Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 45

              g p nachman 14 spoke on heating and ventilating reese 16 on turbines the second and concluding lec ture of mr c j blanchard statis tician of the united states re clamation service was delivered before an exceptionally large audi ence in the palace theatre on fri day mr blanchard spoke on ' ' our inland empire and his ad ministration department who was a member of the club in his under graduate days was an interesting talker ' he reminisced on the earlier days of the club then spoke of new jersey he said new jer sey is divided into two parts north and south jersey by a line running through trenton the people of north jersey engaging in indus try are entirely different from the people of south jersey who en gage mostly in agriculture he said the people of north jersey are noted for their big noses and those of south jersey are noted for their web-feet prof charles s fox head of the romance languages department was especially interesting in telling of his travels through france prof fox was in france just be fore the present war began and made visits to all of the principal cities and traveled on foot through much of the country and into the villages as a result he was able to portray the personal side of the french life and he did this occa sionally by several clever imper sonations prof fox told of to great high walls which surround each village and which were built many years ago they contain niches for the archers to shoot their arrows through and small open ings through which the defenders used to pour burning pitch upon the attackers the church is in the very center of the towns in every case all the rest of the houses are built around it thus they have the wall to pro tect them from the evil without and the church to protect them from the evil within junior banquet next friday night professor in chinese university visits lehigh joseph bailie professor of mathematics in the university of nanking a college of agriculture and forestry in china called up on dr drinker who was the for mer president of the american forestry association mr bailie has been in this country since no vember 8 on a trip for the purpose of interesting people here in two objects 1 the forestration of china and 2 the conserva tion of human life in china ' ' as the manager of the colonization association professor bailie is working to have the poverty-strick en chinese occupy the vacant mountainous land it is the pro cedure to have the colonists use the valleys for farming the farms be ing rented upon condition that each colonist shall protect and guard from fire a certain area of forest land on the mountain above him professor bailie has visited schools of agriculture and forestry in california and the middle west and he has also been to columbia university on saturday afternoon he met and addressed the members of the chinese club of lehigh in drown memorial hall college lecture a lecture on some considera tions of the mexican situation by prof leo s rowe of the uni versity of pennsylvania will be given in the university chapel on friday morning at 11 o'clock the attendance of the students is re quired continued on fourth page still another problem which engineers have had to face is the demand for more power without the change of the existing installa tions by this is meant that manu facturers do not wish to go to the expense of installing a whole new power plant when in need of more power but insist that their present installation be patched up in such a manner that they get the required amount of extra power of late years due to the in creased cost of fuel and labor en gineers the world over have turned their attention to their problem of utilizing more of the energy that is being developed at a power plant that is to devise some way by which more of the heat which the burning of a pound of coal generates could be used when one realizes how much heat in a pound of steam is wasted the question of how to make use of this wasted energy be comes more andi more interesting for instance take steam at 100 pounds gage pressure to heat this water from 32 degrees fahrenheit requires approximately 335 heat units and to change the water in to steam requires about 878 heat units the total heat is only 1189 heat units so that it is easily seen that any engine exhausting to at mosphere is rejecting an immense amount of energy in the latent heat alone of course there are ways of using a part of this latent heat such as heating the feed water to a fairly high temperature by the ex haust steam but these are not very satisfactory as not much of the heat can be recovered for this reason engineers have turned their atten tion to devising some form of an engine which will use . this latent heat in the exhaust steam and of all the devices up to the present the exhaust steam turbine has proved to be the most successful why this is so will be shown later ' ' steam turbines are or may be divided into two classes : first those that take steam at boiler pressure and second those that takes steam from the exhaust of some type of reciprocating engine of these two classes the latter is perhaps the more unfamiliar and therefore the more interesting mr reese the first speaker of the evening spoke on exhaust steam turbines ' ' mr reese said : the field of steam turbines is a rather wide one to discuss in a few moments so perhaps it would be well to take up only one or two of its phases and point out some of its applications the regular monthly meeting of the mechanical engineering socie ty of lehigh was held on thursday evening march 23 in williams hall the speakers of the evening were g p nachman m.e 14 who is in charge of the heating and ventilating department for the s b austin sons & co of cleve land ohio and wm d reese 16 interesting discussions followed the remarks of each speaker after the meeting the members adjourned to the basement where eats were served i got that from shoepenhauer he disputes the contention of the great egyptian theologian khad am that the soul in its groping for the immortal riddle of existence is inspired by mental stimuli rather than the elemental modes of in stinct what would you think if you heard such a lengthy line of learn ing fall from the lips of a college mate probably the same thing that hal blake hero of the fasci nating widow thought when os wald wentworth the bookworn first delivered the words the part of oswald is being played by w volkhardt 16 and isi one of this is the thirty-second produc tion of the mustard and cheese club it promises to be far and away superior to all its predeces sors the most mirth-provoking in the play oswald succeeds in making quite a favorable impression on mrs leffingwell the heroine's mother much to the disgust of hal blake and makes himself very troublesome until he too is en snared by the wiles of the fasci nating widow and finally pro poses to her then comes the sad awakening for the charming widow proves to be none other than hal himself starting with this week rehears als will be held three times a week on wednesday evening a rehearsal will be held in the grand opera house and on friday evening a re hearsal in drown hall