Brown and White Vol. 11 no. 38

              philadelphia has recently com pleted her new system of indepen dent high-pressure fire mains which takes the place of the customary steam fire-engines and it is note worthy as indicating the tendency towards centralization in modern mechanical engineering practice it is indeed too much to say that the fire-engine will be entirely sup • planted in the near future but such a plant can protect more fully a re gion of sky-scrapers and besides costs much less to maintain fire insurance men have already made a reduction of 15 cents on 100 and when the system is improved prom ise an additional decrease of 10 cents the plant is located in a build ing 72 by 140 feet and receives its water supply direct from the dela ware river powerful pumps force water at a very high pressure through a network of mains aggre gating nine miles in length and covering an area of 425 acres by means of these mains it is possible to send four streams to the top of the highest sky scraper in philadel phia the plant takes the place of about 40 fire engines gas engines have been chosen in stead of steam as it is not necessary to keep up steam all the time and they can be started practically at once the gas for the philadelphia station is derived from the city il luminating gas-mains while the electricity producing the igniting spark is derived from the city light ing system a storage battery or a generator driven by a small gas-en gine provision thus being mad :. against the failure of any one of these sources of current when ultimately completed the plant will contain ten nj by 12 inch vertical pumps each of which will deliver 1200 gallons a minute against a pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch each pump is driven by a 280 horse-power triple cylinder gas-engine and there are two smaller pumps 6^4 by 12 inches the mains are arranged at the river-front so that the pumps of the fire-boats may be connected and increased pressure thus ob tained in fact this plan has been used in several instances previous to the completion of the station with the increasing congestion of buildings in large cities and the erection of structures of extreme height it seems perfectly clear that officers elected the annual business meeting of the lehigh young men's christian association for the election of of ficers was held in christmas hall en last wednesday evening in ad dition to the business meeting sev eral very pleasing specialties wer introduced which added very mu:h to the pleasure of the evening the meeting was opened with a prayer by t a morgan 04 after which the minutes of the last meet ing were read by secretary seipv and accepted reports were read by treasurer hayes chairman kautz of the bible study committee an>i chairman seipt of the missionary committee cupitt in his report of the membership committee showed dearly the great recent advance in the number of members of the y m c a there being 72 new active members and 24 new associate members this year the association has a total membership of 222 mr robert e laramy 96 sec retary and treasurer of the alumm advisory committee gave an ex tremely interesting report amoni other things he said that the chiei desire of his committee was to see a new yv m c a building erected at lehigh in the near future and that steps were being taken to indue the alumni to contribute to this pro - jtct after the reading of the report the meeting proceeded to the elec tion of officers the following men being chosen to hold offices for the ensuing year president h s seipt 05 vice president a w cupitt 06 secretary j a seacrest 05 treasurer g f gilmore 06 on the social side of the ever ing's programme the first numbc was by r g kirk who sang i ain't got no time in his usuai pleasing manner he was followed by r g johnson who sang zan zibar the keen appreciation of the audience was shov v " ••■■■ the hearty applause and nur re tails schwarze 05 recited " that good-for-nothing stock ' ; an 1 when de folks is away an 1 brodhead 06 recited a little boy's dream and in response to an encore recited an ode to a stone bruise the recitations were given in a very pleasing manner and were thoroughly appreciated by the audience continued on third page continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university y m c a south bethlehem pa thursday march 17 1904 vol xi track team facts high pressure mains no 39 mustard and cheese that the members of the mus tard and cheese dramatic associa tion have exposed the outcropings of a vein of wit and humor whose supply is almost inexhaustible be comes more apparent with each re bearsal the play which is a trav esty on romeo and juliet is oti the order of the musical comedy the score is made up of airs se lected from the more popular and tuneful of the college songs with words to suit the action of the piece and will be rendered by a chorus of twenty voices the cast will include a number of the men who were identified with the production last year togethei with several who will make their debut at this performance sophomore cotillion meeting at a meeting of the sophomore cotillion club held at the kappa alpha lodge last wednesday even ing van duyne was elected presi dent in place of philip torrey who has left college harry price was elected vice-president to fill the va vancy caused by the advancement of van duyne it was decided to bold the dance at the eagle hotel on april 29 the following committees were appointed : cards and programmes ; home wrightson adams price floor and decorations gott dietz tunstall and caldwell re freshments edmondson todd myers and topping music wat son wheeler and wheatley chairs evans f and m vs lehigh the lehigh basket ball team will play the last game of the season a the gymnasium on friday evening with the franklin anri marshal five as their opponents this is the sec ond game with franklin and mar shal the first resulting in a defeat for lehigh by the close score of 23 22 national league rules will be used and as a consequence an ex tremely fast and exciting game may be expected lehigh vs rutgers the lehigh gymnasium team will meet rutgers on saturday evening in a duel contest j k lilley ex-'o3 who is to coach the base ball team this season has arrived in bethlehem preliminary training for the track team began wednesday march 16 for many years track athletics have been receiving an ever increasing amount of atten tion and many good teams have been developed it is now time for the men who will compose this year's team to get to work owing to the large proportion of men from last year's team still in college and the great number of track men who entered college last fall there was every reason to hope that lehigh would have a winning team this spring but unless things take a different turn and the men become more interested the oppo site will be the case at the first preliminary practice four men re ported as ready to begin 1 work this is certainly a display of a de plorable lack of interest if nothing more no doubt many were occu pied in taking re-exams but surely more than four track men were unoccupied getting into shape for track work is a slow process and cannot be done in a few weeks the man who neglects the earlier work does an injustice not to him self alone but to the team and his college as well it is exceedingly important that the men who intend to try for the team get to work at once the meets that have been ar rangde thus far are with colleges which always have good teams the schedule will be harder than iast year's but we should have even more victories we would therefore urge that every track man in college or even every man in college who thinks he can do any track work in anj line whatsoever report to c'apt klar at as early a date as possible capt klar has arranged for train ing exercises on the following af ternoons : monday 4.00 p m wednesday 4.00 p m friday 4.00 11.i 1 m and saturday 4.00 p m lacrosse coach here with the arrival of coach ma quire at the gymnasium on wed nesday the lacrosse squad started in for hard work and it is thought that the men will be in good condi tion by the time the weather wi'i permit outside work with such a man as mr maguire for coach and with the amount o>f old and new ma terial that the squad contains this year there is every reason to hope for a first class team