Brown and White Vol. 21 no. 22

              professor a w klein tells of german trip of american soci ety of mechanical engineers explorations in chile met king of saxony highway engineering attended one of many royal ban quets given by hospitable germans tells of one mine which yields both bessemer and non bessemer ores takes up subject from an econ omical standpoint and its re lation to bond issues the practice on wednesday show ed great strides in the development of the team with white and crichton at the forward positions and price and green at guards we shall probably see almost the old team in friday's line-up excepting johnson who is jumping a very good game at centre with this team the coach tried out three other combinations in which there is some excellent ma terial and which material when de veloped will make those on the varsity hustle the combinations tried out were : loush and dynan forwards mayer and kir k p a t r i c k , center ; berg and norton guards martin and meyer guards kirkpatrick center ; richards and brady for wards ; crichton and douschkess forwards ; dosch center ; thorn ton and hendal guards wrestling practice the first work on the new edu cational buildings of the massachu setts institute of technology was begun last week one of the important steps taken during the past week is the housing of the first shipment of ten carloads of cement during this time the blacksmith shop has been put into operation the shops have been put in commission and the yard opened now that the permit for the tempo rary track across vassar street has been granted much time will be saved in making ready for the tribu tary spur tracks that will be built in the near future the track sys tem is quite complete ; the five tracks will radiate to all parts of the lot and the heavy articles such as big stones and steel work will be brought to the point at which they will be used continued on second page trestles will be incorporated in the tracks of each system and un der these will be located big bins into which the stone and sand will be dumped from the cars a store house is to be located at each of these points and the mixing of the sand stone and cement in the right proportions will be facilitated by gravity chutes this mixture is then hauled up a short incline and dumped into the mixer where the water is added the mixer delivers the mixed concrete into an elevator which takes it up to the top of the y m c a announcement the inclement weather did not have any effect on the attendance at the miners meet wednesday evening the speaker was mr ctimmings chief geologist of the bethlehem steel company he gave an interesting talk concerning a trip to chile where he explored some iron and manganese mines in interest of the steel company his ability to present the technical part of geology not as a dry theo retical subject but as a practical fascinating work was quite re markable distinct cr mate he said the climate of chile va ried in the different sections one part is a most arid region small districts existing which have never had any rainfall ; while other parts especially the southern are noted for their great rainfall it is not a hot country but rather cool explored iron mine the iron mine which he explored was situated at tofo in central chile it consists practically of the whole upper portion of a rounded mountain and is considered as one of the freaks of nature the de posit was first opened by chileans and was later taken over by french capitalists and finally bought by the bethlehem steel company it is a very rich ore averaging in analy sis about 7 per cent iron parts of the deposit contain ore of low phosphorus while other parts are somewhat higher in phosphorus but they arc separate so that bes semer and non-bessemer ores ex ist within the same deposit and are yet distinct one from the other this peculiarity greatly increases the value of the ore he also spoke concerning his trip across the andes mountains on the transandean railroad and a voy age up the parano river to a man ganese deposit slides showing views along the mountains and riv er proved to be both picturesque and instructive after the talk the society adjourned to partake of re i reshments notice there will be a college meeting to-day at eleven o'clock election of assistant manager of football and other important things will oc cur club meeting there will be an important meet ing of the maryland club next sunday in drown hall at 1.30 i m every maryland man is re quested to be there dr l i hewes chief of eco nomics and maintenance public roads department of agriculture washington d c addressed the civil engineering society on wed nesday evening charnoch 14 was the student-speaker of the ev ening he gave a short talk on railroad construction highway engineering dr hewes subject was high way engineering and its relation to bond issues and he gave a very interesting account of the old and new methods employed in high way engineering following a short talk on a few of the principle diffi culties met with in highway con struction dr hewes outlined the method of the modern highway engineer study of traffic the highway system is the fun damental idea in modem highway engineering the design of this system is usually limited to the county or town as a unit in the design of a highway system the speaker said the engineer should make a careful study of : the traffic and highway area served by each road in the system ; the lengths of the roads and the intersecting roads he should have a copy of the best obtainable contour map of the area in question and should lo cate most of the residents in the district and hold personal inter views with them and thus obtain statistics concerning the amount of produce hauled by each and the roads used from these statistics the number of ton-miles of produce hauled over each road in the dis trict may be calculated and the question of how much money the county should put into its