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Mechanical Department News
WESTINQHOUSE SOCIETY.
Through

tho courtesy of tho

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cinnati agent of the Westlnghouse
Electric ft Manufacturing Company,
the members of the WoBtlnghouso So
clety were presented with 1916 diaries
and a number of circulars and books
on tho Westlnghouse Air Brake.
At last Saturday's meeting P.
gave an illustrated talk on the
modern air brake, telling of the history, development and other points of
tho brake.
J. H. Milton gave a review of the
development of mechanical and electrical power In 1915, calling special attention to the electrification of railways and other great projects.
Officers will bo elected at tho next
meeting,
January 29th, and Mr.
Dicker will address tho members on
"Pattern Making," as the class in
shop will take up this phase of work
soon, all members are urged to be
present.
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EDISON-JOUL-

At the regular meeting of the
Society last Wednesday the
following interesting and instructive
program was given:
Br. Bauer "The Modern Efficiency
Engineer."
H. L. Milward "Hell Gate Bridge."
R. L. Waterflll "The Heating Value of Live and Exhaust Steam."
C.
H. Timmer "Earthquakes in
General."
S.
B.
Owens "Manufacture
of
Glass."
At the next meeting of the society,
the election of the officers for the
coming, semester will be held. A lecture will be an interesting feature of
this program, the speaker to be announced later.
Edison-

-Joule

A. S. M. E.

The report of the Chicago Association of Commerce Committee of Investigation on Smoke Abatement and
Electrification of Railway Terminals
was the topic for discussion at the
January 14th meeting of the State
University
of Kentucky
Student
Branch.
W. H. Dlx, M. G. Horton, A. B.
Huff, R. E. Hundley and Miss Margaret Ingels presented an outline of
the report, giving the reasons for
making the investigation, the data secured, the results obtained as shown
graphically and
conclusions
the
drawn from the preceding.
This report 1b especially Interest

ing to tho Seniors, who annually make
an Inspection trip to Chicago and vicinity. Tho Information given In tho
roport on tho Industrial and transportation conditions in Chicago, tho problem of purifying tho atmosphere, nnd
the solution of Chicago transportation
difficulties are all of great interest In
assisting in a more complete knowledge of what to look for on the inspection trip.

Business is humming.

The

metal

industries of the United States, and
the large companies manufacturing
inmetal products all engineering
dustrials are in an era of prosperity
never before so promising. It is difficult to realize this in Lexington,
since in this purely agricultural cen
ter we are far away from the centers
of trade and industry, and any great
wave of industrial prosperity comes
to us in our secluded fjord as gentle
ripples that carry no idea of their
mighty origin.
On the third of this month a letter
was received from B. F. Safberg,
superintendent of the Barberton plant
of the Babcock and Wilcox Company,
the largest manufacturers of water-tub- e
steam boilers in the world. This
company has a high regard for the
graduates of the Kentucky College of
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and would emplqy six more at
once if it were possible to secure
them. The letter follows:

!

Agrrrmrnt I will agree to press FIVE suits within each calendar
month starting the 1st day of January 1916 to the 1st day of June
1916 for $3.00 to any one joining the pressing club, providing I
get five hundred members before Januory 1, 1916.
MEMBERSHIP TO THIS CLUB WILL

NOT

BE CLOSED

UNTIL
CALL

JANUARY 15

AT

Becker's Pressing Club
Lim and register or phono
and havo our roproMntativo, call on you

Cotmt High and South
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Young Men's Clothing'
The Kind for the College Man
$15 to $35
A Special Offer in
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UP-TO-DA-

