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leather P. A. McDermott, Mr. R. D. McGonnigle, Mr. W. N. Frew, 

 Mr. James R. Macfarlane and Dr. G. W. Allyn, with their numerous 

 and enthusiastic associates on the committees over which they presided, 

 all did most efficient and successful work, and to them the editor de- 

 sires to publicly return most hearty thanks for their invaluable coopera- 

 tion in what proved in the event to be a large and somewhat difficult 

 undertaking. While those who have been named deserve to be espe- 

 cially recognized, a review of the occa.sion would be incomjilete with- 

 out an acknowledgment of the invaluable services of Mr. George A. 

 Wardlaw, the painstaking and the efficient local secretary, upon whom 

 fell a heavy burden of correspondence and the arrangement of a multi- 

 tude of minute details. 



The kindness of Mrs. William Thaw in tendering a reception to the 

 Association on the grounds of her beautiful residence, the action of 

 the various patriotic associations among the ladies of the city in pro- 

 viding entertainment and comfort for the visiting ladies, and the hearty 

 "kindness with which the members of the xA^ssociation were invited to 

 enter and study the great manufacturing establishments of the city are 

 thankfully remembered. 



From the utterances of individuals and through the published ac- 

 ^counts it is evident that the pleasure felt by those charged with the 

 task of entertaining this great gathering was only equaled by the 

 pleasure expressed by our guests. The editor of Si'/e// re has editorially 

 remarked that this was probably the most successful meeting of the 

 Association which has been held within the last decade. 



One of the most gratifying incidents in connection with the meeting 

 was the election of Mr. George Westinghouse as an Honorary Fel- 

 low of the A.ssociation. This is the highest honor within the gift of 

 the A.ssociation, which has been enjoyed by only a few men. It was 

 eminently fitting that this honor should be conferred upon the illustri- 

 ous Honorary President of the Local Committee, whose .scientific re- 

 searches in the field of mechanical science and in the application of 

 scientific principles to industrial development have given him world- 

 wide fame. Many persons think of Mr. Westinghouse solely as an 

 eminently successful man of affairs, failing to realize that he is first 

 and above everything else an investigator and student whose knowledge 

 of physics and of mechanics as sciences is said by those who know him 

 best to make him almost without a peer in this respect in the new world. 



One of the most gratifying features of the occasion was the universal 



