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The shadow of the next th'ng you
"will have to dodge may be seen swiftly
approaching. It is the motor roller
Bkatc.
Why invest in battleships, asks the
economical citizen, when an Amer
ican liner can run down and sink an
armored cruiser?
Even with certified m.iik up to 17
rents a quart, it is hard for the man
who lives in a flat, to see just how he
is going to keep a cow.
Of a congregation of over 1,000 at
the First Methodist church of Syra
cuse, N. Y., only 14 admitted having
been converted after reaching the
age of 21.
African negroes use tooth brushes;
they arc fashioned out of the wood of
several kinds of trees. They are
«-asy to make and cost nothing, no
bristles being used.
Getting a case of rheumatism in a
cold sleeping car and then suing the
company for damages, however, will
be found to be an exceedingly slow
way of making money.
Andrew Carnegie says the United
States has the worst monetary sys
tem in the world. Yet some men have
accumulated quite satisfactory wads
of money under that system.
A steamer loaded with 400,000.000
firecrackers is on its way from Shang
hai to tiiis country. What has become
*>f the pat riots who were going to
arrange for a safe and sane Fourth of
July this year?
The outlook for crops in India is
poor. This is discouraging to the peo
ple of that country, who seldom have
a surplus. And it will necessitate
drawing upon the food supplies of the
United States, which always has a
large quantity to spare.
Out of the 105 counties which the.
Ftate of Kansas has within its do
mains at least 50 have no paupers.
One-half the county poor farms are
empty, save for the keeper, who draws
his salary and waits for patronage.
There are no saloons in Kansas.
Ex-Senator W. A. Clark of Montana
has been on a trip through the west
and says everything is promising for
big crops. That means an ample supply
of food products, a large surplus for
export and lively business for the rail
roads: also marked accession to the
gtneral prosperity.
Castro of Venezuela, who has been ill,
has so far recovered that he is able to
ride horseback, which he has not done
for two years past. It is not that sort
of practice to which objection can be
taken. Put it would be better for
"Venezuela if Castro would dismount
from his political high horse.
Some boys recently convicted of
throwing stones in Everett, Mass.,
were sentenced to proceed to a com
modious dump and there throw stones
for a full half hour under the eye
of the law. The Solomonic wisdom of
the sentence seems to have been
proved by the disgust and weariness in
which the culprits worked out their
punishment.
On the open shelves of the Brook
line (Mass.) library only 90 books were
lost during the past year. If this looks
like a good many, it must be remem
bered that none of the books that dis
appeared were worth stealing for their
pecuniary value, end that the total
number of hooks exposed counts up to
over 150,000. Which simply goes to
show that folks that use public li
braries are awful careless.
Promotion in '.he public service is
etill the rule. Mr. John S. the
new public printer, entered the gov
ernment printing office as a compos
itor In 1889, was afterward made
proofreader, and then raised to the
foremanship of a division. In 1901 lie
became public printer in the Philip
pines, and after seven years' service
there is called home to take charge
of the department in Washington.
How accident sometimes' reveals
great opportunities is shojwn by the
story from Winnipeg to thf'effect that
the falling of a large mass of rocks
and ice disclosed a great vein of an
thracite, of the existence of which no
one had been aware previously. The
landslide unhappily resulted in killing
and injuring several of the laborers
employed in the work. This result is
to be deplored. The general benefits
following the discovery, however, will
be great. There fa a very strong de
n.and for anthracite throughout west
ern Canada.
MONEY CAST AWAY
CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES THAT
AVAIL LITTLE.
Indianapolis News Thinks It Time to
Call a Halt on the Raising of
Large Sums for Expenses
of Election.
We wish that party committees
could be brought to realize that of
the vast sums of money used In polit
ical campaigns large amounts are ab
solutely wasted. In the News of
Tuesday It was announced that the
Republican leaders were beginning to
be worried over the outlook for po
litical contributions. We doubt
whether they have much cause to
worry, for there are Indications that
the "interests" will show the usual
practical interest. The difficulty seems
to be, not so much one of getting the
money, as one of accepting it."l do
not," says one eminent Republican,
"see how our party dare accept large
contributions from the trusts in the
next fall's campaign," and he went on
to say that he was "convinced that if
the Republican party is caught ac
cepting money from the trusts next
fall it will go down to defeat on that
one issue. I know,"he added, "what
the tempei of thu people la oa this
subject,"
Here obviously Is a great gain. In
the old days both parties would take
money from anyone, and the only ques
tion was as to liow to get it. Now they
are fearful to accept it unless it come
from the most irreproachable pockets.
