Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-17
UNIVERSITY BOYS ON A JArNT
Students in Engineering Department See the
Plants in Omaha.
ACCOMPANIED BY SEVERAL INSTRUCTORS
visit the smeIter, Lieht and Power
Plants and Look over the Lino-
types and Big Press of
The Bee.

Under the guidance Of Prof. c. r. Rich
ards a party of forty students in the engi-
neering departments OF the State university
Is in the city for the purpose of study of a
practical kind. They plan to inspect thor
oughly all the large plants having mechan-
ical departments and their itinerary includes
railroad shops, the power houses OF motor
lines and electric lighting companies, the
waterworks pumping station, the smelling
works and the telegraph companies.
The university boys are staying at the
Millard. Accompanying them are the pro-
fessors and instructors under whom they
study. Prof Richards is a graduate of
Purdue university and the sibley engineer
ing school of Cornell university. He is at
the head of the department Of mechanical
and steam engineering at Lincoln and the
plan OF giving the students practical in
struction by allowing them an opportunity
to Inspect large machinery plants is idea
of his and Prof. Morgan Brooks jointly. 1t
is method that has been followed by east
ern schools for many years. but this is the
first time it has been done in the west.
Speaking of the students program for
their tour of inspection, Prof. Richards said :
This practical method OF study is an inno-
walton with us, but one that cannot fail to
be beneficial. over in Council Bluffs SUI
perntendent Dimmock provided special cars
for us, so that we could inspect the whole
system of street railways Then the old
and new power houses furnish an unsur-
passed opportunity for the study of i'm
proved machinery. In the old plant is the
equipment used ten years ago. In the new
power house is the most modern and i'm
proved machinery the results of the very
latest scientific discovery and study
of comparative methods | doubt if there
is better illustration anywhere than those
two plants.
Pleased with The bee.
1--WE have inspected the Union Pacific
railroad shops and the newspaper plant of
The Bee Publishing company. l venture to
say that not five of the boys ever saw a
newspaper printing establishment with all
the modern improvements used by The Bee.
"Profs. Morse and Chatburn and l have
made life study of mechanism but ] never
saw a piece of machinery that nearly in
cluded all the known mechanical move
ments as the Hoe printing press recently
given place in The Bees equipment. The
university boys found this the most in
structive piece of machinery they have seen
and they have expressed the desire to make
further study of it.
THE linotype machines are simply mar
wells. l could write book using the illus
trations we have found in The Bees ma
chinery. l regard The Bees plant the most
modern and complete of any in the west.
Wednesday we will visit the smelling works,
the Western Union offices, the electric light
power house, and we will make a study
| of hydraulics out at the waterworks pump
| ing station.
to ,N1a no tod
out, we will go to Kansas City on err
| rand similar to our present one. At the
university we propose to secure some addi-
tional equipment in the way of experimental
apparatus. Funds for this purpose are low
just at present and must wait while
longer, but as soon as possible we plan to
have one of the best mechanical schools in
the west"
Personnel of the Party.
! The personnel of the party was: Profs. c..
R. Richards, Morgan Brooks, Chatburn; In
structors Morse, Hawksworth and Votaw,
and Students d. w. Hawkworth, F. L. Hunt
A. r. Dennis, Guy NJ. Peyton, ]. w. An
| dTews, S. w. Brock, o. j. Fee r. ID. Hub
bard, Dan Guttebn, A. A. Stub, George r..
Chatburn, Amos Thomas, y. B. Abry A. R.
Bromfield, J. LANCER, E. e. Bracket, Max
Liebman. r. Elliott, C. E. Bedell, c. JOY,
E. Hulett, Fred Ryons, A. ]. Colett, l.. w.
Korsmeyer, ]. Wilson, C. Wilson, Bart Yo-
der, w. Christianson, Charles Hagenow, II.
II. Steel, C. C. Pool, A. Shane, A. B. Smith
and Carl Bessey.
The party dropped into The Bee office
about 1890 p. m and watched the closing of
the forms and the stereotypng and press
work on the early edition. Earlier in the
evening they visited the power house of the
street railway company and were highly
instructed by what they saw. This fore
noon the Florence pumping station will be
visited and a second trip made to the smelter
! in the afternoon.