Approval of active prosecution of the Completion of the Topographic mapping of the United States.

Co-operation in activities looking toward the establishment of a Department of Public Works.

Mr. Wallace called attention to the fact that no societies had withdrawn from the Federation during the year, and that several had been added to its membership.

The subject of finances occupied a prominent place in the deliberations of the Council. Amendments to Constitution and By-Laws were adopted, permitting of greater flexibility in the assessment of dues, with limits as previously established.

The Committee on Publicity and Publication presented a particularly interesting report. The cost of publicity service, in charge of Mr. James T. Grady of Columbia University, was $4,000. 677 articles appeared in 900 daily newspapers distributed over the United States and in foreign countries. 56 of these stories related to the report on Waste in Industry. Many other articlès appeared in magazines and the technical press. A weekly bulletin has been published throughout the year, each edition numbering 3,000 copies, and plans are in prospect for its more general distribution.

The first edition of 2,200 copies of the report on Waste in Industry has been exhausted and a second edition is now on the press. It is expected that the sale of this book will reach 8,000 copies

A special committee was appointed to study the results of licensing laws now in effect, and to report on policies to be pursued in relation to this important subject. The general subject was discussed at length by the Council and a wide divergency of opinion expressed.

A discussion of a special report on co-operation with the American Association of Engineers, resulted in the appointment of a committee to consider the entire subject of relations with other engineering organizations.

The committee on Employment Service was continued, and results in the improvement of the present service are expected shortly.

On the evening of the first day of the meeting, the Council met at dinner with the engineers of Washington. Mr. Herbert Hoover delivered a remarkable address, in which he paid high compliment to the accomplishments of the Federated American Engineering Societies and the engineering profession. At the close of his address he was presented with a resolution of appreciation of his service as the first president of the Federation.

ENGINEERING FOUNDATION MAKES ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

It is with pleasure that I have examined the Oct. Nov. Dec. issue of the Journal of the Engineers' Club of St. Louis. I would congratu-, late you on the interesting paper on Engineering Foundation.

Thanking you for this co-operation in making the Foundation known to engineers, and wishing you large success with the Journal for the coming year and in your other activities, I remain

Cordially yours,

Alfred D. Flinn Secretary.

MEETINGS IN PROSPECT.

Feb. 1, 1922. A paper on the proposed extensions of the St. Louis Water Works, by Edward E. Wall, Water Commissioner.

Feb. 15, 1922. A suggested program of civic activities for the Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis, by A. P. Greensfelder, Secretary, Fruin Colnon Contracting Co.

Mar. 10-11, 1922. The Engineering Students of Washington University announce the celebration of Engineers' Day. At noon on the 10th, King Khu-Fu "builder of the Pyramids," will knight the seniors with elaborate ceremonial. The Engineering Laboratories will be open during the afternoon and evening of both days, when many interesting demonstrations and "stunts" will be in progress.

Mar. 20, 1922. At a meeting of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, to be held under the auspices of the Engineers' Club: a paper on "Engineers and Engineering Development in St. Louis," by William E. Rolfe, Associate to the President of the Board of Public Service.

Mr. J. D. Robertson, Chairman of the Joint Program Committee, asks for suggestions as to speakers and meetings topics for the coming year.

A REVIEW OF RECENT MEETINGS.

In reviewing the meetings of the Associated Engineering Societies, the numerical sequence established during the long period of activity of the Engineers' Club is preserved. The Local Section of the national Society having the meeting in charge is indicated by initials.

1035th meeting. Dec. 7, 1921. A. S. C. E. 70 present.

The Nominating Committee submitted the names of candidates. for offices in the Engineers' Club for 1922. No additional names were presented. Officers elected as a result of this nomination are mentioned elsewhere.

Col. W. G. Atwood, late Technical Advisor to Serbia, presented an extremely interesting illustrated paper on "Transportation and Economic conditions in Southeastern Europe."

1036th meeting. Dec. 21, 1921. Engineers' Club. 67 present.

Mr. C. McL. Moss, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburg, Pa., read a paper prepared by Major S. C. Godfrey, U. S. Engineer Corps, on the Muscle Shoals Development. An abstract of this paper appears in another column.

1037th meeting. Jan. 4, 1922. Annual Meeting of the Engineers' Club. 26 present.

Officers nominated at the meeting of Dec. 7, were unanimously elected. Annual reports were presented by officers and committees. The President was instructed to appoint a committee to draw up resolutions on the death of Messers. Arthur A. Bonsack, Hiram Phillips and James M. Chaphe.

OF LOCAL INTEREST.

The American Society of Civil Engineers is preparing to raise a fund by subscription among its members, for a bust of James B. Eads to be placed in the Hall of Fame of New York University. St. Louis engineers will be particularly interested in this memorial to the only engineer thus far honored by a place in this Pantheon of the New World, much of whose greatest work was done in this city.