the chor us which has lately been enlarged by new aspirants is also practicing regularly with the aid of the or chestra the show is an ideal com bination of comedy and good music somewhere on the western front of the russian line there is a le high man commanding a battery in the eighth siberian corps an drew kislovsky ex l7 left college in february 1914 going to new york on september 18 of the same year he sailed for northern russia to enter the service of his majesty tsar nicholas 11 imme diately he was sent to the western front where he was at the time the photograph on page three was taken writing concerning the photograph he says this picture taken in january 1916 is meant to show that i do stick to it as a le high man ought to on that occa sion i was observing the enemy at close range and directing the fire of our battery his experiences in the army are narrated in the following letter written on october 16 1915 to f n becker 17 his room-mate while at lehigh : dear frank : received your letter some time in june we've now had a week's rest the battery being in reserve andl i'll try to make up for last time and give you a short account of my life and activities in h m.'s army in september 1914 i was ap pointed junior officer of a field bat tery spent two days there and was sent to an artillery parque park perhaps you don't know what that is or it may be termed differently the function of what we call our artillery parque is to transfer cart ridges shells etc from the near est railway to the regiments and batteries in action for the first month i've just been looking on but later i had to run practically the whole thing my self we had over two hundred men and as many horses there were only two officers the com mander and myself most of the time our parque was divided into three parts posted at distances of about ten miles i had to organize the supply of food forage and clothes and the general supervision quite a complex problem consider ing that we were constantly moved from place to place moreover it was not always preferable or even possible to get all the stuff from the supply magazines but it had to be bought or requisitioned directly the amount of bookkeeping was tremendous we had three men scribbling all the time continued on third page general conditions of life were fair at times even comfortable during the months of october and november we were advancing into prussia we never stayed more than three sometimes five days in one place at first we had our quarters in the lousy cabins of poor polish peasants and we suffered considerably from parasites of both the leaping and the creeping varie ties later in german villages mills clergymen's houses estates and towns as you see quite a va riety of places the inhabitants had all abandoned their homes and fled the country was absolutely dress was somewhat on the same lines as the one he gave a week be fore both lectures described the work of the reclamation service throughout the west where the government is reclaiming by irri gation the arid desert land mr blanchard illustrated his lecture with interesting stereopticon and motion picture views and the pic tures were all of exceptional value in order to have means of show ing the motion pictures it was necessary for the university authorities to depart from the usual custom of having these lec tures in packer memorial church through the courtesy of mr george j zboyovsky 07 the palace theatre was given free of charge to the university mr blanchard first showed a map of the inland empire which is also known as the ' ' great interior basin this region con tains the largest area of unde veloped territory in the united states and comprises the state of nevada part of utah the southern part of oregon and the southern portion of california starting at denver the speaker took his audience 90 miles south of denver to the entrance or gateway to the famous garden of the gods many scenic wonders of this noted region were shown on the screen the journey next leads across the rocky mountains which is the great natural water shed of the north american continent from the eastern slope of the rockies the streams find their way to the atlantic ocean and from the western slope the water courses down to the pacific one of the great engineering feats of the reclamation service is a water tunnel or conduit through a mountain this tunnel is six miles long and is considered the longest tunnel of its kind in the world it connects with an irriga tion tunnel on the other side of the mountain which waters the desert further down we come to the grand river which has also come within the scope of the govern ment's activities within the next few years 60,000 acres will be irri gated in this region and 20,000 acres will receive water next year continued on sixth page the speaker also described the great desert of utah by means of a comparative map he showed the wonderful similarity of palestine the promised land of biblical times with the region surrounding the great salt lake which has been called the promised land of the mormons utah too can boast of some great natural wonders in particular there are three natural bridges which in every way sur pass the natural bridge of vir ginia one of these bridges is 265 feet high and 325 feet long and the annual banquet of the class of 1917 will be held on friday evening march 31 at eight o clock at the hotel allen in allentown the tickets are 2.75 and may be obtained from any of the members of the committee which consists of custer frobisher tate gilmore and randolph the music will be furnished by wallender's orchestra of allen town the menu has not been an nounced but promises to equal that of last year in additiom to the speakers there will be entertainment by several members of the class ayrault and williams are working up this part of the program which will consist of some dancing accompanied by a banjo the speakers will be : p s hanway toastmaster w s smith the city a quist impressions of le high s fishburn our friends the faculty l j breen the c e depart ment a bach auf der deutsch entertainment : williams banjo ; ayrault ditty either pall mall or herbert ta reytown cigarettes will prevail the favors are being made by e a wright & co of philadelphia a special car will leave allentown at 12.30 for south bethlehem the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 28 1916 lehigh man a russian officer march meeting of new jersey club fascinating widow is ideal combination mechanical society meet vol xxiii lecture on inland empire a kislovsky ex='l7 an officer in the tsar's army nar rates war experiences prof c l fox arts department and e bowen business dpt are speakers second lecture on work of 1 re clamation service by govern ment in west of comedy and good music thirty=second production of mustard and cheese club march meeting of m.e.s held last thursday in williams hall 3rown hall e bo wen of the business ad on western front jersey lehigh club was held last friday evening at 7.45 p m in the march meeting of the new two papers illustrated has been there since his arri val in 1914 condition of the country c j blanchard shows slides and motion pictures of results of reclaiming desert no 45