In this same statement it was said
that millions of dollars went into the
campaign of 1896 on the Republican
side, that $2,000,000 was spent in 1900,
and more than $1,000,000 in 1904 for
the circulation of literature only. It
was said further on good authority
that the Republican committee will
need this year anywhere from $3,000,-
000 to $5,000,000 —the larger amount
preferred. Yet everyone knows that
much money is wasted in campaigns.
It Is given by no one knows whom,
and Is spent by men who are wholly
beyond the necessity of rendering any
account of their stewardship. The
whole system invites waste. Even le
gitimate expenses are much larger
than they need be. It was absurd to
spend more than $1,000,000 for the
printing and circulation of campaign
documents. Few of these are read,
probably few of them ever reach the
individual voter. If the committees
would give their literature to the
speakers, and to them only, it would
reach the people In the most effective
form and at much less cost. Surely
the time for reform in this businers
has come. No campaign ought to
cost millions of dollars. We do not
believe that any campaign can hon
estly cost so much as that.
Hut the Republicans—and the Dem
ocrats, too—will raise all the money
they can. The refusal of the Repub
lican congress to pass the bill pro
viding for publicity in this matter of
campaign contributions can only be
taken as indicating that they are un
willing to shut off the usual sources
of supply on the eve of a presidential
campaign. The whole thing is scan
dalous, and needlessly so, as much
of the money contributed is used to no
purpose, not even to a corrupt pur
pose. It might as well be burned by
the committees as fast as it is re
ceived.—lndianapolis News.
"On the Job."
Ever since the army officers were
putin charge of the canal work in
Panama there has been a comparative
lack of news from the isthmus, bear
ing on the progress of the work. It
might appear that lethargy had sud
denly seized the workers, about whom
so much was heard under the former
regime.
But it now appears that the con
trary is the case. No news is prover
bially good news, and little news from
Panama has really meant much prog
ress.
Secretary Taft s report of conditions
in the canal zone, and of work done
under the quiet, businesslike super
vision of Col. Goethals, is most grati
fying. The colonel, as a military man
who had his orders and is accustomed
to going ahead with them without fuss
or criticism, has been, colloquially
speaking, "on the job;" and while the
hum of gossip and contention audible
before he took hold has ceased, the
hum of industry has been incessant.
Mr. Taft reports that at the present
rate of excavation only three years
more will he required to complete the
spade work on the big ditch. The
construction of the great locks and the
Gatun dam will, of course, require ad
ditional time; but even these works
are substantially under way. The
vital health and labor problems, once
thought almost insuperable, have been
successfully coped with; and the canal
strip is suggestively described by Mr.
Taft as strung from end to end with
busy and decently kept villages.
The government made no mistake
In cutting loose from the experiment
of intrusting this work to high priced
Independent civilian engineers, who
were apt to throw up the job when dis
satisfied with arrangements and or
ders, or tempted elsewhere, as Mr.
Taft said of Engineer Wallace, by
"mere lucre." Col. Goethals, as flu
army officer, proposes to see the won:
he is assigned to through to the best
of his ability, as a matter of course;
and the results for the nation thus
far are most satisfactory. His name
is likely to be among the foremost as
sociated with the achievement of the
Panama canal. More power to him.—
Milwaukee Sentinel.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE u, 1908.
FOR WISE TARIFF REVISION.
Chicago Post Pleads for an Intelligent
Readjustment.
In spite of blind opposition tariff re
vision is slowly gaining ground in
congress and by the sheer weight of
the intelligent support behind it.
Those who hold the tariff not a politi
cal plaything or party slogan cannot
but regret that the Beveridge bill for
an expert commission has failed of
success in Washington, but with this
wise measure smothered the next best
thing seems sure of accomplishment.
In the interim between the present
and the next session of the national
legislature an investigation is to be
made which promises to be more than
superficial and perfunctory.
