MEETINGS IN REVIEW

1074th meeting. April 11, 1923. A.S.C.E. 26 present.

Dr. Hermann Von Schrenk, Consulting Timber Engineer, delivered an extremely interesting address on "Modern Forestry Problems." 1075th meeting. April 21, 1923. April 21, 1923. Engineers' Club. 150 present.

An inspection of the Scullin Steel Co. plant.

1076th meeting. April 25, 1923. A.I.E.E. 60 present.

Mr. G. E. Stolz, General Engineer of the Westinghaus Electrical and Manufacturing Co., gave an illustrated talk on "Electrification of Main Roll Drive." The visit to the Scullin plant on the preceding Saturday, made Mr. Stolz' talk doubly interesting.

1077th meeting. April 30, 1923. A.S.M.E. 161 present.

A dinner dance at the Gatesworth Hotel. Dean Dexter S. Kimball of Cornell University and Mr. John Lyle Harrington, President of the A.S.M.E., were the guests of the evening.

THE ENGINEERS' TABLE

Bowen blew in just after receiving the Public Service Commission's ruling on the Wabash grade elimination. Cocky! Gee! Said he felt like the mouse that found the leaking whiskey barrel in the cellar. After lapping up (if mice lap) a few drops and giving them time to assert their authority, he straightened up, threw out his chest and said, "Say! Where's that d............. cat?”

The Seat of the Trouble

An electric specialty company in New York has had an unusual suit filed against it, as evidenced by this extract from the plaintiff's petition: "Plaintiff alleges that this defendant represented to her that this range would not become heated on the upper surface of the oven. That plaintiff, relying wholly upon this defendent's representation, placed her bath tub in the kitchen near the range. That, upon emerging from the tub, plaintiff's foot accidentally came into contact with the soap upon the floor and she was thus compelled to sit upon

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The cornerstone of the new John Hancock Building in Boston displays the following inscription:

Atta Boy!

FREDERICK A. WALDRON

Engineer in Charge

PARKER THOMAS & RICE
Architects

A motto for family economics promulgated by the Mercantile Trust Co.: "United We Save, Divided We Stall."

ROBERT W. HUNT

JOHN J. CONE

D. W. MCNAUGHER

ROBERT W. HUNT & CO., ENGINEERS

INSPECTION OF RAILWAY AND STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL TESTS

St. Louis Office and Laboratories, 1403 Syndicate Trust Bldg.

Misapplied Transportation Facilities

Patient-There is an awful rumbling in my stomach, doctor, just like a wagon going over a street car track.

Doctor-H'm! Probably it's that truck you ate last night.

APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP-ENGINEERS' CLUB.

Member: H. AUSTILL (age 37) C.E. Degree, University of Alabama, 1907. Special Course Cornell University, 1908. Now Bridge Engineer, M. & O. R. R. Sponsors: Wm. C. E. Becker, W. R. Crecelius.

Member: LOUIS O. CAMPBELL (age 29) Graduate Clemson College, South Carolina, 1916. Now with General Electric Co.

Sponsors: L. B. Rice, Paul Schlingman.

Member: WM. D. CECIL (age 32) D.S.E. Degree, Engineering School, Johns Hopkins University, 1917. Now with Magnus Metal Co.

Sponsors: Wm. G. Christy, G. S. Hessenbruch.

Member: ALFRED COTTON (age 51) Technical education through University Extension Courses. Now Chief of Research Dept., Heine Safety Boiler Co. Sponsors: E. R. Fish, John Hunter, Wm. G. Christy.

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It should be a matter of professional principle
for all engineers to be well informed on public mat-
ters affecting general engineering work and to ex-
ert some effort to direct the forming of public sen-
timent and opinion, which really governs adminis-
trative policies and legislation. *
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false idea that politics is not for the professional
man. Politics is the science of civil government
and would be much the better for participation in
it by engineers.

A monument to courage

The total capacity of the steam turbine generators produced by the General Electric Company is equal to the working power of 170 million men. More and more the hard tasks of life are being transferred from human shoulders to the iron shoulders of machines.

This machine is a Curtis
Steam Turbine Generator.
Many called it a "piece of
folly" in 1903. It was the
largest turbine generator
ever built up to that time.

Today General Electric Com-
pany builds steam turbine
generators ten times as big
as this pioneer; and the "piece
of folly" is preserved as a
monument to courage.

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