Middletown transcript., 1914-05-16
DELAWARE COLLEGE

matter of standardization of the work
of all the high school principals and
the county superintendents of Delaware
to an open meeting to be held in Reci-
tation Hall, at Delaware College, at IL
As M, on May 16. All persons inter
ested in education throughout the state
are cordially invited to be present.
ALUMNI REUNION
The Ways and Means Committee Of
the Delaware College Alumni Associa-
ton at meeting held on May II, de-
cided to have a costume parade at 4
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, June 16, i'm
mediately after the Inter-class Track
and Field Meet. At $50 p. m. the
same day there will be an informal re-
union of the alumni at the Deer Park
Hotel, for which reunion special enter
tainment will be provided. On We'd
nesday, June II, at 1890 p. M, the
annual alumni luncheon and business
meeting will be held in the gymnasium
of the college. All graduates who can
be present are urged to come to Newark
not later than noon of Tuesday, June
16. All these affairs are part of the
Commencement exercises.
ARTS AND SCIENCE CLUB
On Thursday, May 7, the Arts and
Science Club of Delaware College met
at the home of Mr.. H. K. Preston, in
structor in mathematics. The snbject
for discussion was ''The New Entrance
Requirements for Admission to the arts
and science course" What constitutes
a unit, was explained by Professor C.
A. Short, and How many units should
be required, was discussed by DR.. W.
o. Sypherd, President Harter and DR..
w. ]. Rowan. The last meeting of the
club this year will be held at the home
of Professor H. E. Tiffany some time
during the first week in June.
INTERscHOLAsTIC MEET
Plans have been completed for the in
terscholastic literary contest on Friday
evening, May Is, and interscholastic
track and field meet on Saturday, May
16. The interscholastic track and field
meet, which will be held in conjunction
with the final meet between Delaware
College and Drexel Institute, will with
out doubt be the greatest athletic event
that the college has ever seen. Over
three hundred athletes are entered in
the different races and field events.
The morning of May 16 will be devoted
to an exhibition drill by the Delaware
College cadet corps.
INSPECTION TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA
On Friday, May 8, the mechanical
and electrical engineering students in
the senior class at Delaware College
made an inspection trip to several of
the power plants of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company and the Phil
adelphia Electric Company. The first
station visited was the Wyoming
Avenue Station of the Rapid Transit
Company. The equipment of this sta
ton consists of sixteen 700 h. p. double
ended boilers with the Box Automatic
stoker, two cross-compound Corliss en-
gines direct connected to 13, ,20O-volt al
ternators, one small Curtis Turbine
and generator, four Westinghouse-par-
sons turbines and generators, and two
two-stage Parsons turbine and alterna-
tors. At the second station visited,
the Delaware Avenue Station Of the
Rapid Transit Company, the class had
an opportunity to see Westinghouse
double-fow turbine of the latest design
direct connected to a 1880 kv-a. a ter
nator. This was the largest single unit
seen on the trip. In this station also
were two Westinghouse Parsons tur-
bines and one other Westinghouse tur-
bine each directly coupled to alterna-
tors. The steam for this station was
equipped by twelve 700 h. p. and 16-8OO
h. p. Babcock and Wilcox Boilers all
equipped with the Roney Stoker. The
Mount Vernon Street Station of the
Rapid Transit Company was of espe-
cial interest because of the two low
pressure Carts Turbines installed
there. These turbines run on the ex-
haust steam from the five twin-tandem
compound Wetherill Corliss Engines in
this station. The installation of these
turbines in 1905 marked the beginning
of the low pressure turbine in this
country. The SAMSON Street Sub-Sta-
ton of the Rapid Transit Company, an
entirly electric station, contains several
large rotary converters the largest of
which is of 1000 XIV. capacity The
switchboard at this station deserves
special mention because of its conven-
ience and up-to-date equipment and con-
struction. Station B Of the Philadel-
phia Electric Company is almost entire
ly an are-lighting station. Here in one
large room are "a brush arc-lighting
dynamos, all driven by a Hamilton
Corliss Engine. Station A of the Phil
adelphia Electric Company was the last
and by far the largest station visited.
Steam for this station is supplied by
forty 600 h. p. Babcock and Wilcox
Boilers equipped with Taylor under-feed
automatic Stokers. Seven vertical
Curtis Turbines are the soprce of power
for the generation of 80, 900 XIV. at 13,
200 volts. This station is equipped