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The Telegraphic Historical Society of North America, Organized At THE TELEGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY NORTH AMERICA ORGANIZED AT WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 5, 1894 WASWINGTON, D. C. PRESS OF W. F. ROBERTS 1895 The Telegraphic Historical Society OF NORTH AMERICA, WASHINCTON, D. C. PRESIDENT. AI,ONZOB. CORNZIJ,,Itliaca, New York. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. $. H. KAUPPMANN,Washington, D. C. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. WM. B. WILSON, Philadelphia, Pa. THlRD VICE-PRESIDENT. TEIOMASD. I,oc~woo~,Boston, Mass. SECRETARY AND TREASURER. GEO.C. MAYNARD,Washingtoll, D. C. MEMBERS Of EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. J. H. EMZRICK,New York City. B. P. DIZLON,Jacksonville, Fla. WM. R. PLUN,Chicago, 111. J. Q. MASON,Takoma, Washington. THE TELEGRAPHIC HISTORlCAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA, ORGANIZEDAT WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER5, 1894. n Correspondence and conference between a large number of telegraphexs, residing in various localities, which had been carried on for a year or more, resulted in the issuance of the following circular : WASHINGTON,D. C., September 2d, 1894. DEARSIR: Quite a number of Telegraphers, in tliis vicinity and elsewhere, have been informally discussing the advisability oi organizing a Telegraphic Historical Society for the purpose of collecting, preserving and publishing historical informa- tion relating to the establishment and development of the Telegraph in North America, and 1 have been requested to ask your views on the subject and solicit your CO-operation in carrying forward the plan. There is every prospect that a large number of representative men will unite in the undertaking and that the proposed society can be made very successful and useful. The enclosed cards are issued for the purpose of obtaining the names of persons desirous of taking part in organizing the society. They may be signed and forwarded to any of tl-ie persons wliose addresses are annexed. Please give the addresses of persons to whom this invitation should be sent. Yours very respectfully, GEO. C. MAYNARD. Tliomas D. Lockwood, American Bell Telephone Co., Boston. Charles A. Tinker, W. U. Telegraph, New York City. J. H. Emerick, Postal Telegraph, New York City. Charles Selden, B. & 0. Telegraph, Baltimore. L, C. Weir, Adams Express Co., Cincinnati. Wm. Kline, Lake Shore R. R., Toledo. A. H. Bliss, No. 2 Sherman Street, Chicago. C. W. Harnmond, Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis. W. C. Walstrum, ~oanoke,Va. B. F. Dillon, Jacksonville, Fla. Geo. C. Maynard, No. 800 H Street N. W., Washington, D. C. UC- In response to this notice two hundred wd sixty persons endorsed and agreed to join in the movement, whereupon the following call for a meeting was icsued : WASHINGTON,D. C., November 3, 1894. DEARSIR: A meeting of the persons who Iiave agreed to co-operate in organizing a TeIegraphic Historical Society will be held in Washington, D. C., at 2 P. M., Wednesday, December $11, 1894. 011 that occasion a constitution will be adopted, officers elected and plans for carrying forward the purposes of the society be determined upon. It is earnestly hoped you will be present. If you find it impossible to attend the meeting, please write or telegraph your views or wishes on any points relating to the forination of the society or its objects and, if you choose, you rnay sign and return the enclosed proxy. The payment of two dollars will Cover tl~eregular dues up to January ~st,1896, and tlie arnount may be remitted, at any time before the meeting, to S. H. Kauffmann, President Evening Star Newspaper Company, Waskington, D. C., wlio will Iiand all receipts to the Treasuser. Please extend this notice to any telegraphers whom you wish to recom- mend as cllarter members of the organization and have their applications seilt in. Tliomas D. Lockwood, American Bell Telephone Co., Boston, Mass. Franltlin L. Pope, Great Barrington, Mass. Charles A. Tinker, Genll Superintendent W. U. Telegrapl~,New York City. J. H. Emesick, General Superintendent PostaI Telegraph, New York City. L. C. Weir, President Adams Express Co., New York City. S. P. Gifford, Superintendent W. U. Telegraph, Syracuse, N. Y. Charles Selden, Superintendent B. & 0. Telegraph, Baltimore, Md. Wm. Kline, Superintendent Telegraph Lake Shore R. R., Toledo, Ohio. A. H. Bliss, No. 2 Sherman Street, Cl-iicago, 111. Geo. M. Dugan, Superintendent Telegraph Illinois Ceiitral R. R., Chicago, 111. C. W. I-iammond, Superintendent Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis, Mo. W. C. Walstrum, Superintendent Telegrnph, Roaiioite, Va. B. F. Dillon, Superintendent W. U. Telegraph, Jacksonville, Fla, More11 Morean, Manager W. U. Telegraph, Washington, D. C. W. H. Allen, Manager