The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-11
THE FARMER: MARCH II, 1913

state. if possible, to a higher state o1
 efficiency. While he has been in of
 flee but little more than a week, he
 already has formed several plans
 which hebelieves will aid in the work
 of future commissioners.
 The new commissioner was born in
 Fromme, England, in 1878, son of Will liam T. Bennett. When he was 8
 years old, his father, who was a man. | ufacturer, came to America, settling
 cated in the public and high schools i of that place and while in the high school, determined to take up en- gineering for a profession. He enter | ed Union College, Schenectady, N. Y, being graduated in 1901. He began engineering work in 1885, while he
 was in the high school, as rodman
 in the office of the city engineer of
 Amsterdam, and did work for the of
 flee through his college course to 1 March, 19O2- He then secured a
 place with the Metropolitan Street l Railway Company of New Y ork as an i assistant in the laying out and inspect
 ing of construction. His work in 1 cluded the building of several lines and some experience in the removal
 of snow.
 In October, 1902, he entered the em- p1oy of the New York Central Rail
 road as assistant in the elimination of grade crossings at Schenectady, the
 work including the design and con struction of all classes of work, such as walls. piers, abutments and street
 ana steam railroad work. The prop osition involved an outlay of S1,80O,-
 O00 and early in the work, Assistant
 Engineer c. L. Spaulding, who was in
 charge, was taken i'll, and MT. Ben
 nett, then but little more than a boy, carried on the work until his return
 several months later. At this time he was receiving salary of S75 a month. His work gave thorough sat- isfaction, MT. Spau1ding saying that 1t was carried on as successfully as 1t would have been if he had been there himself. Later MT. Bennett was em- p1oyed in the making of surveys and estimates for the elimination of grade crossings at Mt. Vernon. In connec- ton with the Schenectady job which involved the doing away with ten crossings, MT. Bennett made the esti- mate of cost and when the work was completed it was found that actual cost was within per cent. of the es- innate.
 In March, 1905, MT. Bennett entered the employ of the New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford Railroad Company as the construction of the freight ter ninal at the west end of Hartford l bridge. Two 800-feet freight houses 1 were constructed, together with yards i and have since served as models for much work of a similar nature. In | Novem Der, 1907, he was put in charge | of the elimination of the Walnut St. | grade crossing in Hartford, the work i involving an outlay of $267,000 be- ing carried to completion under his i direction. In March, 1908, he was made assistant engineer in charge of Midland division, where he had com p1ete charge of the work of an engin- eering force of ten men and a con- struction gang varying from 200 to 800 men.
 In September, 1909, he left the em- ploy of the railroad to become assist ant engineer of the Saybreok & Lyme bridge commission under Edward w. Bush. In 1910 he came to Hartford. Among the latter part of his work in has been the mapping out of 8 system by which the city will collect it's own ashes and garbage and attend to its disposal, the planning of an ornamental street lighting system for the business center in which connec- ton he served as chairman of the committee appointed by the HartfordI Business Mems Association and assist ing in the planning for the widening of Jewell aid Wells streets and the general treatment of the Park river.
 MT. Bennett is member of the Club of Hartford, the Con necticut Society of Civil Engineers, the Association of Connecticut Road Off ciaIs in which he was the first secre- Eary and instrun enta1 in it's organiza- ion, and of the National ConferenceJ On City Planning. He is also an hon 0rary member of the Automobil Club of Bridgeport. He married Miss Mar suerite BaIch of Galway, N. Y. Four two boys and two girls have been born to them. In fact those 1 who know him best say that he is es- { ;entia1ly a home-1oving man, and that f he could he would keep out of the 1 public. eye altogether.