Excerpt from Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association: Successor to the Association of Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings, Held at Chicago, Ill;, October 15-17, 1918 The President - Following the established custom we will open the meeting with prayer. I will call on the secretary to otter prayer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.