Abstract :
On Friday evening December 7, 1917 a meeting under the auspices of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the United Engineering Society was held in the auditorium of the Engineering Building, 33 West 39th St., New York, at which the American Society of Civil Engineers was formally welcomed into the Fraternity of the founder societies and the occupancy of the enlarged Engineering Societies Building.