The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14
TO SERVE PUBLIC
Kansas Engineers Aim Is to
Give Better Service.
Delegates in Topeka From All
Sections of State.
MAYOR WELCOMES THEM HERE
p. L. BrockWay Is Chief Speaker
Before Convention.
cessful in History.


THE chief end of the organization
of the engineers of Kansas is to in
crease their power of service to the
public" p. L. Brockway city engineer
of Wichita and vice president of. the
Kansas Engineering society, declared
today in his response to the address
of welcome to the members of the
society given by Mayor H. ]. Corwine.
In the report of the secretary-treas-
urer of the society, Jason NJ. Averill,
OF Topeka, 1t was pointed out that the
year 122 has shown the greatest
growth in the membership of the So
ciety. which any year has ever shown.
Averill stated that the society now has
an active membership of 225 en-
gineers.
Program Tonight and Friday.
The registration for the early ses-
than fifty. but the afternoon trains
are expected to bring many more en-
gineers to the city for the program of
this afternoon, tonight and Friday.
Later in the day the Kansas section
of the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers will meet and adjourn for a
business meeting Friday evening.
Welcomed by Mayor Corwine.
The engineers were welcomed to
Topeka by Mayor Herbert j. Corwine.
at, $3.50 o'clock this morning, and i'm
mediateIy entered upon the business
of hearing committee reports and the
appointment of convention commit
tees.
The meeting of the engineers is be-
ing presided over by Lloyd B. Smith.
president of the society. The first
committee to report on an engineer
ing topic this morning was the COM
mittee on bridges, of which Ira F.
Taylor, county engineer of Mitchell
county, is chairman. The committee
report included a paper on Eco
nomicaI Floor Systems and Reinforce
ment of Steel Bridges Existing in Kan
sas," by Taylor, and special papers
by other members of the committee.
A written report from the commit
tee on building construction, by r. E.
Seamell, Topeka architect, chairman
of the committee, followed
stations, of which George C. Schaad,
of the engineering faculty of the Uni
versity of Kansas, made a report. in
Guiding papers on ''The Treatment of
Boiler Feed Water" by J. H Mullison.
of Hutchinson, and J. n. He1pbringer,
of Wichita.
Report on Drainage Problems.
The last committee report before
the lunch hour was on drainage and
flood protection, by Clark E. Jacoby.
of Kansas City.
This afternoon, in addition to the
address of the president. Lloyd B.
Smith, on present Problems of the
Engineering Profession" committee
reports from the committees on: cleo
trio power transmission, E. c. Curtis.
Wichita, ,N~chairman; fuels, j. P Cal
derwood. Manhattan, chairman; high
ways. L. E. Curfman, chairman, |
manufacturing industries, Charles P.
Buck, Topeka, chairman; irrigation
George s. Knapp. state irrigation com
chairman; masonry and
concrete, Roy A. Seaton. dean of the
engineering division of the Kansas |
State Agricultural college, Manhattan, |
materials of construction, |
r. d. Conrad, professor of engineering |
at the state agricultural. college, Man |
haitian, chairman.
To Hold Banquet Tonight.
Tonight the engineers will hold a |
banquet at the Chamber of Commerce, |
followed by two moving picture films |
showing a new blue-printing process |
by E. L. Jester, chief blue printer of |
he Santa FTe railroad, and a new con- |
crete piling used in river bank pro- |
lection.
Preceding the moving pictures. Judge |
w. l.. Higgins, of. the state court of /
Industrial relations, will speak on '"The |
Did Government and the New Indus
ry."
The engineers program for Friday |
Includes committee reports from COM
mittee on pavement, petroleum. prod
lcts, railroads. refrig GRAFTON, sewerage
md stream pollution surveys, tele-
ohony and signalling, valuation, water
power, waterwCrks, and water puri-
ication, and a trip thru the new To-
leka water publication plant west of /
he city.
The convention will close with a
business session at which officers for
he coming year will be elected, at +
} clock Friday afternoon.