St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-09
SURVEYORS ORGANIZE
THE MINNESOTA SURVEYORS
AND ENGINEERS SOCIETY.
Officers Are Elected and Needed
Legislation Discussed-Pro.
granme for Today.

The surveyors convention yesterday
effected the organization of the Mime
sofa Surveyors and Engineers society.
At the morning session i'll the Lumber
Exchange building, upwards of score
OF delegates were present. n. Y. Taylor,
OF Meeker county, was chosen temporary
chairman, and G. A. Forbes, of st. Paul,
temporary secretary. These selections
being made permanent, the convention
unan imously named officers of the new
society. as follows:
N. \. Taylor, president; Gates A.
johnson, of st. Paul, vice president;
and G. A. Forbes, secretary and treas
urer. Mr.. Taylor's address, Oh taking
the chair, was replete with excellent
suggestions. Messrs. Forbes and John
son, with o. II. Case, of Fillmore, were
appointed committee on organization
to prepare articles of association, by
laws and Il constitution. The surveyors
then went into committee of the whole,
and discussed points Of needed legiS-
latiou until p. III.
At the afternoon session the commit
tee on Organization reported articles of
association, bylaws and a constitution,
which were unanimously adopted. In
vitatlon was then extended to j. Ii.
Armstrong, of the city engineering de-
partment, st. Paul, to address the con-
ventlon this morning. at 10 O'Clock, on
The Re-establi5hment of Sections and
Quarter Sections in st. Paul" j. ID.
Estabrook. of this city, formerly en-
gineer Of parks, was also requested to
read paper at this afternoons session,
upon subject not yet determined.
The balance of the afternoon session,
and the whole of brief session last
evening, was passed i'll the discussion
Of details pertaining to the organization
OF the new society.
Suggestions as to legislation, together
with the two papers above named, will
furnish subjects for today's discussion.
The convention adjOurns this afternoon.
Among the delegates are: n. Y.
Taylor, of Meeker county; q. l..
Hamery, of Polk county; 0. j. Ander-
SOL, of Nicollet: s. z. MuIlin. of Selby;
D. Ii. Case. of Fillmore; q. b. Lowell.
OF Dakota; William Danforth. of Good
hue; Gates A. johnson, }. S. Sewall, j.
Ii. Armstrong. j. d. Estabrook. G. A.
Forbes, A. L. JeWett, of st. Paul.
Chairman Taylor Ill his opening re-
marks said:
II am pleased to meet with you to-
day, and that you have left your daily
business 70 come proves TO me that you
are deeply Interested in this cause. The
object OF our meeting, as has already
been stated in the call that was sent to
you, is to form a surveyors association
for mutual improvement and benefit.
By mutual we mean the advancement
of the surveyor TO a higher plane of
thought Ill his work, a uniformity of
purpose and system of rules for the
betterment not only of the condition of
the surveyor, but the community that
surrounds him. This society is intend-
ed to enable the man to break away
from the old habits and rules, or rather
lack of rules, in his work. 1t is not the
intention OF the society to cater to the
wants of the county surveyor as
present incumbent. There is no re-
striction placed on any one. But the
county surveyors office has been sadly
neglected, and the first objects of the
society will be to remedy some of the
evils that have grown up in the office,
and try and place the county surveyors
on all equal footing with the other
county offices. We are all painfully
aware of the fact that a great deal Of
the work done by the county surveyors
in the past has been very poorly done.
We did not approve of this kind of work
at the time, and most heartily condemn
it now. But the circumstances that all
lowed it. and which, to certain extent,
must excuse it, were things over which
we had no control and for which we are
not to blame. But the days for that
kind of work are passed, along with the
buffalo and Indian trails. The forming
of the land SIrvpvnrS' acSnniatinp rnorlyc
all epoch i'll land surveying in Mime
sofa. And in the future we expect 70
see only the best kind of work done,
and that work of a permanent charac-
ter We want better work done. We
must have it done, and if it is done, the
greatest object of this meeting has been
achieved