A MEMBER: I second it.

PRESIDENT-ELECT HATTON: It has been moved and seconded. that the report of the Resolutions Committee be accepted; all in favor signify by saying aye; opposed, no. The ayes have it. Gentlemen, before adjourning this meeting sine die I want first to express to you my appreciation for the honor you have conferred upon me as President for the ensuing year. I shall try to do my share, although I am a pretty busy man; but I want each member of this organization to make up his mind that he is going to do this year what he has never done before -spend a little time in trying to make this organization a bigger and better one for the welfare of his city, and for the welfare of all other cities in the United States. We hope to try out a new method this year of getting cities interested in this organization, and perhaps getting co-related with us men who are working on the same lines for the welfare of the municipalities, and we want your earnest support. We may work along some radically different lines from those which have been common to the Association in the past, and I expect that we will get all kinds of criticisms, because when we change from the old to the new, that follows. We are willing to get constructive criticisms, and I suppose destructive criticisms will not hurt us much, if we bring you the results.

Now it is up to me as your presiding officer to do what I can, and it is up to our new secretary to do what he can. We are going to do it, but we can not accomplish what we are after unless we have the support of every one of you, and your constructive support-not destructive. And when you come to the next convention next year we hope to be able to show you double the attendance and perhaps as much interest as you have had in this organization.

I want to say in closing this meeting, however, that I have attended a great many conventions of this organization, and I do not think I have ever known a better attendance at the meeting in proportion to the members present than have been in this meeting during the whole convention. Perhaps that is due to bad weather; you couldn't go out and ramble around the town and get mixed up with the girls and so on. But nevertheless you have attended the meetings, and I feel that you are going to go away from this convention well satisfied

with what you have absorbed; I think the citizens of Des Moines, from the expressions I have heard from some of them, are well satisfied that you came here with them, and that we have left something behind us which will be of value to them.

SECRETARY BROWN: Before we adjourn I think some notice ought to be taken of the death of George H. Bensonberg, who was the first active president of the society, and of course one of the founders of the society. He passed away this year, and this leaves only one of the founders still with the society.

PRESIDENT-ELECT HATTON: What is your pleasure, gentlemen! I might say that a memorial of the death of Mr. George Bensonberg was presented and published in the proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers in October; it was also presented by the Milwaukee Society of Engineers. Now would you like to have a memorial appearing in our proceedings on the death of Mr. George H. Bensonberg? I am willing to entertain a motion to that effect.

MR. HOWELL: Didn't we have another death in the SocietyMr. Blair? I believe Mr. Blair was at our last meeing in Boston last year, and has died since.

PRESIDENT-ELECT HATTON: You are right.

Mr. W. W. HORNER: I move that the President appoint individuals or committees, as he sees fit, to prepare proper memorials of those of our members who have died in the year past, and that they be printed in the next volume of the proceedings of this Society.

A MEMBER: I second the motion.

PRESIDENT-ELECT HATTON: It has been moved and seconded that the President appoint a committee or individuals to prepare proper memorials for printing in our next proceedings of those members who have died during the past year. All in favor of the motion will please show their consent by saying aye; opposed, no. The President will appoint that committee later. The convention is now adjourned.

(Adjournment.)

IN MEMORY OF WILL P. BLAIR.

The Society notes with deep sorrow the death of one of its older members, Mr. Will P. Blair, who died at East Cleveland, Ohio, on December 23, 1924.

Mr. Blair became an Associate Member of this Society in 1907, was constant in his attendance at its conventions and took a deep interest in its proceedings and its welfare. He was a faithful attendant at all meetings, presenting papers and taking part in the discussions.

He was the organizer of the National Paving Brick Manufacturers Association, acting as its secretary for many years and later as its vice-president, and was recognized as an authority not only on paving brick but on brick pavements, and was one of the pioneers in advocating the thorough drainage of pavement foundations. His influence on the manufacture and use of paving brick was nation-wide. Every member of this society who came in intimate contact with him will experience a keen sense of personal loss in the passing of Mr. Blair.

IN MEMORY OF GEORGE HENRY BENZENBERG. George Henry Benzenberg, Past President, American Society for Municipal Improvements, Past President, American Society of Civil Engineers, died May 31, 1925.

George Henry Benzenberg was born in New York City May 31, 1847. One year later his parents moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he received his early education. He was graduated as Bachelor of Science in City Engineering at the University of Michigan in June, 1867.

From 1874 to 1899 he served the city of Milwaukee, Wis., as Assistant City Engineer, City Engineer, and President of the Board of Public Works. He also served as Consulting Engineer in connection with the Water Works or Sewage Systems, or as a member of the Engineering Commissions, for the following cities:

Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas City, Mo.; New Orleans, La.; Omaha, Neb.; Toledo, Ohio; Racine, Wis.; Rochester, N. Y., and a number of smaller cities.

He completed the water filtration plant of Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 1910 he retired from all professional activities except those connected with the supervision of the construction of the Northwestern Mutual Life Company's building in Milwaukee, Wis.

With the exception of the first six years, Mr. Benzenberg devoted his professional career to municipal work, many monuments of which Indicate his outsanding ability as a resourceful engineer. To no other man is the city of Milwaukee so much indebted for its excellent water, sewer and street improvements, all of which he originally planned; no material changes in these plans having since been found necessary.

In 1911 the University of Wisconsin awarded to him the degree of Doctor of Science. In 1893 and 1894 he was President of the American Water Works Association, and in 1896 succeeded the late M. J. Murphy, of St. Louis, as President of the American Society for Municipal Improvements.

Mr. Benzenberg was President of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1907. He was a member of all the Masonic organizations, in many of which he served in official capacities.

On December 16, 1879, Mr. Benzenberg was married to Miss Allie Wolfrom, who survives him. His daughter, Mrs. May Benzenberg Mayer, of New York, also survives him.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

Charles Carroll Brown, Lakeland, Florida.

Following is the statistical report of the Secretary for the year, from October, 1924, to October, 1925:

The personnel of the changes above noted is as follows:

ADDITIONS.

Active.