discussed by the press of New York as the probable nominee of his party for the office of Mayor of the city. In that year he was designated by the General Term of the Supreme Court, chairman of the first commission appointed to determine whether a subway passing under Broadway and other streets through the city should be constructed, his associates being Robert Maclay, President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, and Benjamin Perkins. Prior to the adoption by the United States government of the Panama Canal project, and during the Presidency of Mr. McKinley, one of the largest, if not the largest, syndicates of moneyed men ever gathered together obtained a concession from the government of Nicaragua for the construction of a canal known as the Nicaragua Canal. This syndicate, which proposed to build the canal without government aid, was composed of the Messrs. Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockefeller, Mills, Stillman, Grace, Crimmins, and others of equal standing, and was represented before the committee of Congress upon the question of recognition and protection, by Mr. McClure as its counsel, he having organized the corporation under which it was proposed to operate. Mr. McClure is a member of the Manhattan, New York Athletic and other clubs, and the Bar Association, of which he has been a member of the judiciary and other committees. He has also been honored with the presidency of the Metropolitan Surety Company. MCCONWAY, WILLIAM, of the McConway & Torley Company, Pittsburg, Pa. (Life member of the Society.) MCCORMICK, EDWARD R., 15 West Thirty-eighth Street, New York City. MCCORMICK, JAMES W., of the Judkins & McCormick Company, importers of millinery goods, 10–16 West Twentieth Street, New York City; residence, 79 New England Avenue, Summit, N. J. MCCOY, REV. JOHN J., LL. D., rector, St. Ann’s Church, Worcester, Mass. Is a member of the Executive Council of the Society. MCCOY, WILLIAM J., attorney and counsellor at law, 37 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. MCCREADY, RT. REV. MGR. CHARLES, 329 West Forty-second Street, New York City. MCCULLOUGH, JOHN, 55 Maxfield Street, New Bedford, Mass. MCDONALD, CAPT. MITCHELL C., a pay director in the navy; formerly stationed at the Naval Home in Philadelphia; Navy Department, Washington, D. C. MCDONNELL, ROBERT E., attorney at law, 52 Broadway, New York City. MCDONOUGH, HON. JOHN J., Fall River, Mass.; Justice of the Second District Court of Bristol County, Mass. MCFARLAND, STEPHEN, Secretary of the Central Cigar Manufacturing Company; residence, 44 Morton Street, New York City. MCGANN, JAMES A., 413 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., was born August 5th, 1855, in Roscrea, Tipperary County, Ireland, and arrived in Philadelphia when eight years of age. Is with Prevost & Herring in the insurance business. MCGANN, JAMES E., real estate, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.