ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY

JANUARY TO MAY, 1900.

Mr. J. B. Dickson, Secretary: Proceedings Seventeenth Annual Convention Roadmasters' Association, September, 1899.

From the Secretary: Transactions American Society Mechanical Engineers, Vol. XX, 1899.

Mr. Walter H. Smith, Librarian: Bulletin University of Wisconsin Engineering series, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-10, complete; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-4, inclusive.

Engineers Society Western Pennsylvania: Proceedings, Vol. XV, Nos. 7-10, inclusive. September-December, 1899.

The Railway Age, by Mr. H. M. Wilson, Manager: Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America, 1896.

From the Secretary: Copy Constitution and List of Members, Engineers Club, New York, 1899.

S. F. Patterson, Secretary:

Proceedings Ninth Annual Convention, Association

Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings, October, 1899.

Secretary of State of Massachusetts: Report of Special Committee on Relations between Cities and Towns and Street Railways, 1898.

Mr. C. B. Conger Air Brake Catechism, editions of August, 1899, and January, 1900, by C. B. Conger.

Mr. E. W. Burdett: Argument of E. W. Burdett, Esq., before the Massachusetts Special Committee of Street Railroad and Municipal Corporations, Dec. 3, 1897.

Edward A. Moseley, Secretary: Preliminary Report on Income Account of Railways in United States, June 30, 1899.

R. W. Pope, Secretary: Transactions American Institution of Electrical Engineers, Vol. XV, 1898. Cloth, pp. 812.

U. S. Wind Engine & Pump Co.: Copy Railway Water Supply Catalogue, 1900. (Red morocco; illustrated.)

Baldwin Locomotive Works:

Record of Recent Construction, No. 18, and Cir

culars Nos. 5 and 12-14, inclusive.

Republic Iron & Steel Co.: Copy 1900 Catalogue.

Brooks Locomotive Works: Illustrated Catalogue, Simple and Compound Locomotives, 1899.

Mr J. N. Reynolds: The Materials of Construction," Part II-Iron and Steel; cloth-by R. H. Thurson, 1883 edition.

Seventeenth Annual Report of the Ohio Society of Engineers and Surveyors ; February, 1896.

Proceedings Annual Meeting, Association of Railway Telegraph Superintendents, June, 1898.

Constitution and List of Charter Members American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, December, 1899.

Mr. E. E. R. Tratman: Report of International American Conference on an Intercontinental Railway Line; Government Printing Office, 1890.

Annual Report Department Railways and Canals, Dominion of Canada, 1897.

Annual Report Railway Commissioners, New South Wales, June, 1898.

Report General Manager of Railways, Cape of Good Hope Railway, for 1897. Returns of Railway Accidents to British Board of Trade, January-March, 1897.

Railway Returns-England, Wales and Scotland--1896.

Return on Continuous Brakes-Railways of Great Britain-1897.
Report on Railways in India, 1897-1898, by A. Brereton. Part II.
English Rules for Working the Westinghouse Brake; illustrated.
The Vacuum Automatic Brake.

Also, thirty miscellaneous pamphlets and copies Railroad Club Proceedings.

The David L. Barnes Library

Special Notice

The David L. Barnes Library of this Club, at 1750 the Monadnock, Chicago, is open for the use of members and their friends, and we hope it will be used freely It is open on week days from 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m, except on Saturday, until 3 p. m. Books must not be removed from the Library, but the Librarian will assist visitors in finding information and will promptly reply to letters from out-of-town members desiring information from the Library. Donations of books and technical publications will be gratefully received.

TRUSTEES TO THE LIBRARY.

List of duplicate copies of the Proceedings of the Western Railway Club which are in the David L. Barnes Library and are for sale or exchange :

1888-Sept. and Oct. (bound in one).

1889-Oct., Dec.

1890-Feb., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

1891-Jan., Mar., Apr., May, Oct., Nov.

1892-Jan., Feb., Apr., May, Sept., Nov., Dec.

1893-Two complete volumes; also single copies of Jan., Feb., Mar., May, Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

1894-Jan., Mar., Apr., May, Oct., and Index of subjects discussed by the Club.

1895-Apr., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

1896-One complete volume; also single copies of Mar., May, Sept., Nov.,

Dec.

1897-Jan., Apr., May, Sept., Nov., Dec.

1898-Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

1899-May.

Correspondence relating to the Library donations of books, periodicals, etc. for the files, or duplicates sent for exchange, should be addressed to J. C. Whitridge, Librarian, 1750 Monadnock, Chicago.