The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-14
Twenty-Five States Rep
resented at Annual
Convention.
ATTENDANCE MAY
REACH 800 MARK
Experts to Discuss Many Tech
nical Questions Affecting Great
Industry-Formal Opening Ses-
sion Tomorrow, With Lee
ture To-Night-M any
Distinguished Men.

ADVANCE registration for tho eighth
annual meeting OF the American Gas
institute which opens In the Jefferson
"udi'orinm tonight, indicates an Mt
tendance OF about 500 members. the
'"elstratlon showing delegates on their
way 70 hichmond from liG cities To-
Gated Ia twenty-ninc States. ana in
Canada Delegates are coming from
FONTS as far remote as san Francisco
ana Concord, y. IL: from New Orleans
ana Tampa. and from, Quebec ana other
Canadian cities The registration bu-
,eau opened Yesterday morning al the
Jefferson Hotel. in charge Of Secretary
George j. Ramsdell. with a capable
corps OF assistants
Three special trains are due 10 arrive
this afternoon about an hour apart
j.. j. hellam, chairman OF the commit
&c On transportation. arranged for spc-
ciai trains from New York, Cincinnati
@",'o @ fhiiadeiphia Special cars from
chicago, Detroit. Toledo and ST Louis
VII! be added to the Cincinnati spaciol
which VIII arrive at $50 o'clock this
afternoon. The Philadelphia spccial
with special cars from Baltimore and
Washington, Is expected at 1880 o'clock
ana the New York special. which win
aiso carry the Boston and New Eng
iona delegates, is due at $50 o'clock
The opening feature OF the conven-
ton viii be n lecture at s:i5 o'clock
tonight in the jefferson auditorium by
DE- Charles l.. Luckc. OF Columbia Uni
versity, on the subject. Surface Com
bustion."
Or. l-ueke has been conducting a
series OF experiments in the labora-
tories OF Columbia University, and
VIII demonstrate the lecture by means
OF gas apparatus installed on the plat
form.
Just as tho Welsbach burner revo-
lutionized gas lighting, substituting an
!, incandescant white light for the lick
cring gas iiame, IL is now claimed that
experiments IN progress will soon
revolutionize the methods OF cooking
by gas. by substituting the incan-
descant glare III a permanent rock for
the familiar blue-i flame burner.
Beni Medal 10 Bc Awarded.
Ihc convention proper opens to-inor-
row morning at $50 o'clock. when an
address Of welcome will be delivered
by Mayor Ainslie, ana responded to
by Charles NJ Cohn. Reports of of
hcers and committees viii follow. and
there are number of papers on tech
nic:l subjects TO be read and dis
cussed Ia this connection. attention
IS called 10 the Zeal medal given pv
the late William Il. f,eal at one time
president of the Central Union Gas
Company OF New York The honor of
by the more active gas engineers. II
was awarded last year TO Herbert w
-alrich, or New York and will he
AWARDED by q special committee OF
which Donald Mcdonald OF St Louis,
is chairman. TO the member presenting
the best technical paper at this ses-
sion, showing the greatest amount OF
original research work.
Same Distinguished Delegates
. ST liShc
expected at the convention will be Dr..
Alexander c. Humphreys who has
,elcgraphed that he will arrive to-
night. DR.. Humphreys was formerly
partner of Arthur Glasgow Rich
monder, who now stands near the top
OF the profession of expert gas enei-
neering.
DR.. Humphreys is president Of the
stevens Institute of Technology sin
gularly enough after dissolving his
partnershiD with MIR. Glasgow, he Sc
lectcd another former Richmorder
and is now in partnership with Alton
/ Miller, 4 brother OF Dr. Clifton NJ.
Miller. OF Richmond. Dr Humphreys
is credited by gas experts already here
with having designed and erected more.
/ Gas plants than any other man now
! living. having been leader in the
/ development OF carbonated water gas
|
ferson was George II. Woodall, the
/ chief engineer OF the Brooklyn Bor-
I ougn Gas Company. whose plant eX
/ tends from Brooklyn to Coney Island.
I Iie is a SON cf Sir Corbct Woodall. one
OF the greatest gas engineers Of Great
+ Britain. who was recently knighted
I for hi. srecial attainmcnts in this
+ field. Sir Corbet Woodall expected to
/ attend the Richmond meeting. but
/ cabled a Few days ago that he would
/ he unable TO come.
Many Already Here.
4 or the invited guests of the associ-
I alton already in attendance tho most
/ distinguished is G. Willing Hare. OF
! Philadelphia. Of the United Gas I'm
/ provement Company. of Philadelphia.
I and president of the National Com
+, nercial Gas Association. That associ :
t alton, i; WAS explained, has more to
\ 90 with the commercial aspects-thc
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