Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-12

Chester: Copenhagen Water Works" DR..
w P. Mason; THE Necessity of Laying
Water Mains With the View of Future
Cleaning" G. P. Whitney. The officers
of the association are: George H. Felix,
president. Reading. Pa; D. w. French.
vice president. Weehawken, n. j.; DR.. w.
ter. N. Y: Jerry O'Shaughnessy. third
vice president. Columbus. Ohio; Alexander
Milne. fourth vice president st. Gather
ines. Ontario; Charles r. Henderson. Wa
terloo. Iowa; H. E. Keller. Chicago, ILL.,;
Howard A. Dill. Richmond. Ind, and
A. A. Tucker. Memphis. Tenn, members
of the finance committee: j. NJ. Diven.
Charleston s. c.. secretary-treasurer: ex
ecutive committee. G. H. Felix d. w.
French. DR.. W. P Mason. Jerry
keeler. Howard A. Dill. A. A. Tucker, ].
NJ. Diven, D. H. Maury and Charles r.
Henderson.
List of Committees.
The standing and special committees of
the convention are as follows: Publica-
| tion-H. E. Keller, Chicago, III; Prof
Erastus G. Smith, Beoit, Wis; Dabney H.
Maury. Peoria. ILL.,; John w. Alvord, Chi
caso. ILL.,; ]. NJ. Diven. secretary, Charles
ton, S. C.
| Standing committee on electrolysis-
Dabney II. Maury, Peoria. ILL.,; W. E.
Foss. Boston. Mass; j. Waldo Smith, New
York, N. Y.
Fire protection committee-C. H Camp
| bell, Atlanta, Ga: F. W. Shepperd New
York. N. Y. f. F. Fraiey. Lancaster,
Pa; Charles a. Hague, New York, n Y;
Morris r. .Sherrerd. Newark. n. j.: r. ].
| Thomas. Lowell Mass; F. c. Kimball.
! Boston. Mass.
Committee on water works standards
charles A. Hague. New York: Theodore
A. Lessen. Wilmington. Del; D. w.
French. Weehawken. N. ].
committee on uniform annual report
Dow r. Gwinn, Terre Haute, Ind: John
Caultield. ST. Paul. Mimi; Dexter Brack-
ct. Boston. Mass: Emil E Nuebiing
Reading, Pa: Alfred NJ Quick. Baltimore
Nd; w. S. Kuhn, Pittsburg. Pa
wafer supply investigation committee
,, Sherrerd: Newark. n. j.; ]. Waldo
Smith, New York; Emil Kuichlins, New
YORK; Charles f: Boiling. Richmond
R Ra,' Dabn ,G,; a; Msury cE, Peoria. ILL.,:
Erastus G. Smith. Beloit. Wis: Robert
Spur Weston. Boston. Mass; ]. NJ.
owen. superintendent water works,
Charleston. S. c.
follows: ' 90
Conventional O. Leighton. chairman.
w. A. Mcfarland, secretary and treas
urer: II. w. Fuller. D. s. CARL. A. r.
johnson. +. w. Schoenborn, F. +, Long
ley. p. l.. Dougherty.
H.,
man; Walter j. Drummond, Fred n.
Whltcomb Oscar b. Mueller. Robert e.
Milligan
EXhibits-Fred S. Bates, w. A. Van
Wlnkle. Fred A. Smith and Francis F.
Longley.
Formal Opening.
The convention was formally opered
last night. with delegates and guests
from every section of the states in at
tendance. In the assembly hall of the
Arlington. Commissioner Macfarland do.
ilvered the address of welcome after the
meeting had been called to order nv G.
Layton or the geological survey Dur
ing his address the Commission smoke
In high terms of the water works sys
tenn In the District of Columbia Vice
President Fairbanks was scheduled to
make an address, but found it imnos
slble to be in attendance
Senator Newlands of Nevada took his
place upon the program. He spoke at
length of the wonderful advantages of
the waterways of the country and pre-
dicted that within few years these
routes of the country will be so con-
nected that 1t will be possible to go
from any portion of the country to any
other by water The closing speaker
was George II. Felix. president of the
association. who, in brief address, paid
high tribute to the Capital city and
the men who handle the reins of it's
government
Reception rendered.
The meeting was then adjourned and
reception held in the parlors. Mr. Felix
and Senator Newlands stood at the head