Abstract :
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will hold its Forty-first Annual Meeting, December 7–10, 1920, in the Engineering Societies Building, 29 West 39th Street, New York. One of the features of the meeting will be a keynote session on Transportation, on December 9, at which addresses will be given as follows: Railroads, by Daniel E. Willard, President Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; Railroad Feeders, by Charles A. Morse, Chief Engineer, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Waterways, by General Frank T. Hines; Motor-Truck Transportation, by Francis W. Davis, Engineer, Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company; Terminals, by Col. William Barclay Parsons, Consulting Engineer, New York City; and The New York Terminal Problem, by Gustav Lindenthal, Consulting Engineer, New York City. The program also includes sessions of Professional Sections on Fuels, Railroads, Management, Machine Shop, Textiles and Power, which promise to be of unusual value. Incorporated in the meeting will be a memorial service in honor of Dr. John A. Brashear, Past-President of the Society. Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will deliver the eulogy on Dr. Brashear, on Wednesday evening, December 8.