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Next

Tailor Made Suits at

PRESSING

ON ACCOUNT

Hardesty's
Quality
Shop

C. A. Sansom, a Junior in this college, has accepted a position with tho
Babcock & Wilcox Company, at
Ohio. He leaves immediately
to start to work for this great boiler
company, and will probably not return
to finish tho rest of the courso here.
Tho opportunity is a good one.
R. D. Puckett, class 1915, who is at
present assistant electrical inspector
for the Saxon Motor Company, of Detroit, visited the University last week.
"You have in the past recommended
He is on a two weeks' vacation, recovering from a severe case of grippe. and sent to us a number ot very likePuckett's address in Detroit is 361 ly and promising young men from
On some special
your graduates.
Meldrum Avenue.
work now under preparation we have
iH. L. Ferlng, a Junior in the Me- an opportunity to use to good advantchanical Department of the Kentucky age six or eight college students, unUniversity, has accepted a position trained or with some slight previous
with the Babcock & Wilson Boiler training. If you know of any students
Company at Barbertown, O. He will who are looking for positions or are
take up his work within a few days. desirous of changing position, we shall
Several men from the Mechanical be very much obliged if you will take
Department are now employed by the the trouble to notify them, asking
company.
them to communicate with us. We
are in need of this help immediately,
and anything you can do for us will
THE ENGINEER'S OUTLOOK.
be very much appreciated."

Twelve Cents Per Suit
FORj

I

Student

Hats Best on Earth

Sending "Blue" Letters.
How easy it is when you feel
gloomy and depressed to sit down and
limestone
write out your troubles that another
Most State men know ua.
may sympathize with you. How easy
Meal Tickets.
Let us meet you
and how selfish! Long before the
letter is received the "blues" have
vanished. Yet the sympathetic friend OUR BASKETS OF FRUIT
is troubled. He tries to aid you long
after you need no aid. He takes your cTWAKE LOVELY GIFTS
burdens upon his shoulders. If there
is an actual burden, if the despondency is not caused by a momentary fit
of indigestion or unpleasant weather
your genuine friend will be glad to aid
you if he can. But to trouble a friend Where all is Well and Good
Candy
Hot Chocolate, Home-mad- e
because of a passing mood is deand Ices
spicable. Highland Park (la.)
Several other companies and engihave written
neering organizations
lately in the endeavor to secure KenTHE NEW
Among the new buildings at the
tucky graduates of mechanical and
University of Minnesota there is a litSargent and
electrical engineering.
tle theatre, with a seating capacity
Lundy, consulting engineers of Chia for
of 300.
cago, have written for two men to enIT FITS THE CRAVAT
ter their office. This firm of engiStudents at Wellesley have decided
neers ranks as one of the prominent to "eschew the inclination to practice
consulting and designing organiza- vulgarisms
and colloquialisms
of
every description," because the said
tions of this country.
The General Electric Company has slang gets them in bad with people
lately written to know if any of the that are not hep to it.
members of the 1914 or 1915 classes
i
of this college could be secured to
enter the Testing Department of this
company at Schenectady. Two men
are required immediately.

Martin & Stockwell's
Restaurant

Phoenix Fruit Store

McGURK'S

GOTHIC

ARROW

2c COLLAR

Phone

The Florida East Coast Line has
applied for a young engineering graduate to learn tho business and qualify
for promotion to an executive capacity, but no one was available.
company, manuA Pennsylvania
facturing power plant specialties, has
just written for a graduate of the
Kentucky College of Mechanical Engineering to enter the company and
work up through the various departments, including three factories and
the home office. The vice president
and general manager of this company
wrote to the local college at the sug
gestion of N. G. Symonds, manager
of the Chicago office of the Westing- house Machine Co., who has been well
pleased with the Kentucky engineers
employed by this company.
The American Tobacco Company at
the Durham, North Carolina, plant,
has just employed a member of the
112 class to superintend the design,
construction, and testing of a humidifying system. The place made vacant by this change has been immediately filled by another Kentucky man.
This Increased demand for mechanical and electrical engineers indicates
undoubtedly the prosperity ot American Industrials.

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FOR COLLEGE MEN AND WOMEN.

Visit us and see our excellent lines. Special attention to University
peeple.

S.

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The University Store.
Corner Limestone and Winslow

Lunch Counter Open Seven Days and Nights
Especially on Sunday
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