Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 48

              anderson pitches good ball al brecht stars in field and at the bat end of first period ends a tie lehigh shoots accurately in second half and wins the electrical engineering socie ty held its regular monthly meeting in the physics building last friday evening at 8 o'clock in spite of the freshman banquet which took place the sarnie night a large num ber of the menrbers were on hand and all spent an enjoyable evening as the principal speaker for the meeting c a underbill of the acme wire company of new ha ven connecticut gave a demons tration of some of the products of his company and of some of the discoveries which he made in his study of electromagnets both direct current and alternating current he presented a valuable show-case con taining a variety of magnets and solenoids which are manufactured by the wire company to the elec trical department and in addition several pieces of apparatus upon which he experimented during the meeting lantern slides accompan ied his talk h l vitzthum 15 presented a paper on electric motors as ap plied to industries at the begin ning of the meeting the paper contained an outline of what the electric motor has done in different lines of industry continued on third page farming although usually in the hands of conservative men has late ly been developed into one of the most promising forms of invest ment and this is largely due to the application of scientific methods in which the electric motor has a prominent part thrashing wheat and handling raw material together with its use in the home all have gradually come into their own in the east the motor is used in driv ing separators capping and hand ling milk bottles driving churns mining department lehigh the miming department has re cently purchased a reflectograph an instrument which by means of an arrangement of mirrors and len ses can reflect pictures or photo graphs without making them into slides the recitation room in coxe laboratory has been equipped with curtains and a screen the machine will be used to supplement lectures and class work miners meet to-morrow the lehigh lacrosse team had little trouble in rolling up the score of 10 to 2 against the team from perm state the first half of the game was played rather evenly al though somewhat loosely the brown and white team scoring but twice after eleven attempts at the goal while perm state scored the same number from but three at tempts this ended the scoring for perm state however the lehigh team tightening up considerably im the second half after six min utes of play kirby scored a goal on a direct pass from hiss after this the playing was held close to the perm state goal and seven more points were scored h h mayers making four of them during this half penw state had but one at tempt at the lehigh goal while le high had fifteen tries at the perm state net ho'ban and sextoni were absent from the lehigh line-up the for mer having an injured knee and the latter being on the sick list jay of lehigh i-layed his usual stellar game captain buck an d mayers also being in the limelight captain farley showed up well for perm state lehigh's defense was not taxed very hard nevertheless green 1 , desmond and jenness work ed well together and seemed to be an excellent combination for break ing up plays the line-up and summary : perm state pos lehigh kriebel goal leonard bose point hiss wood coy point . . . scruggs fisher .... ist defense .... green koon .... 2nd defense . . desmond jordan .... 3rd defense . .. jenniess hewitt center .... zollinger halowell . 3rd attack . w c alayer farley c . 2nd attack . . buck c baer ist attack jay olmstead . out-home . h.h.mayers mathews .. . in-home kirby goals first half — perm state farley mathews lehigh kirby buck second half — lehigh : kir by w c mayer jay 2 h h mayers 4 substitutions — perm state : pope for hewitt verger for koon ; lehigh : barclay for zoll inger snyder for barclay s john son for snyder referee — estes johns hopkins timekeeper — ho ban lehigh penalty timekeepers — clement lehigh goal umpires — hibbs perm state gunn le high time of halves 30 min utes sophomore cotillion club the april meeting of the alining and geological society will be held wednesday evening april twenty first in williams hall at 8 o'clock professor eckfeldt will talk on the hazleton coal alines rela ting incidents of the summer school trips to these mines s z kaung 15 will read a pa per on franklin furnace at alt hope in connection with these talks air bartlett of the alining depart ment has prepared slides from pic tures taken at these places and will show them at the meeting crescent the lehigh baseball team defeat ed the crescent a c nine on sat urday on the grounds