New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-04
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE WEEK.
SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSIONS INCIDENT TO THE
NATIONAL EXPORT EXPOSITION

Philadelphia Oct. (SpeciaD.-The National Ex-
port Exposition will enter the third week OF its
career Thursday This is the anniversary week
Of the Franklin Institute, which is being taken
up with series of commemorative meetings by the
several sections OF the institute successive even
ings and Saturday will he called Institute Day"
That will be the seventy-hfth birthday Of the IN
stitute.
There remains living only one member who was
present when the institute was founded In IVA
This is Frederick Frailey. who Is yet In the enjoy
ment OF clear mind and reasonable bodily vigor'
and contemp.ates attendance upon Institute Ia!
with much pleasure. although he Is on the home
stretch OF a century OF human life
DR.. Joseph W. Richards Of Bethlehem, Penn
president OF the chemical section. opened the
weeks exercises in Introductory ADDRESS, "hlch
was followed by Professor Harvey W. Wiley OF
Washington on THE Progress Of Chemistry as APP
piled to the Arts" Dr. Charles F. Hines, OF Car
isle Penn representing the Photographic and
microscopic branch spoke those subjects as APP
piled the arts.
In the electrical section this evening DR.. hd"!h
]. Houston OF Philadelphia, spoke OF the institute
from an electrical point of view. and Dr. Ralph w
Pope. Of New-York spoke upon the Franklin and
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers III
promoting the progress Of the electrical ar'S' Iro-
fessor F. B. Croker Of NewYork. spoke on THE
Commercial Aspects Of American Electrical Indus
tries"
The mining and metallurgicai section to-morro"
will he represented by James Christie Of Philadel
pha in an Introduction Of the subject; Charles
Kerchon Of New-York on '"Three-quarters OF
a Century's Progress In Mining and Met4lurgy,
and John Fritz of Bethlehem: on The Devei,"I9-
The programme for the other days Is as 1oiioNs
The Mechanical and Engineering Section lhuIs-
pr CoIemnn sellers Of Philadephia on The No
chanical Arts In Three-quarters Of a Century, ~
PHYSICAL and Astronomical Section fricasp- Ut
A. T. Kennedy Introductory: Dr. l. G. Mtnuehcr
hall OF Worcester. Mass. on The Progress ol
Institute Day STANDARDIZATION Berkinbene. or
Philadelphia. president. an Introductory aHdrgSs
DR. Robert II. Thurston. Of Ithaca. y. y on ! ne
During the Life Of the Institute Rear Adn MIRA
Melville Engineer in Chief. |. ;. ". on 81 ne
Modern Warshp Combining in Itself the Hleh-
est Results of skill. Ingenuity and Scenthc hho"i-
edge. =, . ao.,o
The members OF the institute look back to some
Of the more important public services II mas rem
dered with merted pride Among those Tor the IA
t!onal Government may be noted the investigation
OF the causes of explosion Of steam boilers ana
strength OF materials: for the state or fehhsNi-
vania' an examination on system OF welghls ana
measures: the organization in 1888 Of the nrst sys-
ternatc weather observations. aided by state dp,
propriations. and the forerunner Of the nitef
States Weather service: the creation by the Legs
lature In 1887 of State Weather Bureau: q re-
threads: IN 1873 inquiry into the efficiency Of the
dynamo for lighting. IN 1874 an elaborate re-
port on ncandescent lamps and an investigation
Of the causes and means Of controlling the shohe
nuisance in Philadelphia. at the request OF 'he
Board OF Health. 49,
The International Commercial Congress will be-.
gin on October p The committee. consisting or
Charles +. Warwick chairman; J. c. Strawbridge
William L. Eikins Daniel Baugh. Calvin Wells
and Sara y Stevenson. have made all the arrange
ments necessary to the success of the occasion