issue of the BULLETIN. The amount subscribed may be charged to the accounts of members, if desired. Boxes have also been placed in the Club House, in which subscription blanks may be deposited.

With our present list of 5,000 members, it is hoped that response as generous as in previous years, and fully as large, will result. Subscriptions may be mailed to Mr. James E. Fee, Chairman of the House Committee, 9 Beacon Street.

ATTENTION OF NEW MEMBERS

THURSDAY NIGHT DINNERS

The Entertainment Committee wishes to again bring to the attention of the members the matter of the Thursday night dinners, which precede the entertainments on those evenings. Men who are known to be particularly interested in the subject under discussion are invited, but any member of the Club, who wishes, may secure tickets at the office of the Civic Secretary, to the capacity of the banquet room.

Because invitations are sent on one occasion to one group of members, and on another occasion to another group, does not signify that all members are not welcome.

All entertainment functions are always open to all members, in order of application.

The dinners are held at six o'clock, and the price is one dollar, to be charged to the accounts of the members attending, it being quite evident that no one member should be the guest of the other members of the Club on general principles.

The after-dinner speeches are most interesting and educational features of the Club life, which is evidenced by the eagerness to attend on the part of a large number of the Club members.

Partial List of Events held in the Club House during the Month of November

NOVEMBER 4

Dinner of the United Improvement Association. Speakers were Dr. R. Madison Thurber and William C. Ewing, of the City Planning Board, and President Benjamin C. Lane.

NOVEMBER 9

Dinner of the office force of the Boston Fire Underwriters' Asso

ciation, in celebration of the forty-second anniversary of the great fire. H. V. Thayer presided.

NOVEMBER 9

Monthly luncheon of the Boston Chapter of the National Fire Protection Association. H. Walter Forster, Chief Engineer of the Independence Inspection Bureau of Philadelphia, spoke on "The Relation of Fire Prevention to Accident Prevention Fields." Adjutant-General Charles H. Cole presided.

NOVEMBER IO

Annual meeting of the Boston Society of Printers. Election of officers: C. C. Lane, President; Douglas G. Field, Vice-President; A. R. Getchell, Secretary; Edgar B. Sherrill, Treasurer; Robert Seaver, Auditor. William M. Ivins, Jr., of New York, spoke on "The Development of the Wood Cut from 1490 to 1540."

NOVEMBER IO

Anual banquet of Vallaloid Council of Lynn. Special guests were Louis Watson, State Deputy, and Daniel J. Gallagher, State Secretary. State Secretary Gallagher voiced the greetings of the State Council, and talked of the ideals of the Knights of Columbus. Other speakers were Joseph Smith, William J. Shanahan, and Rev. Edward J. Dolan. The dinner was enlivened by several selections by the Glee Club of the Council.

NOVEMBER IO

Meeting of the Alexander Hamilton Club. Mayor James M. Curley spoke on "Efficiency in City Departments." He outlined the plans of the present municipal administration toward efficiency. The Mayor told of the great benefits he hoped would accrue to the citizens of Boston during the next few years because of this increased efficiency. By the complete motorizing of the fire department, which he said would probably be accomplished in four years, it would be possible to increase the efficiency of this department about twenty-five per cent., and to reduce the cost of maintaining it about one-third. Other speakers were E. M. Dillabarre, of the Library Bureau, and B. M. Nussbaum. President L. B. Tewksbury presided.

NOVEMBER IO

Monthly dinner of the Employment Managers' Association. The
speakers included E. M. Fisher, Meyer Bloomfield, H. C. Bronsden;
Frank V. Thompson, and W. Stanwood Field, of the School
Department.

NOVEMBER IO

Complimentary dinner to Herbert S. Underwood, formerly City Editor of the Boston Herald, by a group of fellow newspapermen. John O'Callaghan, Secretary of the Boston Street Commissioners, and one of Mr. Underwood's first City Editors, was toastmaster. Among the speakers were Charles F. Gettemy, Director of the Bureau of Statistics; George L. Burgess, Secretary of the School Committee; F. W. Buxton, of the E. T. Slattery Company.

