Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-17
World Famous Engineers Here For Visit; Will
Be Guests OF Association While in Islands
iohn a. 3fashear. Ambrose
SNasey and John Q. Free
man bra Nosed Americans
Who Lead Their Profession

'.'Eree vcFld f2ufoCs engineers ar
rived On ihc S.tcria Maru today and
foF 4 few days Win visit the islands
ihcy are John T. Freeman, John a.
!hri shear and Ambrose Swasey, al
j asst lrcs 1onts Of the American So
cieiS Il Mechanical Engineers.
they have beca around the world
aad are nov completing their tour.
They Wfil remain In laval Until
March "a. and during that time will
he entertained by the Hawaiian En-
FiDeering ssfociation at number OF
affairs. They will be guests al the
Commercial Club and also at the
Country Club.
The association is planning also on
neading representative with these
three great engineers On their visit TO
the ether islands
The visitors are here purely on a
pleasure trip. Mr. Freeman lis accom-
PANIED by two of bis seven sons.
They were met by a committee from
The engineering association consisting
cf w. g. Hall. Carl B. Andrews, n. r..
Hind. S. T. Carr. B. F. Howland. j. NJ.
Young and E. Kopke. The visitors
were taken 10 their hotel. the Moana,
and no special program was arranged
for today.
Tomorrow they will be taken around
the island, stopping al the Coral Gar
Gems. at Hauula for lunch, and at Ha-
leiwa
On Monday at noon they will be
Tire guests Of honor at a Commercial
Club luncheon. where Mr. Brashear
win deliver an address. Members OF
the engineering association will also
attend.
On Monday afternoon they leave for
Maui and after touring the Valley Isle
they will go TO Kilauea, returning here
next Saturday.
e. Kopke will represent the en-
pineerjag association in escorting
them over the islands.
Another big engineer who is visit
ing here. Max Tolz of st. Paul, will be
the guest of the association tomorrow
and Monday. He is the man who de-
signed the great ore-docks at Duluth,
aud personal friend OF DR.. Bra
fhear.
Never has Honolulu been visited by
men more distinguished in lines of
engineering achievement. Each of the
visitors has had q remarkable and
constructive career of accomplish
ment in his chosen field.
John A. Brashear's
Monumental Work
John A. Brashear was horn in
brownsville. Pa. November "a. 1s40.
lils father was saddier. HIS mother
the daughter of Nathaniel Smith, from
whom young Brashear inherited his
taste for science and fnechanics. the
grandfather having constructed one of
lie first telegraphic instruments
made in Western Pennsylvania, and
also succeeded in taking some of the
earliest daguerreotypes.
At II he was apprenticed to the
fattern-making and engine-building
trade at the works OF John Snowden
& Sons, and after finishing his trade
went to Louisville, KY. where he en-
raged In engine.building with the firm
~ Dennis Long & Company.
While he was in Louisville the Civil
War broke out and he came to Pitts
burg. where be took charge of the
machinery OF the Zug & Painter min
IN 1862. In SGT be was asked to tahe
charge CT the machinery in Mcknight.
Duncan & ConIpany's mill. which he
entirely rebuilt after destructive
fire. During his stay at this mill.
isr George Barker of the University OF
Pennsylvania came to Pittsburg 70
rive course Of lectures on the
soectrum analysis, science then in
It's childhood. which Mr. Brashear
card. and as result of which be-
canle so deeply Interested in the sub
,ect that il was not long until he con-
ttructed bisulphide OF carbon prism
End began the study himself.
rerlns Life Work
After seven years with Mcknight.
duncan a Company, his old friend
christopher zug asked him to come
70 his mill again. The offer was ac-
ccpted and he remained with the firm
OF Zug & Company until 1881. when
he yielded to his great desire to con-
xtruct astronomical instruments for
amateurs. particularly in the line of
silyered glass reflecting telescopes,
hich had net yet been made IN this
country exrert by Dr. Henry Draper.
aud decided 10 leave the rolling s-mill
f1f good.
prof. Langley interested
Professor angIey early became in
terested in Ngr. Brashear's work and
entrusted him with q number OF i'm
lortant pieces of apparatus, among
them his accurate mirrors, solar
storage energy apparatus, ctc At the
tine Professor Langley was making
hie ssfrdv OF the selectiye absorption
sf the earth's atmosphere and its re-
,stjon ~ organic life uDon the earth.
10 required accurate rock salt lenses
md prisms. which had not been made
,.;tl, n,e precision demanded until the
,.roblem was solved by Mr.. Brashear.
The method was given to the scien-
rife world in paper read before the
American Association OF Science about
,SSs 7 I.angley,s memorable researches
IN this great fed made him famous,
pnd he nsver failed to give Mr.. Bra.
shear fair share Of the credit OF