Proceedings of the New England Association of Gas Engineers at the Annual Meeting

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1912 Excerpt: ... the discussions of the meeting are started, that is, that the report of all the discussions is taken quite accurately by our experienced stenographer, who knows many of your traits, and will be returned to you to give you an opportunity to see how it looks before it goes out into the cold world. Our discussions, I think, have been noted for being full and free, and I hope personally, and I presume the President will join with me in hoping, that they will continue so, that you will feel free to dip into the discussions, feeling, as I have said, that you will have a chance to look over your remarks and see how they will appear in print. As an added safeguard, the constitution provides that the Secretary shall use his pencil later, if necessary, because sometimes what by itself sounds all right, by something else being cut out needs to be changed a little. I speak of this so that we may continue' to have the discussions for which the New England meeting has been noted. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Mr. Africa--Mr. President, the Nominating Committee is ready to report. I will state at this time that it is the usual custom of the New England Association to re-elect the President for a second term, but Mr. Coffin for purely personal reason, found that he could not accept the office for the second terms This the committee regrets, as probably all the members do also. The committee is pleased to report as follows: --For President: D. D. Barnum. For First Vice-President: T. H. Hintze. For Second Vice-President: C. A. Learned. For Directors: H. K. Morrison, H. C. Crafts, J. F. Wing, J. A. Norcross and A. M. Barnes. (Mr. Barnes is the new member.) For Secretary and Treasurer: N. W. Gifford Respectfully submitted, W. G. Africa, C. F. Prichard, S. J. Fowler, Committee. The Pres...