This agreeable assurance was forth
coming when the senate adopted the
resolution drawn by Senator Bever
idge and presented by the committee
on finance authorizing the employment
of government experts "and such
other assistants as may be necessary"
to secure the information needed for
"an intelligent revision of the cus
toms laws of the United Slates."
An intelligent revision is what the
country needs more perhaps than any
thing else that it can receive from the
hands of congress. Tinkering with the
tariff will do no good; in fact, it will
do harm, while an equitable readjust
ment will allay the uncertainty and re
move the injustices which now rest
heavily upon tho commercial and in
dustrial interests of the nution.
Upon the committee on lin;incc ta
which haa been intrusted th< task of
tariff study rests a v.st responsibility.
In only one way can the committee
achieve success, and that is by making
an exhaustive study of the country's
needs and refitting the tariff to those
needs without flinching. Tremendous
indeed will be the influences brought
to bear upon the committeemen to
spare this or that interest. Havoc
would follow the yielding to such de
mands. The country needs and the
country must have an Intelligent and
comprehensive readjustment. To
achieve this the friends of revision
must keep alert. —Chicago Evening
Post.
Senator Teller's Accusation.
Senator Teller admitted he was In
error when he charged President
Roosevelt with secretly making addi
tions to the national forests after adop
tion by congress of the measure to
prevent further extensions in certain
slates, fays the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Inexcusable as was the error of Sen
ator Teller in making an unfounded
charge against the president two after
noon papers in this city made the
charge more heinous without a shadow
of foundation. One in its editorial
and the other in its headlines asserted
that Senator Teller had accused the
president of "altering the bill after it
had passed congrers." There was
nothing in the news to give color to
such an assertion. Senator Teller said
Mr. Roosevelt had added 20,000,000
acres to the national forests after the
bill exempting certain states had
passed congress. Mr. Roosevelt did
exactly that, as all the reading world
might have known, for he announced
it openly and stated his reason at the
time. Congress has not accepted his
challenge to rescind that action by
legislation.
In his six years in the White House
President Roosevelt has done nothing
better than the making of additions to
the national forests. The pity is that
he has been prevented from making
other additions for the conservation of
the timber supply. President Cleve
land began this excellent national pol
icy, President McKinley followed the
precedent and President Roosevelt has
exercised the power in larger measure,
with the approval of every right-think
ing American who has taken the trou
ble to inform hi-uself upon this sub
ject. The need lor forest protection
is most urgent.
What! Money Used for Bryan?
Of course, everybody familiar with
national politics knows now that a
vast amount of money was spent by
the silver interests In 189G and again
in 1900 in the effort to secure the elec
tion of Mr. Bryan, but the facts were
less obvious at the time of their oc
currence than since, just as the coun
try has been illumined as to the con
tributions made to the Republican
campaigns of those years. But of late
Mr. Bryan has developed acute antip
athy to the misuse of money in poli
tics. And if he has been quite parti
san in pointing his illustrations, he has
justly denounced the practice in gen
eral.
But now comes the shocking story
that his backers in Minnesota used
$20,000 to defeat instructions in that
state for Gov. Johnson, on the theory
that if Minnesota could, by such blan
dishments, be passed into the Bryan
column, the Johnson boom would col
lapse and disappear. This charge
ought to be "meat" for Mr. Bryan. He
should have it investigated forthwith
and, if it is true, he should proceed to
banish the perpetrators of the crime
from the fold of Democracy. And if
it should be shown that he had knowl
edge of what was going on, Mr. Bryan
should be a real Spartan, acknovvledg
the fact and use his eloquence to justi
fy his transgression or to plead hir.
pardon. Plainly it is up to him to do
something.
But the charitable and reasonable
view to take of this Minnesota inci
dent 1s that Mr. Bryan had no more
to do with it than Mr. Johnson has
with Wall street s preference for his
candidacy as against that of the Ne
braska man, although Mr. Bryan has
refused to exercise for Mr. Johnson
the charity that would be due him if
Wall street is putting up money for
tim without his knowledge or consent
SIX KILLED; EIGHT INJURED
STEAM PIPE BURSTS ON ARM
ORED CRUISER TENNESSEE.
Some of the Victims Were Cooked
Alive —Admiral Sebree Escapes—
Cause of Accident Unknown.
