New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-19
CITIL ENGINEERS IN COUNCIA


MEETING or THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
ELECTION or OFFICERS AID REPORTS OF COMMIT
TEEs-TEsTs FOR IRON AND STEEL.
Tie marble face Of James Watt looked down COM
plpcontly Yesterday morning on the members of
the American Society of Civil Engineers as they as
scmblcd for the first time il the house recently pull
chased by the society at No. 1877 East Twenty
third-st. Ashhel Wclch the vIce-presidcnt Of the
society, presided Mt the meeting. The fret business
OF tho meeting was the election OF ohcers LOT inc
ensuing year. The election resulted aS follows
President, Ashbei WelCh. of Lamhertyll,e. y. j.;
ViCc-proSideuts. Jam b. Eads, OF 1T. Louis and
William II. Paine. Of BIooklyn; secretary and
librarian John BOglTt. of Ncw-lorti treasurer, j.
J. r. Croes of NeY-Yorl; directors, homas e.
kieicr of Ottawa. Canada, Colonel Thomas l..
Casey United states Army, Joseph T. DAVIS, New
York, George ". Dresser, NeW-l oTk. MI. Ncich
on taking his seal rs president, read an address
thanking the members Tor his election. He SAID
that the society represented every race and cline
and that IN the last yea" proposals for member hip
had been received from Mexico, Chill, Colombo,
England and India. In conclusion he urged the
mombers a. the society TO "cuitVats Wholesome
integrity such preserves the purity OF the Oench
The committee to award the Norman medal re-
port ii progress and vas continued ! hc secretary
theu road the rcuort of the Board OF Directors.
This report showed tho membership OF the society
TO De 6O1 with - Fellows; 81 new members were
added in the last year, and lG members were 1851
by arath resignation and transfer. he report
gave "a history II the transactlons OF the society
showed fho receipts for the last fiscal year 10 be
%IG.~3i $50 and the expenditures rl4,}3O J.
The fellowship fund amounts to @+pGJ, WhcA Is
invested i'm United states bonds, with TlODZ -
on deposit The building fund was shown 10 be
IN the following condition: Amount received,
SHOP; disbursements, TlO,33l Is Inc COM
mittcc on uniform test for ccmcnts made report
sanford Fleming of Ottawa, ChalrmHn OF the
committee on a uniform system OF tine, presented
the rr"ort Of his committee which Tec2nmcnGeu a
general convention of the Government departments
and the societies of this country Canada ana
McEicO, interested "a the sui eCt. Inc scheme
proposed i. tl!c establishment of a new system Of
reckoning time 50 that il shall BE- uniform OF all
points in this country. 1t j. proposed to take a
certain meridian, and when It Il - O'Clock there
have it led - O'Clock all over ne country II
found rcce5 airy or advisable the division 81 inc
day into twelve hours Is to be done 1Wgy Win ana
a now division substituted. General Theodore g.
Ellis of Hartford. said that clock was nov being
constructed by the Waltham Company which the
Signal Service is to set mp in Washington and the
clocks OF the different stations are 70 be set to cor
respond with it.. thus avoiding he discrepancies III
the computations OF time which now occur
Several proposed amendments TO the conSltu-
ton were then taken up but none OF Importance
Vas adopted.
At The afternoon session q committee Ct direction
reported on the subject OF tests OF American Ion,
steel and other metals. ~ the previous meeting
committee had been appointed on TINS subject WIN
in- TUctiOu- 20 reTOt 10 the committee or direction,
ard Its report was transmitted by the board TO the
be APPOINTED By the Government TO superln tend
the testing Of iron, steel and othec metals used ~
construction that bridges Of iron and steel should
he included i'm lie tests, and that they should be
officers of the Army and Navy. The report was
discussed hg General Smith. C'''t engineer OF ,lc
Hudson My'r tunnel Nr. nollinEW2ou' an as
,istInt engineer Of the East River Bridge. Captain
NirLaclls. United States Army, and others. All
in favor O., the establishment OF the board, but
there considerable discussion ms to the system
ON which thew should work. Some favored having
the board report 10 the Chief OF Ordnance and somc
70 tIr Chief Of the Bureau Of AnEneerng iAe