. Electric railway journal . tions, containing words of appre-ciation to all those who had helped to make the con-vention a success. This was adopted, and then , for the committee on nominations, presentedthe following names: President, M. R. Boylan, PublicService Railway, Newark, N. J.; first vice-president,H. B. Cavanaugh, Cleveland, Southwestern & ColumbusRailway; second vice-president, I. A. May, The Con-necticut Company; third vice-president, John J. Lan-ders, York Railways; and secretary-treasurer, S. , Empire United Railways, Inc. The executivecommittee nominees were: P.


. Electric railway journal . tions, containing words of appre-ciation to all those who had helped to make the con-vention a success. This was adopted, and then , for the committee on nominations, presentedthe following names: President, M. R. Boylan, PublicService Railway, Newark, N. J.; first vice-president,H. B. Cavanaugh, Cleveland, Southwestern & ColumbusRailway; second vice-president, I. A. May, The Con-necticut Company; third vice-president, John J. Lan-ders, York Railways; and secretary-treasurer, S. , Empire United Railways, Inc. The executivecommittee nominees were: P. V. Burington, ColumbusRailway, Power & Light Company; F. E. Webster, Mas-sachusetts Northeastern Street Railway; F. H. SillicK,Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, New York, N. Y.; andW. G. Nicholson, Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rail-way. The secretary was instructed to cast a unani-mous ballot for these nominees, and, after short instal-lation speeches, the session was ended. Proceedings of the Claims Association. R. E. MCDOUGALL In Four Largely AttendedSessions This AssociationDiscussed the Funda-mentals of Claims Work,the Relation of this Workto that of the OperatingDepartments, and Someof the Larger QuestionsUpon the Successful An-swering of Which Per-manence in Accident Re-duction Must Be President Says TimeIs Now Ripe for Accident-Prevention Organization. THE annual meeting of the American Electric Rail-way Claims Association was opened on Mondayafternoon by Acting President R. E. McDougall,claim agent New York State Railways, Rochester, N. brief abstract of the proceedings only is given thisweek. Abstracts of the papers presented will followin a later issue. Mondays Session The Monday afternoon session was called to orderat by Acting President McDougall, who first de-livered his presidential address. In his presidential address Mr. McDougall stated thatwith the increase in electric railway business duringthe last year there had come an even greater increase


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