NOVEMBER II

"Guest Night" of the Old Colony Shoe and Leather Advertising
Men's Association. Among the invited guests were John S. Kent,
Myron L. Keith, A. W. Donovan, James H. Stone, George Perry
Morris, E. B. Terhune. President Frank L. Erskine presided.
George Perry Morris spoke on "Clean Journalism."

NOVEMBER II

Dinner of Boston Chapter, American Institute of Banking. Rev. William H. van Allen, Rector of the Church of the Advent, spoke on the European War. Pleading for defeat of the Germans and the scattering of those people who delight in war, he declared that Belgium would rise from its ruins. He described the campaign of the war as a plan to depopulate the country. Charles M. Chapin spoke on the uses of the various aircraft in the war. Frank W. Bryant, President of the Chapter, presided.

NOVEMBER 12

Seven Boston Police Officers, all of whom were appointed to the force on the same date, observed their twenty-fifth anniversary as officers, with a dinner in the Club. Captain H. J. Lee, of Division 6, presided. After-dinner reminiscent talks were indulged in by the company. The others present were Sergeant William J. Allison, of Division 12; Patrolman John S. Donahue, of the Board of Health; Patrolman Charles F. Richardson, of Division I; Patrolman Joseph F. Murphy, of Division 9; Patrolman Frederick E. Bostwick, of Division 12; and Patrolman John T. Kelly, of Division 17.

NOVEMBER 19

Meeting of the Auditors and Comptrollers of the various cities, called
by Director Charles F. Gettemy, of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
A permanent organization was formed, with the following officers:
Charles F. Gettemy, President; D. W. Kenney of Holyoke, Vice-
President; W. Fairbanks of Quincy, Secretary-Treasurer.

NOVEMBER 19

Reception and dinner to Joseph Lee and Moses L. Lourie, candidates for Boston School Committee. David A. Ellis presided.

NOVEMBER 21

Annual dinner of Dartmouth, Class '87. Judge George H. Bigelow, of the United States District Court, Ex-Congressman E. W. Knight of Charleston, S. C., Dr. Alexander Quackenboss, F. A. Howland, and Judge J. Howard Hill, of Portland, were among those present.

NOVEMBER 21

Luncheon of the Paint Trade Salesman's Club of New England.
Meeting presided over by President Charles E. Knowles. John J.
Hoar spoke on the business outlook in Boston and New England,
and Melville G. Freeman spoke on the "Life of Napoleon."

NOVEMBER 24

Monthly meeting and dinner of the Beta Theta Pi Club. Louis K. Rourke, Commissioner of Public Works, gave an informal talk on the Panama Canal. Joseph K. Hayes, Jr., President of the Club,

was toastmaster.

NOVEMBER 24

Sixteenth annual meeting of the Beneficiaries Societies Union of
Massachusetts. The subject for discussion was, "The Legal Aspects
of Fraternal Insurance." William J. O'Brien, of the Knights of
Columbus, the retiring President, presided. The speakers included:
James H. Flint, of the Supreme Lodge, N. E. O. P.; Hon. Wilber
H. Powers, Past President of the National Fraternal Congress of
America. Joseph B. Robson, of the Grand Council, Royal Arcanum,
was elected President.

OMISSION

In the November BULLETIN, through oversight, the name of Michael J. Dwyer was omitted from the list of speakers on "European Experiences," October 15. At this function Mr. Dwyer rendered the British marching song, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," accompanied by Charles Fonteyn Manney, and previous to that gave a graphic description of his "Jules Verne" trip to Europe and his varied experiences.

NECROLOGY

Dr. John A. Horgan.

F. E. Bradbury.

Lucius Tuttle.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES For 1914-1915

FREDERICK P. FISH. President

JAMES W. ROLLINS, First Vice-President
W. T. A. FITZGERALD, Second Vice-President
MORGAN L. COOLEY, Treasurer

JAMES E. DOWNEY, Secretary

ADDISON L. WINSHIP, Civic Secretary