1878 Metropolitan Hotel. 1879 and 1880 Delmonico’s. (14th Street and Fifth Avenue.) 1881 to 1883 Delmonico’s. (Madison Square.) 1884 Hotel Brunswick. 1885 to 1895 Delmonico’s. (Madison Square.) 1896 Hotel Savoy. 1897 Waldorf. 1898 Waldorf-Astoria. 1899 to 1908 Delmonico’s. (Fifth Avenue and 44th Street.) [Illustration: HON. PATRICK GARVAN. Of Hartford, Conn. A Life Member of the Society. ] NOTE. Mr. Lenehan is the Chairman of the Membership Committee of the American Irish Historical Society, through whose efforts and ability 250 members have been added to the Society’s rolls between the time of his appointment in June, 1908, and January 16th, 1909, the date of the eleventh annual meeting in Washington, D. C. New applications from him have been coming in almost daily since the latter date. We look forward to at least an equal number of new members being admitted during 1909, and the Society hereby expresses the highest praise of Mr. Lenehan for his faithful and fruitful efforts in its behalf. Under his guidance, the printed matter which has gone forth during 1908 throughout the country has been prepared and circulated, and in his work he is receiving the cordial support of all the members. Although in the midst of a busy life as a successful practising lawyer, Mr. Lenehan finds time to give valuable assistance by word and deed to these two great national societies, The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the American Irish Historical Society, both of which claim him as an honored member. EDITOR. EARLY MARINE “WIRELESS.” BY EDGAR STANTON MACLAY. Not the least valuable of the many practical lessons taught by the cruise of the Atlantic battleship fleet around the world was the demonstration of the possibility of following from Washington almost every day’s move of the great white ships from their departure from Hampton Roads to their return, by means of wireless telegraphy and other methods of transmitting information. It is a cardinal point in the strategy of naval warfare to be thoroughly advised, first, of the location, disposition and conditions of your own ships and, second, the same of your adversary’s. Some idea of the stupendous advances made in this most important detail may be gained by a comparison with the “wireless” marine telegraphy of a century ago when, although electricity had not been harnessed to the news bureau, ingenious methods of maintaining a “marine telegraph” were operative which, in some instances, were most surprising in their results.