudine Headache Remedy; capital, $50,000.

City Drug Company, La Grange, Texas. Incorporators— Thomas C. Evans, W. D. Burks and others. Capital, $50,000. The Columbian Chemical Company, New York, N. Y. Incorporators-Edward Risendorph, Frank S. Becker and Milton M. Hall. Object, to deal in drugs, etc.; capital, $1,000.

De Lite Mfg. Company, Camden, N. J. Object, to deal in drugs, groceries and seeds; capital, $100,000.

The Doctor Haskins Company, Toledo, Ohio. Incorporators -Lizzie Eble, Luland W. Briggs, Louis A. Alexander, H. C. Haskins and Mary E. Haskins. Object, to manufacture medicine; capital, $10,000.

Highwood Chemical Company, New York, N. Y. Incorporators-H. K. Kuhlke, M. J. Pendergast and D. W. O'Donnell. Object, to manufacture drugs, medicines, etc.; capital, $50,000.

The Imperial Tonic Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Incorporators-Frank B. Hulcheon, Otto V. Loth, W. E. Peppard, Israel Hartig and Ben Loth. Capital, $10,000.

The Durham Drug Company, Corry, Pa. Capital, $10,000. The Krop Remedy Company have been recently incorporated to do business in Chicago.

Leonard Remedy Company, Camden, N. J. Incorporators— A. A. Dinsmore, Charles A. Sidler and Johnson Leonard. Object, to deal in oils for medicines, proprietary and veterinary purposes; capital, $100,000.

New Cyanide Process Company, New York. DirectorsRunyon Piatt and H. S. Chalfield, New York, and S. T. Muffly, Elizabeth, N. J.; capital, $100,000.

The Northmount Chemical Company have been recently incorporated in Pittston, Pa., with a capital of $150,000.

The Philadelphia Medical Company, Camden, N. J. Incorporators-Joseph F. Cotter, J. C. Clow and E. Mufford. Object, to deal in medicines; capital, $125,000.

The Radium Remedies Company have been recently incorporated to do business in Chicago.

The Reliance Remedy Company, Philadelphia, Pa., have recently been incorporated with a capital of $5,000.

The Dr. H. E. Thompson Pharmaceutical Company, St. Louis, Mo. Incorporators-Dr. Hugh E. Thompson, Fred J. Gould, John F. Montgomery, George Werner and Charles H. Degenhardt; to manufacture toilet articles, etc.; capital, $60,000.

The Pharmacists' Duty.

Wm. Mittelbach of Boonville, Mo., the chairman of the Auxiliary Committee on Membership of the American Pharmaceutical Association, is making a strong and systematic effort to increase the membership this year, and has issued an appeal to pharmacists, worded as follows:

DEAR BROTHER PHARMACIST:

Are you a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association? If not, why not? Can you give any reasonable excuse for not having joined long ago? I'll wager you can't. Surely the annual dues of $5 does not keep you out? The printed Proceedings of each year contains information that will more than repay you for the investment in dues. Or, don't you think it worth while to belong to such an honorable association? An organization that has passed its fiftieth milestone, and is conceded to be the leading pharmaceutical body of the world. Sit down a moment and think the matter over. Don't you think that you have neglected a duty that every pharmacist owes to himself and the business in general? Put it off no longer, but send your application in at once. Come to the Kansas City meeting next September, and after the meeting we will all go to the St. Louis Fair in a body. WM. MITTELBACH,

BOONVILLE, Mo.

Chairman Committee on Membership.

CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION.

N. A. R. D. Notes records the fact that there are important measures before Congress in which retail druggists are more or less vitally interested. General Attorney Joseph W. Errant of the N. A. R. D., and Messrs. Beck and Gallagher of the Committee on National Legislation, are in Washington looking after the interests of the retail drug trade.

ALCOHOL TAX REDUCTION.

A special effort is being made to secure the passage of H. R. 9303, which will reduce the internal revenue tax on alcohol from $1.10 to 70 cents a proof gallon. The success of this bill means a saving of 40 cents a proof gallon, or a trifle over 75 cents on a wine gallon of 188 proof. Estimating the average retailer's consumption at 30 gallons, he would save annually $22.50, or more than eleven times enough to pay his N. A. R. D. dues. The bill would effect a saving of something like $900,000 annually to the retail drug trade of the country.

Now is the time to strike; the iron is hot, and every retailer who has not written to his Congressman and Senators this winter should do so at once. Fifteen or twenty thousand letters during the next ten days would so impress Congress with the strength of our demand that this measure would undoubtedly be passed.

