River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

dows give room for the apparatus and expert
ments.
AS some of the tests will produce strong
fumes, there are tables encased in glass with
hoods and ventilators above to carry off the
smells and small doors through which the
eXperimenters will work
A corner room is set apart for special work
in distilling turpentine and other products
and special unlighted space is provided as a
chemicals storage room. Still other unlghted
spaces reserved Photographic dark
rooms and record vaults for the safe keeping
of the valuable reports of the work done.
One Of the most interesting offices is that
of the pathologist who has charge Of the ex-
periments with the fungi and other enemies of
the woods Upon his desk are large collec-
tions of glass tubes conta lining cultures Of ev-
cry sort of vegetable growth which feeds upon
wood ibers, and samples Of all the minute
animalculae which attack timbers. Many he
secured last summer in his visits to mines in
different parts Of the country, since one OF
the greatest sources of the dangerous mine
cave-in is the destruction of supports by these
little enemies.
A large drafting room, lighted from the
north and east, library and filing room, a
lecture hall and a suite of II offices for the
staff officials and their clerks and stenogra-
pliers complete the building arrangements be-
low and in the attic a space for storing mate
rails which cannot be left In the open yard
and which is reached by an elevator from the
basement.
The government will appoint to regular
work in the laboratory, as an addition to the
present staff, several of the students who have
been doing forestry work the past winter at
the University of Wisconsin
The forestry lecture course of the univer-
sity, just closed, included this year, besides
the regular work under State Forester E. M.
Griffith, lectures by w. L. Hall, assistant for
ester at the Washington office; r. S. Kellogg.
who holds similar position; Franklin II.
Smith, in charge Of the wood utilization
office of the government at Chicago; H. f.
Weiss and H. s. Bristol, assistant directors Of
the new laboratory; l.. F. Hawley, in charge
of the wood distillation of the laboratory, and
Frederick Dunlap, in charge of the kiln drying
Investigations
At the time of the formal dedication of the
laboratory the various departments of the gov
eminent work were in full operation, that the
visitors may see the actual work in progress
Just how paper is made; how timbers are
tested; how stumps are distilled, and how the
little marine animals prevented from bor-
ing through shipping.
The staff of the new laboratory is as fol.
lows: McGarvey Cline Purdue '04 director;
H. S. Bristol, Yale, and H. F. Weiss, Yale, as.
sistant directors; H. D. Tiemann, Stevens In.
stitute of Technology, in charge of technol-
ogy; Ralph Thelen, University Of California,
mechanical engineer: W. H. Kempfer, Univer-
sity of Michigan, in charge of maintenance
Edwin Sutermeister, Massachusetts Institute
Of Technology, III charge Of wood pulp lab
oratory; E. Bateman, Yale, in charge of chem
istry; l.. F. Hawley, Cornell, in charge of
wood distillation; Frederick Dunlap, Cornell,
in charge of kiln drying operations F. w.
Bond, Massachusetts, Institute OF Technology,
in charge of wood preservation; C. r. Barnum.
Cornell, and G. P Winslow Yale, engineers
in wood preservation laboratory; J. A. New
lin. Purdue, in charge OF timber tests; H. E.
Surface, Ohio State university, engineer In
wood chemistry; H. E. Mckenzie, University
OF Maine. engineer in timber tests; C. j. Hum
phrey. University Of Nebraska and Cornell
patholog1st, and A. w. Schorger, Ohio State
university, chemist.