The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-07
Rensselaer, Engineers
 In Military Service

Troy, N. r., Dec. 7.-Twenty per cent, of the living graduates and the student body of the Rensselaer, Poly- technic Institute, the oldest engineer ing college in the United States, are already in the service of this coun- try and its Allies in the world war;
 according to an incomplete survey just made by The Polytechnic, the monthly publication of the under
 graduates. These embrace men eers of the world-in almost every
 branch of the service. both Army and Navy, on government commissions,
 bureaus, war boards and the Coun-
 cil of National Defense, in the Ord nance Department, at the U. S. Ar senals, in munitions and explosive
 manufactures, the construction of training camps, barracks, Navy yards, and in building, aviators, radio operators and ambulance service, but
 by far the majority is in the various
 engineering corps and battalions of the army.
 Among the best known are Rear Admiral Merdecai T. Endicott, U. S. N., member of the Isthmian Canal Commission with General Goethels and engineer of terminal construction
 on the Panama Canal; Rear Admiral
 P. c. Prindle, U. S. N.,; Major Henry W. Hodge, former State Public Ser vice Commissioner in New York City, and one of the leading bridge engin- eers in France with General Persh- ing; Gabriel R. Solomon, supervision
 engineer, on military camp construc- ton in the South, Major B. W. Bank CT of the U. s. Marine Corps; Major
 Richard S. Buck, recently of the New
 York Railways Company, now in
 France; Major Conway B. Hunt, for
 merly engineer of highways of the
 District of Columbia; Major John H.
 Watson, c. B. of New York; Com mander C. Wellman Parks, U. s. N.,
 recently public works officer at Pearl
 Harbor, Hawaii and many others.
 The present service list includes | three Heutanant- Colonels, nine Ma DOTS, sixty-three First Leutenants
 and thirty-two Second Lieutenants in
 the army, besides three Admirals, two Commanders, three Leutenant-Com- manders; ten Lieutenants, five En- signs and four Junior Engineers in
 the, United States Navy. More than
 thirty of the engineers are known to
 be serving in France, beside nine in
 the American Ambulance Service, and I15 are already in the aviation ser vice in this country and in Europe. Word has just been received in lTroy that Lancelot l.. Johnson, class
 of 1907, Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti- | ro1n nf qfna1 company at Reading, Pa., is at sa-
 vona, British Columbia, recovering
 from a hip wound and gas poisoning
 received April 8 last at the taking of
 Vimy Ridge in France by the Cana dians, with whom he was serving as I a Lieutenant of Engineers. He receiv-
 ed the Military Cross of France for bravery. He is the second Institute graduate to be thus honored, Lang ford T. Alden, class of 1909, having
 received a war cross last summer for bravery in the American Ambulance
 service in France. W. W. Gibson, TT, is flying with the Lafayette EsQua-
 drille in France and G. H. Burrows, P19, was recently wounded while in Service as an aviator at Verdun. lCharles A. Wall, Jr., is the first grad uate to be killed, having met his
 death in an aviation accident at Buff
 falo while a member of the U. s. Sig
 nal Corps.
 As the successful prosecution of modern warfare depends much upon
 scientific devices and engineering
 skill, the ranks of the engineers and engineering students are being drawn
 upon for service in larger proportion
 than any other profession. Added to the host of American engineers al- lready engaged, or soon to be, in the
 problem of transportation, supply dis tribution, water systems, railways,
 roads and bridges, artillery and trench dispositions, mining, aviation, signal ling and communication service, of
 the overseas expeditionary forces, will
 be that other large group of engin-
 eers, civil, mechanical and electrical,
 and chemists engaged in the prob
 lems of war, productions, munitions and supplies in this country.
 l rhosa 1ahor men who fin this crisis