THE PARCELS POST BILLS.

The parcels post bills, H. R. 7028 by Hearst, and H. R. 7874 by Henry, are opposed by the N. A. R. D. and all the wideawake organizations of retail merchants. The dry goods men have been making a hard fight against all parcels post legislation for several years, and now that the dangers likely to flow from such legislation is more imminent and threatening. other retail interests are bestirring themselves.

Our country constituency need not be told that encouragement by special legislation of the mail order system of doing business will result in a reduction in the volume of sales at retail stores and that the business of supplying customers will be concentrated quite largely in the hands of the mail order houses. Instead of there being one Montgomery, Ward & Co., and one Sears, Roebuck & Co., there will hundreds or thousands of them. Rural free delivery, coupled with a parcels post, making the cost of merchandise from any distant city to the consumer's door a trifle over 24 cents a pound, means a revolution and something approaching ruin for the legitimate retail interests of the country.

A BILL TO SUPPRESS UNFAIR COMPETITION.

The Lamb bill, H. R. 2536, the aim of which is to suppress and prevent unfair and dishonest competition in trade, is attracting some notice. If such a bill could be passed, the death knell to the cut rate drug business would be rung. In the first section of the bill occurs the following significant provisions : "Giving away goods by one trader for the purpose of driving a rival trader out of business, and selling goods below cost for the same purpose, are hereby declared to be unfair and dishonest competition in trade," and "unfair and dishonest competition in trade in the United States and its Territories is hereby declared to be unlawful and the same is hereby forbidden."

Of this bill Mr. Gallagher says: "The first section of this bill would be ideal legislation for us, but will never be even considered in Congress."

THE SERUM BILL.

The manufacturing pharmacists are greatly wrought up over the proposal that the Government go into the business of manufacturing anti-toxin serum: This proposal is embodied in H. R. 10665 by Curtis. The N. A. R. D. is opposed to the bill, but the interests of its members are not so vitally assailed as are those of the manufacturers, who have been advised that our Committee on National Legislation will assist them in their fight on the measure in exchange for their active support of our effort to secure the enactment of satisfactory patent revision and alcohol tax reduction laws.

The California Board of Pharmacy.

A meeting of the California State Board of Pharmacy was held at 344 Fourteenth street, San Francisco, on January 11 and subsequent days. The following were registered as licentiates (by examination): E. W. Thiercof, G. Walter Finch, Clarence Quilty, Thomas G. Watson, Francis A. Lewis, F. K. Van Allen, John J. Kessing, Henry C. Peters, George W. Turner, Eugene C. Farmer, John Baalmann, Walter Metzner, Walter F. Engel, Lester M. Jones, Henry Devening, Charles W. Blackburn and Clarissa M. Roehr.

The following were registered as assistants (by examination): Raymond L. Pond, Ethel E. Nelson, George P. Hedgpeth, Frank M. Carter, Roy P. Henderson, C. L. Foutz, H. A. Wessel, Devota Fisher, William G. Barry, Frank V. Pursel, D. T. Henderson, J. L. Fulton and A. C. Tienken. Meetings will be held in Los Angeles, April 5, and at San Francisco, April 12, 1904. Further information concerning the examination may be obtained from the secretary of the board, John Calvert, 344 Fourteenth street, San Francisco.

Obituary.

JOHN H. ELTING.

John H. Elting, a prominent druggist of Kingston, N. Y., and a charter member of the Kingston Drug Club, died at his home in that city on Sunday, February 7, at the age of 55. Mr. Elting was born in the town of Hurley, Ulster County, New York, in 1849, and after a public school course attended Cornell College for two years. In 1862 he opened a drug store at the corner of Washington and Hurley avenues, Kingston, and in 1881 he entered into partnership with T. Spore, and the business was conducted under the name of Spore & Elting until 1890, when Mr. Spore retired. Mr. Elting then organized the firm of Elting & Schoonmaker, with Clarence Schoonmaker as partner, and this firm were incorporated in 1902.

Many will miss Mr. Elting, whose life was an example of honesty, integrity and usefulness, and the Kingston Drug Club loses one of its most honored and useful members.

DIED.

ADELBERG. In New York, N. Y., on Saturday, February 6, Joseph Adelberg, in the fortieth year of his age.

BRUTON.-In Dover, Tenn., on Tuesday, February 9, W. P. Bruton, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.

DRAKE.-In Spencer, Ind., on Sunday, January 31, F. R.

Drake.

ELTING.-In Kingston, N. Y., on Sunday, February 7, John H. Elting, in the fifty-fifth year of his ago.

