The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-26

modern buildings, became general fn-
 spector of an Insurance agency. and so eventually found his place among the fire underwriters. There is one who started as drauehtsman on patent work, went through the engineering department of two or three big elec- trical companies and street railways and finally took up designing and draughting textile machinery. A third turned his technical knowledge in quite different direction. for he en-
 tered the patent office at Washington.
 studied law while there and is today
 associated with . firm of patent and
 trade mark lawyers.
 Electricity. water supply and indus
 trial chemistry seems to have furnish
 ed the largest variety of opportunities.
 The electrical engineer not only plans and constructs lighting systems and street railways, but also works some-
 what fin the field of mining. Albert G.
 Davis. for Instance. who is with the
 patent department of a prominent elec-
 trical manufacturing concern, invented
 and designed one of the approved types of ore-roasting furnaces. Joseph w..
 Films, chemist for the Commissioners of Water Works of Cincinnati, had
 been, before going West, an assistant in the laboratory of the Massachusetts
 State Board of Health; chemist for the Louisville Water Company, investiga-
 ting processes for the purincation of
 the ohio River for uses of public sup
 ply; and an investigator of the sanitary condition of the Brooklyn water sup
 ply. William Esty. assistant professor of electrical engineering at Lehigh
 University. began his teaching at the University of Illinois after he had had years practical engineering experi-
 ence in the electrical works at Lynn Refineries. distil1eries.s drug and chemi- cal manufactories. gas plants, mills of this, that and the other kind have their quota of graduates who specialized in chemistry.
 The telephone engineer has devel-
 oped a field all his own and 1t is one of
 growing importance and rapid expan- sion. Thirty years ago the telephone
 had not been invented, yet of the class that has been out of the Institute just about a dozen years half dozen mem-
 bers are now in the engineering de- partment of the Bell companies. The structural engineer Is an ally of the architect when 1t comes to putting up a skyscraper, not only because such buildings are masonry shells held in place by ribs and sinews of steel but also because flre-proofing. the strength of materials. the lasting qualities of concrete and metal must be taken into account as never before. The oil wells and gas fields in the South and West have given employment to many Tech nology graduates and as railroad and bridge builders they are found in every quarter of the globe. There have been no more marvellous accomplish ments in the worlds history than those of the sanitary engineer. the man who is saving hundreds of thousands of lives every year by improving the healthfulness of cities and by stamp | ing out pestilence, the man who re- | claimed Cuba and the Philippines from their disease scourges and who today Is at work to make Panama inhabita-
 ble by Americans and Europeans.
 There is a surprising number of men ! who, with a technical education, drift
 away from technical professions alto
 gether. Those who become teachers
 usually devote themselves to some of
 the modern sciences. of course; but be-
 sides these there are artists and musi-
 clans, physicians, lawyers and news paper. men--Frederick Hoppin How land, a correspondent of American and
 English papers during the Boer war In
 South Africa and now in charge of The
 Providence Journal, Is one of them. II
 dealers and stock brokers; hotel pro-
 prietors, lumber dealers, salesmen, and insurance solicitors, with a plentiful
 sprinkling of plain, ordinary business linen.
 !, Nor are they the stay at homes, these graduates of Technology. that their lbrethren of the Classical" universities iare likely to be. The tenth annual re- !port of the class of 1898, for example, ishowed that members were living in ,thirty-two of the States and Territories land nine in foreign countries. John C. IHawley. supervisor of a province in the Philippines. was a civil engineer of the Massachusetts Water and Sewerage Board before he went to the islands
 the municipal electric works at Kioto Japan, his native city. spent a year with an American electrical company lafter graduation and then went back
 to teaching mathematics in Kioto be-
 fore he took up his present profession lanother member of the class is consult
 ing electrical engineer at Tokio Ben- Ijamin M. Mitchell, who first visited ISouth Africa as mechanical engineer lin the interests of a rubber company, is in the Transvaal permanently. The president, general manager and chief electrician of the company that fur lnishes electric light to Parass, Mexico was Tech. '93," and another of his classmates represents American cleo ltrical interests in London, while much of the recent engineering work for the Russian Government in Persia has lbeen done by a Technology graduate lin civil engineerinK