The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-16
VALUE OF WARRIOR |S TOLD ENGINEERS PASSING THROUGH,
Prominent Members of Ma tionaI Society Are Enter
 tained Here

Directors of the American Society of Civil Engineers and their wives were entertained at banquet at the Tutwiler hotel Sunday evening during a stop-over en route to New Orleans to attend the spring meet ing of the society, survey of the river and harbor problems of the lower Mississippi. The visitors ar rived from Muscle Shoals at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening and were met at the station by members of the Alabama Technical society.
 The party has been travelling in private cars and were shown the dam at Muscle Shoals during Saturday and early Sunday. They left for New Or leans at 1o:3o o'clock Sunday night. after an automobile ride over the city.
 Prominent engineers in the party included Charles F. Loeth, president of the society and chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway; c. E. Grunsky. vice pres ident of the society, and consulting engineer Of the city of San Francisco; the society, and consulting engineer of the rapid transit commission of New York, and John H. Dunlap, sec retary of the society.
 Members of the board of directors
 in the party were: B. l.. Brown, con sulting engineer of the St. Louis and Missouri railroad Col. J. P. Hogan, consulting engineer of the New York Central railroad: Frank Darrow, as sistant engineer of the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy railroad; J. M. Chester, consulting engineer of the city of Pittsburg; A. H. Dyer of the National Bridge company, F. D.. NY i,,f n nd mt of supply of the city of Providence. R. l.; J. J. Yates. bridge engineer tf New York state and of the bridge and tun- mel commis ssion of the New York Cen tral; l.. T. Condron, consulting engl- neer of Chicago; A. N. Talbot, depart University of Illinois: G. H. Tenkell, superintendent and general manager of water supply of Detroit, and Glen D. Htlmes, consulting engineer of the Syracuse sewer board of Syracuse, N. Y. DeBnrdeIeben Speaks.
 H. r. DeBardeleben gave the wis itors a history of the. Warrior river and it's possibilities in moving prod ucts through the port of Mobile by this river. Prior to his talk, blue prints of the state showng the water ways were distributed, to which Mr. DeBardeleben referred.
 'Inere are three IidiH W a VI " o' in the state" said Mir. DeBardeleben "Gne serving the north, one originat- ing from the east and flowing through the agricultural sections, and the Warrior river. which rises within the state and serves the sec tion in the Birmingham district. The river transports annually tonnage of approximately. Ii. 100000 tons, d. .yided between steel. iron. lumber, ce- ment and other products of the BIT mingham district. while the return tonnage is practically equally bal anced in sugar. manganese ore ana other material from the coast ports.
 Frank Crockard. president or the Woodward Iron company. gave very comprehensive talk on the amounts of minerals and coaf'found in Birmingham. His talk, was espe- cialIy Interesting to the visitors. as many of them had never been south' and he gave them figures that were compelling in their magnitude.
 Short talks were made by MT. Loeth. Mir. Ridgeway, Mir. chester and Professor Talbot.
 Among the ladies in the party were: Mrs. Loeth and two daughters Miss Grunsky. Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Holland, Miss Talbot and Mrs Holmes.