American Public Health Association [excerpt]

Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting, Held in Buffalo, N. Y., September 17-20, 1901.
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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS.

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     Out of respect to the memory of President McKinley, and in accordance with the national and State proclamations relating thereto, it was decided to hold no meeting on Thursday, September 19.

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     At the Tuesday evening meeting, Mr. Ansley Wilcox, of Buffalo, delivered an address of welcome. He paid a glowing tribute of affection and respect to President McKinley, and among other things said: “When we think of the way in which the American people calmed themselves in their intense grief, and the reins of [440][441] power, dropping from lifeless hands, were taken up peacefully by the strong hands of the appointed successor, we will say again, with heartfelt joy, whatever may happen to our individual leaders, ‘The Government at Washington still lives,’ and towers among the nations of the earth as our electric tower amidst the beautiful buildings surrounding it.”

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     On Thursday, the third day of the meeting, there was no business transacted, but the president called the meeting to order at 10 o’clock as usual, at which time resolutions of sympathy and regret in regard to the death of the late President McKinley were passed unanimously by a rising vote.