The Southern convention

The meeting of the Institute at Charlotte which opened on March 31 exceeded the anticipations of the Institute officers, especially in the attendance from distant points. The usual date of the Annual Convention during the last week in June has discouraged any recent´ attempt to hold it in the South. President Stillwell satisfied himself that a special meeting in that territory during the Easter holidays would strengthen the Institute, and lead to the development of greater interest in its affairs. A sufficient number of members could not be concentrated from the North to warrant the running of a special train over the Southern Railway, so that proposed feature of the program was necessarily abandoned. The Secretary left Washington on March 29, where he was joined by a delegation of 15 from Pittsburg, arriving at Charlotte, N. C., in the evening where they were met by the Local Committee and escorted to the Hotel Selwyn.