AMERICAN GAS LIGHT ASSOCIATION.

83293

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

MAY 12TH, 1875,

AND

ANNUAL MEETINGS HELD AT NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.

OCTOBER 20TH, 1875, AND OCTOBER 18TH, 1876.

JULY, 1877.

PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN GAS LIGHT ASSOCIATION.

PRESS OF THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONN.

OFFICERS

FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER, 1877.

PRESIDENT.

GEN. CHARLES ROOME, New York City, N. Y.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

W. H. PRICE, Cleveland, O.,

GEO. B. NEAL, Charlestown, Mass.,

T. LITTLEHALES, Hamilton, Ont.

SECRETARY AND TREASURER.

CHARLES NETTLETON, New York City, N. Y.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

JOHN S. CHAMBERS, Trenton, N. J.,

J. P. HARBISON, Hartford, Conn.
GEORGE MCILHENNY, Washington, D. C.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

W. H. DENNISTON, Pittsburgh, Pa.,

GEO. D. CABOT, Lawrence, Mass.,

GEN. A. HICKENLOOPER, Cincinnati, O.,
HENRY CARTWRIGHT, Philadelphia, Pa.,

WM. H. WHITE, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
HENRY STACEY, Indianapolis, Ind.

The American Gas Light Association and its several members are

indebted to the courtesy of the American Gas Light Journal for Steno-

graphic Reports of the proceedings of the Association, gratuitously fur-

nished for publication in this volume.

CHARLES NETTLETON,

Secretary.

CONTENTS.

Annual (Semi) meeting, May 12, 1875,

Election of Members,

President's Address. W. H. PRICE (Vice-President),

Report of Special Committee on Naphtha Gas,

The Proper Preparation of Lime. By THEOBALD FORSTALL,

Unaccounted for Gas and a mode of its Computation. By CHARLES

NETTLETON,

GEO. W. PARSONS, decease, Remarks and Resolutions on,

Annual meeting (3d) October 20, 1875,

President's Address. GEN. CHARLES ROOME,

CORNELIUS L. EVERETT, decease, Remarks and Resolutions on,

Election of Members,

Executive Committee's Report,

Treasurer's Report, and Finance Committee's Report,

Naphtha Gas, Committee's Report,

Election of Officers,

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Inaugural Address. By GEN. CHARLES ROOME (President),

Constitutional Amendments,

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The Use of Petroleum and its Products in the Manufacture of Illu-

minating Gas. By J. DESHA PATTON,

Lecture. By CHARLES F. CHANDLER (Prof. of Chemistry in Co-

lumbia College),

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Wooden Pipes for Gas Mains. By T. LITTLEHALES, of Hamilton,

Ont.,

Purification of Gas by Lime. By CHAS. A. GERDENIER, Bridgeport,

Conn.,

Charging Retorts by Machinery. By T. F. Rowland, -

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Election of Captain G. WARREN DRESSER and Prof. CHARLES F.

CHANDLER as Honorary Members of the Association,

Election of EMILE DURAND, of Paris, as Honorary Member,

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