The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-06
u & NAVY ADVISORS
 ASSEMBLE

 chairman, met here today for tho first lime, with Secretary 1o8eplius pon- iels. of the navy dcpartment
 The board is proceeding to enect an organization and lay plans for It's fu. ture work and for conferences with naval experts ou tho problems of de- fense, now before Che navy depart ment
 Most of the board's twonty-one members. as well as the advisory council department were present when Chairman Edison called tho meeting to order
 Wilson Weloomeo Them.
 President Wilson today struck out straight from tho shoulder for greater In his address of to Che new naval advisory board, at the White House, when he called upon them to unite with the government In establishing a nation al defense that win command the re- spect of the entire world"
 'T think the whole nation is com vinced that we ought to be prepared, not for war. but for defense, and very adequately prepared" said the Pres ident. 'I want you to feel that we have O very serious purpose. We have not asked you Go associate your self with us except for tho most dea- nite and practical purpose, and to get you to give us your best independent thoughts on how to make ready for any duty that may fan upon the na- don."
 The Board Members
 The members of the board and the societies. which nominated them. fol- low:
 American Aeronauticai Society - Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn, ordnance and explosive expert and maker of the first explosive powder adopted by the United States government; Mat thew Bacon Sellers, Baltimore, author ity on aeronautics. and the first to determine the dynamic pressure on arched surfaces by means of the wind funnels."
 American Society of Automobile En- glneers-Howard E. Coffin. Detroit. Mich. and Andrew J. Riker, Bridge port. Conn. inventors. automobile con- structers and now vice presidents of large automobile manufacturing com panies.
 The Inventors Guild Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt. New York, inventor of appliances for telephones, hydro planes. aeroplanes. balloons and cleo trio lights. and Thomas Robbins, Conn. inventor of many mechanical devices, including the belt oonveyor for coal and ore; served in Inc New York naval reserve and ob- served military conditions at the front In France during the present WILT
 American Chemical Society-Dr w. R. Whitney, Schenectady. N. Ys ere ltor and director of the research la- 5oratory of the General Electric Com oany: L. H. Baekeland, Yonkers, N. r.. a native of Belgium, famed partic- ularly for the invention of a photo graphic paper.
 Edlson's Asslstant Too.
 American Institute of American Julian sprague, of New York. an early assistant of Edi- son. who directed the building of the iirst successful electric trolley rail. ways In the United States. Italy. Ger many, and equipped the first electri- cally trained gun for the navy; Benia. min c. Lamme, Pittsburgh, inventor and head of @ committee which pass es upon all Westinghouse inventions Lamme was born ct Springfield, Ohio in 1864.
 American Mathematical Society," Robert Sampson Woodward, president of the Carnegie Institute at Washing ton. D. C.. and authority on astron- omy. geography and mathematical physics; pr. Arthur Gordon Webster. Mass, professor of phys ics at Clark University. inventor and the leading authority in America on sound.
 American Society of Civil Engineers Andrew Murray Hunt. New York, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. and experienced in devel- opment Of hydro-eiectric steam and gas plants. Alfred Craven, New York son of an American Rear Admiral. and now chief engineer of the New York Public Service Commission
 The American Institute of Mining Engineers-William Lawrence saun- ders. New York. inventor and engln. eer. former newspaper and magazine editor and former mayor Of Plainea- field. N. D.. and Benjamin Bowditch Thayer. New York, metallurgist and explosive expert, and now president of the Anaconda Mining Co.
 Richards and Addleko Chosen
 The American Eleclro.chemical SO ciety-Dr. Joseph William Richards, South Bethlehem. Penn. professor of at LehlNh University and Lawrence Addicks. Chrome, N. J. me tallureical engineer and President of the American Flectro-chemicai socie. ty
 The American Society of Chemical Engineere- William LeRoy Emmet Schenectady N. Y., engineer and in. ventor and first serious promoter ol electric ship propulsion. having con. ducted the recent epoch-making sor- les of experiments on the naval col. Her Iupiter and Spencer Miller, of souih Orange N Js inventor of ap.