REPORT OF 

 THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



T 



HE Executive Committee respectfully submit the follow- 

 ing report to the Board of Managers for the year 1919 : 



The Committee regret to be obliged to announce the death 

 during the year of four of the Managers. 



Mr. George C. Clark died at Aiken, South Carolina, on 

 February 24, 1919. Mr. Clark has been a member of the Board 

 since 1899, and at the time of his death was Chairman of the 

 Pension Board and also a member of the Finance Committee. 



On March 9, 1919, Commodore Frederick G. Bourne died 

 suddenly at Oakdale, Long Island, New York. Mr. Bourne was 

 a member of the Board of Managers, Class of 1922, and had been 

 a member of the Society since 1904. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie died on August 11, 1919. Mr. Car- 

 negie had been a member since the organization of the Society, 

 and it is to his generosity that the Society owes its Pension Fund. 

 In May, 1914, Mr. Carnegie's gift of $100,000 made possible the 

 establishment by the Society of the Carnegie Pension Fund, 

 which has been of the utmost value to the employees of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Henry Morgan Tilford, member of the Class of 1921, 

 passed away on December 3, 1919. Mr. Tilford was a Patron 

 and was deeply interested in many of the activities of the Society. 



The resolutions passed in connection with these deaths ap- 

 pear at the end of this report. 



Mr. George C. Clark, Jr., was elected to fill the vacancy in 

 the Class of 1922 caused by the death of his father, the late 

 George C. Clark. 



