The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13
YLOR THE MAN WHO HAS SAVED THE NATION MILLIONS

ton Corps Of the United States navy
a year sooner than usual.
He was graduated from tho ROYAL
Naval College at Greenwich At the COM
p.rt.on II The three years course n
1>NS, and his diploma was tho reward
Tor the highest marks IN ia" naval
architecture course received up io what
time by any English ,r foreign student
Indeed, IaN'ur- achievement ~ this
department ui the Greenwich institution
stands tu-dIN a. o., yr~,.d. ". IT,,
college has graduated some II Tho tore
most men ~ this profession.
For " ." after Us return tu this
country assistant Nava. Constructor
Taylor vas attached Ia he bureau ~
9 Instruction AMI Repair, Navy pcpar.-
m"nt Washington, and was later sent
L. the navy yard n Mare Island. Call
fornid. where he took an active part in
important shipbui.ding operations. In
the early '90s h returned to Washing
Ton and ia IN" bureau Of construction
as al assistant To tho Chief Construc-
tor and he has been stationed ~ he
national capital ever ,.uc"
some CA. im, said. "Tuylr is a. MOT.
laxative than ia, -rl.uS. h'U .. ~.
a. ~ r..c.'." Nhcu g.. las a., tula ..
d" say ." rr> 70 IN s1rr-. I,ujSar'uc
sentence. nt hricf a. his rrulrk, are
they AR. a.W INs worthy Of The ,rH@r-.
att, milton. White thus prone O. hrevity
z speech, .c has cNemplined contin-
, ually a capacity for lucid and volum,-
nous writing upon te'hnicaI topics.
Thessa have made him known the world
over
A. far ha,k IS lSa4. when only 81
years u.l Taylor attacked very AIM
cG.l problem "a paper wTl;tcu for the
lTiiisl Institution If Naval Architects
d, h"d, ,aW has huo for it, memb, rsn ~
IN, h.ul.g -sn = uf the profession n.
paper dealt wita "Sh,p Shaped Su,ow
Forms and Np~ 81 ma,nrmati., 'r.I'.
Weut p' tu, u"c.d' lily upstIusr pIuu,,n.
InN.N"d in the movement ui water
about shin shaped boOi,-. Because al
tins contribution Ia he literature Of the
; arr u, was awarded "a gold m,dnl ley
! %, us tuition the only American ever
| 50 hunured during the half century OF
I the lie Of the associations
! chief Constructor Taylor ~ even more
| Than "a naval architect; he X a marine
| engineer hcsidrs.. This Is an unusual
combination of technical talents lrooi
! Of It WAS given thirteen wears ago in A
/ conspicuous manner. I'm 1901 the Amer
/ lean Snrirrv of Naval Architects ana
! Marin, l.nlin,crS offered przcs FOR tnt
| best paper un "Th"ortticai and rTactl-
| cal Methods of Balancing Marine En-.
| gincs,' a question mat was very much
/ Ia the front,
| The papers We're submitted anony-
muusly in Tho competition and thcrt
Were many of them sent in The frs
| pri2" was won by Naval Constructor
| Taylor and the second prize went Il
, the l'c Rear Admiral George W. Mel
Vile, then engineer in chief ~ tn.
! United States navy and the senior 81
J Can't, Taylor 10y "A good many years
| Rear Admiral Melville had prepared hn
paper after Ions career eliminating IL
/ a peculiarly varied and extensive asso,
Cia'iun with the designing ~ steam mo,
/ tive power FOR all sorts OF the la'os
types ~ ships of war Nevertheless
Naval Constructor Taylors solution OF
the problems was deemed by his pro-
fesslonAl peers 70 BE- the best one sub
mltted. Strange as II may sound, Capt
Taylor's daily work Rad been well nlGt