New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-21
CIVIL ENGINEERS IN CONTENTION
ELEcTIyG THEIR oFFICERS-To VISIT The NAVY
YARD TODAY

ELECTING THEIR OFFICERS-To FlSIl AhE nov
YARD TO-DAY
The annual meeting Of the American sociv VI
Civil Engineers was begun yesterday h"e
from all parts OF the country present the meet
Inc wo called TO order in the Twenty-third street
Rantst Church Octave Chanute, president OF the SO
ci.,v occupied tho chair. sanford Fleming OIL Wv
tawa Can chairman Of the special commioooo vi
uniform standard time, read the annual rePorC VI ~"
committee, advocating the abolition OF the ai'o az"
most moriian system OF recording time and the uni
versal adopton OF standard time. The committees
10 award the Rowland prize gave 1t TO william H.
purr 7 Foster Crowen received honorable mehuon'
The Norman medal went to John r. Freeman ms
vote for the place for tho annual convention OF INC
society next spring. resulted in the choice OF FORTRESS
Monroe.
4 letter was read from VI. Il. DeMas. general secre
tary OF the Fifth International Congress ior Iherh
Navigation requesting the presence OF as many iinei
can engineers as possible at the Congress 10 Paris next
u,lv NJ DeMas suggested that the attendance OF an
American DELEGATION In Paris would certainly influence
the French engineers in rcciprocatlng at lineage III
l-O3 This was referred to the Board OF Directors "tn
instructions to the Fifth lnterfau"nhi oonsNSS
~ the hearty sympathy and cooperation OF the SOCIETY,"
The chairman then read circular OF the general com
mittee Of the engineering societies, proposing inc
organization Of an International Engineering Congress
to be- he'd at Chicago in 1893. The associated en-
cheering organizations proposed 10 maintain hoau-
ouartcr, at the Worlds Fair and for this SlooOo Is
required and "A subscription book has been opened
by the society TO raise money for this purpose.
These officers elected Mendes Cohen. Baltimore
Md president Samuel WINERY. Cincinnati. Ohio and
Charles b. Brush New-Y York. vice presidents for two
years) Samuel VI. Gray Providence. II. l.. and Johh
Macleod Louisville, Ky, vice presidents TOR one year,
william r. Clalghin. Baltimore, Md. Desmond fitz-
gerald Brookllnc Mass; Abraham Gottlcb Chicago,
ILL., BENJAMIN VI. Harrod, New Orleans, La Lefcrt H.
Euck New York. and John Thomson. Ncw-iork, dlTec-
tors for thee years.; Theodore y. Ely, Altoona Penn
Robert Moore. ST. Louis, Mo p. Alexander PETERSON
Montreal Can; Robert l.. Read, Cinclnnatl, ONO
George W McNuliy New-York, and o. +. Nichols,
Rrookivn y. y directors Cfor two years.: EStevan A.
Fneres Ithaca " Y; Albert b. Hi. New-HNen,
Conn. Edmund 7. d. Meyers, Richmond, Va; James
D. SCHUYLER san Diego, Cal. Charles H. Myers New
York and John g. Van Horne New York, directors
lo- one year, francis Collin haywood, Newfork eecre-
tar and John Bogart New York. treasurer.
DR. Ecieston offered "a resolution that steps be taken
to invite al the railway companies Of the United states.
Canada and Mexico to adopt the twenty four hour noa
tOu OF time on october II next, II being the 4OOtl
anniversary OF the discovery Of America.
The eng nccrs In the evening listened 70 description
NJ the elevated railroad in Louis by Robert Moore
and % the new passenger elevators and iron vaduct Of
The North Hudson County Railway at Weehawken.
y j. by George IL. Blakecy and Thomas f. Brown IT..
To-day tho members Of the society Will visit the ee-
vaors and vaduct at lioboken and aferwaM the Navy