The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-15
ENGINEERS ANNUALSESSION
INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE
 GATHERING IN PROGRESS.

President PunderfOrd's Address Tells of
 Growth-PIans for Rest of session-
 Finances GOod-Omeers for Next Year
 With 4. B. Hill as President-Ban-
 quet at HeubIein's Last Evening.
 The opening exercises of the twenty first annual session of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers was held yesterday in North Sheffield hall. May or Studley, who was introduced by John K. PunderfOrd, general manager of the Consolidated street railway, and presi- dent of the association, welcomed the engineers to New Haven in neat little speech in which he extended the free dom of the city to them. He spoke of the value of the organization to the city and of the responsibility of the men of this profession. He commended espe- cially the benefits to be derived from their assemblages.
 MT. Punderford followed with his an- nual address. He told of the growth of the society from the band of eighteen men which formed the society in 1884 to the present membership of 260, contain ing on it's rolls the chief engineer of the New York subway, the chief engineer of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, the city
 engineer of every city of the state, and many others of high standing in the profession.
 He reviewed the past years doings of the association in outline, and after that the plans for the present meeting. Regarding to-day's programme he said: We meet again Wednesday morning at North Sheffield hall at 10 o'clock to listen to nine papers, written by mem bers, covering interesting features they l have met with in some of their work during the past year.
 At o'clock Wednesday afternoon special cars will be in waiting at the i corner of Temple and Chapel streets to | take such members as desire to the new plant of the New Haven Gas company and to the filtration plant of the Water company, and if, as has been suggested, some of the members desire to go over the new Wallingford extension of the
 local trolley system, an opportunity will
 be afforded.
 "At 7:So in the evening MT. Knight, the engineer of the Continental Com
 pressed Air company, will give an il-
 frustrated paper on the plant at Nor wich, Conn.,"
 l Near the close of his address he spoke
 of the financial condition of the associ-
 ation in these words: l ''The financial standing of the society
 is most satisfactory, there being over | $500 in the treasury, with no outstand- 1 ing bills"
 Matters of business including the an-
 nual election, of officers, then came up
 for consideration and were disposed of 1 The officers elected are:
 President-Albert B. Hill.
 First -president-W. T. Spencer. 1 Second -president--Charles F., Chase
 Secretary and treasurer--J. Frederick l Jackson. Directors-Henry J. Kellogg and F. D.
 Graves these two being reelected to
 serve with George K. Crandall and Frederick L. Ford
 | The following names, having been
 suggested for membership, were favor- ably acted upon:
 l W. c. Bushnell New Haven; Edgar
 T. Duncan, Bloomfield Moses Joy. New
 Haven; Henry S. Graves, New Haven; Orson H. Marchant, New Haven; Leoni W. Robinson, New Haven; Frank w. Whiton, New Haven.