Hartford, Conn., May 6, 1899.
To the Editor:
—In these times of great international gatherings it will be news to many persons that the alcoholic problem has been the theme of seven great continental meetings in Europe, held at intervals of two years, since 1885, the seventh having been held in Paris, April 4 to 9. From the first they have been made up of a large number of physicians, clergymen, teachers and reformers generally, and have steadily grown in interest and size until the Paris gathering, which assumed in reality the proportions of a great world's congress.Sixteen hundred and forty members were registered, which included over one hundred physicians and six hundred professional men and women, government officials, laymen, reformers and society delegates.The topics discussed have been very complete, ranging all the way from the most passionate appeals to give up alcohol, with terrifying pictures of its