Mr. Penington-Mr. Toastmaster, I believe I was called upon to make a speech. I will say, ladies and gentlemen, that Mr. Holmes sat here a few minutes ago and said, "Tom, you are the only officer present besides myself; I know you can't make a speech, but get up and show yourself." I thank you. [Laughter and applause.]

The company then dispersed.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEMORIALS OF DECEASED MEMBERS.

Messrs. Rigg, of Reading, Pa., and Wason, of Cleveland, O., appointed by President Roach as a Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members, have filed the following obituary notices with the Secretary:

PHILIP T. BEGLEY.

Philip T. Begley, Superintendent of the Lowell and Suburban Street Railway Company, Lowell, Massachusetts, died December 24, 1899, after a brief illness, of pneumonia. He contracted a severe cold during one of the heavy snow-storms for which the winter of 1898-1899 was noted, and although he recovered at that time, his system was much weakened by his illness.

His first business experience was with the Pettee Machine Works, of Newton Upper Falls, Mass. During his connection with these works he made tours of England, Ireland and France for the purpose of buying machinery, and he also visited many cities in this country supervising the installation of electrical plants. He was considered to be an electrical expert of a very high order.

Mr. Begley had been Superintendent of the Lowell and Suburban Street Railway Company since 1892. He was unmarried.

AMOS FRANKLIN BREED.

Amos F. Breed, President of the Lynn and Boston Railroad Company, of Lynn, Mass., died Tuesday evening, May 22, 1900, of diabetes. He had been confined to his house for three weeks and his illness was considered serious from the beginning.

Mr. Breed was born October 15, 1830, at Woodend. He passed through the public schools and in early life entered the shoe business, which he followed for many years. In 1884 he was elected the President of the First National Bank, of Lynn, which office he held at the time of his death. He was also Vice-President and a director of the Lynn Institution for Savings, and Vice-President and a director of the Lynn Gas and Electric Company. He took charge of the affairs of the Lynn and Boston Railroad Company when its stock was selling at a very low figure. He went into the details of the management, improved the roadbed and rolling stock and opened up new branches.

Mr. Breed was elected a member of the Common Council for many successive years, and in 1876 was elected to the Legislature. In 1877 and 1888 was a member of the State Senate. In 1896 he was elected a delegate to the National Republican Convention. He was a member of many of the best clubs in the State of Massachusetts, among them the Middlesex, Massachusetts and Essex Clubs of Boston, the Park and Oxford, of Lynn, and the Eastern Yacht Club. Two sons survive him.

GARRETT A. HOBART.

Garrett A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United States, died at Paterson, N. J., November 21, 1899, of heart disease. For a long time prior to his death Mr. Hobart had been President of the Paterson Railway Company. It was largely through his endeavors that the property was brought to its present profitable condition.

Mr. Hobart was born June 3, 1844, at Long Branch, and was graduated from Rutger's College in 1863. He adopted the legal profession and became a successful man in every sense of the term. For many years he was Chairman of the Republican State Committee of New Jersey, and from 1884 was a member of the Republican National Committee. As Vice-President of the United States he presided over the deliberations of the Senate with great efficiency, and was always prominent in the councils of the Cabinet.

JOHN M'NULTA.

General John McNulta, Receiver of the Calumet Electric Street Railway Company, of Chicago, died suddenly on February 22, 1900, in the city of Washington, of heart disease, in the sixty-third year of his

age.

He was born in the city of New York, and when a young man went to Bloomington, Ill., where he started a wholesale and retail tobacco

business. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, of the Illinois cavalry, and received the commission of captain. He later became colonel of a regiment composed entirely of men from McLean county, Illinois. Colonel McNulta was wounded by the bursting of a shell in the siege of Vicksburg, and was subsequently discharged as brevet brigadiergeneral for meritorious service.

After the war he returned to Bloomington and studied law. He served a term in Congress. General McNulta was appointed receiver of the Calumet Electric Street Railway Company on April 30, 1897. He left a wife, three sons and a daughter.

VOLNEY C. TURNER.

Volney C. Turner, formerly President of the North Chicago Street Railway Company, died December 2, 1899. Mr. Turner was born at Malta, N. Y., February 25, 1823, and graduated from Williams College in 1846.

He entered business in Chicago, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar. In 1860 he was instrumental in starting the first street car line on the North Side. He served as Secretary, Treasurer and VicePresident, successively, of the North Chicago Street Railway Company, and in 1867 was made President of the company. From that time until his retirement, in 1886, he devoted all his energies to the perfection of street railway facilities on the North Side.

JOHN H. VANDER VEER.

John H. Vander Veer, Superintendent of Motive Equipment of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, died December 3, 1899, of typhoid fever. Mr. Vander Veer was taken ill soon after his return from the Chicago Convention, at which time he read a paper on "The Maintenance of Car Equipment.”

He was born in Somerville, N. J., March 28, 1864, and his first business experience was as an office boy with the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. On June 1, 1884, he was appointed chief clerk in the terminal station of that company at Jersey City, and put in charge of the harbor transfer work. He remained with that company until December 28, 1888, when he accepted a position as manager of the People's Railway Company, of Scranton, Pa. Resigning from this position he entered the employ of the Erie Railroad Company. In 1893 he became connected with the engineering department of the

Brooklyn City Railroad Company, and remained with the road ever since, through the different consolidations which took place.

Mr. Vander Veer was a member of the Brooklyn Engineers' Club and the New York Railroad Club. A wife and child survive him.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES, 1901.

Special committees to submit papers at the next meeting will be appointed during the year by the Executive Committee.

NEXT REGULAR MEETING.

The Twentieth Annual Meeting will be held at New York City, in the autumn of 1901.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

OF THE

American Street Railway Association.

CONSTITUTION.

NAME.

I. The name of the Association shall be "The American Street Railway Association," and its office shall be at the place where the Secretary resides.

OBJECT.

II. The object of this Association shall be the acquisition of experimental, statistical and scientific knowledge, relating to the construction, equipment and operation of street railways, and the diffusion of this knowledge among the members of this Association, with the view of increasing the accommodation of passengers, improving the service and reducing its cost; the establishment and maintenance of a spirit of fraternity among the members of the Association by social intercourse, and the encouragement of cordial and friendly relations between the roads and the public.

MEMBERS.

III. The members of this Association shall consist of American Street Railway Companies, or lessees, or individual owners of street railways; and each member shall be entitled to one vote by a delegation presenting proper credentials.

AMENDMENT.

IV. This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at a regular meeting, after the proposed amendment shall have been submitted, in writing, at the preceding regular meeting and a copy sent to each of the members.

BY-LAWS.

APPLICANTS.

I. Every applicant for membership shall signify the same, in writing, to the Secretary, enclosing the requisite fee, and shall sign the Constitution and By-Laws.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

II. The Officers shall consist of a President, three Vice-Presidents, and five others, who shall constitute the Executive Committee, and >