Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 40

              wilfred h schoff secretary and treasurer of the american deeper w r aterways association and secre tary of the philadelphia commer cial museum gave an interesting and instructive lecture on atlantic waterways in the chapel last fri day morning mr schoff illustra ted his talk with lantern views of the proposed waterways showing maps and picturesque views of old time canals and of improvements under way the project of the deeper wa terways association is to develop along the atlantic seaboard a chain of stations so that freight may be transported cheaply by water the atlantic seaboard is peculiarly a dapted to waterways this ques tion of cheap transportation by wa ter has a decided bearing on the cost of living mr schoff said there have been a number of sur veys to determine the path of the coastal chain connecting boston harbor and other points three diff erent routes have been surveyed the cape cod work has interest ing features ; the canal will be op ened within two years this work is a private undertaking and as a consequence there will be tolls the proposed new york-boston canals will require a large amount of money and it will be some time before the government will under take it the speaker said at new york the intercostal work will con nect with the new york state ca nals the state is spending about 120 million dollars on this latter work and when finished it will be entirely free from tolls it means connection with the great lakes from whence come iron and other ores the canals in the east wherever there are any are primitive not even the most ancient vessels can pass through any of the streams the smallest vessel in the fleet of chiistopher columbus mr schoff said could not navigate in these waterways canals as operated in this country are not economical one freight car can carry 50 tons across new jersey in five hours while it takes five days for a canal boat of equal capacity the work on the new york barge canal the speaker declared pre sents more intricate engineering problems than the panama canal the river is spanned by massive bridges which control the height of the water the highest lift lock in the world is on this construction mr schoff explained by means of pictures how the new and larger canal is built over the old one this the march meeting of the elec trical engineering society was held in the lecture room of the physics laboratory on friday evening march 14th at 8.00 o'clock all present were fortunate in hearing two excellent speakers on subjects which were not only novel and en tertaining but also practical and useful to the greatest extent mr arthur h allen of philadelphia a graduate of the worcester poly technic institute and for 22 years connected with the w r estinghouse electric company of pittsburgh was present and in behalf of allen bradley & co whom he represents gave a talk on the allen & bradley compression rheostats and in ad dition spoke of the merits of the three-wire system and interpo lar motors a paper on electric signalling by w n gambrill 13 contained a description of the methods used on railroads at present for signal ling trains automatically with the aid of an electric current the method of direct current on the rails for the signalling apparatus was formerly used in which the main principle consisted in the short-circuiting of this current when a train was across the tracks and in this avay releasing a signal which fell by gravity the use of current on the rails for other pur poses however led to the adoption of the alternating current system which is used to-day on all railways the speaker also gave an account of a newly-patented contrivance for warning the engineer in the cab of the presence of another train on the same block mr allen the second speaker of the evening with the aid of slides showing the mechanism of the car bon compression rheostat and va rious types of the same described fully the introduction of this type into general use and the possible total substitution for other rheo stats the essential features of the carbon rheostat are a number of small graphite disks formed into a column of varying length the pressure of these small disks to gether forms better contact between the surfaces of the disks and more continued on fourth page basket-ball elections the basket-bali team held elec tions for captain and asst mana gers for the season of 191 3 l4 on monday afternoon h a crich ton 15 was elected captain a s blank 15 and n mcf royall 15 were chosen for the position of as sistant manager h frederick wilson in his talk on making churchmen of busi ness and professional men at the y m c a meeting in drown memorial hall sunday evening told of the work of the drexel biddle bible classes mr wilson related several experiences of mis sion work in the slums of philadel phia as well as among all classes of society the speaker believes that christianity should appeal stronger to men and explained how religion is made to appeal to men through the work of the bible classes owing to the easter vacation there will be no y m c a meet ing next sunday easter practice lacrosse practice will be held ev ery morning and afternoon during the easter holidays the fact that lehigh's schedule starts shortly af terward has necessitated this step continued on fourth page the perm state wrestlers defeat ed the brown and white team sat urday night by a score of 21 to 11 lehigh's team was greatly handi capped by injuries but put up a game fight throughout the meet the first three bouts looked well for lehigh but state excelled in the heavier weights the absence of mart and sawtelle from the line up made a difference in the score but perm state was undoubtedly the best team seen on the home floor this season the poor condition of lehigh's team was no doubt due to the fact that this meet came at the end of a series of hard contests all of which were victories for le high the results of the first part of the meet looked promising for lehigh with the call of time suppes went after jones like a flash and almost before perm state's bantam-weight knew it lehigh's doughty little wrestler had pinned his shoulders to the mat it was lehigh's only fall of the evening and incidentally another victory for suppes the little wrestler is certainly showing championship qualities although this is his first season at intercollegiate wrestling capt herr won the de cision over his man after twelve minutes of hard wrestling some of the spectators thought he should have had the decision in the first nine minutes he was by far the more aggressive of the two men gatch and fulkman were given a draw after twelve minutes of very even wrestling flick put up a game fight against shellenberger in the 145-pound class but the ex perience of the perm state captain was too great a handicap summary 115-pound class suppes lehigh threw jones state with a chancery and bar nelson in one minute and twenty seconds 125-pound class — captain herr lehigh given decision over men denhall state after twelve minutes 135-pound class — gatch lehigh went twelve minutes with felkman state without a decision 145-pound class — captain shel lenberger state threw flick le high with a half nelson and body hold in four minutes and thirty-five seconds 158-pound class — very state threw bianco lehigh with a crotch hold in three minutes 175-pound class — say re state gained a decision over watson le high in nine minutes heavy-weight class — lamb of state threw dayton lehigh with continued from first page the brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 18 1913 atlantic waterways vol xx state wrestlers defeat lehigh a h allen speaks to electricals no 4 joint concert for lehigh lehigh's crippled team husky visitors too much for march meeting of society charac terized by practical addresses subject of highly interesting lec ture by w h schoff to students haverford musical club to com bine with lehigh club at phila y m c a meeting arrangements have been comple ted for a joint concert of the hav erford and lehigh musical clubs to be given march 29 at the new century drawing rooms south 12th street philadelphia the lehigh musical clubs have not given any out of town enter tainments the last few years and it is indeed quite fortunate that they are able to play in philadel phia it is understood that haver ford has very good musical clubs announcements of the concert have been sent to all of the phila delphia alumni and it is expected that there will be a large attendance of lehigh men the glee and mandolin clubs are working hard in preparation for this the first out of town concert of the season it is needless to say that it will be a great success a dance will fol low the musical program a return concert with haver ford followed by an orchestra dance has been arranged for april sth in drown memorial hall this entertainment will be under the aus pices of the college y m c a and of the associated charities of the bethlehems the christian as sociation hopes in this manner to raise funds for the summer camp work this work is directly con nected with the big brother move ment which has been taken up the past year with such vigor by a num ber of lehigh men it i shoped that the students will attend this con cert and dance and thereby help along the y m c a work lehigh university