CALL FOR MEETING.

DEAR SIR:

NEW ENGLAND COTTON MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION,
BOSTON, April 1, 1893.

The stated annual meeting of the Association will be held at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Boylston Street, Boston,

on

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1893, at ten o'clock A.M.,

for the choice of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of other appropriate business.

Upon the conclusion of the business of the meeting the following topics will be taken up for discussion; and the Board of Government takes pleasure in announcing, with each, the names of members who have consented to introduce them.

1. What is the best economy obtained from steam engines in cotton mills, with actual examples, and under varying conditions?

Mr. CHARLES H. MANNING, Manchester, N. H.

2. Moistening the air in cotton mills.

3.

Mr. NATHANIEL B. KERR, New Bedford, Mass.

How may we establish a unit, or standard of comparison, of the power required to drive a full system of machinery for the manufacture of cotton cloth?

4.

Mr. F. M. MESSENGER, North Grosvenor Dale, Mass.

Recent developments in the electric transmission of power.

Mr. C. J. H. WOODBURY, Lynn, Mass.

5.

Metallic rolls; have they come to stay?

Mr. H. L. PRATT, Lewiston, Me.

6. The best method of heating a cotton mill.

Mr. CHAS. R. MAKEPEACE, Providence, R. I.

In addition to the foregoing, topics heretofore considered will still be in order; and the Board hopes that further information can be given upon several matters presented at the last meeting.

At the close of the morning session the Association will dine together. This dinner, as before, will be paid for from the treasury, and be free to all members.

By order of the Board of Government,

AMBROSE EASTMAN,

Secretary.

PROCEEDINGS.

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the stated annual meeting of the Association was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday, April 26, 1893, at 10 o'clock A.M.

The President, Mr. ROBERT MCARTHUR, Occupied the chair. The call for the meeting was read by the Secretary. The PRESIDENT then announced that the meeting was open for business; the first item of which was the election of officers for the ensuing year.

Mr. W. E. PARKER. The usual custom has been to appoint a committee, to retire and nominate a list of officers. I move that such committee be appointed, to consist of five members. The motion was carried.

Mr. HERVEY KENT moved that the committee be appointed by the Chair, and his motion was carried, and the chairman appointed the following gentlemen as the committee: W. E. PARKER, HERVEY KENT, JOHN K. RUSSELL, WILLIAM F. DRAPER, Jr., and S. N. BOURNE.

The PRESIDENT. While the committee are out, we will proceed with the business of the meeting; and we will now listen to the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer.

These reports were accordingly presented.

On motion of Mr. LUDLAM, the reports were accepted by vote of the Association, and ordered to be placed on file.

The SECRETARY. The following nominations for membership have been recommended by the Board of Government, and await your action.

It was moved that the vote be taken upon the members proposed for election collectively, and the motion was carried; and all the members proposed were elected by vote of the Association.

The SECRETARY. I desire to submit the following letter from Mr. EDWARD ATKINSON :

AMBROSE EASTMAN, Esq., Secretary.

BOSTON, March 28, 1893.

DEAR SIR: - I shall probably be absent from the next meeting of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association. I will therefore make the following report.

The number of returns which have come in to me in reply to the questions put upon the manufacture of steam is very small, quite insufficient for any complete analysis or general conclusion. So far as they go, I think they indicate the importance of the subject; that is, separating the manufacture of steam from the work to which it is applied, and determining the cost by the unit of water evaporated. So far as the returns show anything, they appear to indicate that this side of the question has received very little attention; that the cost varies very greatly, and the field is one which needs to be explored as thoroughly as the question of lubrication was covered by a former investigation; while it might happen that similar useful results would follow. It rests with the members to furnish the material on which a base line can be laid, if they choose to send in replies to the questions put to them.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD ATKINSON.

Mr. GOODALE moved that the consideration of the first paper be taken up, without waiting for the report of the committee. His motion prevailed, and the President called upon Mr. CHARLES H. MANNING of Manchester, N. H., to present

his paper.

WHAT IS THE BEST ECONOMY OBTAINED FROM STEAM ENGINES IN COTTON MILLS, WITH ACTUAL EXAMPLES AND UNDER VARYING CONDITIONS?

BY MR. CHARLES H. MANNING.

This title is a very broad announcement of the subject assigned to me on to-day's programme, and I have had no time. to prepare the five-hundred-page volume, illustrated, which would be required to fully present this subject. So I will only offer one small example of actual practice, which will occupy but a very few minutes of your time.

I have selected at random a set of cards taken from the engines of the Amoskeag West Side Mill, which stands some eight hundred feet from the boiler house, up on a hill, where it is impracticable to get injection water, as we need all the steam this engine would supply as exhaust steam in the dye house; it is carried (at about 11 pounds back pressure) across the river, about one thousand feet to the dye house. I have taken four cards at random, from some on my desk, and have figured them over to find what the cost per horse-power in coal is in that mill.

In figuring the horse-power of these cards separately, I find it not as evenly divided as ordinarily in this engine, which I think was probably caused by the stopping of some of the dynamos about the time the cards were being taken.