Brown and White Vol. 16 no. 34

              chr lsti a n a sso ! i ation — meet ing drown hall 6.30 p m sun day february 21 washington's birthday ex ercisks — in the chapel at 10 a m monday february 22 basket ball — st john's col lege vs lehigh in the gymnasium at 2.00 p m monday february 22 a lumni ßanquet — at the eagle hotel under the auspices of the lehigh home club monday even ing february 22 brown and white board — meeting in drown hall at 1.30 p m tuesday february 23 mustard and cheese — re hearsal in drown hall at 7.30 p mi wednesday february 24 band practice — in the physical laboratory at 7.30 thursday february 25 arts and science — meeting in saucon hall at 8.00 p m thursday february 25 mechanical society the annual celebration of wash ington's birthday will be observed on monday morning february 22nd with exercises appropriate to the day and occasion at 10 a m the usual junior oratorical contest for prizes of 25 1.5 and 10 offered by the alumni association will be held in the chapel the juniors who have been selected to compete for these prizes are c 11 . bechhoeffer it j kauff man w z price w j robbins 11 p smith and in young at 11 a m following the ora torical contest the honorary degree of doctor of laws will be conferred on edwin erie sparks president of the pennsylvania state college this is the third honorary doctor ate conferred during the history of lehigh and has been tendered to president sparks on account of his broad scholastic reputation and his position as the head of an honored sister institution after the con ferring of the degree president sparks will deliver an address after the address the guests of the university and the alumni pre sent will take dinner at the com mons at 2 p m there will be a basket ball game in the gymnasium be tween our team and st john's col lege of brooklyn in the evening the lehigh men of the bethlehems and neighboring towns will hold a banquet at the eagle hotel under the auspices of the lehigh home club the speak ers at this banquet will be presi dent drinker president warfield of lafayette college the rt rev ethelbert talbot bishop of central pennsylvania prof j l stewart s d warriner 90 general man ager lehigh valley coal co and e g grace 99 general manager bethlehem steel co from responses to invitations sent out by the university awl by the home club it is now certain that there will be a large attendance of alumni at these washington's birthday exercises and the ban quet promises to be a great success band dance the february meeting of the mining society was held at dr drinker's on wednesday night all those present enjoyed a very pleasant evening although the attendance was not as large as usual the first paper was by j . t rees 10 and was concerned with the development of the blast furnace in the lehigh valley mr rees told of the very simple furnaces which were constructed in the early part of the last century and of the vari ous experiments and modifications which developed among these were the compressed air blast hot stoves and increased size in the furnace itself among the many iron companies holding charters in 1840 the only company holding its original charter today is the thomas iron company mr rees also des cribed the first pig-iron machines as compared with those of to-day e g t oo'«rs ; mo told of mining operations about salt lake city copper is one of the principal pro ducts large deposits being so ex posed that a steam shovel cac fe used to mine it the mills where this ore is concentrated are very large and only the most modern machinery is used lead and sil ver mines have been discovered in various camps and extensively developed mr rogers spoke of the amount of litigation which has come from the destructive effects of the fumes from the various smelters several smelters have been closed on this account but many have de vised means to remove the arsenic from the fumes j c gorman 10 in his paper described very minutely the manu facture of steel by the bessemer process he first described the construction of a cupola and the method of its operation pig-iron limestone and coke are charged in to the cupola and the molten iron is taken from this to the converter by means of a chart mr gorman illustrated the converter showing the converter proper blast box and trunnions he also described in detail the process of removing the impurities by means of the air blast president callen gave a short description of the galey dry blast process by means of this process the moisture is removed from the air blast giving an increased amount of iron and necessitating less coke student meeting sunday the university band has made arrangements to hold a second dance on saturday evening feb ruary 27 refreshments will be served tickets are now on sale for one dollar this ticket admits the bearer and any ladies under his escort to the floor the chap erons are mrs drinker mrs thornburg mrs esty mrs stew art mrs emery mrs a.w klein and mrs jennings professor macnutt has just been elected burgess of fountain hill for a term of three years the regular monthly meeting of the mechanical engineering society was held in williams hall on tues day night two of the speakers were unable to be present on ac count of an engine test mr lotz '()(>, gave a very in teresting talk on the experiences of the young engineer he spoke on the work done in the care of boilers aligning of engines pipe fitting etc the hints he gave re lative to the above subjects will be invaluable to those who heard them he brought out the fact that the graduate just out of college has a great deal to learn and that the sooner he realizes this the better it is for him jim myers followed with an appetizing talk on eat drink and be merry john a brodhead 07 of beth lehem and at present employed in bridgeport conn was married on wednesday evening to miss bou nian of bethlehem the february meeting of the electrical society was held in the physical laboratory on tuesday evening the meeting was very well attended in spite of the dis agreeable weather the program for the evening consisted of a paper on train resistance by mr c e clewell e.e 05 and a discussion of the construction of high tension transmission lines by mr lamar lynden of new york city mr clewelljin discussing train resistance '' gave two experimental formulae one due to davis and the other used by the baldwin locomotive company to determine such resistance the factors enter ing into the said formulae being journal resistance track resistance resistance due to wind the inertia possessed by the train itself and fly wheel resistance mr lynden's discussion was extremely interesting and instruct ive from the practical standpoint lie mated that three prime con ditions which must be met in con structing high tension transmission lines are the amount of energy to be supplied at the other end of the line the distance from the source to the point of distribution and the character of the load he worked several problems to show the best working conditions for a line to be operated under given specifications in working the problems account was taken of cost of copper size of wires cost of insulators poles cross arms and transformers inter est on the investment and depreci ation of materials used as well as mechanical stability for different values of voltage it was shown that except for unusual conditions poles may be used to better advan tage than steel towers from the financial standpoint and also that for higher voltages the cost of insulators transformers and switch board apparatus increases in con clusion mr lynden emphasized the fact that in this work as in most engineering work the chief aim must be to get the best oper ating results from the capital in vested so as to satisfy both custo mer and stockholder adjournment followed the cus tomary wa b h s l club the regular monthly meeting of the bethlehem high school lehigh club was held on wednesday night at the lehigh home club a large number of members were in attendance after the usual rou tine of business the members were invited to the grill room where lunch was served by the committee com posed of robbins mo solomon m.o and solt 10 this year so many competent speakers have been available for sunday evening services that a student meeting has seemed in advisable however the value of ih esc gatherings are recognized and on sunday the drown hall meeting will be entirely in the hands of the undergraduates the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday february 19 1909 calendar miners meeting electrical society lynden interesting talk by mr lamar glee clijb — rehearsal at 1.30 p m in drown hall saturday february 20 held at dr drinker's washington's birthday celebration vol xvi basket ball — lehigh vs del aware college at delaware college saturday february 20 gym mcct — rutgejs vs lehigh in he gymnasium at 8 p m sat urday february 20 mandolin clvb — rehearsal in drown hall at 3.30 p m sun day february 21 no 34