Postal Telegraph, Washington, D. C. D. P. McKeever, Superintendent Pennsylvania R. R., Washington, D. C. Replies may be acldressed to !, " GEO. C. I MAYNARD, No. 800 H Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Tfie meeting was held, as annouiiced, in the roomc of the Washington Board of Trade, which had been tenclered free of charge. HISTORICAL SOCIE TY 7 A large nuniber of the signers of the agreement were present or represented by psoxies. Mr. Maynard, in calling the meeting to order, said: "In this era of societies, when every man might beloag to rnore organizations than there are days in the month, we may be regarded by some persons as very rash in assembling to-day with the avowed purpose of forming a new one, but there ase two classes of societies now-a-days. One is made up of men possessed of a lively arnbition to wear showy badges, to march behind a bsass band and to eat a good dinner at the expense of somebody else. If we had no better purpose in viewwe would do well to stop where we are and go home. But where there is a definite, useful object, in which many rnen have a common interest, then organization, concentration of effort and division of labor, under systematic method and wise actministration, will secure valuable results that can be attained in no other way. This is the spirit and the reason of this movement. Its purposes and its methods will uudoubtedly develop as the business of the rneetiilg proceeds. That tl-ie business niay be transacted properly ai~dwit1-i despatch a good presiding officer is necessary, and I take much pleasure in nominating, as the chairman of this meeting, a gentlernan well-known as possess- ing all the qualifications for the position-Mr. Thomas D. I;ockwood, of Boston.'' The nomination was seconded by Wm. B. Wilson, of Philadelphia, and Mr. 1;ockwood was unanimously elected. Mr. I,ockwood, on taking the chair, said : " Gentlemen, I thank you very much for this complinlent. As many of you know very little about my ability as a presiding oficer I intist take it as nothing else than a compliinent. I am happy to think that my prerogatives are but temporary, and that I sl~all soon be able to transfer rny duties to some other shotilders better qualtfied to bear thern. " I am very glacl, indeed, that this opportunity has arisen for the organization and establishment of a Telegraphic His- torical Society. I thiiik there is great credit due to otir friend, Mr. Maynard, for suggesting this matter, ancl for his service in bringing it to the present point. It is a veiy agreeable sur- prise to me to see so many earnest faces here, aiid to resllize 8 TUE TELEGRAPWlC that so deep an interect is felt in the subject. This is to me a very good Omen and gives promise that a society will indeed be created, and that it will not only manage to exist, but will really be one of great inftuence and usefulness. "The meeting is Open for whatever may come before us.. "I presume the first business coming properly before the nleeting will be the election of a provisional secretary." On motion of Mr. Wilson, W. H. Smith, of Washington, was elected secretary. On motiori of Mr. More11 Marean the chair appointed Charles H. Haskins, of New York,- and N. R. Young, of Washington, a committee on credentials. While the committee was exam- ining the lists of names and the proxies a large nun~berof letters cordially endorsing the movement were read, ancl the chair- man, Mr. L,oclcwood, made the following statement : TEECHAIRMAN. '' It is manifest from the number of inter- esting communications which have been read that there is a wiclespread interest in this rnovenlent. It is now necessary for all of us to remember that if we go iiito it at all it will be necessary to go into it with heart as well as hand, ancl band as well as heart. As Mr. Maynard rernarked sonle time ago, or as he intiinated, rather, there are enough organizations now of the ultra-convivial order. I had hoped, at one time, that in The Old Timers' Association' something of this kind rnight be incorporated ; but our experience with that association sl~ows tliat it has not time to properly look after historical matters. It appears to me to be a very much better plan that there should be a historical association with nothing else to do but to look after the matters relating to the telegraph and cognate subjects ; and after the history of those matters iu which we are princi- pally and primarily interested. Therefore I think that, if it is the sense of this organizing meeting, that we have sufficient eilcouragement in the persons present, and in the persons wlio have written to us, to lead LIS to believe that there will be eilo~~ghactive interest in it to make it a silccess and a tiseful success, we have i~othingelse to do but to go ahead with it, wliicl~should be bot11 our duty and our pleasure.'> MR. WILSON. ' Mr.
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