of the latter at bay ridge by a score of 9 to 5 the game was loosely played throughout five errors being charg ed to lehigh and seven to crescent ; passes also were numerous ander son delivering three while smith granted seven in the first imning twombley and chenoweth were given bases on balls fishburn was safe on rid dell's error filling the bases keady struck out twombley crossed for the first run when lees was passed chenoweth and fishburn scored when albrecht doubled this end ed the scoring for maginmes and achont both struck out crescent scored twice in this inning on two passes and error and an infield out lehigh scored three more runs in the sixth on a walk stolen base hits by achorni and anderson a sacri fice and an error in the out-field crescent tallied one run in 1 the sixth and two more in the seventh on hits by i owe and sides ohenoweth's error and an infiekl out lehigh scored three times in the ninth on two hits a wild pitch by smith and two errors the score lehigh : 300003003—9 crescent a c 2 0 0 00 12 00—5 bases on balls — off anderson 3 off smith 5 struck out — by an derson 7 by smith 6 wild pitch — smith passed ball — lees sac rifice hit — maginness sacrifice fly — connell stolen bases — al brecbt keady home mallory rid dell two-base hits — albrecht sides and riddell umpire — wil son crescent a c time — 1 hour 56 minutes notice two interesting papers on the subject of sewerage were pre sented at the april meeting of the c e society held last thursday night in the physics building the two speakers were air r l fox of the civil engineering depart ment and air c d weirbach city engineer of allentown both of whom supplemented their talks with slides air fox read a paper on the batavia sewerage system : the city of batavia has a population of 12,000 covers an area of four square miles and is situated half way between buffalo and roches ter n y due to the geological formation of the valley ways they were originally swampy two nat ural drainage ditches were run into the tonawanda creek which flows through the city and as these ditch es were only partially covered they naturally created nuisances which resulted in several law suits three plans for a new system of sewage disposal were submitted one called for a gravity system with an outlet to the east of the city for the proper treatment of the sewage the use o>f a sand filter was recommended this plan was however rejected a second plan was to form six separate drainage districts and to pump from each one of these to one central outlet the sewage was to be treated by means of septic tanks and contact beds in the third and accepted plap it was proposed to establish a central pumping stations located in the center of the city from which the sewage was to be pumped to the north of the city where it was treated by the use of tmhoff tanks and sprinkling filters from whence it was to flow through an effluent sewer a distance of about a mile to the tonawairda creek to cover the cost of this plan 375,000 was appropriated these three plans are interesting in that each is an en tirely different method the adopted plan is designed for a population of 15,000 inhabitants to contribute 83 gallons per capita per day the total flow was ex pected to be 1,245,000 gallons of house sewage and 1,600,000 gal lons of ground water as a maxi mum the sewage enters the plant through a 16-inch cast iron force main then through a rectangular trough over six submerged weirs and flows longitudinally across four imhoff tanks at a mean velocity of 0.7 of a foot per minute here a great majority of the solid matter settles out and works its way into the digestive chambers where ana erobic bacterial action occurs the gases which are odorless pass up through the gas slots the sludge is later removed to drying beds the sewage remaining untreat ed then passes through a dosing tank from whence it is discharged onto the filter-beds nozzles which give umbrella-shaped sprays are used here aerobic action of bac teria takes place the sludge dry ing-bed is 2 feet deep and 150 feet by 30 feet in plan after drying this sludge can be spaded like gar den soil and is used for filling this plant has been in operation a little over three years and has always produced a sludge that earn be read ily handled without appreciable odor the sewerage and sewage dis posal problem of the city of allen town pa was the subject discuss ed by mr weirbach : plans were first prepared for the sewerage of continued on third page get seven firsts and six second places burke high scorer promising material many new men take part in the events freshmen make good showing last saturday afternoon the 1916 track men easily captured the an nual inter-class track meet with a total score of 57 points ; the sopho