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Oct. 1924 INSTITUTE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 997
Electric Co. He was formerly Sales Engineer, Jas. J. Niven & Co., Ltd., of that city.
J. H. TADLOCK has resigned his position as Designing Engineer in the alternating current department of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, Ν. Y., and is at present assistant to the resident engineer on Stone and Webster's Baker River project at Concrete, Washington.
H. P. MATHIEU has resigned from The American Bridge Company and with R. L. Morgan, recently of Tulsa, Okla., has opened a plumbing and electrical contracting firm under the name of Morgan and Mathieu Plumbing and Electrical Company, located at 1318 Willard Avenue, Houston, Texas.
HAWLEY 0. TAYLOR, recently head of the Electrical Department of Franklin Union, Boston, and formerly Consulting Physicist, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C , has been appointed head of the Physics Department and supervising head of Mathematics and Chemistry at John Brown University, Sulphur Springs, Ark.
M. F. CLEMENT has become manager of the Orange County Public Service Co., Inc., Middletown, Ν. Ϋ. He was formerly electrical engineer with Chas. H. Tenney & Co., Boston, Mass.
T. H. DILLON has left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and is now Professor of Public Utility Management, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.
PROFESSOR G. W. OSBORN HOWE, of Glasgow University, was a caller at Institute headquarters, New York, September 13. Professor Howe, who was president of the Engineering Section at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Toronto, August 6-13, made brief visits to various places in the United States prior to sailing for home on September 20.
OSCAR S. TYSON and L. W. SEELIGSBERG have incorporated O. S. Tyson and Company, Inc., to conduct an advertising agency with offices in the Hudson Terminal Buildings, 50 Church Street, New York! Mr. Tyson, President of this organization, recently resigned as Vice-President of the Rickard and Company advertising agency. He was formerly Eastern Sales Manager of Electrical World and Eastern Advertising Manager of Factory
Magazine.
FARLEY OSGOOD, president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, has resigned as vice-president of the Public Service Electric and Gas Company of N. J. in charge of electrical operation. Announcement of the resignation and its acceptance "with deep regret" was made by Thomas N. McCarter, president of the Public Service Company, who said: "After leaving the service of the company Mr. Osgood plans to take a well-earned vacation. He will visit California in connection with his duties as president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. On his return he will undertake certain engineering work of the highest importance to several large electrical companies, of which the Public Service is one."
O B I T U A R Y
JOHN MAYHEW ELWELL, an Associate of the Institute, died after an illness of one day on August 28th at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. Mr. Mayhew had been connected with the Philadelphia Electric Co. since 1907 and was at his office when stricken.
LAWRENCE BIRKS, Chief Electrical Engineer, Hydroelectric Branch, Public Works Dept., Wellington, New Zealand, passed away during the summer. Mr. Birks has been acting as Local Honorary Secretary of the Α. I. Ε. E. for New Zealand since February, 1922. He joined the Institute as an Associate in 1911 and was transferred to Member in 1913. Mr. Birks was born in Adelaide, Australia on May 19, 1874. He graduated from Prince Alfred College, Adelaide 1891, University of Adelaide 1894, University College, London 1896. He then served as Asst. Prof, of Engineering at the Heriot Watt College, Edin
burgh, Scotland, 1896-97. From 1900-03 he was Asst. Electrical Engineer of the Sydney, N. S. W. electric tramways, in 1904 City Electrical Engineer of Christchurch, Ν. Z. In 1906 Mr. Birks entered the employ of the New Zealand government as engineer and in 1911 was appointed Asst. Elec. Engineer in charge of development of water power throughout the dominion, in which branch of government service he remained, finally becoming Chief Electrical Engineer in 1919.
OSCAR DUANE SMALLEY, Instructor of Electrical Engineering, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, died on September 8th. Prof. Smalley received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska, and during the war was connected with the Air Service in France. Since his return he-has held positions with the American Electric Co., St. Joseph,. Mo., and with V. L. Hollister, Lincoln, Nebraska, later joining the faculty of Iowa State College.
T H E L A T E S T I D E A S I N I L L U M I N A T I O N
The first meeting of the New York Electrical Society for the administrative year 1924-25 promises to be unusually interesting. The Director of the Lighting Research Laboratory, National Lamp Works, Cleveland, Mr. Luckiesh, will explain some of the very latest ideas that have been developed in the illuminating field. He will show among other things how artificial lighting has not kept pace with its rapidly decreasing cost and the increasing standards of living, prove daylighting indoors costs as much as artificial lighting and is less satisfactory and will discuss the quality of light with relation to the human being from several viewpoints. In connection with new data on the effect of quantity of light on our ability to see he intends to show that the most effective intensities are many times those with which we are ordinarily familiar in artificial lighting. Mr. Luckiesh will accompany his talks by interesting demonstrations and will test the speed of vision of the audience. This is believed to be the first time such a test has been attempted. Engineers interested are cordially invited to attend. The meeting will be held in the Auditorium, Engineering Societies Bldg., 33 West 39th St., New York at 8 p. m. on Thursday, October 23, 1924.
E N G I N E E R I N G S O C I E T I E S E M P L O Y M E N T S E R V I C E
The results of the past fiscal year just closed, of the Engineering Societies Employment Service are most encouraging. It has been the aim of the National Societies to improve and extend the service and also to make it self-supporting, and that ambition is now beginning to be realized.
The contributions from men placed have gradually increased each month, reaching a total of a little over $6000 for the past year. Subscriptions to the Employment Bulletin have also increased, bringing in a revenue of some $16,000. These two amounts, together with the amount appropriated by the four National Engineering Societies, give the Bureau an income of $30,000. Nearly a thousand men were placed during the year.
The total expenditures for the year were approximately at the rate of $22,000, leaving a balance of some $8000. It is planned now to engage an assistant with qualifications especially fitted for this service and to utilize a part of this money as a beginning of a working capital for both the improvement and the expansion of the employment service, which has so long been the program of the National Societies. The majority of men placed are now in turn contributing to the support of the bureau, and it is hoped to establish branch offices of the service in several of the large cities so as to be of benefit not only to a greater number, but to a greater extent in other districts and make the service more definitely national in scope.
The Directors, consisting of the Secretaries of the Four National Societies of Civil, Mining, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, are now at work upon the organization of branch offices.