FERRIS.-In Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday, February 8, Percy Ferris, in the twenty-sixth year of his age.

GUENENWALT.-In Brackenridge, Pa., on Wednesday, February 3, J. T. Gueneuwalt.

LUKER.-In Utica, N. Y., on Tuesday, February 2, Henry T. Luker, in the fortieth year of his age.

ODELL. In Rochester, N. Y., on Tuesday, February 2, Arthur G. Odell, in the forty-first year of his age.

PALMER.-In Urbana, Ill., on Wednesday, February 3, Prof. Arthur William Palmer, head of the chemical department of the University of Illinois.

PHILLIPS.-In Great Neck, L. I., on Monday, February 8, John F. Phillips, president of the Egyptian Drug Company, of New York, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.

PUGSLEY.-In Olean, N. Y., on Saturday, January 30, Dr. Charles S. Pugsley, in the sixty-first year of his age.

ROGERS.-In Chicago, Ill., on Saturday, January 30, Henry

Rogers.

WATERS.-In Stroudsburg, Pa., on Saturday, January 30, Thomas Carey Walton Waters, in the thirty-first year of his age.

Greater New York News.

Charles A. West, vice-president of the Eastern Drug Co. of Boston, was among the recent visitors to this city.

The drug store of Jacob Seeley at 1091 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn, was robbed of a large supply of stamps and postal cards recently.

E. G. Swift, the recently elected general manager of the firm of Parke, Davis & Co., was in this city last week accompanied by John H. Smedley, treasurer of the corporation.

The warehouse of the American Witch Hazel Co. of New York, which is located at Chester, Conn., was burned on February 8, entailing a loss of some 400 barrels of witch hazel extract.

John S. Lane, who for several years past has represented Schieffelin & Co. in New England, has resigned his position with that company, and is now connected with Ladd & Coffin. George E. Burrows, recently with Sharp & Dohme, succeeds Mr. Lane. Columbia University has found it necessary to increase the charges for tuition in the School of Applied Sciences and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The authorities explain that this was rendered necessary by increased expenses in the conduct of these schools and a diminution in the registration due to the higher entrance requirements which have been introduced.

David H. Lutz has been elected to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Colle as corresponding secretary of the Drug Clerks' Circle, that gentleman having become a proprietor and having resigned from membership in consequence. Dr. Joseph Kahn has been nominated as the candidate of the Drug Clerks' Circle for membership in the New York State Board of Pharmacy at the coming election.

E. A. Lloyd of Lloyd & McNabb, Bound Brook, N. J., recently attempted to board a Jersey Central train, but found, on gaining a foothold on the last car, that the outside vestibule door was locked. He clung to the rail and was about to drop, when the train was stopped at Dunellen, through a telegram which had been sent from New Brunswick by a telegraph operator who had observed his plight as the train passed that station.

The following is a partial list of the out-of-town visitors to the New York Drug Club during the past fortnight: E. G. Swift, Chas. M. Woodruff, John H. Smedley, Geo. F. Seaborn, M.D., all of Detroit, Mich.; Judge Steward, Washington, D. C., Wm. H. Furlong, Chicago, Ills., E. P. Dodge, Providence, R. I., W. G. Slibbins, Grolin, Conn., Jas. S. Waters, Jr., Baltimore, Md., J. C. Potts, Chicago, Ills., and I. Platt, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. According to the annual report of the McKesson & Robbins' Mutual Benefit Association, sick benefits to the extent of $515.25 were paid during the past year, and death benefits amounting to $150. The membership now numbers 189, a gain of 12 since the last report. The new officers of the association are: Geo. F. Moore, president; James J. Kane, secretary; A. Hageman, treasurer; John A. Cross, Thos. F. Farrell, Henry Belden, Thos. Quinn and Jacob Hutchings, trustees.

At the meeting of the New York Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, held at the Chemists' Club on Friday evening, February 19, the following programme was presented: A Method of Determining the Percentages of Aldehydes in Certain Essential Oils, by Samuel S. Sadtler; Graphitic Acid or Oxide, by Frederic S. Hyde; Radium and Radio-active Substances (demonstration and exhibits), by Hugo Lieber; The Iodine Absorption of Spirits of Turpentine, by R. A. Wortsall.

Edward G. Wells, formerly secretary of the M. J. Breitenbach Company, New York, has disposed of his interest in the company to Mr. Breitenbach, and intends to take life easy in the future, though he has not retired altogether from business, having retained his connection with the Tarrant Company and the Martin H. Smith Company. Mr. Wells left New York last Friday, in the company of Mrs. Wells, for a short period of rest and recreation in one of the Mississippi seaports down on the Gulf coast. They may go to Europe in the summer.