Ran Podro, Cal.—A terrible acci
dent occurred on board the United
States armored cruiser Tennessee at
11:08 o'clock Friday morning while
the ship was steaming at 1!) knots on
a speed trial off Point Huenene, Cal.,
a steam pipe In the starboard engine
room bursting under 235 pounds pres
sure, killing six men and injuring
eight others, all the men In the com
partment at the time.
The explosion, the cause of which Is
unknown, occurred only a few minutes
after Admiral Uriel, Capt. B. P. How
ard and Chief Engineer Robertson had
left the engine room on a tour of in
spection. Four of the inen were killed
instantly and two more died at San
Pedro after the arrival of the Ten
nessee.
The surviving seamen, all of whom
suffered injuries, acted with the great
est heroism In aiding their unfortu
nate mates. Rear Admiral Sebree es
caped death or serious injury in the
fated fire pit by a narrow margin.
The Tennessee, flagship of the sec
ond division of the Pacific cruiser
fleet, left Santa Barbara at U o'clock
Friday morning with the cruisers
Pennsylvania, Washington, Colorado
and West Virginia in her wake, on the
fsemi-annual official speed trial pro
vided for by naval regulations. Ad
miral Sebree had ordered the cruisers
to full speed, and the Tennessee had
just concluded a series of evolutions
and started straightaway.
So great was the blast of soot and
steam that every man in the room was
blackened from head to foot, while
those closest to the break were
cooked alive.
Rear Admiral Sebree said: "The
explosion was one of those accidents
which cannot be provided against."
DUN'S REPORT ENCOURAGING
Improvement in Commercial Channels
and Manufacturing Activities
Increases.
Xew York City.— R. 0. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Improvement continues in commercial
channels, increased* manufacturing ac
ticity and seasonable weather being
the dominant influences of the past
week. In all leading industries there
is less idle machinery and staple lines
of merchandise at retail quickly re
spond to the larger pay rolls. .Mer
cantile collections are also more
prompt and confidence grows stronger
as the crops advance toward maturing
with no more serious handicap than
excessive moisture in some sections.
While the first week in .lune com
pares favorably with any previous
week this year, there still appears
a large decrease in comparison with
the volume of business in the same
week of 1907.
A lower price for steel bars was
the most significant event of the week
in the iron and steel industry. It
came as a surprise because at the
recent meeting of leading interests it
was agreed that no reduction would
be made and the trade is now wait
ing for better terms in other depart
ments. Much pending business will
be deferred if there is any prospect of
a general cut in priees, although spe
cial conditions existing in the bar
market do not prevail elsewhere,
notably the competition of iron bars
for the season's requirements for ag
ricultural implement makers that
must soon be met. Restoration of
priees for pig Iron checked the im
proved distribution, and absence of
the expected ore inquiries has caused
further postponement of lake ship
ments.
ALL OHIO MINES WILL RESUME
Union Delegates and Operators Agree
on a Mining Scale for Eastern
Ohio District.
Cleveland, O. —Coal operators and
miners of the Eastern Ohio dis
trict reached a two-year agreement
Friday after a stormy session at The
Hollenden hotel. All differences were
amicably adjusted and work in all
mines will be resumed. In the eastern
Ohio or N'o. 8 field 10,000 miners are
employed. They are directly affected
by this action.
The scale decided upon Is the same
as that of two years ago, a machine
rate of 61% cents a ton. For loading,
the miners will.be paid 50% cents a
ton and for cutting 11 cents. Both
the operators and miners made vari
ous demands and wanted changes in
the former scale, but in the wind up
all these were cast aside.
At this meeting the action taken
at Wheeling, doing away with a two
cent-a-ton rate for dead work, was con
firmed. In addition to the regular
scale agreement an extra agreement
was reached Friday regarding slate.
Sixty Thousand Dollars in Fines Paid.
Kansas City.—Three packing com
panies and one railroad company,
convicted in 1906 of rebating and
sentenced to pay fines aggregat
ing $60,000 Friday handed to the clerk
of the United States a check for the
total amount of their fines plus costs.
Eight Killed; Many Injured.
Annapolis, Md.—Fight persons were
killed outright and a score or
nore injured in a head-on collision
on the electric railway between this
city and Camp Parole Friday.
LADING IS ONE OF
BANKERS INDICTED
NORWALK CONGRESSMAN AC
CUSED AF EMBEZZLING STOCK
VALUED AT S2,CCO.
