Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
GONE To QUAKER CITY
ELECTRICAL Ena1sEEns RESUME
THEIR 5osannY.
Snap Shot Taken Yesterday of Statue
Of Benjamin. Franklin,
First Electrician.

A pretty incident of the visit of the in
ternational electrical engineers to Washing
ton yesterday was witnessed In front of
the statue of BENJAMIN Franklin, on Penn
sylvania avenue, In the afternoon. A party
of English engineers halted in front Of the
figure and one Of them remarked:
'Ah. here is the statue of the first cleo
trician. Benjamin Franklin. BY jove, I
must have a snapshot of him.
And suiting his actions to his words he
uncovered his kodak. The other members
of the party grouped themselves about the
base of the statue and several pictures were
taken.
Chief Clerk Tree of the English Parry
stated that the people of Great Britain have
great reverence for Franklin, who is re-
garded as having been not only great
man. but good man, and 1.-The father of
applied electricity
After carrying out the program given by
The Star yesterday, the visiting electrical
engineers took supper at the New Willard,
and at 8 O'Clock boarded their special cars
for Philadelphia. From the quaker city the
party will leave for New York this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock, where the tour will
be concluded
Speaking of his impressions of Washing
ton city. Mr. R. Tree of England said: "It
is one of the most beautiful, most orderly
and most interesting places it has ever
been my pleasure to visit" The visitors
were lavish in their praise of the cor
diality of the Washington committeeman
and their painstaking efforts to entertain
them and show them as much of Washing
ton as possible during their limited stay
here
Guests at Luncheon.
The list of those especially invited to
meet the foreign engineers at the luncheon
at the Library of Congress yesterday after
noon included Lieutenant General Adna r.
Chaffee. U. S. A: General Alexander Nc
Kenzie. chief of engineers; General Greeley
chief signal officer, U. s. A.; District Com
missioner West. Colonel Biddle, Engineer
Commissioner: Public Printer Palmer and
Mr.. Oscar j. Ricketts,. foreman of printing
at the government printing office: Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Armstrong,
Captain G. w. Baird: y. S. A; Librarian
Herbert ]. Putnam of the Library of Con-
gress and Mr.. Elliott Woods, superinren-
dent of the Capitol.
Among the prominent electrical engineers
of this country who accompanied the Eng
lish and Italian visitors were: Bion j. Ar
mold. president, A. l. E. E.; John w. Liet
jr. president New York Edison Company
and president-elect of the A. 1. E. E.. E.
H. Mullin, General Electric Engineers:
Frank Sprague, Calvin w. Rice, L. Ward
Leonard and Ralph w. Pope, A. 1. E. E.
Representatives Of Italy.
The Italian visitors who are members Of
were:
Prof. Noise Ascoli president Prof. Guido
Grassi, past president; Prof. Luigi Lom-
bardi, vice president; Camille Albino Curti,
! member of council; Prof Ferdinando Lori,
member of council; Ing. Amatore Maffez-
zini Ing. Edoardo Ambrosano; Prof. U. An
coma, Ing. Giovanni Barosi, Ing. Carlo Bar
zano. Ing. c. Vincenzo Brazzolo, Ing. Carlo
Caminada, Ing Ahonzo Carelli Ing. Nicos-
trato Costellini. Ing. Filippi Cavalieri, Ing.
| Fflippo Danioni, Ascanio Dumontel, DR..
William Dunn, Ing. Edoardo Egger. Prof.
Gino Fano, Ing Luigi Galimberti, DR.. Ell
tore GAMBIA, Ing. Luigi Giannetti. Clan
Teodoro Giorgetti, Ing. Francesca Giudice,
Ing. Emanuele iona, Ing. Gerodamo Mer-
| lini, Ing. Aurelio Monteverde, Ing. ArnaIdo
| Odazio, Augusta Pancaldi. Ing. Antonio
| Pesenti, Ing. Alberto Picchi, Ing. Alberto
| Pirelli, Luigi Pizzi Ing. Eugenio Prandoni,
Ing. Emilio Raya,a Ing. Luigi Robbie. Ing.
Alberto Rubini, Ing. Ulderigo Serge, Giusep-
pc Stramezzi, Ing. Gianfranco Tosi, Achille
VenZaghi -5@ 80
| There were number of ladies In the
| party and few German and French dele
gates.