The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-14
ENGINEERS
NEW YEAR
Prosperous
annual Festival
at Seaside.


public libraries in large cities on the
mainland, the Hawaiian Engineering
Association starts upon another year
with fine promise of increasing useful
ness and yigor.
/ Last night the annual meeting of the
Association was held in it's handsome
| quarters in the Kapiolani building.
Chairman E. c. Brown presided and
about 80 members were present.
| One of the first items of business was
| ing named being the recruits: F. j.
Cross, w. H. Bromley, w. L. Frazee,
Fred. T. Williams, w. D. Lowell, r. d.
Mead, VIM. Tougher, August Fries, c.
L. WEIGH.
Annual reports of the chairman, sec
rotary and treasurer were presented,
giving a full resume of the past years
work of the organization.
Treasurer Petries report showed
$56S42 cash in hand, including the
donation from the hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association in aid of a cir
culating library.
Election of officers resulted in the re-
placing of all those retiring by unan-
imous votes, with the exception of
contest that took place over the three
city directors. The list follows:
Chairman-Edward C. Brown
Vice Chairnan-C. G. Ballentyne.
Secretary-E. G. Keen.
Treasurer-T. II. Petrie.
Directors-A. Gartley, e. Kopke, Geo.
F. Bush, Honolulu; A. w. Keech, Ha-
wall; J. N S. Williams Maui; Nor
man Greig, Kauai
For city directors there had been !
nominated Geo. F. Bush, A. Gartley, |
rich and E. Kopke, and a ballot being
taken gave Gartley %, Kopke IS and
Bush 16, electing these three.
Before the election Chairman Brown
tended going away on vacation, but
the announcement made no difference
to the Association-it had no other
candidate for the chair.
With some remarks on the functions
OF each and reading the section of the
constitution bearing thereon, the chair
man appointed the following standing
committees for the year:
F'inance-O. L. Sorenson, A. G. !
Halves Jr. and VIM Hall
Library-Wm. Soper. Robert Men |
augh and w G. White
Topics-R. J. Pratt. w. A. Ramsay
and c. V. E. Dove.
Membership-Guy Gere. Lester Pc
trie and H. G. Ginaca.
Entertainment-Capt F. c. Miller, |
E. G. Keen, c. M Lovsted, Lee H. :
Wolf and B. Won Damn.
Secretary Keen had reported that he ,
had received letters from the public !
Libraries of New York, Milwaukee. !
Kansas City and Sr. Louis, asking that /
the papers read before the Association
be furnished to them. How the exist
ence of the Association had become |
known in those places he did not know.
but evidently the knowledge had gone
abroad and the organization become of ,
some considerable outside interest
Chairman Brown, referring to these
requests from public Libraries while
the committees. suggested
that the library committee might be
able to secure exchanges of papers
with kindred associations.
He regarded the committee on topics
the most important one on the list.
1t largely rested with it to make the
organization a success. The commit
tee had to do with special subjects. A
special committee Of five on the sub
ject of denatured alcohol was recently
appointed, from which action impor-
tant results We're likely to be gained. |
There were other special subjects that
might be taken up. For instance, in
his travels through the country he
found a division of opinion on the rela-
tive merits of belt-driven and water
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