New Britain herald., 1918-05-13
HOGABOON CHOSEN
 ELECTRO-PLATING CHIEF OF NATION
New Britain Expert Practically COnsCripted As Advisor to War and Navy Departments
SEVERAL YEARS WITH
 P. & F. C0RBIN PLANT

Airplane Construction Revision Ex
 Dcctcd to be First Task. Improved
 Method Having Been Discovered
 Be at Washington and Field Entire
 United States.
 Tho United States government
 through the War and Navy Depart
 ments, has conferred a sigpGl honor
 on George E. Hogaboom of 561 Stan
 ley street and at the same time giv-
 en him an unusual opportunity Of
 serving his country in an important
 office by appointing him as electro
 platter advisor to the military au-
 thorities under the United States
 Bureau of Standards. MT. Hogaboom
 has already been granted an indefinite
 leave of absence by the Scovil Mfg.
 Co. in Waterbury, where he was in the research department, and he will leave tomorrow for Washington, D. C., to begin his new duties:
 Communicated for Service.
 The fact that Mr. Hogaboom has been chosen from a large class of men from all parts of the country, to say nothing of the fact that not only did he not seek the position, but on the other hand once declined it.
 only to be virtually communicated by the government, reflects obvious credit upon his ability and the conf- 0pnPp which tha in his skill and Judgment. Mr. Hoga- boom is one of the best electro-plat- Ing experts in the United States and has written extensive and authorita- tive articles on this subject, some of which have appeared in The Metal Industry, q trade magazine He was for several years connected with the plating department at tho PjA r.. Eorbin division of the American Hard ware corporation and later, when the International Silver Co. in Meriden was disrupted by strikes, he was called there 10 reorganize and es- tablish g. satisfactory electro plat ting system. For the past year or so he has been at the Scovil plant in Wa terbury. where he was one of five men in the research laboratory depart ment. By leaving this concern to take up government work Mr. Hoga- boom has made some little sacrifice. but is glad to be able to serve the country at this time.
 Works for Army and Navy.
 An added fact ref1ecting credit upon him is that the position to which he has been appointed is the first of it's kind ever created in this country and has been made in order to facilitate and expedite the work for the army and navy departments. Practically all metal articles manufactured for the war and navy departments have to be plated, galvanized or sherro- dlzed. AS electro plating advisor it will be Mr. Hogaboom's duty to visit all the war munition plants in the country in his official capacity and a part of his work will be to exn1ain the orders and specifications of the government departments, trained technical men, to the manufacturing men and practical employees MT. new position is that of a thoroughly practical man, with a good technical education, to act as an advisor to both the government and the manufacturer and also to as- sist in the department of specified tions. Inasmuch as MT. Hoga boom's work will be jointly for the army and navy departments it will not be possible to give him either an army or naval rank and he is thus the first civilian to be given a position such as this.
 MT. Hogabloom's headquarters will be in Washington at the Bureau of Standards but hi. work will take him all over the country where he will supervise and advise the electro plating work for Uncle Sam. It is expected that his first assignments will be on airplanc construction as the government is about to speed up -his work and experiments have shown the constructing engineers that a nickel or copper plating of the metal parts of these machines is not any where near as efficient as a certain other method which is about to be used almost exclusively.
 Predicts Great Future for South.
 MT. Hogaboom has just returned rom a six days tour through the south with party of electro platers and while on the trip he visited the manufacturing centers in hat district particularly in the vicin- ty of Chattanooga and Nashville. Tenn, Sheffield, Ala, and the entire district throughout the southern Ap- 1alachian region. He states that prac- ically all of the important electrical minerals are found in vast quanti- ies in these regions, and in addition 70 this vast beds of coal, limestone. ron and other necessary products are 50 closely connected that, in the opin-
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