The Kingston Drug Club, Kingston, N. Y., will hold their an

nual banquet next month, and an invitation has been sent to every pharmacist and druggist in Ulster County to be a guest of the club on that occasion. The club is progressing satisfactorily, affiliation having been effected with the N. A. R. D. Full prices are maintained, and the members have found that the “other fellow" isn't such a bad chap upon acquaintance. Officers for 1904 are William F. Dedrick, president; Henry C. Connelly, vice-president; Charles B. Clinton, secretary, and John S. Burns, treasurer.

John Kremer, a druggist of 426 Seventh avenue, was arrested on December 9, at the instance of the County Medical Society, on the charge of illegal practice of medicine, in having recommended to a patron a proprietary medicine of his own manufacture. By mutual consent the case has been removed from the Court of General Sessions and placed on the calendar for trial before a jury. The case is one of considerable importance, as, if the claims made by the defendant are substantiated, it would seem that he merely recommended a remedy in a general way in the manner in which the majority of druggists recommend remedies for minor ailments.

The Brooklyn Medico-Chemical Laboratory, 474 Twelfth street, Brooklyn, is a new venture in which E. C. Woodcock, Ph.G., a well-known young Brooklyn pharmacist, is interested. The scope and purpose of the laboratory embraces the examination of pathological specimens, urine, sputum, &c., for physicians, and Mr. Woodcock is associated with a physician who has made a specialty of this kind of work for several years. Although actively engaged in the drug business, Mr. Woodcock has found time to cultivate an artistic bent, and he has done some successful, original sketches illustrative of incidents in the druggist's experience, which have been reproduced by Dr. Whelpley in recent issues of Meyer Brothers Druggist. His illustrated headings for the AMERICAN DRUGGIST'S reports of the annual meetings of the National Association are familiar to our readers.

According to a special despatch to the New York Herald, Dr. H. H. Rusby, Professor of Botany and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, was to give a lecture at Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, last week. On arriving in the city he boarded a street car and requested the conductor to notify him when he reached the library. This the conductor forgot to do, and let the professor off at the Penitentiary in Wood's Run. Ringing the bell of that institution, Dr. Rusby asked to be shown to the lecture room, and the guard told him that he could not deliver a lecture there at that hour of the night. Returning crestfallen to his hotel, the doctor found it too late to keep his appointment with the large audience that had been patiently awaiting him for two hours, and so, unostentatiously, took the next train for New York.

A NEW RICHMOND IN THE FIELD.

The Queens County Pharmaceutical Association was organized at a meeting of druggists on the Rockaway peninsula, held at the pharmacy of Lowe Brothers in Far Rockaway, L. I., February 11. The association starts off with a membership of 25, and the following officers were elected:

President, Francis A. Lowe of Far Rockaway.; secretary, William Weissendanger of Woodmere; treasurer, John D. Crosby of Inwood.

The association is formed for the purpose of fellowship and mutual protection, and application for a certificate of incorporation will be made.

The District of Columbia.

At the examination held by the Commissioners of Pharmacy of the District of Columbia, January 11, the following gentlemen passed successfully: Henry E. King and Norville V. Pattie. Candidates for examination must have their applications, with fee, in the hands of the secretary, Dr. Henry A. Johnson, 1221 New Jersey avenue, N. W., one week previous to the day of examinations, which are held on the second Monday of January, April, July and October.

WESTERN NEW YORK.

Cold Weather Troubles in the Drug Store-The New FortyThousand Dollar Store Causes Searchings of Heart-The Bowlers to Banquet.

(From our Regular Correspondent.)

BUFFALO, February 17.-There is weather enough to the square foot in Buffalo to fill the drug stores with ailing people, yet the business is not at all rushing. The prescription trade is fair, though there is nothing in the line of epidemic to meet. The trade in proprietary drugs and medicines is still in good condition, as the stores are all in line on the price schedule prepared by the special committee of the Erie County Pharmaceutical Association. With a continuation of the present good feeling there ought to be money in the business for all. The chief difficulty in the trade, outside of price cutting, of late has been the cool summers, which make the sale of cold drinks unprofitable.

DRUG ADDICTION ASSIGNED AS PLEA FOR BREAKING A WILL.

