WASHINGTON, D. C....George Truesdell, Pres., Eckington and Soldiers' Home Ry. Co. ...Charles C. Duncanson, Vice-Pres., Eckington and Soldiers' Home Ry. Co. .E. Kurtz Johnson, Treas., Eckington and Soldiers' ..Joseph Paul, Sec., Eckington and Soldiers' Home Ry. . George W. Pearson, Pres., Metropolitan R. R. Co. Henry Hurt, Pres., Washington and Georgetown R. R. Co. ...C. C. Sailer, Supt., Washington and Georgetown R. R. WEST HAVEN, Conn... W. W. Ward, Supt., New Haven and West Haven Horse R. R. WILMINGTON, Del..... William Canby, Pres., Wilmington City Ry. Co. ..Edwin W. Heald, Gen. Man., Wilmington City Ry. WORCESTER, Mass. .... Charles B. Pratt, Pres., Worcester Consolidated St. YORK, Pa... . . . Ry. Co. .H. S. Seeley, Treas., Worcester Consolidated St. Ry. .William H. Lanius, Pres., York St. R. R. Co. The President: The Secretary will now call the names of Companies that are not members of the Association, but who will be represented at this meeting by the gentlemen named. After the names of these Companies are called, we would be pleased if the gentlemen representing them, who desire to secure membership for their Companies, will promptly step forward and give the names of the Companies to the Secretary; so that we may get through with this order of business with as little delay as possible. REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW MEMBERS. (ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING TO CITIES.) The following gentlemen represented Companies which were not members of the Association : . Frank W. Child, Pres., Sea Shore Electric Ry. Co. W. H. Delany, Supt., Sea Shore Electric Ry. .R. M. Clark, Director, Sea Shore Electric Ry. Co. A. J. Hutchinson, Director, Sea Shore Electric Ry. Co. BIRMINGHAM, Conn.... William J. Clark, Sec., Derby Horse Ry. Co. ...B. W. Porter, Supt., Derby Horse Ry. 44 DAYTON, O.. OTTAWA, Ill .Ezra Bimm, Vice-Pres., Wayne and Fifth St. Ry. Co. William J. Clark, Vice-Pres., Ottawa Electric St. Ry. .Theodore P. Bailey, Sec. and Treas., Ottawa Electric SAN FRANCISCo, Cal... W. H. Martin, Vice-Pres., Ferries and Cliff House Ry. Co. TEXARKANA, Ark. ....B. M. Foreman, Supt., Texarkana St. Ry. The foregoing gentlemen then applied for and secured membership in the Association on behalf of their respective Companies. NEW MEMBERS. (ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING TO CITIES.) The following are the Companies that acquired membership: ASBURY PARK, N. J...Sea Shore Electric Ry. Co. BIRMINGHAM, Conn... Derby Horse Ry. Co. DAYTON, O.... HOUSTON, Tex. ORANGE, N. J... OTTAWA, Ill.... Wayne and Fifth St. Ry. Co. . Houston City St. Ry. Co. ....Orange Cross-Town and Bloomfield Ry. Co. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal... Ferries and Cliff House Ry. Co. TEXARKANA, Ark.....Texarkana St. Ry. Co. The President: We are very glad to welcome these Companies to our membership, and hope it will do them good; and we are very sure to get good from them. COMMUNICATIONS FROM ABSENT MEMBERS. (ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING TO CITIES.) The Secretary received from members of the Association the following letters, expressing their inability and regret at not being able to be represented at the meeting: [From MR. E. G. MOSHER, Supt., Augusta and Summerville R. R., Augusta, Ga.] I regret to say that I will not be able to attend the meeting of the Association on the 17th instant, for the following reasons: A few weeks ago our city was visited by a destructive inundation from the Savannah river, and three of our canal bridges were entirely destroyed, and six miles of tracks and streets were badly washed and damaged. I will be so engaged in repairing these damages and preparing for our Exposition, which opens on November 8th, that I cannot spare the time to attend the meeting in Washington. I know this meeting promises to be very interesting and instructive, and I am sorry to miss it. I wish you all a pleasant and profitable meeting. [From MR. HENRY M. WATSON, President, Buffalo St. R. R. Co., Buffalo, NY.] My reason for not attending the coming meeting of the Association is that I have been ill at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, for six weeks with peritonitis, and on Sunday last underwent an operation for removing an abscess which had formed in the abdomen. I am now doing well, although still unable to sit up at all, but hope to make rapid progress toward recovery. I wish you all a very enjoyable and profitable meeting. [From MR. WILLIAM WHITE, President, Dry Dock, East Broadway & Battery R. R. Co., New York.] I very much regret that, by reason of the illness of my wife, I will not be able to attend the meeting this week. I trusted to have paid my regards to your worthy President, and to have congratulated him upon his attitude toward that miserable class of sharks who are so litigious toward our corporations. Millions for defence, not one cent for tribute," was a device upon a coin current some years ago, and aptly expresses the feeling he has, and in which I fully sympathize. Many other faces I would have been glad to photograph in my mind, as showing the kindly way that age is dealing with those who have heartily taken my hand. I would have been recompensed for the journey in hearing the enthusiastic Richards orate with electrical surcharge. What scintillations and corruscations he will display, showing himself a real, indubitable" Progress of Electric Motive Power." And then The Lowry" is to have a hearing, and the discussion of other topics