. The street railway review . ion of the fifth regular annual meeting of theStreet Railway Accountants Association of America was called toorder at II oclock Wednesday, October gth, by President W. In the absence of Secretary Brockway, the president appointedMr. C. M. Heminway, of the Connecticut Lighting & Power pro tern. On motion of Mr. Elmer M. White, Hartford, Conn., the minutesof the last convention, as published, were approved. The president then introduced Hon. Bird S. Coler, comptroller ofthe City of New York, who delivered a brief address of Coler sai
. The street railway review . ion of the fifth regular annual meeting of theStreet Railway Accountants Association of America was called toorder at II oclock Wednesday, October gth, by President W. In the absence of Secretary Brockway, the president appointedMr. C. M. Heminway, of the Connecticut Lighting & Power pro tern. On motion of Mr. Elmer M. White, Hartford, Conn., the minutesof the last convention, as published, were approved. The president then introduced Hon. Bird S. Coler, comptroller ofthe City of New York, who delivered a brief address of Coler said it was a pleasure to him to welcome to the city ofNew York, anyone interested in making things go. It was con-sidered by some people that New Yorkers were almost too fast, buthe (the speaker) had observed that when anyone made a greatfortune out of the street railroad business, or in any other enter-prise, he always considered New York a good place to which tocome and live and spend his money. New York was the greate^it. BIRD S. COLEK. city upon the face of the earth; its population to-day was about thesame as that of the United States of America at the time of theRevolutionary war. The combined debt of New York was nowgreater than the debt of all the states in the Union combined, andyet more than half of it was self-sustaining through the revenues ofthe great Metropolitan enterprises, such as water works, docks, merely spoke of this so that his hearers, as accountants, mightrealize the tremendous size and importance of this great city. Mr. Coler hoped that when the delegates had time from theconvention hall, they would visit some of the great institutions ofthe city, its museums, libraries, etc., which would be found tocompare favorably with those of the great metropolitan cities ofEurope. He hoped that none of the delegates would get run overby the New York horse cars. They were retained simply to show,by contrast, the great developments in street railroading.
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