Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-16
Program of Civic Federation.

The program of the convention of the
National Civic Federation. prepared by
committee headed by Judge Parker
calls for the following subjects and
speakers:
Conservation of natural reSources-Dr.
w MCGEE. National Conservation AS
ISOLATION: Walter l.. Fisher National
conservation Association: Joseph p. Cot
ton, National Conservation Association.
and j. Horace Mcfarland. president
American Civic Association
lnsurance-Thomas f. Drake. national
convention of insurance commissioners:
John r. Dryden. Association of Life In
surance Presidents: Frank Lock. national
board of fire underwriters and Ralph
Breckenridge. delegate from Nebra ska.
Work of conference of commissioners
on uniform state laws-Walter George
smith. president, presenting bills on ne
gotiable instruments, warehouse receipts.
sales of goods. stock certificates, bills of
lading and marriage and divorce.
Banking-Pierre Jay. National Assoc
cation of Supervisors of State Banks
Lewis r. Pierson. President. American
Bankers Association.
control of corporatiOns-John c. Rich
Derg. chairman, committee on corpora
tons. commissioners on uniform state
laws; James f. Sterrett. president. Amer
lean Association of Public Accountants.
Regulation of interstate railways and
quasi-public utilities-Martn S. Decker,
president National Association of Rail-
way commissioners; William +. McCar-
roll. president New York Board of Trade
and Transportation: Martin a. Knapp.
sion: w. c. Brown. president New York
Central railroad George E. Cortelyou.
president Consolidated Gas Company;
Charles W. Needhanl. president George
Washington University: James Speyer,
banker: Warren S. Stone, grand chief In
ternatonal Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers: George w. Perkins banker:
w. G. Lee. president Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen.
Taxation-Lawson Purdy International
Tax Association: F. A. Derthick. Ma
tional Grange: Edwin r. A. Seligman,
chairman department of taxation, Ma
tional Civic Federation.
Pure food w. c. Breed National
Wholesale Grocers' Association: J. c.
Reid, American Feed Manufacturers AS
sociation; William Jay Schieffelin. Ma
tional Wholesale Druggists Association;
George L. Douglass. the Proprietary As
sociation of America
Uniform labor legislation = John Will
liams. representing the International AS
ISOLATION of Factory Inspectors and Ma
tional Association of State Labor Com
miSsioners: Henry w. Farnam. president
of the American Association for Labor
Legislation: Samuel McCune Lindsay. vice
president Of the American Economic As
ISOLATION; Lewis ". Parker. president of
the Columbia. S. c.. cotton mills.
Child labor-Isaac \. Seligman. treas
urer of the national child labor commit
tee: Hollis r. Bailey chairman of the
child labor committee, uniform state law
commissioners
Compensation for accidents-SamueI
Gompers, John Hays Hammond John
Mitchell. August Belmont. E. r. Wright
president Illinois Federation of Labor:
George NJ Gillette, president Mime
apolis Steel and Machinery Company.
Prison labor-William A. Gardner
Automobile regulation = Charles =.
Terry, general counsel. American Auto
mobile Association.
Uniform road regulation-N J. Bach
elder. master National Grange. and James
n. Head, League OF American Munich
palities.
Vital statisfics-Dr. William c. Wood
ward Public Health Association; Dr. AL
exander Craig American Medical Asso-
citation. and F.. l.. Hoffman. American
Statistical Association.
Public accountlng-Harvey T. Chase
public accountant of Massachusetts,