SECRETARY DUNBAR: It is recommended that no honorary member be chosen for two years, and at no time until after the name of the candidate for honorary membership shall have been before the Board for at least one year.

MR. MITCHELL: Move it be adopted.

Motion seconded.

THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, it is regularly moved and seconded that that be adopted. Are there any remarks? All in favor of the motion will say "Aye." Contrary minds, "No." The motion is carried.

SECRETARY DUNBAR: That is all, Mr. Chairman, with the exception of the reports of the Secretaries of the three Associations that the applicants have been classified, with few alterations, as received. I think there were probably a dozen instances in which members applied for active membership. who were classified for associate membership. The committee passed on those as their qualifications seemed to indicate.

THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, we will now listen to Mr. Doty's report for the committee on the question of dividing the Institute into sections for the different classes of work.

MR. PAUL DOTY: Mr. President and gentlemen, I have to present a report of the Committee on Proposed Sections for the American Gas Institute. The committee consists of Mr. Doherty, Mr. Donald McDonald and myself, and the report of the committee was prepared having in mind how to increase the value of our Gas Institute work.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PROPOSED

SECTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN GAS
INSTITUTE.

The objects of this Institute are to amalgamate into one body the American Gas Light Association, the Ohio Gas Light Association and the Western Gas Association, and to facilitate co-operation between the various State and District associations that now exist, and to secure thereby a more rapid promotion and advancement of scientific and practical

knowledge in all matters relating to the construction and management of gas works in the manufacture, distribution. and consumption of gas.

The first object, that of amalgamation, is now an accomplished fact by the vote of the members of the three associations named.

The second object, to facilitate the co-operation between the various State and District associations, can be accomplished. in accordance with article 49 of the Constitution providing for the affiliation of local associations.

The Board of Directors may, in its discretion, make with any one, or all, of the District and State Gas Associations now existing, or hereafter to be formed, that will agree to thereafter confine its elections to membership to personsdirectly identified with gas interests within the District or State whose name it bears, to consult with the Institute before undertaking any original work, and to do each year in co-operation with the Institute a certain amount of original. work, agreements providing for co-operation between the Institute and such associations. Each and every District or State gas association with which such agreements are entered into shall be entitled to elect one of its members a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute, the member so elected to be in addition to those named in Section No. 21, provided that the number of such associated directors shall never exceed one-third of the total membership of the Board. Should the Board of Directors provide for an Executive Committee, this committee shall include in its membership one man from each of the affiliated associations as long as the number of such associations does not exceed six. Thereafter there shall be on the Executive Committee at least six men who are members of affiliated associations, and have among them membership in at least six such associations.

The third object, to secure a more rapid promotion and advancement of scientific and practical knowledge in all matters relating to the construction and management of gas works, and the manufacture, distribution and consumption of gas, is really the chief object of the Institute, which was born of the desire to accomplish better association work. The

framers of the Constitution recognized the complex nature of the gas industry in their recital of the third object. It is evident there are men engaged in construction work, and there are men engaged in the management of gas properties, and men engaged in the manufacture, distribution and consumption of gas. It is also recognized that there are men who are associated in pursuits which constitute branches of gas engineering, and are, therefore, qualified to assist in promoting the objects of the Institute. There is, therefore, provision made for active and junior members, and associate members. It is recognized that it is impossible to consider all matters of importance in so complex an industry in one short annual session. It is also evident that all of the officers and employes of a company cannot be absent at one time in attendance at a convention in a distant city. Your committee, therefore, was appointed to consider the question of sectional divisions for the consideration of special lines of work, and that these sectional divisions will have their own sectional officers, and would hold national conventions under the direction of the Institute, and that all members of these sectional divisions shall be members of the Gas Institute. It is proposed that there shall be the following classes for active and junior members :

Class A-Engineers, Managers, Superintendents, Consulting Engineers.

Class B-Secretaries, Treasurers, Accountants.

Class C-Commercial Managers, Advertisers.

Class D-Chemists.

Additional classes can be provided should there be a necessity for including other specialists, such as attorneys for gas companies, heating and ventilating engineers, etc.

The Directors of the Gas Institute shall have power to consolidate any two or more sections temporarily.

If the recommendation of the committee shall be adopted that the Institute be divided into Sections, then the committee recommends that the Board of Directors be authorized to appoint a member of the Institute to be the First Chairman, and to take charge of the organization of each of the Sections

which the Institute shall finally authorize, and to provide for the time and place of the first meeting of each of the Sections.

The committee makes no recommendation for sectional organization of associate membership. In view, however, of the fact that there exists already well organized associations engaged in work closely related to the gas industry, such as the Illuminating Engineering Association, the Natural Gas Association, the National Commercial Gas Association, we recommend that the Board of Directors be authorized, in its discretion, to make with any one or all of the associations named above, or hereafter to be formed, that will agree to consult with the Institute before undertaking any original work relating to the gas industry, and to do in co-operation with the Institute a certain amount of original work, agreements providing for co-operation between the Institute and such associations. Each and every affiliated association with which such agreements are entered into shall be entitled to elect one of its members a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute, governed by the same provisions as now govern Article 49 of the Constitution.

Your Committee submits as a supplement to this report a number of subjects for investigation and report. A number of these subjects can be referred to the Chairmen of the sections, others can be referred to special committees of the Institute for investigation, while others can be referred to the association which will affiliate with the Institute.

The Committee believes that better association work will result from the adoption of this plan, and respectfully recommends that your Board of Directors be and they are hereby authorized to do all things necessary to this end.

Respectfully submitted,

PAUL DOTY, Chairman."

SUPPLEMENT TO THE REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SECTIONAL WORK.

NEW BUSINESS.

1. Advertising: A further analysis of theory of advertising and data on the results secured by different methods

and mediums; also a tabulation of the cost of different forms of advertising, newspaper space, booklets, circulars, letters, fancy cards, etc.

2.

Cost and Profitableness of Various Classes: Compilation of New Business methods and data on the degree of profitableness of different classes of business and especially different classes of industrial fuel gas business.

3. Outline of methods required to determine cost of different classes of business, and especially that portion of the investment which is now termed 'Investment Required Later.'

5. Revenue From Various Classes: An analysis to the greatest degree possible of our receipts, showing revenue secured from (a) different classes of residences; (b) different classes of business houses; (c) different classes of factories; (d) different classes of industrial fuel users-such as hotels, restaurants, foundries, machine shops, brass workers, etc. This data can probably be best secured from such companies as have adopted the Hollerith System of Mechanical Tabulation.

APPLIANCES.

27. Domestic Fuel: A complete investigation and aging test on present domestic water heaters available to enable us to select that type of water heater which gives a higher commercial economy. Initial economy is not of such importance as maintained economy, and all heaters now on the market seem to age in efficiency, and it is desirable to secure a heater with a high initial efficiency, and the longest possible period in the depreciation of this initial efficiency.

44. Industrial Fuel: Investigation, experimental work and complete report embracing the working drawings to enable each Gas Company to build high temperature gas furnace for special industrial fuel gas work.

47. Investigation, experimental work and complete report on best bake oven available, together with working drawings on construction of such bake oven. If the same is not on the market it must be built.

48. Experiments to determine best type of assayers' furnace