A December 1898 article of the "Electrical Worker" reports work improving and membership rolling up each meeting. A great snowstorm hit Boston causing great damage to the Postal and W. W. Telegraph and long distance and Boston Fire Alarm lines. Dozens of corporations wanting linemen.

The steamship Portland was lost with all aboard in this snowstorm, the bodies washed ashore on Cape Cod. The ship left Boston for Maine just as the storm began.

In a January 1898 article of the "Electrical Worker", F. J. Sheehan describes the work in the power house, electrical signal, and switch systems in the new electric plant of the Southern Union Station just completed by the Lord Electric Company, who employ only union men on their work.

The election and installation of officers at the January meeting were as follows:

President T. R. Melville

Vice President W. D. Hubbard

Financial Secretary William Woodward

Recording Secretary J. B. Jeffers

Inspectors Henry Buckley and Theodore Gould

Foreman William Thomas