mores were second with 44 points the freshmen third scoring 38 point and the seniors last with 12 points summary : — 100 yard dash first heat—alor rissey freshmen first ; carlson ju niors second time 10 2-5 sec onds 100-yard dash second heat — sproul juniors first snyder freshmen second time 10 3-5 seconds 100 yard dash final heat sproul juniors first morrissey freshmen second ; carlson juni ors third snyder freshmen fourth time 10 2-5 seconds 100 yard high hurdles — good sophomores first ; keyes seniors second murphy juniors disqual ified for knocking down four hur dles time 17 2-5 seconds mile run — captain burke juni ors with 2 yards handicap first ; bellows juniors second aid en freshmen third hartman sopho mores fourth time 4 minutes 39 2-5 seconds half-mile run — haruway soph omores first ; walter sophomores second ; bennis freshmen third ; swallow sophomores fourth time 2 minutes 2 2-5 seconds high lump — ljrid freshmen first ; walter sophomores second ; bennis freshmen third swallow sophomores fourth height 5 ft 7 inches two-mile run mcgrath fresh men first ; mudge juniors second ; mckinley sophomores third hartzell freshmen fourth time 10 minutes 30 2-5 seconds 220 yard h u r d 1 es — davidson seniors first murphy juniors second ; good sophomores third ; keyes seniors fourth time 27 4-5 seconds 220-yard dash — morrissey freshmen first snyder fresh men second ross sophomores third davidson seniors fourth time 23 3-5 seconds 440 yard dash — carlson juni ors first hanway sophomores second jones freshmen third root freshmen fourth time 53 seconds shot put — benson juniors first grumbach juniors second os trom juniors third henderson sophomores fourth distance 35 feet 8 inches discus throw — grumbach juni ors first richard sophomores second ; good sophomores third ; ostrom juniors fourth distance 97 feet 9 inches hammer throw — grumbach ju niors first ; pons sophomores sec ond ; henderson sophomores third ; richards sophomores fourth dis tance 101 feet 3j3 j / 2 inches pole vault — sanderson fresh men first keyes seniors good sophomores and walters sopho mores tied for remaining places height 10 feet broad jump — swallow sopho mores first sproul juniors sec ond ; murphy seniors third ; good sophomores fourth distance 19 feet 9 inches the members of the executive board are r l colby 17 c gra ham 17 a f connell 17 p h kittle 17 s t edwards 17 and h f w johnson 17 the annual dance given by the sophomore cotillion club will be held next thursday evening april 22nd in drown hall arrange ments for elaborate decorations have been made and the dance should be one of the most success ful ever given by the club the music will be furnished by vafl ep's orchestra the program will include twenty-four dances and four extras the first danlce will start at nine o'clock tickets for the junior promenade to be given in drown hall on fri day evening april 23rd can be ob tained from any member of the committee the following men comprise the committee e s johnston o l carlson g r johnson j b hill m r preston r h hicks and j m wells epitome announcement the competition open to mem bers of the sophomore class lor the positions of business manager and assistant business manager of the 1917 epitome resulted in j h randolph obtaining the first posi tion and f m hunter the second the prize awards were as fol lows : for artistic work w b miller 16 first prize five dollars w k wilson 17 second prize one leather-bound epitome for photographic work — l f muter 17 one leather-bound epitome the brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 20 1915 lehigh university electricals addressed by mr c a underhill crescent a.c easily defeated lehigh defeats penn state xo 48 vol xxii juniors win track meet civil engineers hold monthly meeting hear addresses on sewerage and sewage disposal officers nominated presents show-case containing variety of magnets paper read by h l vitzthum 15 lehigh wins loosely-played game at bay ridge many costly errors blue and white lacrosse team defeated in saturday's game by score of 10 to 2 win in second period score 9 to 5 i i owe cf eruefing cf dalten 2b mallory if riddel i 11 sides ss beanees rf egglestone 3b . . . read c smith p r 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 h o 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 8 1 3 0 2 0 2 0 7 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 0 2 e 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 totals 5 5 27 9 7 twombley lb chenoweth 2b . . . fishburn ss keady rf satiiford rf lees c albrecht if magirme.<?s cf connell cf achorn 3b anderson p 2 0 14 1 10 0 3 1112 0 110 110 0 10 7 1 2 110 00 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 1 12 2 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 q 7 7 12 5