SECRETARY'S REPORT. Financial Statement of Albert S. Glover, Secretary, for the year To balance on hand deposited in bank, as per report of A. S. Glover, Treasurer Entertainment Com- A. S. Glover, for sundry cash ex penses as follows: Short-hand, type-writing and clerical work, Telegrams, $1.08; postage, $12.05; express, $1.40, Paper, $1.65; printing, $1.50; mes sengers, $1.77, 108 50 11 98 Telegrams, The Secretary next presented the following report from the Entertainment Committee: REPORT OF ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE. Mr. President and Gentlemen: The Committee appointed by you on the 29th of January, to make arrangements for the entertainment of the American Water Works Association, having concluded its. labors, beg leave to make the following report: Under authority of your vote, passed January 29th, Messrs. Jason Giles, Wilbur D. Fiske, A. H. Howland, Albert F. Noyes and C. H. Baldwin, were joined to your committee at its first meeting. Also at this meeting, after a discussion as to the best manner of carrying out the desires of the Association in the manner of entertaining the American Association, and the amount of discretion your committee had in the matter, the Association having decided merely to give an inexpensive dinner, we came to the conclusion that provided we entailed no expense to the Association exceeding the income from the $2 assessment which had been levied by the Association, whatever we might undertake, if carried out successfully, would meet your approval. Having arrived at this conclusion, we then determined that we would endeavor to extend a little further hospitality to our guests than at first contemplated; to make the dinner more elaborate; to invite some of our representative men to help welcome our guests, and to aid to the extent of our ability, the resident committee of the American Association in carrying out the arrangements made by them for the excursions and tours of inspection on the days during the convention succeeding the dinner. To do what we planned to do, we realized, would take considerable money; but we were saved the embarrassment of planning in the dark by receiving from Messrs. Giles, Fiske and Howland a guaranty to raise the money necessary to the carrying out of our plans, as then outlined, estimated to be $2500. Primarily to the generosity and energy of the gentlemen named is attributed, by the majority of the committee, anything of credit which may have accrued to our Association from this pleasant occasion; to say this we feel is not detracting in any way from the credit due to our numerous friends who so very generously contributed toward the finances needed; nor from that due to our members and other gentlemen who so kindly assisted us in the labor of perfecting and executing our plans. It is the intention of your committee to prepare for publication, with the report of this meeting, a full report of our meeting in April, containing, with other records, those of the postprandial exercises on April 21st, and here our labor ends. Appended is a statement in detail of the receipts and expenditures of the meeting, showing a balance, we are happy to say, on the right side. In conclusion, gentlemen, we may say that our labor has been a very pleasant one, and that we shall be very ready at any time to undertake a similar responsibility. We plead guilty, sub rosa, to having just the least possible mite of pride in the success of the entertainment; but we also fully realize that this success, this "open sesame," to our appeals, this remarkable attendance of prominent and representative guests, this very large accession to our membership roll has been due, not to our labors, gentlemen, not to us personally, but to the high standing, good character and growing fame of the New England Water Works Association. For the Committee, F. E. HALL, Chairman. |