The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-04-23
Charles W. Wolcott, Dia
rector Of the .. s. GeolOg
ical Survey, Addresses |
Meeting at Washington
CONCERTED ACTION URCEa
ADVISORY BODY PROPOSED re
FURTHER THE FUBL AM
BUILDING INDUSTRIES OF TH1
COUNTRY. n

'sWe ought as a nation to do SONS
thing to aid our industries" said Nh
Charles D. Walcott. Director of tht
United States Geological Survey, in h
greeting to the gentlemen who met i
his office in Washington, on the last da1
of March, in response to an mvitatto1
from the President of the United STATED
to assist officials of the Geological Sur
vey and Forest Service in forming an adj
visory board on fuels and structural ma,
terials. Since Eventually geologieal
bureau must always get back to tht
earth,n as some one in the meeting ex
pressed it,, it is natural that thee indusl
tries to which Mr. Walcott directed tht
attention of his hearers should have been
the fuel and building Industries.
1t is felt that investigations of fuelt
and of structural minerals should proceed
hand in hand The building industrisS
are closely dependent, not only on oH
forests and our quarries, but on our co4
mines as we'll We make many bricks
without straw, but we cannot burn them,
not at least in our northern climes where
the sun is cold, without fire. Good prog
ress has already been made by the GeOs
loo;oo1 c,,rr,a,- "a +be T ~, s.Siara F111-chaeS
Exposition. in testing fuel SUBSTANCES and
structural materials Considerable time
was devoted at the recent meeting Of
this National Advisory Board to dis
cussion of the investigations already
made and of plans for carrying on addi-s
tional work Of the came character.
Since last June when few well,
known engineers and chemists Of the
country met in conferences with promi-
nent engineers and officials of the Geo,
logical Survey and Forest Service to
discuss plans for securing cooperation
between rhe Government and represen-
tative body of experts. invitations have
heen sent by President Roosevelt to men
selected by the national engineering ~
cities and allied organizations to assist
in forming an advisory board on fuels
and structural materials. The organiza
tions represented at the recent meeting
included the American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers, the American Soeie3
of Civil Engineers, the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers. the Society for
Testing Materials, the American Insti-
tute of Architects. the American Rail-
way Engineering and Maintenance Of
Way Association, the American Railway
Master Mechanics Association. the
/ American Foundrymen's Association. the
Association of American Portland Ce-I
ment Manufacturers the Geological So-
ciety of America, the Iron and Steel In
stitute, the National Association Of Ce-
ment Users. the National Board of Fnc
Underwriters. the National Brick Manu-
facturers' Association the National Fire
Protective Association, the Isthmian Ca
nal Commission, the Bureau of Yards
and Docks, Navy Department the SUI
perv sing Architects Office, United
States Treasury Department, the Re
clamation Service. United States Interior
Department, and the Forest Service. De-
partment of Agriculture. Invitations had
been sent also to members of the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining Engineers. the
Association Of American Portland Ce-
ment Manufacturers. the National LuIn-
her Manufacturers Association. and the
Engineer Corps of the United States Az
my
Reports on the Government feul tests
were made by Prof. " w. Lord of Ohio
State University, who had charge of the
tests made in the chemical laboratory of
the Geological Survey at st. Louis, By
Prof. L. G. Breckenridge of the Univers-
/ ity of Illinois, who was superintendent Of
boiler tests, by Prof. R. H. Fernald Of
) Washington University, st. Louis, who
had charge of the producer gas tests, and
by Professor HIATT of Purdue University,
Lafayette, Ind, who has supervised tim
Der tests made by the Forest Service.
/ These gentlemen were not present as rep
resentatives of any special organizations
but as exponents of work already done
by the Government.
Future meetings of the Board viii be
arranged through. the Director of the
! Geological Survey and the Chief Of the
Forest Service. 1t is the wish Of Pres
ident Roosevelt that the Board should re
port to him its suggestions and recon-