will make it an occasion long to be remembered. This is to be specially marked in our history as a "Ladies' Meeting," very properly so, as it is to be held in the finest city in the Union. Please make my sincerest regards to my confrères who, I trust, will long be favored with the continued services of yourself as its Secretary. [From MR. JAMES F. PEAVEY, President, Sioux City St. Ry. Co., Sioux City, Iowa.] I regret extremely the inability of any officer of our Company to attend the annual meeting to be held October 17th. I shall be pleased, however, to receive particulars of the meeting. [From MR. HENRY M. LOVERING, Treasurer, Taunton St. Ry. Co., Taunton, Mass.] I desire to acknowledge the receipt of your notification of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association, and regret that our Company will not be able to send a representative to the meeting. [From MR. JAMES GUNN, Secretary, Toronto St. Ry. Co., Toronto, Can.] Your favor of the 18th ult., notifying us that the annual meeting of the Association will be held on the 17th of this month at Washington, D. C., was duly received, and would have been answered at once, only we wished to be certain whether this Company could be represented on the occasion. Our President, Senator Smith, had his mind fully made up to be present at this year's meeting, but at the last moment exceedingly regrets to find that he cannot get away on account of business in connection with our railway tracks, coming up in court the very days of the meeting. We wish you a pleasant and profitable meeting. LETTERS FROM NON-MEMBERS. (ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING to Cities.) The following letters were received from Companies that are not members: [From MR. JOHN H. BARNARD, Superintendent, Asheville St. Ry., Asheville, N. C.] Your kind invitation of the 18th inst. just received. I have presented it to the President, Secretary, Treasurer and one of the Directors, and will as soon as possible present it to the others. I am very much afraid that it will prove impossible for any of them to attend. For my part, and those most actively interested in our road, the work of construction will prevent absence from home at that time. We wish you all a pleasant and profitable meeting. [From MR. T. C. THOMPSON, President and General Manager, Birmingham Union Ry. Co., Birmingham, Ala.] Your favor of the 18th at hand and in reply, beg leave to say that it wil! be impossible for our Company to be represented at the annual meeting of the American Street-Railway Association, however much we might desire to do so. You have our best wishes for the success of the meeting. [From MR. J. E. WHITESELLE, President, Corsicana St. Ry. Co., Corsicana, Texas.] I regret exceedingly that the distance from our section of the country is so great that it will be impossible for me to attend the meeting of the Association, although I assure you it would be a pleasure to do so. [From MR. C. R. MITCHELL, President, Arkansas City & Geuda Springs Rapid Transit Co., Geuda Springs, Kan.] We have not yet completed our line; have simply got the right of way and other matters in shape to build it, and expect to commence work within the next twenty days. We will not be able to send any representative to the Association this year, but in the future wish to meet with you. [From MR. JAS. MCMILLEN, President, Johnstown Pass. Ry. Co., Johnstown, Pa.] I thank you kindly for invitation to attend the annual meeting, etc., but I must nevertheless say that our Company will not be represented at this year's meeting. It would afford me the greatest pleasure to be present myself, but it will be impossible for me to do so. [From MR. F. THOMAN, President, Lansing Transit Ry. Co., Lansing, Mich.] Yours enclosing invitation to attend the meeting of the American Street-Railway Association, to be held at Washington, was duly received. Please accept thanks therefor. I am sorry to have to deny myself the pleasure of participating, but business will not permit me. I trust that all may have a very enjoyable and profitable time. [From MR. W. C. JEMISON, President, Tuscaloosa Belt Ry. Co., Tuscaloosa, Ala.] I regret that it will not be convenient for the Tuscaloosa Belt Railway to be represented at the meeting of your Association in October. [From MR. A. W. AUSTIN, Manager, Winnipeg St. Ry. Co., Winnipeg, Manitoba.] I beg to acknowledge receipt of yours of 19th inst., announcing the annual meeting of the Association, to be held in Washington, October 17th, and we regret very much that the time of meeting is held in a season that prevents our being represented. We wish your Association success in every way. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. The President addressed the Association, as follows: Gentlemen of the Association:-The time-honored custom of our body gives the President the privilege of saying a few words upon the calling of the Convention to order, and I gratefully improve the opportunity to tender you my sincere thanks for the honor bestowed upon me one year ago, at your meeting in Philadelphia, in electing me to the Presidency of the Association. Matters beyond my control prevented my attendance at that meeting, and my surprise upon learning your choice was equaled only by my wonder, because your lists are crowded with names of men whose long experience and ripe wisdom render them far worthier of this honorable position; but whatever may have been the reason, or lack of reason, for your action, I am truly grateful to you. |