58 meeting, monday, feb. 6. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, Feb. 6, 1882. 



At the meeting this evening, Messrs. Lawrence E. 

 Millea of Salem, and George Piumer Smith of Philadel- 

 phia, were elected members. 



Winter Field Meeting. 



On Satnrday, Feb. 11, at a little after ten o'clock 

 a. M., a party of some fifty persons left Plummer Hall in 

 two open sleighs for Wenham Lake. The day was bril- 

 liantly fair, the going fine, and, but for the tw^o postpone- 

 ments necessitated by the great snowstorms of the pre- 

 ceding week, the attendance, as indicated by applications 

 for places, would have been much larger. Arrived at the 

 Lake at about eleven o'clock, an hour was passed in ob- 

 serving the various processes of cutting, gathering and 

 storing ice. Large and hurried operations were in prog- 

 ress, since the ice-crop was a little late this season, and 

 the Lake, its crystal surface sparkling in the noonday 

 sun, presented a unique and busy scene. Every possible 

 facility Avas extended in the most hospitable spirit by Mr. 

 Durgin, the local agent, and by the employes, who con- 

 ducted the business of harvesting the crop for Messrs. 

 Addison Gage & Co. Other firms own ice-houses at the 

 southern end of the Lake where large gangs of men were 

 at work, but these were not visited. 



The number of men and horses employed during the 

 winter at Wenham Lake depends upon the quantity of 

 snow which may fall. The winter of 1881-2 was excep- 

 tional as to its snow-fall, the two storms of January 31 

 and February 4 aggregating thirty inches on a level. 



