Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-14
ENGINEERS
!. IN ANNUAL MEETING
Reports of Standing Committees
and Addresses by Experts
= Bring Out Much Of Practical
Value to Members of State So
ciety-The New officers.

=. darlington was we'll engineered
yesterday and last night, for more
Than SO members of the Vermont 80
i, tiety of Engineers held their sixth an
,nual business meeting and banquet IN
this city.
+, At the opening session in the morn
ing there was an election of officers
Ind reports from standing committees
this meeting being at the roof garden
'pf the Hotel Vermont The oncers
chosen were: President, B. NJ Hayward
Of Montpelier, research engineer or the
Central Vermont railway valuation de-
partment; vice president. j. w. Votey
of Burlington, dean of the college of
engineering at the University of YER
. mont: vice president detected last year
for two years. c. F. Purington of Bur-
. lington, manager of the Leader Evap-
orator company; secretary. q. A. Reed
of Montpelier, assistant State engineer;
treasurer, L. Il. Dix of Northfield. pro-
fessor of civil engineering at Norwich
Fl. University; directors. c. A. Slayton OF
. Morrisville. superintendent of Norris
willie Electric company; directors (elect-
/. ed last year for two years) F. w. Dem
.ynison of st, Adams, assistant engineer
. of the Central Vermont railway; e. ID.
blackwell of Brandon, electrical engi-
Aneer.
e In the reports of the standing COM
snittee some interesting facts and fg-
sures were brought out that were or
Is especial value to engineers OF various
technical positions In their work our
ing this time Of stress The commit
,tee of public policy, was reported by
Edward Robinson of the Uni
diversity of Vermont who urged better
delivery from various railroad termi-
nails of the State The committee on
roads and pavements. and their de-
velopment in Vermont. especially Tor
military use, that committee consist
, ing of F. o. Lee, c. s. Carlton and Pro-
.fessor 4. Z. Dix, strongly advocated
the rebuilding of the highways OF the
Estate in view of the military needs. K.
''E. Flanders of Springfield reported for
the committee on power development,
mechanical and electrical science. talk
Ing on new developments in mechani-
- cal apparatus and appliances. while
Prof f. e. Austin of Hanover. N. H..
spoke on the electrif1cation OF rail-
roads H. d. Larrabee of the Tenney
Electrical company at Montpelier read
= n paper on Power Development in
vermont" For the committee on rail-
roads and structural engineering. F. r.
?. Stevens Of the valuation department of
the Rutland railroad spoke on ''valua-
ton Work" Prof. L. e. Dix of North
field reported for the committee on
sanitation and public health. taking as
his subject, Sewage Publication by
Electricity"
rt INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESSES.
a. A most interesting address was given
at the afternoon session by Capt. G. l..
= Byrode, professor of military science and
tactics at Norwich University, his sub
ject being ITO the Trenches and Back in
Less Than An Hour" Captain Byrode
/. nspoke of the arrangements and engi-
s. neering of the trench construction. of the
i fbarbed wire and other methods of de-
.. Tense, the various guns, their calibre
ln:n-'''' and '''''''" Of each ''''s'
& Modern Fire proof Buildings was tn
subject Of the address at the evening SEES
sion by Charles H. Nichols Of New York
this gathering being in a lecture hall o
the Williams Science hall at the Univer
= sity of Vermont. He stated that the fire
70 skeleton constructed building. which
g forms the basis Of the modern fire proof
= buildings, was erected in Chicago In 1888
= v and that in 1881 in New York the skeleton
~, form Of construction was started in on,
- of the buildings, but was not carried
= through the CONSTITUTIONAL plan. In 1885,
q the Tower building was constructed IL
- New York city and this building was tn
:. FIRST modern skeleton constructed fire
proof building ever erected. These fire
proof buildings were largely constructe'
= as the result of the science and skill
:, = of the engineering profession Of the coun
try which was making rapid strides il
knowledge daily. His lecture was illus
trated with views Of CONSTITUTIONAL work
drawings of buildings already erected am
to be erected soon.
-" A. e. Winslow, the retiring president
d, gave his annual address, taking for hi
- subject 1.-THE Engineer Of day." fol
-fiowing the lecture by Mr.. Nichols, an,
~ this lecture closed the session. Presiden
-r Winslow brought out the many phase
~ Of the engineering feats of to-day in tn
az present war and in industrial construc
" tional work.
~ A banquet was held at the Hotel Yer
d - mont at $50 o'clock last night, just pre-
~ ceding the evening session.