The St. Louis Section of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers closed a very successful year with its annual meeting and dinner at the Missouri Athletic Association on Dec. 13. 1921. Announcement of the program for 1922, which promises to surpass all previous efforts of the "Refrigerators," will appear in the JOURNAL shortly. The list of officers of the Section for the new year is given in another column.

The St. Louis Section of the "Civils" is in receipt of a suggestion from the National Secretary that a Spring meeting of the Society be held in St. Louis in 1922. A supplementary suggestion was to the effect that an annual convention might be held in the St. Louis district some time during the next year or two. The Section very properly and promptly advised the Secretary that it was the big things St. Louis wanted and, if we could have only one of these meetings, the convention was it.

The Petro Co. of St. Louis, of which Mr. H. A. Wheeler is manager, struck oil in its No. 1 hole near Centralia, Ill. last month. The well gives 100 barrells per day. On Jan. 7, they again struck oil in their second well with a yield of 300 barrels per day. The oil is found here. at a depth of about 800 feet. The company is drilling four new wells.

The prospects for lead this year are promising. Last year the large consumption was for paint. This year will very likely see an increased demand for other purposes. The Southeast Missouri district was the only one in the United States that did not decrease production but increased it.

The zinc situation is improving slowly. Stocks on hand are diminishing. The same may be said of copper.

The production of bituminous coal for the year 1921 was approximately 407,000,000 tons; to match this low production point one must go back ten years. To match the low production of 26,000,000 tons of coke, one must go back seventeen years.

The cost of producing coal is exceedingly high, the average daily wage paid all coal mine labor in the state of Illinois approximating $9.75 per day of eight hours. This situation with a transportation charge equal to or exceeding the mine price, is responsible for the high delivered price that must somehow be liquidated. Very few mines are working more than one-half time and for the first time in a great many years properties have been temporarily closed for lack of market during the mid-winter months. No material improvement in business conditions is expected before September next and, with the expiration of both bituminous and anthracite wage scales on March 31st next, an entirely new set of union wage scales must be made, to cover the entire coal mining industry.

THE ENGINEERS' TABLE.

Long and broad it stands, hospitably spread every day, on the east side of the main dining room of the City Club. Fifty members of the Associated Engineering Societies have been counted during the past year with their legs beneath it.

It has become a Forum. Ideas and lack of ideas are expressed daily. Why, only a few days ago, Roy Eilers asked Fred Woermann how much the hold-up man took off him. Right away Fred replied, "nowhere near as much as an attorney would." Pretty quick, eh?

It may be safely said that nothing has done more in the past few years to bring the engineers of St. Louis together, than the Engineers' Table. If you are a member of the City Club, drop around; if not, look up a friend occasionally who is, and join us.

IN MEMORIAM.

Arthur A. Bonsack, died April 27, 1921
Hiram Phillips, died Dec. 22, 1921

James M. Chaphe, died Dec. 24, 1921

At the direction of the Engineers' Club, appropriate resolutions have been sent to the families of the deceased.

HIRAM PHILLIPS.

Hiram Phillips was born Nov. 9, 1859, in Boone County, Mo. He graduated in 1880 in the Engineering Class of the Missouri State University. His professional career is briefly summarized as follows:

Assistant Engineer, Mississippi River Commission, 1880 to 1884. U. S. District Mineral Surveyor in Colorado, 1884 to 1888. Assistant Professor of Engineering, Missouri State University, 1888 to 1893.

Engaged in private practice of engineering in St. Louis, 1893 to 1901. President of the Board of Public Improvements, City of St. Louis, 1901 to 1905.

Resumed private practice following his retirement from the Presidency of the Board of Public Improvements and was actively engaged until the day of his death by accident, Dec. 22, 1921.

During his professional career Mr. Phillips served on many boards and commissions, reporting on various engineering works and projects for cities and towns, among which may be mentioned Kansas City, Denver, Quincy, Ill., and Oklahoma City. He designed and built water works and sewers in many places, among them Florence, Colo., Columbia, Mo., Raton, N. M., Mariana and Blytheville, Ark., St. Charles, Mo., and Centralia, Ill.

At the time of the accident which resulted in his death, Mr. Phillips was making a final inspection of the completed gravity system of water supply for Phoenix, Ariz., which was taken from the Verde River, through infiltration galleries at a point some thirty miles from the city. Mr. Phillips was among the first to recognize the Verde River as the logical source of an adequate and pure water supply for Phoenix. He first reported on the project in 1912, and was retained as consulting engineer throughout its whole design and construction.

Mr. Phillips was well and widely known throughout the whole Western country, his genial disposition making him many friends everywhere. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Engineers' Club of St. Louis.