Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-07
RAILROAD-ME HERE.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION CONvENEs
IN ANNUAL SESSION TODAY.
IMPORTANT BUSINESS ON HAND.
Work Of the Committees Yesterday-
An Elegant banquet Last Might.
The Members Arrive In Their Owu
Private Cars
Private Cars.

This morning at II o'clock the American
Railway Association. the most influential
and important transportation organiza-
ton in this country, win assemble in an
nual session in the large hail on the ffth
floor OF the Jefferson. The meeting will
be raped to order by Major T.. T. ID.
Myers, or the Atlantic-Coast Line. who
was at the last annual meeting elected "a
the presidency of the association. and
the most important business to be trans.
acted will be the election OF officers,
Major Myers will in all probability sue.
ceed himself.
All day yesterday the representatives
of the various roads holding membership
In the association poured into the city,
and as many of them travel almost ex-
! clusively in private cars. sixteen of those
palatial travelling homes were side
tracked in Richmond.
THOSE WHO HAVE ARRIVED.
Among those who have thus far arrived
are Messrs. j. G. Metcalf, general man.
ager of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road George b. Leighton. president OF
the Los Angeles Terminal railway; h. e.
Carter. principal assistant engineer OF
the Chicago Northwestern railway; c. w.
Bradley, generals superintendent West
Shore railroad: j. NJ. Warner. general
superintendent Chicago and Western In
diana railroad; j. c. Moorhead, general
superintendent Ohio Division OF the Erie
railroad G. ID. Hammond. superintendent
of the Delaware and Hudson railroad:
Evan Etten. superintendent New York
Central railroad; r. c. Rice; $. A. Miller,
Chicago; w ID. Ewing, Boston; e. k.
Fitch, Paterson \. j.; c. II. Platt. New
Haven, Conn; {. w. Burkholtz. 5.
Mathez, and W. +. Merrill New York;
Mr. f. a. Harrington brings Mrs. Hsr-
rington and Master Harrington with him
from Albany. Robert Pitcairn. PittsDurg.
Pa; X. Il. Young, Boston, j. j. Fry.
John ). Elliott, l.. IL. Frey. j. NJ. Me-
Carthy, of Topeka. Kan. ". g. BiXDy,
Nergennes. VI; Mr.. and Mrs. j. Collins.
Orange. y. y; John ID. Henderson. Phil
adephia. and 5. NJ. Provost, Philadelphia.
All the arrivals rendezvOused at the
Jefferson. the association headquarters.
where they were met by Major Myers.
Mr. G.. W. Stevens, OF the Chesapeake
and Ot.o. and Mr. h. c. Edwards, loca!
superintendent of the Pullman Palace-car
Company.
THE COMMITTEES NET.
Yesterdays programme was devoted to
committee meetings, and reports were
formulated and gotten ready for suomis-
sion to the meeting to-day.
The Committee on Train Rules, OF which
eneral-Supertntendent Robert Pitcairn,
Of the Pittsburg Division OF the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, is chairman, had a meet
ing at 20 o'clock.
The Executive Committee, Of which
Major Myers is chairman, met at the
same hour, and the Conference Commit
| tee an hour later.
At o'clock the Committee on Safety
Appliances, General-Superintendent c. II.
| Platt. of the New Hampshire system.
| New York, New Hampshire and Hudson-
| River railways. chairman, held its meet
| ing.
The Committee on Executive Plans met
also at 3 o'clock
None OF the deliberations Of these bodies
were made public. The session to-day
will be behind closed doors
BANQUET LAST NIGHT.
At night the American Railway Guild.
which is composed of officers of the asso-
citation and members of the various COM
mittees, had banquet in the east dining
room at the Jefferson. An elegant menu
WAS discussed, after which. with the
sparkle OF wine TO lend them inspiration.
several members of the associatio. made