The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-30
CIVIL ENGINEERS
IN CONVENTION,
First Day of Their Twenty
Eighth Annual Meet
ing.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
Harbor Commissioners Will En-
terrain the Visitors on
the Bay.
WEDNESDAY AT THE PREsIDI0
Santa Cruz, Del Monte, Fo'som, San
Jose and Other Places Will Be
Visited.
WEDNESDAY AT THE. PRESIDE.

The twenty-eighth annual convention of
the American Society of Civil Engineers
opened yesterday morning in the Califor
MIA Academy of Sciences building.
Among the engineers present from this
and other States, as well as Europe, were !:
G. E. GRAY, San Francisco; G. H. MendeIl.
San Francisco; Joseph NJ. KNAPP, New York !;
William Ham Hall, San francisco; Fred Eaton,
Los Angeles; Joseph NJ. Wilson, Philadelphia;
T. E. Trask, Ontario; E. T. Wright, Los Ange-
les; James W. Johnson, Riverside; James E..
Mills, Quincy, CAL; w. c. Ambrose, Bakers
field; w. D. Gillette, San Francisco; Louis G.
Hare, Salinas; J. II. Wallace. John D. Isaacs
T. W. Morgan, Oakland; Otto Won Geldern,
San Francisco; William Metcalf, Pittsburg /;
c. E. Moore, San Francisco; c. T..
E. j. MoIera. c. Davisfor, san francisco;
Luther Wagner, San Francisco; A. Mel.
Hawks, Tacoma; A. A. Riffee, Oregon; e..
Francisco; J. ]. Donovan, Washington; j. d.
Galloway. Arthur L. Adams, San Francisco +;
Z. Gybbon Salisbury, New Jersey; Frank o..
Mason. Mare Island; c; B. Wing, L. NJ. Has
ford University; E. F. Haas, Stockton &C. B.
Suffer, Z. E. Grunsky, San Francisco; Cyrus
G. Babb Washington, D. c.; J. c. Mcclure,
Los Angeles; D. W. Wellman, Los Gates; Carl
Wistsh utur, Germany; Carl Weisshurhy,
Vienna; Felix Weisshurhy, Vienna: George
NJ. Dodge, San Rafael; Charles G. Yale, San
aid, Indiana; Randell Hunt, San Francisco;
George T. Prince, Omaha; D. Ernest Mellis, San
Francisco; L. H. Taylor, Nevada; BENJAMIN
Reece, Chicago; Alfred R. Phil Oregon: ]. L.
Linseyor, st. Louis; G. D. Marx, Stanford Uni
versiry; Herman Kower, University of Cali
fornia; ], N. Cluster, indianapolis; II. A. Hill,
MERGED; A. w. Untbank, San Francieco; &.
w. Fallarat, San Francisco; Francis Bridges,
San Francisco; w. S. Lincoln, St. Louis; w A.
Doble, San Francisco; g. S. Dillman, Alameda
w. S. Palmer, Oakland; Arthur Brown, Oak
land; Mansfield Merriman, Pennsylvania; G.
A. Quinlan, Texas; NJ. E. Howe, Texas; D. C.
Kenny, San Francisco; A. Rife, San Francisco;
C. W. Brown, Oakland; Ernest Mccullough,
San Francisco.
Colonel George E. Gray welcomed the
strangers and mem bers of the society,
after calling the meeting to order, and
then called Colonel George H. Mendell to
the chair. The latter gentleman, of the
United States Engineer Corps, retired,
presided during the days meeting. On
the platform with him were: Chief En-
gineer Storey of the Valley Railroad Com
panY, Professor George Davidson, w. G.
Curtis of the Southern Pacific Company
and james D. Schuyler of Los Angeles.
George f. Allardt. chairman of the Cali
fornia Association of Civil Engineers. and
Secretary Won Goldern of the same organ
ization were among the prominent mem
bers present
The forenoon and most of the afternoon
were devoted principally to the reading oil
technical papers submitted by engineers
and publishers in pamphlet form for the
civil engineers of the world.
The various papers and the names of the
authors are as follows:
GLOW OF Water in Wrought and Cast-Iron