iprombmgs at i^t Annual gt^^ting at Carlisle, i88: 



(Tahenfrom the Carlisle Journal and the Patriot.) 



The Annual Meeting of the Cumberland Association was held this 

 year at Carlisle, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 30th and the 31st of May. 



The proceedings were opened at One p.m. in the Fisher Street Hall, by 

 an Address from the President of the Association, Mr. Egbert Ferguson, 

 M.P. The Hall was well filled with representatives of each of the local 

 Societies. Business of a formal nature connected with the Association was 

 next taken, and then the members proceeded to inspect the Gas Works 

 under the giiidance of Mr. Hepworth, the manager. The various 

 objects of interest were successively pointed out, and the stages of manu- 

 facture of the gas were described, from the charging of the retorts, to the 

 purifying process, and the final storage in the great meter, which is capable 

 of passing 60,000 cubic feet of gas per hour. The place where the gas is 

 tested was also visited. 



Leaving the Gas Works, the party divided, one section visiting the works 

 of Messrs. Hudson Scott and Sons, where Mr. Scott and Mr. B. Scott con- 

 ducted the visitors, first to the letterpress and block-printing department, 

 where about thirty machines were producing a variety of colour work ; then 

 to the designing room ; then to the transferring department, the stereoty^Ding 

 department, the colour-grinding and ink-making rooms, the composing room, 

 the enamelling and paper-surfacing room, on to the making-up department, 

 where between thirty and forty young women were busily employed. 



The other section visited the hat manufactory of Messrs. Carrick & Sons, 

 and inspected the interesting processes employed in the manufacture of felt 

 hats. 



Votes of thanks were passed to Mr. Hepworth, the Messrs. Scott, and 

 the Messrs. Carrick. 



In the Evening a goodly number again assembled in the Fisher Street 

 Hall, to hear a lecture by Prof. Williamson, F.R.S., on "Pre-Historic 

 Arctic Vegetation." 



On Wednesday Morning, business was resumed at the same Hall, and 

 papers by various contributors were read, aud discussed : most of these will 

 be found printed in the present volume of the Transactions. 



In the Afternoon a large party proceeded by train to Wetheral, en route 

 for Corby Walks. Here the Secretary read some "Geological Notes on 

 Corby Walks," by Mr. Goodchild, who was detained in London on official 

 business. After the party had examined the beautiful scenery of the 

 neighbourhood, the Mayor of Carlisle (R. S. Ferguson, Esq. ) gave a short 

 history of Corby and the Howards, and the party then dispersed. Through- 

 out the gatherings the weather was all that could be desired, and the 

 Annual Meeting proved one of the best that had been held for some time 

 past. 



