We make your concrete, brick or stone surfaces absolutely water-tight and water-proof. The Ferro-Tite method insures long-livity and permanent satisfaction under Guarantee. Ferro-Tite is an iron material, manufactured and applied by us as waterproofing on subways, basements, scale pits, power houses, concrete tanks, reservoirs, tunnels, etc., under contract. Let us handle your waterproofing problems. Literature on request. Contract Waterproofing Co. 2042 RAILWAY EXCHANGE BLDG., ST. LOUIS Chicago Kansas City Cleveland Philadelphia New York Detroit New Orleans cases is not desirable at first, that the bill would be a discrimination against the small inventor, that the War Department does not need such. protection, that it will tend toward secret process manufacture and that the law could not cover the patents convention. Highway Bill. With only 31 votes cast against it, the House of Representatives on May 1st passed the Highway Bill authorizing the appropriation of $146,500,000 for Federal aid during the next two fiscal years. Of that sum $65,000,000 is for use during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923; $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924; $6,500,000 for forest roads. President's Unemployment Conference reports that great improvement has been noted, both in point of organization of the work throughout the country and in results during the past few weeks. The official statement of the Conference says: "The upward trend, while not great, still continues to hold, with the number of jobs available slightly increased, coupled with a corresponding decrease in the number of applicants a most hopeful sign." 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. International Association of Railways held its Ninth Congress in Rome, Italy, April 18th to 30th. The Federation secured the appointment of Mr. J. W. Lieb, former President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, former Vice-President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and, during the war, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Power and Gas Industries of the Council of National Defense. Other representatives of the United States were Mr. Chas. C. McChord of the Interstate Commerce Commission, General Wm. W. Atterbury, Colonel Edward A. Simmons, Mr. David F. Crawford and Mr. Walter F. Schleiter. United States Commerce Reports have been rearranged and are now classified by commodities and geographically with special sections devoted to transportation, tariff, commercial law and similar subjects. The information is received direct from over 600 representatives of the U. S. Government in the world's industrial and commercial centers and is now recognized as the best medium to keep American business men informed of world trade. Water Power Licenses. Two licenses of unusual importance have been authorized by the Federal Power Commission. The Southern California Edison Co. was granted a license to develop an important SERVICE-PLUS HAT PLUS stands for courtesy, attention to THA details, the knowledge of what constitutes ¶ With a most complete plant, covering 12,000 Britt Printing & Publishing Co. Olive 4822-4823 S. W. Cor. Walnut-Ninth Central 3006 Detroit Graphite Company DETROIT, U. S. A. MAKERS OF DEGRACO PAINTS All Colors for All Purposes project on the San Joaquin River. It is planned to install machinery capable of developing 195,000 horsepower. A dam 100 feet high will be erected. The power will be fed into the company's transmission line supplying Los Angeles. Another license was granted the Portland Railway Light and Power Co. of Portland, Ore., covering important developments in Clackamas County, Ore. Two hundred and ninetyfour applications have been received by the Commission to date. Use of Federal Authority in Railway Labor Disputes is the title of a discussion just issued by the U. S. Department of Labor through its Bureau of Labor Statistics. In this bulletin (No. 303) the experience of this country in the settlement of railway disputes through the enactment of a series of laws is discussed. The law of 1888 providing for voluntary arbitration, the Erdman Act, the Newlands Act, the Adamson Law and the Esch-Cummins Law all progress, although not in equal degree, toward the recognition of the paramount interest of the public in these conflicts. War Material Distributed for Building Hard Roads.. A force of 275 persons is kept in the field preparing vast amounts of this kind of material for shipment to the states upon requisition under allotments on the same basis as monetary Federal aid for road construction. Up to February 1st of this year the value of material thus distributed amounted to $126,000,000. Every effort is being made to distribute this material for spring road work. It is now located at the following centers: Rockford, Ill.; Schenectady, N. Y.; Watertown, Mass.; Dover, N. J., and in smaller quantities at other government storehouses. Road Construction Bids Much Lower. Early bids for construction of Federal aid roads indicate that prices during the coming season will be materially lower than last season. Grading has been bid at 20, 231⁄2 and 30 cents per cubic yard in Missouri, Arkansas and Minnesota respectively, as compared with an average of 35 cents for this section last year. Prices for reinforcing steel range around 6 cents as compared with 8 or 9 cents last year. A few bids for the best grade of concrete URBAUER-ATWOOD HEATING COMPANY CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLATIONS ELECTRIC PLANTS VENTILATING APPARATUS Main Offee 1450 SOUTH SECOND STREET ST. LOUIS, MO. of about $17.00 per cubic yard have been received in sections where the 1921 price was about $25.00. Prices bid for the construction of concrete roads per square yard are as follows: Oklahoma, $1.52; Colorado, $2.27; Georgia, $1.38, as compared with an average of $2.57 during the period 1916-20. A Revision of the Mining Laws is being actively considered by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives. Hearings began on April 27th. H. Foster Bain, Director of the Bureau of Mines, made a preliminary statement in which he pointed out the need for revamping the laws of the 'sixties and 'seventies, so as to make them conform with the development which has taken place in the mining industry since their enactment. W. R. Ingalls, as the Chairman of the Committee of Engineers which drafted the bill now before the committee, explained its details and the need for changes in the existing laws. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE- Before me, a Notary Public in and for the City of St. Louis and State of Missouri, personally appeared W. E. Rolfe, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor of the Journal of the Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis, and that the following is to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit:, 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor. and business managers are: Publisher: Britt Prtg. & Pub. Co., 9th and Walnut Sts., St. Louis, Mo. Managing Editor: None: Business Manager: C. B. Adams, 3817 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. 2. That the owners are (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock): Associated Engineering Societies of St. Louis. W. E. ROLFE. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of April, 1922. WM. C. DOERR, Notary Public. My commission expires Sept. 20 1925. |