Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-05
DOWN TO BUS|N ESS
Five Sections Of Railway Con-
gress at Work.
TWO SESSIONS A DAY
DELEGATES SETTLE DOWN TO
BUSINESS IN EARNEST.
Trip to Mt. vernon-Specially Prepar-
ed Papers on Technical Matters
The Exhibition.
TWO SESSIONS A DAY

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was spent in effecting the permanent or
| gan1zation and little business was trans
| acted Today. however the delegates all
| assembled at their respective sections and
| commenced business in earnest. Two ses-
| slons Will be held daily, morning and aft
| ernoon, until next Saturday. when the
last session is to be held jointly in the
| general meeting room at the New Willard
Hotel. After organizing the sections yes
| terday afternoon the delegates became the
! guests of the local entertainment commit
| tee on a trip to Mt. Vernon. This after
noon at o'clock Vice President Fairbanks
| will receive the delegates at the White
| House.
| reports in the shape of specially prepared
| papers on technical subjects relating to
railway operation. These reports are pre-
| pared months in advance by delegates Sc
| lected for the purpose by the permanent
| commission. These delegates called
reporters, and after their reports are read
they are discussed in an exhaustive man
ner by the members who hear them. In
order to SyStematiZe the business of the
! organization and to easily guide large
| a body in the transaction of the business
| that comes before ii, the congress is di-
| vided into five sections. 10 each of which
| is assigned set of subjects. There are
| so many divisions of the railway business
| that it is comparatively easy to classify
| the subjects considered under five general
heads. Therefore the congress is really
| five separate and distinct organizations
| having one administrative head. The ad-
mlniStrative head is the staff of officers
| of the congress, assisted by the permanent
| commission. AS a rule, but two general
sessions of the five sections are held, the
opening and closing At the opening Of
| fcers of the general body are elected and
| temporary officers appointed for the sec
| tions
The sections are then advised to meet i'm
MI ~ rp11 of
| This is what was done at the meetings yes
! terday. All of the section meetings are
strictly private, no one but accredited dele
gates being permitted to enter. The buSi-
ness discussed is, to a great degree purely
| technical. and therefore of little interest
| except to those whom it affects The dele
| gates while attached to sections are not
prohibited from attending the meetings of
| the other sections. There are many rail-
road officials whose duties require them to
be familiar with subjects discussed at sew
| eral of the sections Such delegates will
visit from one to the other, timing them
selves so as to reach a section at time
when topic of interest to them is under
discussion.
Officers of Sections.
At the general session yesterday Pres-
dent Fish appointed five well-known rail-
road men to act as temporary and honorary
presidents of the sections. These were:
Section /, Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish; section 9,
Mr. Theodore N Ely, chief of the motive
power of the Pennsylvania railroad: Sec
ton 3, Sir G. J. Armytage president of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire railroad Ene-
iand; section a. M. Perouse chief of the
poard or railways to the French ministry
OF public works; section s. NJ Ernest Ger
ara chief of the cabinet OF the ministry of
railways OF Belgium. The members of the
tdiious t sections were then notified to elect
their permanent officers, and the elestions
were lmmedla tely held. The results fol-
low: ~ iot
toetI FIRST section-Meets at the Ebbitt. Sub
Jects, ways and Works." President
julius Kruttschnitt fourth vice nrasidant
Southern Pacific railroad; vice president
NJ. FontZen of the ministry of public works
Vi france; secretaries. Edouard Elskes,
englneer-n-chief in the ministry of rail
roads or Switzerland; C. w. Buchholz CON
sultlng engineer of the Erie railroad. r. IT.
N. Dutour, engineer in the service of the
state railways of Holland; Vlad Tolstonia
toH, engineer in the service of the state
railways of Russia; T. A. Brandt consult
ing engineer in the service of Holland: M
Strapp, consulting engineer, members of
the permanent commission; Guy Hopkins
operating engineer Southern Pacific rail
road; Fl. E. Create of the engineering de-
partment of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road.
Second section-Meets at the New Will
lard. Subjects, Motive Power and Rolling
Stock. President Edouard Savage engi-
neer and chief of the board of administra-
first vice president. NJ Mentsik. chief of
the technical section of the railroad of
Hungary; second vice president E. r Jef-
fiery, president of the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad; secretaries, NJ Boell en-
gineer-in- charge of construction of the
state railroads of France; d. J. Crawford
general superintendent of motive power OF
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittshurp.
NJ F. Paul-Dubois, engineer in the service
of the Orleans railroad of France: j. ]. Da
Silva Freire, engineer in the service of the
Central railroad of Brazil; E. R. Dolby
consulting engineer, member of the perma-
nent commission; E. A. Ryder, secretary to
the president of the Boston and Maine rail-
road; William Stephan of the office of the
superintendent of motive power of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pttsburg.
The Third Section.
Third section-Meets at the New Willard:
subjects, operation; president H. T. Hodg-
son, vice president of the Midland railroad
of England; vice president B. L. Winchell
president of the Rock Island system; Sec
retaries, Charles Jenny of the Southern
railway of Austria; A. w. johnson, gen
eral superintendent of the New York. Chi
cago and st. Louis railroad Felix Sartiaux
of the Northern railroad of France W. NJ
Skinner, general baggage agent of the New
York Central railroad; j. r. Peachy, assist
ant general freight agent of Illinois Central
railroad; l.. j. Garcey, New York agent of
the Great Western Railroad of England
Fourth section: meets at the Raleigh; sub
jects general-President, Emile Heurteau
manager of the CLEANS railroad of France:
vice president James Douglas president of
the Ell Pason and Southwestern railroad:
secretaries. NJ Margot, consulting engineer
of the board of directors of the Paris-Lyon
and Mediterranean railroad of France; c.
Peter Clark; general manager, Buffalo and
Susquehanna rairoad M. Charles Emile
Heaurteau of the ministry of public works
of France; Amedee Gay of the Western
railroad of France; William D Eichtal To-
cal administrator of railroads for the de-
partment of landes of France: w. H. Net
tleman of the Southern Pacific railroad;
Aug. Faure of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road; Octave Chanute. consulting engineer
Fifth section; meets In the hearing room
at the interstate commerce commission:
subject light railways-President Dr. Max
Elder Won Leber of the railroad ministry of
Austria. vic nresidant Ha Nd Secord