The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-14
DUNN DELIGHTED
 WITH TRIP HERE Famous Electrical Expert
 Leaves Today PRAISES CITY HIGHLY New Jersey Man Was Shown Around District and Was Guest of Honor
 at Banquet Last
 Night

Alter DelnE SnoWn extensive attention and enteIt tained with rare hospitality, Gano Dunn, vice president and chief engi- neer of the Crocker- Wheeler Electrical company. will leave this morning for his headquarters in Ampere, N. J.
 After arriving in Birmingham Sunday afternoon, MT. Dunn was entertained pri- vately al dinner, was the guest of Henry at the Southern club, was escorted over the improvements of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company in private car, and was guest last night at a ban quet given at the Hotel Hillman. which was attended by some of the most prom inent industrial men in the Birming gham district.
 MT. Dunn was carried through the Ems ley steel plant which he had never seen before, to the marvellous construction work at Corey, to the impoundng dam of the Tennessee company, and to the other Undertakings of the Steel corporation in the Birmingham district. He was espe- ciaily interested in the large electrical Liant being erected near Wylam to take care of the great wheels of industry which will te turning there within a very short period. He spoke enthusiastically of the al ;lity of the engineers of the Tennessee company who have outlined the im- pounding water reservoir and said that was among the most progressive under takings that he had ever seen in the south.
 The industrial experts showered every attention upon MT. Dunn yesterday and he was very enthusiastic over the Bir- mingham district, when he came back to Birmingham last night.
 He said the immense possibilities of this district were little less than marvellous and that in it all he was glad to see the acme of modern thoroughness.
 ''The first part electricity ever played of recent years in industrial advance ment" he said. was when the Eng fish government wanted bridge erected over one of the tributaries of the Nile in order that Lord Kitch- ener could enter a portion of Egypt. The English contractors said 1t could not be done in less than nine months, while others bade year and upward. TlX government was CsSpctioiiy ohAiouo 'O St' the bridge up earlier and took a flyer by asking American bridge builders to bid on the work They bade three months as the time for the work and actually erect ed the bridge in that time. They were en- abled to do this simply because an Ameri- can bridge company at it's Philadelphia plant had equipped 1t with electrical ma chinery and they riveted the bridge to- gether in less than 2S days, The great achievement marked a new era in cleo trcal applications in industrial wors Since that time we have been busy get ting more advanced ideas about indus trial requirements. Our company has been engaging actively in the work here and we hope to continue to improve. SC as to contribute that much to the pro gressiveness of Birmingham.
 q was greatly impressed with the modern use of electricity at the Tennes- see company plants and others. It shows that they are looking to the future and will be in the game at every stage of 1t.
 Birmingham Is a genuinely stunning place. l did not dream of such indus trial wonders being here and my trip to this city has opened my eyes to an absolutely new place to be reckoned with.
 q have been fairly swept away ty the attention and cordialty with which I have been received in Birmingham. have known for long time quite a number of the electrical men here, but I did not anticipate when I accepted an invitation to make an address here that I would be showered with such atten- tion.
 'I would be less than a man If l were not very much indebted to the Brming ham people who have been so kind to me. l appreciate my entertainment here very much indeed and I shall always hold dear the memory of this my in- itial. viist to Birmingham
 MT. Dunn delivered an address last night at the banquet upon the use of electricity in industrial work. This was of a technical nature, and was received with attention by the electrical and in- dustrial experts who attended the ban quet It was served in the private din-
 
 tended by about twenty men of Birmins- ham.
 Among those present were: H. c. Ryd- ing, assistant to the president and gem eral manager of the Tennessee company; H. l.. Badham, president of the Besse- mer Coal, Iron and Land company; James Bowron, vice president of the Southern Steel and Iron company; E. J. Best, chief engineer of the Tennessee company, Ems ley division; c. J. Barr, general superln- tendent of the Ensley steel mill; F. M. Drennen, president of the Palos Coal anl Coke company; Mayor Culpepper Exuin, President A. H. Ford of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company; II U. Gassman, chief electrical engineer of the Tennessee company: c. w. LutZ. su- perintendent of the American Steel and Wire company; B. A. Schroeder, district manager Crocker- Wheeler company; E. H. Coxe, superintendent coal mines; r. B. Keiser vice president of the South ern Iron and Steel company; H. F. De- Bardeleben and c. F. DeBardeleben uf the Alabama Fuel and Iron company; William Housman, chief mechanical en- gineer of the Sheffield company, and w. L. Upton of the Sloss-SheffielI company.