Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
MEET
Oregon Power Company
Employees Club Banueted i'm Ash
land Friday Night.

The club meeting and banquet of
the employees of the Callfornia-Ore-
gon Power Company was held at the
Ashland Hotel dining room in this
city Friday evening. The refresh
ments were provided by the Hotel
Oregon and were fine, of course. The
intellectual portion of the entertain
ment was not less enjoyable than the
material. The tables were decorated
with miniature pole lines portraying
all the phases of line construction,
cross-arm work, etc. Attached to the
line was a power house and trans
former, in which were concealed fire
crackers which were surreptitiously
touched off at the proper time in the
technical discussions which followed
the feed. The following was the pro-
gram of toasts:
Sydney Sprott, the vteran super
vising engineer, from San Francisco,
gave a resume of the history of the
California-Oregon Power Company
from its inception, he having been
with it practically from the begin
ming.
J. D. Sinnott of the Medford office
gave a technical talk on line loss.
o. B. Helt of Portland, represen-
tative of the General Electric Com
pany, gave an interesting talk on
"High Tension Line Protection De-
vices"
In Lime Losses in Central Point
and Gold Hill' c. G. Ware of Med
ford gave a humorous account of his.
adventures in checking UP current
used in those municipalities.
II. c. Stoddard of Medford, divis-
ion superintendent of the Rogue Riv-
er division, gave an illustrated talk
on Methods of Line Construction,
which was both interesting and in
structive.
H. l.. Walthers, general superin-
tendent of the company, spoke on the
State Commissions Attitude Toward
Line Construction"
Under the title, "The Ashland Line
to the Elks' Dance" j. ]. Buchter of
Medford told of his experiences in
attending the recent Elks function in
this city.
''The Line From the Operating En-
gineer's Point of View" was the
theme of T. e. Bradley, operating
engineer of the Rogue River division.
F. F. Loder, assistant superinten-
dent of the Rogue River division
took as his subject "The Linemans S
Protection" discussing various meth
DDS of protecting linemen when work
ing on high tension circuits.
Trouble Shooting" was discussed
by F. o. Stinson, one of the linemen
at Medford.
Transformers" were discussed at
length by G.. r. Wallis, a General
Electric Company expert from Port
land.
Outdoor Type Transformers and
Installing" was the theme of o. G..
Steele, former superintendent of con-
struction and now superintendent of
the Siskiyou division, with headquar-
| ters at Yreka.
Charging a Line to Parallel with
Estimates" was elucidated by R, R.
Ebel, division accountant at Med
ford.
Glenn B. Conwell, formerly of Ash
land but now of Medford, talked on
Transformer Connections"
Several other addresses were
scheduled but were omitted for lack
of time. The stereopticon and radio
| graph, the latter an instrument for
throwing postcard pictures and pho
tos on the screen, were used to good
advantage in the entertainment and
and instruction of the evening.
The out-of-town members of the
club unite in saying that the Ashland
boys did themselves proud as hosts.