Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-21
Delegates Are at Fort Myer
This Afternoon Witnessing
Drill of 9Th Cavalry.
CONVENTION GETS DOWN
TO REAL WORK TODAY
Pans for Banquet Tomorrow Night
Nearly Complete-Gen. Harries
to Be POSTMASTER.

President Wilson at noon today re-
ceived the several hundred delegates
Who are in Washington attending the
ninth annual convention of the Illumi-
mating Engineering Society. which
opened its sessions at the New Will
lard Hotel yesterday. 1t had been plan
ned TO hold the reception at 2:30 o'clock
this afternoon. but by request of the
President the hour was advanced. Ow
Ing to the changed hour many of the
women of the party, who were upon
shopping and sightseeing tours of the
city. missed seeing the President.
This afternoon the delegates and
their wives are at Fort Myer. witness
ing a special drill of the 5th Cavalry.
The convention got down to real work
today. following the informal recep-
ton. entertainment and dance given
at the New Willard last night. Mrs. z.
s. NARROW was chairman of the wom-
ems reception committee in charge of
the affair
At the general session this morning
W. F. Little read the first paper, THE
Use of Portable Photometers" Other
papers heard included COMPENSATED
Test Plate for Illumination Photome-
tiers, by c. II. Sharp and NJ. Little;
The Lighting of Ships" by H. A. Hor-
ner. and THE Lighting of Passenger
Steamer by H. T. Spaulding.
District of Columbia Lights Topic.
The feature of the street lighting
session at SIS o'clock tonight will be a
paper by Walter c. Allen. electrical
engineer of the District. upon 1.-The Or
namental Street Lighting System of the
District of Columbia" In this paper
4 Il.
incandescent electric lighting of 18th,
9Th and 18th streets and of Pennsyl-
wanna avenue, with attention paid to
the luminous arc lamp lighting on
Pennsylvania avenue from LIST to 18th
streets. and upon F and g streets from
9TH to 18th streets, and on the cross
streets between G street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
Street Lighting With Gas Lamps"
Will be the subject of paper by c. S.
Barrows. Other papers will b. "Arc
Lamps for Street Illumination c. A.
B. Halvorson: New Types of Incan-
descent Lamps and Their Relation to
the Street Lighting Problem" w H.
Robinson, and "A Practical Application
of the Principles of Scientific Street
Lighting" by f. A. Vaughn.
Completing Banquet Plans.
Plans for the banquet at the New
Willard Hotel tomorrow night are
nearly complete. Gen. George H. Har-
ries is to act as POSTMASTER, and the
list of speakers will include Commits
sioner Kutz, c. p. King, Dr. A. S. Nc
Allister and DR.. Charles p. Steinmetz.
DR.. Steinmetz is expected to arrive in
Washington today, and the delegates
are looking forward to his participa-
ton in the discussions this evening.
Another prominent Illuminating ex-
pert who arrived today was DIR. F. NJ.
Feiker of New York
The automatic lighting of life buoys
when they are cast into the sea at
night was discussed by Mr.. Horner this
morning in his paper upon the lighting
of ships one of the many applica-
lions of lighting. subject to almost
endless development.
Varied and Interesting Field.
In closing Mr.. Horner said. in part:
In ship lighting the illuminating en-
gineer has a large, varied and inter
esting field opened before him. The
work was hardly begun and will prob
ably never end as long as men main
tain their commercial intercourse and
strive for Il closer world family. From
the fundamental quest for cheaper.
more efficient and satisfactory illumi-
nant To the most expensive. elaborate
AID luxurious application of light the
engineer finds on vessel very nearly
every problem encountered on land.
although il may be well to consider
that on shipboard there are decks in
stead of tioors bulkheads instead of
partitions, and no ceilings, for they
are all decks, whether overhead or
under foot. still light must be pro-
Vided for libraries, dining rooms, kitch-
ems tcalled galleys), machine shops.
:5torerooms. bathrooms. gvmnasiums.
lutcher shops, refrigerating plant
Staterooms, exterior spaces, indoor ten
mis- courts, roof gardens, swimming
pools. theaters and streets (called pas
ACCOMPLISHMENTS which run not only
on the horizontal plane, but also on
the vertical. and ceaselessly change
their course"