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Mechanical and Engineering Section.

Stated meeting held Thursday, October 16, 1901.

MR. JAMES CHRISTIE in the chair.

THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSPECTION OF STEAM BOILERS; WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE "CITY OF TRENTON" DISASTER.

DISCUSSION.

MR. JAMES CHRISTIE:-Gentlemen, in the absence of the president of the Section, I have been requested to take the chair at the meeting; and as there is no other business of importance, we will proceed at once without any formality to the subject chosen for general discussion this evening.

The subject, as announced on the bulletin, is “The Construction and Inspection of Steam Boilers; with especial reference to the City of Trenton' disaster." The Committee on Sectional Arrangements has requested Mr. Samuel M. Vauclain, Superintendent of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, to open the discussion.

[Before proceeding with the discussion, Mr. Vauclain read a letter which he had addressed to the Neafie & Levy Ship VOL. CLIII. No. 917.

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