WON'T RESIGN FROM TICKET
Three Others Held by the Grand Jury
—Arrests Are Made in Connection
With the Failure of the Ohio
Trust Company.
Norwalk, O. —Congressman J. F.
I.aning of the Fourteenth district, who
Is making a fight for re-election, was
indicted by the grand jury in connec
tion with the failure of thp Ohio Trust
Co. With Laning, President J. G.
Gibbs, Secretary-Treasurer F. W.
Christian and William Perrln, a di
rector, were indicted.
The indictments were returned Wed
nesday, but were not made public un
til Thursday, when they were served
on all four men, who appeu ed and
cave bonJ.
I shall light to a finish," Lulling
denir.rc-1. ".My enemies have tried to
foicc me to resign from the Repub
lican ticket, but 1 lllow can I
and retain my self-respect? I toil the
convention that if 1 was found to have
done any wrong I would resign, and I
shall stick to that. But I am inocent
and there is no reason for an innocent
man to get off the ticket."
The embezzlement charge against
Congressman Laning is based on the
charge that in December, 1905, he
converted to his own use, 20 shares of
N'orwalk Savings bank stock, par
value $2,000, which stock was then
owned by the Ohio Trust Co., of which
he was then director.
Christian is charged with making
two false reports to the state auditor
on the bank's condition, one in Decem
ber, 1907, and the other in Mar'h,
190 S. It is claimed that he inflated
the statement of resources. Two
charges of perjury are based on the
fact that he swore to these state
ments.
Gibbs and Laning in September,
1905, according to the charge in the
indictment, said to Richard W. White
head, "We never speculate in stocks.
We loan on real estate. It is soiid
rock security. We require income
producing property," (meaning, the in
dictment says, as security for loans.)
Perrin, the indictments charge,
when a director in December, 1906,
pretended to Dennis Gil more that the
bank loaned money only on real es
tate and induced Gilmore to deposit
$1,005. In September, 1905, he is
charged with inducing Richard W.
Whitehead to deposit ssit and in Octo
ber, 1905, inducing Henry Mack to de
posit S],CUO on similar statements.
MAJOR DREYFUS WOUNDED
Military Writer of Note Fires Two
Shots at Him, One Bullet Enter
ing His Forearm.
Paris, France. —Just at the close of
the ceremonies attending the can
onization of Emile Zola in the Pan
theon Thursday, when the president
of France, the premier and a host ol
ministers of state were taking their
departure, Louis Anthehne Gregori, a
military writer of note, drew a revol
ver and fired two shots point blank
at Major Alfred Dreyfus, for whose
liberty Zola fought and won.
Men distinguished in all walks ol
life filled the Pantheon, and when the
shots rang out there was intense ex
citenient in fear that the president
had been assassinated, but even the
attempt on the life of Major Dreyfus
created a profound impression. Sol
diers speedily surrounded Gregori
and he was taken to jail, bruised and
bleeding, with his clothes almost torn
from his back.
Tiie affair has created a tremen
dous sensation in Paris and the mo
tive of the would-be assassin is the
cause of much mystification, for Gre
gori, instead of being an ordinary
fanatic, such as is carried away by
the political passions of the moment
Is a man of mature age, having been
born in 1544, and was highly esteemed
In the circles where he was known.
Although born of Italian parents, lie
has been an ardent Frenchman for
years and has written authoritatively
on military subjects, enjoying close re
lations with many high French offi
cers. He was one of the correspond
ents who followed the big French and
German maneuver* for obtaining data
for technical papers.
Major Dreyfus was not seriously in
jured. A bullet entered his forearm,
but did not injure the bone. At a late
hour Thursday night the official state
ment. was made that his condition was
very favorable and that no complica
tions were feared.
Three Killed, 20 Injured.
Joliet, 111. —Three persons were
killed and 20 injured in a col
lision between an Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern freight and an Aurora and
Joliet electric car Thursday night
seven miles west of Joliet.
$200,000 Loss by Fire.
Norfolk, Va. —Fire at 1:30 o'clock
Friday morning on Main street
completely destroyed several build
inns in the business section of Nor
folk. The damage Is between $150,Q0(
jid $200,000.
