The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-28

section would be bout thirty.five thousand dol
iaIs and the eobbles on The street can be sold for
about thirty thousand dollars 30 that the actual
coet 10 the city VIII be almost nothing.
The Chamber had not decided the matter when
2 O'Clock sounded, and the Council was adjourned
by the president. 1t will meet again on Wednes-
day next, Thursday being the 4th.
The POLYTECHNIC CoLLReB.-Perhaps no in
sttution Of learning In this country has brighter
prospects than the Polytechnic College Of the
state Of Pennsylvania. Its faculty have labored
with lrrepressbe vigor to sustain IL under adverse
eireumstanoes, and now have the satisfaction Of
the proudest institutions OF learning of the day.
The College is divided into four schools, viz:
the School Of Mines, the School OF Chemistry, the
School of OWL Engineering, and the School of
Mechanical Engineering. The former school, as
has the others, has attained a merited reputation
throughout the land, and this evening many OF its
graduates, in conjunction with others of the other
departments viii have conferred on them the
degrees which they have labored go arduously TO
attain.
The assemblage last night was brilliant one,
largely composed, as usual, of ladies. The gradu-
ates were seated at the rear of the stage. They
wore uniform of invisible green, with silver but
tons, and tricolor rosette upon the left breast.
The students Of the Institution number one hundred
and forty.
The following is list of the graduates, with
the SUBJECTS OF their inaugural theses and the pro-
fessonal schools of the college in which they have
I~School of Mines.
Bachelors of Mine Engineering.
Pneumatics OF Mines.
NuiAoNO A1tiAAS3 n d. WpONuuAJ ~ Az J't
on Metallurgy of Silver
Joseph Hunt, Wilmington, Del, on Anthracite
Iron.
Harry King, Detroit, Mich, on Metellurgy of
douveneur Morris, Pottsville, Pa, on Roasting
VIM. Tyler Schneider, Aintab, Turkey on CON-
structon of Furnaces.
VIM. Wesley Titus, Trenton, N. , on Anthra-
cite Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania
1I-School of Architecture.
Bachelors of Architecture.
Stones.
Minard Lafever Christman, Norristown, Pa, on
Ventilation of Buildings.
III-School of Mechanical Engineering.
Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering.
Edwin Beard Hendrie, Burlington, Iowa, on the
LOUIS Charles Frederick Laesch, Philadelphia,
Pa, on the Screw Propeller;
Alfred Parrish, Philadelphia, Pa, on the Com
parative Value of Fuels.
Bias Gallo Sierralta, Oopiapo, Chill, S. A, on
LOGON otlves' Variable Expansion Gear.
John Hanes Warder, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the
Turbine of M. Fourneyron.
1V-School of Chemistry.
Bachelor of Chemistry.
J. Stockton Hough, Trenton, N. j., on Oinchonia
V-School of Civil Engineering.
Bachelors of Civil Engineering.
Alfredo Rafael de Betancourt Puerto Principe,
Cuba, on Roof Constructions
Edward Lippincott Bullock Mauch Chunk, Pa,
on Construct of Breakwaters.
James Foster Orowell, Philadelphia, Pa on Iron
Truss Railway Bridges,
Morris Morris Defrees, indianapolis, Ind, on
Lighthouses of Masonry.
Charles Albert Evans, Woodbury., N. j., on
M ortars and Clements.
VIM. Francis Hopkinson, Philadelphia, Pa, on
Preservation Of Timber.
Henry Tyson Kendall, Reading, Pa on Tun-
neling through Loose Rocks.
George Cochran Lecky, Allegheny, Pa, on
Wooden Truss Bridges.
Robert Ellmaker Pettit Philadelphia, Pa, on
Splicing of Timber.
Edward Horace Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa,
on the Securing of Rails.
Charles Wannemacher, Philadelphia, Pa, on
Dry Docks.
John Bordeaux Wilson, Philadelphia, Pa, on
Location and CONSTRUCTION of Roads.
The Germania Orchestra furnished the music.
Rev. DIR. Cole opened the proceedings with prayer.
The degrees were conferred by Matthew New
kirk, Esq., President of the institution, each gra-
duate receiving at the same time a handsome
bouquet, the gift of some appreciative female
friend.
The occasion was in all respects the brightest in
the history Of the College.