roads decided a common practice is for the county to issue bonds for a cer tain amount without any idea of the expense of the roads a traffic census is usually taken of the roads in the system ; this census takes into account the number of vehicles and the kind of vehicles using each road the tonnage of the road be ing based on loaded teams touring cars and motor trucks this prin ciple of highway system should be included in highway engineering to gether with the 1 designing of high ways methods foe bon-d issue following this discussion of the highway system the speaker point ed out the different methods em ployed in the issue of bonds for the purpose of highway construc tion the old style bond of which over four hundred and fifty million continued on second page 11 c whiteside secretary of the lehigh v m c a will talk at the sunday evening meeting of the association on the subject " 1 if c on a cattle boat mr whiteside has crossed the ocean several times on cattle boats and beside knowing his subject well it is an assured fact that he will be able to interest and impress all who can be at drown mall on sunday evening at 6.30 the second feature of this meet ing will be music miss mary karuza a young and talented lith uanian singer will render several numbers in italian french and english miss karuza is the foremost lithuanian singer in this country she has given concerts in brook lyn new york newark water bury and other cities ( n thanks giving i ay she gave a notable joint concert with mikas petrauskas in philadelphia her sister miss laura karuza will accompany her on the piano and will also render a piano solo she is a pupil of mr philip jen kins and has been soloist in egypt ian hall of the wanamaker store a number of times the association is fortunate in having these accomplished young ladies for the meeting and those who attend will be afforded a rare treat along musical lines the monthly meeting of the me chanical society was held last tues day evening at 8 o'clock in will iams hall prof a w klein spoke on the german trip of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers prof klein took this trip and gave a very interesting talk on his travels germans entertain the party sailed on the 10th of june from hoboken on the ham burg-american ship victoria lou ise and the german reception com mittee came on the ship at ply mouth they landed on june 19th at hamburg where they remained for three days visiting shops the harbor tier park and various places of interest the members were also entertained at various dinners they next went to leip sic where they remained for three days here the members attended an international convention of en gineers several large shops and plants were visited and several mu sicals followed by dances were held for them the king of sax ony attended one of their conven tions visit many cities they then went to dresden co logne dusseldorf mannheim frankfort i leidelberg and munich everywhere they went they were received with honor and enjoyed themselves immensely the farewell dinner was held at munich and then the party broke up several of the men taking pri vate trips and some going home prof klein took a trip through vienna paris and other points of interest before his return shaffer 14 gave a short talk on transformers ref reshments were served and the meeting ad journed it was well attended minstrel show tickets the management of the minstrel association to-day announced ar rangements for the sale of tickets for the seventeenth annual minstrel show to be given in drown hall on saturday evening december twen tieth as customary patronesses will receive first choice ol seats up on sending cards accompanied by checks before monday december 15th to r y walters university office patroness tickets are 1.00 each the general advance sale of tick ets will open on wednesday de cember 17th tickets may be ob tained from 4 to 6 p m each day in drown memorial hall interest in wrestling this year has proven to be as keen as last year owing to the large number of can didates out for daily practice in the field house twenty five men re ported wednesday afternoon as sawtelle 16 of the 158-pound class and latch 14 of the 135 pound class are the only members of last year's varsity team in col lege this year there is great com petition among representatives of the different weights j c gorman 10 has repeated his offer of last year namely that of presenting a sweater to the best representative of each of the seven weights the candidates are not to be varsity men although the number of candidates is large the great majority of them are of the lighter classes while there are only several men out for the two heavi est weights the total number of men who report regularly is about fifty drown hall regulations particular attention is called to the first of the new drown mall regulations as revised by the 1 louse ommittee the most important change is marked *. 1 the i i all will be open on week days at the hour recitations begin and will close al 11 i m . it will he open from 8.30 a m until 11 i m on sunday * college organizations not hav ing assigned rooms and desiring to use drown memorial hall must ap ply to the chairman of the i louse ( ommittee 2 smoking will be permitted in the building except in the study room n occasions when ladies are present for dancing or other functions no smoking will he per continued on third pack the brown and white lehigh university no 22 bethlehem pa friday december 12 1913 mr cummings of bethlehem steel basketball team ready for season new buildings begun atm i t december meet of mechanicals vol xxi dr hewes talks to civils great amount of building work planned at massachusetts institute of technology four o 1 vari-itv men will be seen tonight johnson prob ably will jump center chief geologist of bethlehem steel co addresses miners wednesday evening member of department of agri culture gives interesting talk at society meeting