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[125] The officers of this organization were as follows:
President: Simon Muhr, Philadelphia.
Vice Presidents: Hon. Ferdinand Levy, New York; Rev. Dr. H. W. Schneeberger, Baltimore; Dr. Chas. D. Spivak, Philadelphia.
Secretary: Bernard Harris, Philadelphia.
Treasurer: Hon. Simon Wolf, Washington, D. C.
Board of Directors—Philadelphia: Louis E. Levy, Chas. Hoffman, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen; Baltimore: Jacob J. H. Mitnick, Joseph Eisner, S. L. Auerbach; New York: Daniel P. Hays, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger; Chicago: Dr. A. P. Kadison, A. Bernstein; Boston: David Blaustein; Pittsburg, Pa.: Wm. Hoffman; Albany, N. Y.: Louis Aronowitch; Troy, N. Y.: H. Kuschevsky; Omaha, Neb.: B. Kohn.
[126] The call was signed by the officers of the Baron de Hirsch Fund as follows:
President: Myer S. Isaacs.
Vice President: Jacob H. Schiff.
Treasurer: Jesse Seligman.
Honorary Secretary: Julius Goldman.
Trustees: Oscar S. Straus, Henry Rice, and James H. Hoffman, of New York; Mayer Sulzberger, and Wm. B. Hackenburg, of Philadelphia.
General Agent: Adolphus S. Solomons, Washington, D. C.
[127] The convention was organized with the following named officers:
President: Lewis Seasongood, Cincinnati; Vice Presidents: Lazarus Silverman, Chicago, Joseph Fox, New York; Secretaries: Adolphus S. Solomon, Washington, and Bernard Harris, Philadelphia.
[128] The Executive Committee thus elected, in addition to the general officers, was composed of representatives of various organizations in different sections of the country, as follows:
New York: Henry Rice, Julius Bien, Jacob H. Schiff, Morris Tuska, Ferdinand Levy, Isaac Hamburger, M. Warley Platzek; Philadelphia: Simon Muhr, Louis E. Levy; Baltimore: Aaron Friedenwald; Boston: Jacob Hecht; Cincinnati: Julius Freiburg; Chicago: Adolph Loeb, Julius Rosenthal; Peoria, Ill.: Samuel Woolner; Washington, D. C.: Simon Wolf; Milwaukee: Bernard Gross; St. Louis, Mo.: Marcus Bernheimer; Portland, Or.: David Solis-Cohen; Detroit, Mich.: Martin Butzel; Minneapolis, Minn.: Emanuel Cohen; Atlanta, Ga.: Aaron Haas; Galveston, Tex.: Leo. N. Levi; Memphis, Tenn.: Elias Loewenstein; Ex-Officio, Myer S. Isaacs, New York.
The Committee organized by electing as Chairman, M. Warley Platzek, of New York, and as Vice Chairman, Julius Freiburg, of Cincinnati, the Secretaries of the General Committee acting in the same capacity on the Executive Committee.