Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-03
CIVIE ENGINEERS.

Fifteenth Annual Convention of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers.
The joint local committee of citizens of
st. Paul and Minneapolis held meeting
yesterday afternoon at the chamber of
commerce rooms for the purpose of ar
| ranging programme and making prepar-
tions for the coming convention, which is
| expected to be by far the best attended and
most important meeting ever held by the
society.
The members and their families are to
come from Chicago By the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway in a special
train, leaving Chicago Monday morning
June Is and arriving in st. Paul early
same evening. The members OF the local
committee will go down as far as Red
Wing or Winona to meet the special, and
the whole party will go directly out to
| HstelsLafayette at Lake Minnetonka,
| where ample accommodation has been Sc
| cured for the week of the convention.
The business meetings of the conven-
| ton are to be held at the capitol in st.
Paul on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day from 10 a. N. to 1 p. N. each day. The
representatives hall with adjacent COM
mittee rooms have been rendered by
| the governor for these meetings.
By the courtesy of the st. Paul, Mime
| apolis 81 Manitoba railway, special trans
| portatlon from Hotel Lafayette to and
from ST. Paul will be provided for the
members each day during the week.
In the afternoon of these three days
| there will be opportunity for such in
| formal hospitality as may be offered by
citizens of st. Paul or Minneapolis to the
members, and it is expected that their
time will be pretty fully occupied in ex-
| ploring the rival attractions of the two
cities.
An excursion from st. Paul up the river
| to Fort Smelling and Minnehaha is
probability for Thursday afternoon, and
will doubtless prove most enjoyable af-
fair.
Meantime the evenings at the lake are
| not to be overlooked. Hon. W. D. Wash
burn has rendered the splendid steamer
City of st. Louis" for one of those mem
| orable moonlight excursions around the
lake for Wednesday evening, the goth, all
the members and their families to be the
guests Of the occasion.
On Friday, the 22d, the convention are
to meet at the Grand Opera house in Min
neapolis, where the presidents address
will be delivered, and for that day the
members are to be the guests of that city
and will have opportunity to look over the
various industries and to criticize the i'm
portant engineering works completed and
in progress there.
On Friday evening the society is to be
entertained at the Hotel Lafayette by the
citizens of the two cities jointly. a ban
quet is to be spread on that occasion that
shall call out all the resources Of even that
great hotel and its experienced manager
and fill the immense dining room to its
utmost capacity.
On Saturday and the succeeding days
the members will avail themselves of the
courtesies of the railroads to enable them
to visit the empire lying beyond Us, and
will find their way home at their leisure
and convenience, bearing with them, it is
hoped, only pleasant memories of their if
teenth annual convention.
The arrangements for the week are in
the hands of the following gentlemen, who
will be assisted, as the time approaches,
by other citizens of both cities: