Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 6

              chemists hold initial meet prospects this year for largest membership since es tablishment student papers h f w johnson 17 and p h drinker deliver interesting talks the first meeting of the chemi cal society was held last wednes day evening in saucon hall there was an unusually large attendance many of whom were freshmen who took advantage of the oppor tunity to meet the other new men in their course and also to become better acquainted with the faculty from present indications the club will have the largest membership this year that it has had since its establishment the program of the evening consisted of two ex ceedingly interesting papers one by h johnson 17 on coke and its by-products and the other by p drinker 17 on the power and electrochemical plants of ni agara falls in his talk mr johnson gave a description of the lehigh coke works of south bethlehem and his information was taken princi pally from this company's plant with which he was connected dur ing the summer the coke business consists of three main divisions namely coal handling batteries and by-pro ducts with a foreman in charge of each the by-products branch is also divided into four other sub divisions in the ammonium sulphate plant gases come from the ovens at about 400 and pass through cooling tubes and from these into the ex hauster house which sends the gas to the extractors from the ex tractors it passes to the saturator house and lastly to the salt house from which the finished product is shipped in the saturator the ammonium sulphate salt is precipitated and is is blown out on pans when it gets about eight inches deep in the pans it is dried and the white crystalline salt is obtained this is the only plant in the country which obtains the pure white salt the saturator must be lined throughout with lead so as to hold the sulphuric acid all piping for concentrated acids is made of iron the tar obtained by the lehigh coke co is almost entirely used by the barrett co who will not ac cept tar which contains more than 6 per cent water the output per day of the le high plant is forty-five tons and sells at 68 per ton making 3400 per day output the cost per ton has been roughly estimated at 14 it takes only eight men to operate this branch of the plant the output per day of gas is averaged at 70 million cubic feet owing to the improved methods of operation it only is necessary to have two men to operate nine stills from which is obtained benzol of all grades according to the num ber of distillations the bethlehem steel co has a contract to use 45 per cent of the gas produced by the coke works and for which it pays eight cents per thousand cubic feet the present main used to carry the gas from the generating plant to the steel works is far from being large continued on fifth page tennis tournament reaches final round johnson 18 and purple 18 to decide championship tomorrow the tennis tournament has now reached the final stage and has been ver successful all of the games j have been well played and for the most part the scores have been close the finals will be played this saturday if the weather permits and are between johnson 18 and purple 18 last year johnson | was defeated in the first round by i yates and purple lost to powers last year's champion in the semi finals the contest tomorrow prom ises to be a close one and the out come is very uncertain the re sults of the games up to the finals are : first round terry won from mertz by default ; van auken won from kennedy by default estes won from gildersleeve 6-2 7-5 ; breton won from vance 6-3 6-3 ; schulz won from tice by default henderson won from beard 6-2 6-3 ; warner won from maccalium 7-5 6-4 mall won from o'neill 6-2 6-3 ; gardy won from ganter 6-0 6-0 ; kay won from lane by de fault henderson won from pike 6-4 6-3 ; tomlinson won from jen ness 6-2 6-0 second round — shaf er won from stevens 6-0 6-3 ; doyle won from bull 6-0 6-3 ; andrews won from hogg 6-0 6-3 ; johnson won from kinter 6-0 6-2 ; powers won from terry by default ; breton won from schulz 6-0 6-3 ; warner won from henderson 6-1 6-2 ; hall won from gardy 6-0 6-4 henderson won from kay 6-3 6-3 ; tomlinson won from skillman 6-0 6-2 ; eggie won from lawrence 6-2 6-2 ; purple won from tizard 6-0 6-1 ; coffin won from kirk 6-3 7-5 • reid won from zeller 6-1 , 6-1 ; tsai won from winterhalter 6-4 6-4 third round — shafer won from doyle 6-0 6-2 johnson won from andrews 6-4 6-2 ; warner won from brenton 6-1 6-2 hale won from henderson 6-2 6-4 ; tomlin son won from eggie 8-6 6-1 ; pur ple won from coffin 9-7 6-2 ;. tsai won from reid 6-8 6-4 6-2 fourth round — w a m c r won from powers 6-4 9-7 ; hall won from tomlinson 6-3 6-2 purple won from tsai 6-3 6-1 ; johnson won from shafer 2-6 6-1 6-4 semi-finals — johnson won from warner 5-7 2-6 6-1 6-2 6-3 pur ple won from hall 9-7 6-2 4-6 6-3 6-4 lacrosse practice fall lacrosse practice is now in full swing some twenty men have reported to captain jenness the work so far has consisted of learn ing the rudiments of the game passing the ball to become familiar with the stick occupies much of the time wrestling practice wrestling practice is held every monday wednesday and friday in taylor gym about twenty-five men have reported to manager kehrer keen competition is prom ised in the lighter weights but more men are needed in the 158 and 175 pound and heavyweight classes last year's men who have reported thus far are : mfocullough kirk jenness buell parrish andl day ton y.m.c.a plans evening school university institution in co=oper ation with bethlehem steel and local school board student aid teaching corps consists mostly of volunteers from the student body preparations for the opening of the free evening schools for un naturalized foreigners ara being made by the lehigh university y m c a under the direction of j m frey general secretary the y m c a is undertaking this work in co-operation with the bethlehem steel company and the local public school boards the plan will be similar to that of last year which provided for a number of courses for the for eigner the school was held last year in the quinn school building at fourth and poplar streets south bethlehem this is a twelve room building last year the en rollment of pupils was over the 300-mark indicating that the work taken up by the y m c a was the largest ever undertaken by h community the size of the local one the corps of teachers con sisted of 30 lehigh students who assisted one or two older in structors the courses listed for this year are the following elementary grades intermediate grades ad vanced grades and the classes in naturalization civics and ameri can history the dates of