JAMES SLOAN, C. & E. I. R. R. (three years), Danville, Ill. W. H. MCCLINTOCK, L. & N. R'y (two years), Louisville, Ky. J. H. MCDONALD, C. & N.-W. R'y (one year), Escanaba, Mich. W. S. Pease. Thos. Hickey....... S. L. Swinney..... John W. Wright J. A. Crippen. J. B. Moll......... W. L. Robbins.......... .C. M. & St. P C. R. I. & P.......... .W. St. L. & P... C. & N....... Ferguson, Mo. Marshalltown, Ia. ...Louisville, Ky. Iola Grove, Iowa. .Griggsville, III. Glendive, Mont. .Tomah, Wis. Des Moines, Iowa. Battle Creek, Mich. Valparaiso, Ind. .Blue Island, Ill. .Lapeer, Mich. .Elgin, III. Geneseo, Ill. Bement, Ill. Flint & Pere Marquette......E. Saginaw, Mich.. ..C. R. I. & P............. ..C. & N. W........ C. B. & Q.. C. B. & Q....... ..C. M. & St. P. D. L. & N.... .C. M. & St. P.... .C. St. P. M. & O...... ..C. M. & St. P. ...C. M. & St. P......... .E. & T. H. ...C. B. & Q.. ..C. M. & St. P. .Madison, Wis. .C. M. & St. P., C. B. Div.....Tama City, Iowa, .O. & M......... ...C. I. St. L. & C............ .Lawrenceburg, Ind. .Indianapolis, Ind. Thos. White. Perry Grace D. M. Hedding... Danold Ross B. Bowen ....... V. A. Reton...... C. F. Mitchell 0. D. Richards.... R. R. Houghton E. H. Mott............... R. J. Kelly...... James Sloan .C. & A........ C. M. & St. P C. M. & St. P. D. G. H. & M.... ..L. S. & M. S......... Wisconsin Central.... .C. I. St. L. & C........ C. H. Stockwell............C. M. & St. P.. JE. Cox.......... G. W. Downing...... J. C. Brennan M. A. Stafford........ C. D. Shattuck. C. H. Cornell....... T. A. Hern............................... ...C. M. & St. P...... .Formerly C. R. I. & P.... ....St. P. M. & M................ ..Central Iowa..... ..C. M. & St. P ..C. M. & St. P........ C. M. & St. P.... Pana, Ill. Florence, Wis. Aurora, Ill. Bloomington, Ill. ...Waukesha, Wis. .Horicon, Wis. Pontiac, Mich. Stevens Point, Wis. ..Monroe, Wis. ....Mazomanie, Wis. Joseph Hayward............K. C. St. J. & C. B.......... T. Hines J. B. Kelly.. J. T. Moran..... J. Mayer..... A. B. Hyde......... C. M. & St. P..... .St. P. M. & M....... .C. St. P. M. & O.......... ..........S. C. & P........ P. H. Hennessey...................... G. M. Williams.. J.C. Evans... .Andover, Ohio. Dubuque, Iowa. Waterloo, Iowa. Dubuque, Iowa. .Delano, Minn. Minneapolis, Minn. Wells, Minn. ..St. Paul, Minn. .C. M. & St. P., C. B. Div.....Perry, Iowa. .Minneapolis, Minn. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ROADMASTERS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS, IND., AT PFAFFLIN'S HALL, September 10, 11 and 12, 1884. FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. At 2 o'clock, P. M., the President, Mr. I. Burnett, of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, called the Convention to order as follows: GENTLEMEN-The hour having arrived to which this meeting was adjourned at St. Paul, we will now consider ourselves as an organization open for business. Allow me, gentlemen, to introduce to you the Honorable Mayor of this city, Mr. Jno. L. McMaster. ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE MAYOR. Mayor McMaster said: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the ROADMASTERS' ASSOCIATION-I did not come here to make any speech. I have had no time to prepare any speech. I have simply come to meet with you here in your opening. While you are called Roadmasters, as I understand it, I do not understand that you are "Road Agents," or anything of that kind— a la James Brothers. I do not understand that you have come here with any designs either upon our persons or upon our purses. Your duties, as I understand them, are to protect life and property. And as the Mayor of this city, I have come here to extend to you a MOST CORDIAL WELCOME, to extend to you the courtesies and the hospitality of our city. Your Association, while it may be young in years, is certainly important in its objects. Twenty-four years ago, in this country, we had some 30,000 miles of railway. Most of that railway was a single track. Now, |