There is much interest in Buffalo over the outcome of the effort to break the will of the late Mary J. Anthony, who left her home in Adams, Mass., to live with a niece, Mrs. George K. Staples, and, dying not long after, left her nearly all of a fortune of $100,000. The relatives she deserted in the Massachusetts home town maintain that she was demented and try to prove the claim by showing before the Surrogate in Buffalo that she was addicted to the use of such drugs as Jamaica ginger, syrup of tar, paregoric, laudanum and various patent medicines containing alcohol, so that she was intoxicated most of the time. On her way to Buffalo she was preparing to stop in Albany and call on the Governor, till persuaded not to break in on his busy day. No decision has been reached yet. GOOD WEATHER FOR BUSINESS-FOR THE PLUMBERS.

The terribly cold winter in Buffalo, which has not been exceeded in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant, makes the drug stores centers of information and dispensers of hot drinks to an extent not before experienced. The weather is the cause of much distress, as the drug store telephone reveals. A great part of the messages are for plumbers to repair bursted water pipes, which shows that the plumber is growing rich in the community at a rate greater than ever before.

The Buffalo druggist does not complain of much loss from frozen liquids, only carbolic acid and hydrogen dioxide making much trouble, and they seldom break the bottles. A customer who bought some carbolic acid of a druggist during the cold spell took it home, and when she found it solid brought it back and said it was the liquid sort that she had always been used to.

THE RIGGS STOCK SACRIFICED.

The sale of the C. N. Riggs drug store stock at Buffalo, in the form of a step in bankruptcy instituted against Mrs. Riggs, in whose name the store has been run for some time, took place on the 15th. The entire stock and fixtures, which had been appraised at $6,166.24, went for $1,236 to William Murchison, the only opposing bid coming from the attorney of the Birge estate, which has the building. Mr. Riggs has been out of the store for some time, and it has been run by an appointee of the court. He seems to have despaired of the business as a means of livelihood, after having tried it quite a long time in Buffalo, being for several years located in the Iroquois Hotel. He lately took up life insurance and was said to be doing well, but has just been appointed traveling sales agent of McKesson & Robbins, to take the place of W. R. McMillan, and will cover Boston and other seaboard towns to Washington, also Pittsburg and Buffalo. The sale of the store is subject to confirmation by the court. Mr. Murchison was a member of the Pharmacal Drug Company while it was in operation.

THE NEW STORE OF THE LYON DRUG COMPANY

at Buffalo is making good progress toward a complete fitting out by early spring, when it promises to enter the family of retail pharmacies in good form. The manager, E. P. Dodge, who was sent on from the Lyon store in Providence to take

J. S. MARVIN,

Who Abandons Plasters for Perfumes.

After having been with Seabury & Johnson for 18 years, J. S. Marvin has retired from the plaster business, and will hereafter present the advantages of Lundborg's perfumes to the retail drug trade. This line of perfumes has been long and favorably known to the drug trade, and in view of Mr. Marvin's wide acquaintance and the high standing of the class of goods he will represent, his friends confidently expect him to make an excellent record. Mr. Marvin was born in Walton, N. Y., about 16 years ago (or more), and had his first experience in the drug business in Brooklyn. He served for several years with McKesson & Robbins as city order clerk, and, as above stated, for the past 18 years has been with Seabury & Johnson. During this time he has covered almost every portion of the United States and Canada, and there can be no question that he has a large number of friends throughout the drug trade, all of whom wish him well in his new field of work.

charge of the work, has already been somewhat informally received into the fold by the invitation sent him to the dinner to be given the Rochester drug bowlers at the February setto between the teams of Buffalo and Rochester. The report that the new store is to expend $40,000 before admitting the public is reassuring and flattering to the city at large, but it sometimes sets the old members of the trade to wondering where they will come in as against such competition.

ROCHESTER BOWLERS TO PUT UP A STIFF FIGHT.

The bowling match between the Buffalo and Rochester drug bowling clubs, on the 19th, promises, at the present writing, to be of the same hard fought character as all the former ones have been. Everybody does his best, and there are plenty of good men in both clubs, as shown by their beating outside clubs of good reputation so many times. If the local druggists out of the clubs respond to the call to the banquet the occasion will be in all respects entirely satisfactory, no matter who puts up the best game.

NEWS OF THE TRAVELERS.

The red "Lilly" specialties took a good step forward about the middle of the month, on account of the visit of E. O. Norte, who knows how to sell goods wherever he goes.

John H. Clements takes in the Buffalo territory on his route late in February in the interest of Leggett & Brother, selling the many drug specialties of the firm.

Robert E. Service is taking in his many Buffalo stopping places among the druggists, selling all sorts of perfumery for the well-known New York house of Lazell, Dalley & Co.