INJURED IN A CONFLAGRATION
THREE YOUNG WOMEN SERIOUS
LY BURNED.
Others Were Painfully Scorched When
an Explosive Factory at Am
herst, 0., Was Damaged.
Amherst, O.—Throe young women
were seriously burned and sev
eral others painfully scorched near
here Wednesday by a fire at the plant
of the American Dynilite Co. A vat of
chemicals in the loading room ignited
from coming in contact with some
metal.
Miss Minerva Barkley, age 24, was
probably fatally burned before she
could be rescued by Supt. Aliyn. whose
heroic work prevented her instant
death. Mrs. Elizabeth Haas was
burned about the face and ears, and
her hair was burned off. Miss Rosalia
Downs, age 20, received a sprained
ankle by leaping from a window.
When the fire occurred about a
dozen persons, mostly girls, were
working in the plant. Supt. Allyn was
also in the room conducting the work
of loading torpedoes with dynilite, a
new explosive which the firm pro
duces.
The exact cause of the explosion has
not been determined. Two lons of tho
explosive were stored in the building,
but according to officials of tbe com
pany it will act explo.le unless touched
off with an electric spark. The fire
tends to prove this claim as no explo
sion occurred,
Edith Keating was the only person
In the building to escape even slight
injuries. Eliza Lee, age Ifi, of Am
herst was packing a torpedo with the
explosive and had just placed a cap
on the tube which contained 75 pounds
of dynilite. A flame suddenly shot up
from the vat in which the dynilite is
stored.
SCHOOLCHILDREN LACK FOOD
Kitchens Opened on East Side in New
York City to Feed Hungry Ones
—Tots Faint While Reciting.
New York City.—Emergency meas
ures for the relief of hundreds of
pupils in East Side schools who have
been found to be suffering from lack
of food have been adopted by the com
mittee of East Side school board mem
bers, organized as a result of the seri
ous conditions which the reports of
school principals in the section re
vealed.
At a conference late Wednesday the
committee decided to arrange for the
speedy opening of two kitchens on the
lower East Side at which the hungry
children may be fed. While the funds
for the support of these kitchens have
been supplied only in part, the public
has been so stirred by the disclosures
of the pitiable plight of children faint
ing at their desks from want of suffi
cient nourishment that the commit
tee anticipates no trouble in obtain
ing by subscription all the money
needed for the purpose.
That the reports already made pub
lic have hardly painted conditions
black enough was the statement made
by Isadore M. Levy, chairman of the
third school district committee.
"An investigation," said Mr. Levy,
"has shown that many of the destitute
families have sent their little tots to
school without having given them food
for 48 hours. To my personal knowl
edge several children have fainted
while they were reciting in their class
rooms."
MEAT ONLY FOR MILLIONAIRES
Secretary Wilson in a Statement Says
High Price of Hay and Corn
is the Cause.
Washington, D. C. —"If the price
of meat keeps going up as it has been
in the last years it will only be a
matter of time when none but the
rich people of America can afford to
eat it."
This statement was made by Secre
tary Wilson of the department of agri
culture.
"Think of it," said the secretary,
"corn at 76 and 78 cents. How can a
farmer afford to raise cattle with corn
at that price? How can a farmer af
ford to feed hay to cattle at the price
that he can obtain for it on the mar
ket? Why should a farmer continue
to raise cattle with the little profit
in his work, as there necessarily must
be when we look at the prices of fod
der. Beef prices will soon be so high
that people like us will be unable to
get it to eat at all."
Mangled in Machinery.
Lebanon, O. —Tom Wise, an em
ploye of the King Power Works at
Kings Mills, met a horrible death in
the felting department Wednesday af
ternoon. His clothing was caught by
the machinery and he was drawn into
it. One arm was torn completely off
and his neck broken, death resulting
instantly. He lived at Mainsville and
was alone when the accident occurred.
2-Cent Rate to England.
Washington, D. C. —Postmaster Gen
eral Meyer announced on Wednesday
that an agreement had been reached
with the British government providing
for a letter postage of 2 cents an
ounce between the United States and
Great Britain and Ireland, to become
operative October 1.
Engineers Meet in Detroit in 1910.
Columbus, O. —Detroit was selected
on Wednesday as the place of th«
meeting of the International
tive Engineers for the year 1910,