. Electric railway gazette . 7acts of hospitality and courtesies extended them by thecitizens of Montreal and by the officials of the MontrealStreet Railway Company. The chair appointed Messrs. Hamilton and Harrison acommittee to escort the newly elected president and secre-tary to the platform. They were duly installed andacknowledged their election with thanks, and pledgingtheir best efforts in the development of the Association. The meeting then adjourned, to meet in St. Louis thethird Tuesday in October, RECEPTION AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY. The delegates and visitors at the Convention at
. Electric railway gazette . 7acts of hospitality and courtesies extended them by thecitizens of Montreal and by the officials of the MontrealStreet Railway Company. The chair appointed Messrs. Hamilton and Harrison acommittee to escort the newly elected president and secre-tary to the platform. They were duly installed andacknowledged their election with thanks, and pledgingtheir best efforts in the development of the Association. The meeting then adjourned, to meet in St. Louis thethird Tuesday in October, RECEPTION AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY. The delegates and visitors at the Convention attended areception given by the governors of McGill University onWednesday afternoon. The guests were received in theengineering building and were given an opportunity toinspect the several departments. Students and instruc-tors acted as ushers and took great pains to see that allparts of the building were examined. There is much ofinterest to see in the institution. In the hydraulic labor-atory one of the most prominent objects was a large plun- October 19, 1895. ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. 283 ger pump, which supplied water to a reservoir apparatusfor determining the flow through an orifice. A hydraulicdevice for producing vortex rings in colored waterattracted much attention. In the adjoining laboratory, for testing strength of mate-rials, were displayed a 175,000-pound emery testingmachine of the vertical type, and a 200,000-pound testingmachine adapted for transverse stresses as well as tensionand compres
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