registration are november 1 2 3 for the greeks and roumanians and november 8 9 10 for all other nationalities from present indications it is evi dent that the registration of this year will be three times as great as that of the past year last sep tember the local secretary at tended the naturalization court and found that the men who had received preparation at the school and were preparing for the north ampton and lehigh counties ex amination passed very creditably in comparison to those who re ceived preparation from other sources to show how high the work of the local y m c a stands it is well to make mention that the local organization receives the co-opera tion of john d rockefeller dr frank f d reckford head of the state department of health and the national americanization as sociation the state of new york also furnishes some material to the local association the work of the association is very extensive not only in the quinn school building but men from distances who are not able to attend the local school receive correspondence courses through the general secretary on january 7 1916 in munici pal hall south bethlehem the first banquet ever known to have been given to a body of newly made citizens was given by the local association when prominent men spoke and urged upon them the great essentials of true citizen ship at this meeting one of the speakers expressed a desire that two or three times as many men pass the examination the following year this will no doubt be the case with the greatly increased promise of enrollment the importance of this work is continued on fifth page catholic university lines up tomorrow southerners present strong and fast team strongest center of south tomorrow the varsity meets the team representing catholic univer sity on taylor field at 3 o'clock the line-up of the team is somewhat in doubt as many of the players both regulars and substitutes are laid up with injuries that may keep ! them on the side lines however i the regular team will probably ! start but numerous substitutions will be made catholic university will present a fast heavy team that has a very strong offensive their backfield is particularly fast rogers the half back being the star he is a tall rangy back of the mahan type and is considered one of the best open field runners in the south captain murphy the center is considered to be one of the best centers defens ively and offensively of which the south boasts he is also a very sure and accurate passer the only two regulars who will not play tomorrow are richards and halsted richards s shoulder which was hurt saturday still bothers him halsted has water on the knee the probable line-up with the possible substitutions fol lows : lehigh positions cath tj mccarty l e manning tate l t o'hearn mccarthy l g greer pons mcdonald c murphy robinson johnson r g straub ayrault good r t killian quist r e mckenney gulick chenoweth . . . q b shortley pursell hurley l h b rogers heuer b runner r h b glascott maclsaac maginnes f b butler wysoeki , seniors notice ! the number of seniors to ar range sittings for photographs to be used in the 1917 class book has been to djate rather small it is urged upon the members of the graduating class andi all others eli gible to go into the book to attend to this matter at once photographs must be in the hands of the com mittee on or before december 1 go to mecaa today notice freshmen the freshman class will have its second meeting in the gymnasium thursday afternoon immediately after the cheering practice the object of the meeting is to elect the class officers president vice-presi dent secretary and historian a temporary president was elected two weeks ago to serve during the hazing period but now the presi dent for the year will be elected drown hall committee the drown hall house commit tee appointed by senior class president bach for the year 1916 17 is j a fisher chairman l j breen e l jenness l l magee e l mccann senior civils inspect plant hauto plant of lehigh coal and navigation co visited last wednesday department is host dinner is served at american house mauch chunk for the party last wednesday the civil engi neering department teaching corps together with the senior class visited the hauto plant of the lehigh coal & navigation co the group left bethlehem at 8.30 arriving at the plant at about 10 o'clock the party was then taken through the plant by mr w w heisler who is the resident chief engineer the boiler house was first visited which consists of eight boilers four hand fired and four mechanically fired the boilers were designed to develop 1044 horsepower but at present are running at 215 per cent output the boilers are equipped with forced air drafts at about four to five pounds pressure the mechanical stokers were very interesting being of the coxe type the grates were so geared as to move about 12 to 14 feet per hour the coal used which is waste from the mines was one-third birdseye no 2 and two-thirds birdseye no 3 on the floor below three large motors of 450 horsepower each drive the blowers for the forced air draft on this floor level cars are run in directly under the boilers above the ashes after having been cooled are dumped by means of hoppers and carried away out side of the hand-fired boilers everything about the plant is handled by some mechanical de vice the power plant which was next visited consisted of three large steam turbines each unit is rated at 10,000 k.w 11,000 volts and 1500 r.p.m the whole plant is under the personal direction of one man who has charge of throwing all switches etc to aid him a miniature diagram ha been in stalled which gives the true con ditions of the plant at any time it was of interest to know that at the time of the visit the plant was re quiring 5,000 k.w to operate and was in turn developing 4,000.000 k.w the party then visited the new earthen dam opposite the plant which has just been completed the dam was made up of con glomerate the joints on the up stream side being filled with cement mortar to resist wave erosion the dam was about ten feet wide across the top and bat tered at an angle of forty-five de grees after a walk of about two mile through the mountains the group arrived at the new bear creek dam of the panther water c 0 where an hour was taken for lunch the party was very fortunate to have mr nichols along who had charge of the construction of the dam and who gave a short talk on the same the dam is so situated as to give a reservoir of 80,000,000 gallons the men were compelled to go down from fifteen to thirty feet in order to strike bed rock this was then thoroughly cleaned and grouted with neat cement the continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 27 1916 vol xxiv no 6