Evening star., 1909-05-04
WELCOME BY MACFARLAND
Visits to Be Made to Mechanical
Wonders Of Capital.
ENTERTAINMENT FOR LADIES
Honors to Be Paid to Rear Admiral
Melville, U.S.N., Retired-Por-
trait for National Gallery.

The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers is assembled in Washington
and will open the sessions of the annual
spring meeting formally at the New Will
lard tonight, when the Washington So
ciety of Engineers and resident members
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will play the part of hosts at a
reception.
There will be dancing, and music by the
Marine Band. To welcome the engineers
to the city Commissioner Macfarland will
deliver an address. Jesse NJ. Smith, pres
ident of the society, will respond.
The engineers are not going to devote
all their time i'm Washington to discussion
OF heavy technical subjects. but have ar
ranged for several hours of good solid
fun, in which the ladies' have not been
forgotten. There will be an informal aft
ernoon tea at the headquarters in the
New Willard this afternoon and a sight
seeing trip for ladies, beginning tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
The exhibition drill at Fort Myer Will
attract many of the engineers tomorrow
afternoon. If conditions are favorable
there will be an ascension of the dirigible
balloon from the fort. Before the sessions
come to a close 1t is understood the Pres
ident will receive members of the society
al the White House.
A professional guide will take the ladies
around the city Thursday morning There
will be another tea that afternoon.
Technical Excursions.
Just as interesting to the engineers are
the technical excursions planned for the
week. The bureau of standards is the
first place on the list.
The Benning plant of the Potomac
Electric Power Company will be visited.
The Union station will be thoroughly ex-
planned So will the filtration plant and
the pumping station of the water depart
ment.
A. E. Phillips, superintendent of sew
ers, has invited the engineers to examine
the sewage pumping station, one of the
mechanical wonders of the District of
Columbia. The engineers are especially
interested in the eight $1,000, ,OOO-gallon
pumps at the station.
When the society is not indulging in the
lighter side of life at teas and excursions,
ii will listen to a series of papers at va
rous meetings. The members are in
tensely interested in the work of the rec
lamation service and will hear a lecture
by the director. +. II. Newell. on "Home
Making in the Arid Regions tomorrow
night.
Rear AdmirajGeorge w. Melville, US. n,
Navy Thursday night. After the address.
Rear Admiral Melville's service to the
engineering profession will be the subject
OF a talk by Walter NJ. Mcfarland of
Pttsburg.
A portrait of the admiral will be pre-
sented that evening to the National Cal
lery DR.. c. D. Walcott will accept it on
behalf of the United States.
Committee in Charge.
The committee of Washington engi-
neers who will look after the visitors this
week is composed of Walter A. McFar-
land, chairman; Gustav Ayres, Albert H.
Buckler, Charles Eli Burgoon, Howard
A. Coombs. James B. billiard, William
A. f. Doying. Charles +. Foster. III. A.
Gilis, James Hamilton, Frederick +.
Healy. Herman Hollerith, J. A. Holmes,
Daniel Hurley, Arthur f. Johnson, Frank
B. King, Hervey s. Knight, Walter r.
Metz, George L. Morton Harold p. Nor
ton, Willard l.. Pollard John +. Powell,
Alfred II. Raynal. William B. nidgely,
w. +. Schoenborn, George r. Simpson,
Charles f. Sponsler. Lucien \. Sullivan,
William B. Upton. Charles " G. Wheeler,
Earl Wheeer
Committee of the Washington Society of
Engineers-W. A. Mcfarland chairman;
A. f. Johnson, A. II. Raynal w. E.
Schoenborn, w. b. Upton. Ii. w. Fuller,
John c. Hoyt and d. S. Carl.
The ladies' reception committee is COM
posed of Mrs. James Lorin Lusk. chair
man: Mrs. Frederick V. Abbott. Mrs.
Mrs. Alfred II. Raynal, Miss Mcfarland,
Mrs. William e. Ridgely, Mrs. Walter r.
Metz Mrs. Charles F. Sponsler Mrs Lu-
Glen n. Sullivan.