. The street railway review . nsurance companies was mentioned in our Augustissue, committed suicide by taking mon-hiue while confined mthe county jail at Saginaw, Mich., >v!jcre he was Uekl on thecharge of assault and batiery. (142 ^tTM%ilM^%le\V THE ACCOUNTANTS^ CONVENTION. The Second Annual Meeting of the Street Railway Accountants Association of America—Good Attend-ance—Exhaustive Report by the Committee on Standardization ofStreet Railway Accounts. The Street liailwaj- Accountants Association of America lieldits second annual meeting under the same roof as the American,and at the same


. The street railway review . nsurance companies was mentioned in our Augustissue, committed suicide by taking mon-hiue while confined mthe county jail at Saginaw, Mich., >v!jcre he was Uekl on thecharge of assault and batiery. (142 ^tTM%ilM^%le\V THE ACCOUNTANTS^ CONVENTION. The Second Annual Meeting of the Street Railway Accountants Association of America—Good Attend-ance—Exhaustive Report by the Committee on Standardization ofStreet Railway Accounts. The Street liailwaj- Accountants Association of America lieldits second annual meeting under the same roof as the American,and at the same time. The attendance was good, about 40 beinglu-esent, including one lady auditor. The sessions were devoted to hard work, aud lots of it; one who looked in the first two days beheld a body of hand-some young men who liad shed coats and vests, for their roomwas on the sunny side. President Wilson, of Boston, presided iu a most acceptal)Iemanner, and Secretary Brockway had carefully prepared all J. F. The iiriucipal feature was, of course, the report of the com-mittee on standardization, of which C. \. Dufty, St. Louis, waschairman. It was a matter of universal regret that Mr. Dufly,wlio has worked so hard on this report, could not be presentto share the honors of the repoit wliich was presented by , of Brooklyn. Mr. Seymour, of Connecticut, was present at the reading of thereport on standardization, represeutiug the Association of Rail-road Commissioners, and addressed the convention, paying a veryhigh tribute to the work of the committee, aud expressing thegood will his association eutertaiued toward the AccountantsAssociation. On Monday the Executive Committee met in annual morning the convention opened with the presidents ad-dress, secretarys report, and the reading of Mr. Hibbs paperby the secretary in the absence of the author. Wednesday theCommittee on Nominations and Resolutions was appoin


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