. History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia . h increased and ever-increasing new year opened with a common determination on the part ofthe membership to place the Department standard far in advance;the number of committees were increased and their membershipenlarged, and so efficient were they in the betterment of the workthat when the year closed decided progress was shown in everydirection. The quarterly tea of the committeemen was held on January17, and notwithstanding the night was one of the most inclementof the sea
. History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia . h increased and ever-increasing new year opened with a common determination on the part ofthe membership to place the Department standard far in advance;the number of committees were increased and their membershipenlarged, and so efficient were they in the betterment of the workthat when the year closed decided progress was shown in everydirection. The quarterly tea of the committeemen was held on January17, and notwithstanding the night was one of the most inclementof the season, and one when borean winds filled the air with rainand sleet, nearly one hundred men, from different ranks in the Com-pany service and actively engaged in the work of the various com-mittees, assembled in the building and reported on the work accom-plished and to be done, besides interchanging views as to the bestmethods to be pursued for the advancement of the general good. The earnestness, the sincerity and the enthusiasm of thosecommitteemen on that occasion gave proof of the faithfulness with 94. which the work was being pursued. Government by committee,with individual independence and individual responsibility, wasan early principle upon which the Department was being practical application so diffused the work among the membershipthat the phenomenal growth, prosperity and efficiency of the Depart-ment, so generally recognized, became the logical sequence. Thesemass-meetings of committeemen around a hospitable board are adistinguishing feature of the Department, and it is doubtful if theircounterpart is to be found elsewhere in any religious or semi-reli-gious institution in the world. They have been kept up with undevi-ating regularity throughout the life of the Department, increasingas the years pass on in the number of persons present and intensityof interest. At some of the meetings as high as two hundred andfifty men have been present, and at each mee
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