URBAUER-ATWOOD COMPANY CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLATIONS STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING POWER PLANT EQUIPMENTS ELECTRIC PLANTS Main Office 1450 SOUTH SECOND STREET VENTILATING APPARATUS ST. LOUIS, MO. Applications for MembershipEngineers' Club Member: WM. B. KOCHNER (age 30), 3 years at technical school, several years at Washington University night school. Now designing engineer, U. S. Smelting Co. Sponsors: Wm. G. Christy, Geo. S. Hessenbruch. Member: FRED DAVID LYON (age 53), twenty-three years superintendent and general superintendent of construction. Now Genl. Supt. Cahokia Power Plant, for McClellan & Junkersfeld, Inc., 45 William St., New York. Sponsors: A. P. Greensfelder, H. W. Eales, Geo. E. Chamberlin, W. E. Rolfe. Member: FRED A. DECKMEYER (age 28), B. S. in Mechanical Engineering, Washington University, 1923. Now draftsman, Public Utilities Dept., City Hall. Sponsors: Chas. S. Butts, Thos. E. Flaherty. Member: ROBERT M. ARBUCKLE (age 29), B. S. in Electrical Engineering, Washington University, 1920. Now electrical engineer, Dept. of Public Utilities, City Hall. Sponsors: Chas. S. Butts, Thos. E. Flaherty. Member: LOUIS A. FOSTER (age 33), University of Chicago, 1913. Now mechanical engineer, Dept. of Public Utilities, City of St. Louis. Sponsors: Kurt Toensfeldt, Chas. S. Butts. Heine Boiler Company The Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis is a member of the The following extract is from a letter to us by Enoch Ohnstrand, Chief Engineer, LIBRARY BUREAU, Ilion, N. Y. "We figure that this repair on this machine showed a sufficient saving to pay for the installation of our electric equipment, as the machine which was broken down was a special machine made years ago for this Company, and even if it had been an up-to-date machine, we could not have purchased this part for anywhere near the price of the electric welder which we pur chased from you and which we used for doing this work. I am pleased to advise you that we got splendid results from the job and in a very short time. The repairs, so far as welding was concerned, were made in about three hours actual time." The line of G-E Electric Arc Welders includes types of stationary and portable sets for hand welding-and automatic and semi-automatic machines. G-E Specialists are at your service to select the equipment essential in electric welding processes for repairs, production or salvage in your plant. General Electric Company GENERAL ELECTRIC 43B-711C OF THE ASSOCIATED ENGINEERING SOCIETIES Vol. II OF ST. LOUIS A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Interests of the Engineering Profession in St. Louis We're Off ST. LOUIS, MO., OCTOBER, 1923 Since our last issue, meetings of the Associated Societies have been resumed with a bang. Mr. Leslie Smith's address on opening night was particularly interesting and the enthusiasm engendered by the air races helped to make the dinner meeting on September 27th one of the most successful of the year. Now to keep the pace. The Program Committee is doing its best to provide variety and interest. Don't limit your attendance to meetings devoted to your specialty. Come out and see what the other fellow is interested in. We're all engineers, after all. A St. Louis Builder In the measure that St. Louis prizes the boulevards, parks and planning which give it distinction among cities and afford everlasting pride and enjoyment to its citizens it owes honor and gratitude to the men who conceived and carried out the plans. Such was the service to this city of the late Julius Pitzman, pioneer engineer and planner. He it was who determined the type of closed residential districts which have made St. Louis famous and which have protected home values from the encroachments of commerce and other deteriorating influences. He it was who, as chief engineer, designed the main plan. of Forest Park, regarded as the one most valuable and indispensable civic feature. of St. Louis. It is interesting to recall that this project was opposed by shortsighted taxpayers as stubbornly as other No. 10 great improvement projects have been up to the present day. Throughout a long life, Pitzman has stood stanchly for measures designed to improve the city. He is believed to have taken more interest in the progress and beautification of his community than in his own private affairs. Such devotion to public service deserves honors which cannot be accorded to the mere accumulation of private wealth. however much the public may have profited incidentally from that accumulation. The citizenship of Mr. Pitzman may be pointed out to those who come after him as well worthy of emulation. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mr. Wallace and the Davis Case Mr. L. W. Wallace, Secretary of the F. A. E. S., in a statement relative to the removal of Mr. A. P. Davis as director of the Reclamation Service, directs attention to the sorriest aspect of the whole sorry business-the assumption that the engineer is incapable of the exercise of business sense and ability. "Requesting the resignation of Mr. Davis," says Mr. Wallace, "Secretary Work gave as his reason that he believed the Reclamation Service should be administered by a business man and not by an engineer. "The only inference one can draw from this is that he considers an engineer not competent to direct the business phases of a large enterprise that is essentially engineering in character, as Entered as second-class matter, February 11, 1916, at the post-office at St. Louis, Mo., under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. authorized August 23, 1918. is the Reclamation Service. The clear implication is that Secretary Work, a professional man, being a doctor, is of the opinion that members of the professional group of engineering are not successful administrators of business and particularly those lines of business that are essentially engineering. "Evidently the Secretary does not know that many technical directors of large works within and without the Government Service have ably directed such projects both from a business and a technical point of view. It would appear that the Secretary does not know that one of the marked tendencies in recent years has been the placing of technically-trained engineers, chemists and scientific men in charge of large industrial and commercial enterprises. "Obviously he does not know that many engineers, who, after they had secured their technical education and experience and while firmly establishing themselves as engineers, have coincidently come into prominence because of their business ability. One of the Secretary's colleagues on the Cabinet, the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, is an illustration." THE MODERN TREND OF THE ICE INDUSTRY IN THE By LESLIE C. SMITH Secretary, National Association of Ice Industries. The words "Trend" and "In Favor", in this subject you have chosen for me, imply a movement from some place or some condition in a defined direction. That as simply presupposes that there must be a demarkation or contrast between a Then, howsoever fixed, and Now. If I am to present you a correct analysis, therefore, I must apply these premises to the ice business. With some reservations as to the correctness and with your kindly indulgence of patience I shall endeavor to accomplish this purpose. First of all, we must have a point from which to start. You gentlemen who follow the engineering profession, especially those of you who have had part in the development of refrigeration as a national necessity, are probably quite as familiar with the evolution of the ice branch of refrigeration as am I. Mechanically this development has been. second only to that in the field of electricity, within the past fifty years. Suppose we review for the moment some of the outstanding features of this growth. in order that we may better understand the factor of momentum in our study of the trend of the ice industry. *A paper read before the Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis, September 19, 1923. The first American ice-making machine was shipped through the blockade to Augusta, Georgia, in 1863. The ubiquitous Mr. Sherman seems in some way to have interfered with its operation, and in 1866 we hear of this same unit at Gretna, Louisiana, across the river from New Orleans. In 1869 there were four plants; in 1889, 222 plants were operating; 1899 recorded 775 plants; and by 1909, 2004 plants manufactured 12,648,000 tons of ice. valued at $42,953,000, or about $3.40 per ton at platform. In 1914 the plant number had increased to something more than 2500 and the tonnage produced, to 26,000,000, with a platform valuation of $3.67 per ton. The increase in both plants and production since 1914 has been stupendous. Our best estimates place. these figures at 5500 and $42,000,000 respectively. The plaftorm value in 1922 was a fraction below $5.00 per ton. The investment in the manufacturing branch of the industry, including storage is in the neighborhood of 560 million, dollars. Let us turn now to the organization aspect as further evidence of a progres sion in this industry. We shall use 1914, as the key year, because so much ha hinged upon the advent of war in the |