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T H E J O U R N A L OF I N D U , S T R I A L A.VD ESGIATEEKIATG CHEIMISTRI'.
Wm. P. Buchanan, a prominent chemist of Philadelphia, died on September 23rd as the result of burns sustained during an explosion of flash-light powder with which he was experimenting.
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professor of chemistry at the Alabama State University.
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Mr. Earle 0. Whittier has been appointed instructor in chemistry a t the University of Maine.
Dr. Davenport Fisher, formerly professor of chemistry a t the Annapolis Naval Academy, lately consulting chemist in Milwaukee, was killed b y a street car on October 11th at the age of 80 years.
Dr. Alex. Findlay, special lecturer a t the Gniversity of Birmingham, has been appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Wales.
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The Eastern Blau Gas Co. has commenced erecting its new works at Portland, Me.
Mr. Herbert T. Salmonde has been appointed chemist and bacteriologist at the Memdale filters, in Springfield, Ill. He is leaving the Chicago Board of Health t o take up his new work.
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Dr. Harvey TT. S17iley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Vermont, on October 6th.
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Dr. Edward Renouf, Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University since 1890, has retired from active service..
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Dr. Leon I. Shaw has been appointed instructor in chemistry a t Northwestern University.
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The Second Annual Cement show will take place in New York City in Madison Square Garden, Jan. 29th to Feb. 3rd, 1912. The acid chamber building of the Etiwan Fertilizer Co., of Charleston, S. C . , was totally destroyed by fire recently, entailing a loss of $50,000. It will be rcbuilt immediately.
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ITr. A. Whitaker, Jr., of the chemistry department of the College of the City of New York, has been appointed associate professor of metallurgy a t the University of Kansas.
A fifty-acre piece of level land recently reclaimed on the Cambridge side of the Charles River basin, between the Harvard and West Boston Bridges, has been selected for the new site of t h e Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The selection is contingent on favorable action b y the city of Cambridge in closing up certain streets.
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Dr. J. P. hIontgomery, of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mining College, has been appointed adjunct
CONSULAR AND TRADE, NOTES. PROPOSED TEXTILE BUREAU IN GERMANY.
BRITISH LABOR STATISTICS.
The Correspondenz der Aeltesten der Kaufmannschaft (Berlin) of July 3 1st contains the copy of a resolution introduced in the Reichstag last March on the subject of the establishment of an Imperial Textile Bureau. It was proposed that the bureau should be used not only as a conditioning house, but also as a central office for the encouragement of the German textile industry generally. It was intended to encourage the use of genuine instead of imitation material as regards dyes, to aim a t the universal adoption of the metric system in the counting of yarns, to combat the weighing of silks, and to carry out investigations as to technical improvements. The Aeltesten der Kaufmannschaft has nom forwarded a note t o the Ministry of the Interior deprecating the establishing of the bureau in question, owing to the impracticability of making one central office responsible for so many and such widely varying objects.
Since 1906 the British Board of Trade has been conducting an inquiry in reference to the earnings and hours of labor of workers in various industries, including agriculture, in thc United Kingdom. The result of the inquiry so far as i t con1 cerns the metal, engineering and shipbuilding trades has recently been published. The table that follows gives the number of employces in each of the seven principal trades dealt kith in the report, together with their average weekly earnings, the total wages bill for the year, the average number of hours worked per week, and the holidays per year:
AMERICAN TRADE IN CEMENT.
Cement imports into the United States have fallen away rapidly in the last few years. The value of Roman, Portland, and other hydraulic cements improved in 1907 was $3,669,926; in 1908, %1,973,472;in 1909, $712,62S; and in 1910, $602,833. Of the total for 191b, Germany furnishes $291,635 worth and Belgium, $160,374. Exports of cement from the United States have increased in value from $1,180,415 in 1907 to $2,292,376 n 1910. Of the latter amount, however, $1,228,893 worth went to Panama. The two consumers next in importance werepCuba with $458,063 worth and Mexico with $161,696.
Industrr. Engineering, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . Iron and s t e e l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Light iron castings, etc. ..... Pig i r o n . . .................. Railway-carriage building. , . . Shipbuilding, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . Tin p l a t e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hours Number Total of em- Weekly wages per ployees. earnings. for year. week. 368,552 $6.29 $126,576,828 53.1 53.981 8.75 20,589,397 54.4 12,333 5.97 3,395,926 53.8 13,995 8.10 5,321,527 55.2 45,829 6.62 14349,117 53.6 109.285 7.43 40,362,074 52.9 7.79 3,712,137 47.8 10,921
Holidays per year. 13.4 12.4 11.5 7.3 7.3 10.8 10.8
I n the other metal trades investigated the average earning of men working a full week mere highest in the manufacture of jewelry, the amount being $9 2 3 , and the lowest in farriery and general smith's work, \There the average was $6.74. It is estimated that the annual average earnings for those engaged in the manufacture of chains, anchors, etc., were $404, while $204 represented the annual earnings of those engaged in the manufacture of needles, fishhooks, and fishing tackle.
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T H E J O U R N A L OF I N D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERIATG C H E M I S T R Y . NEW ARTIFICIAL SILK MILLS IN RUSSIA.
Independent of the factory for making artificial silk in course of construction at Tomashovo, Poland, a new $772,000 association (Soci& Anonyme des Soieries de Sakhatschev) is being founded for erecting mills t o make artificial silk on the Chardonot system, The factories will be built at Barishev, near Sakhatsche Station of the Kalish Railway in Poland. The head office will be in Brussels and the general agency in Warsaw. Large quantities of artificial silk yarn have been steadily imported into Poland, but as the import duty thereon is only slightly less than on the genuine, its utilization for weaving into fabrics has been rather hampered.
PURE AIR IN LONDON TUBES. Deputy Consul General Carl R . LOOP.
One of the strongest objections made t o traveling underground in London is the fact that the air is impure and often stifling. What promises to be a revolution in this particular is a plan which has recently been announced by the authorities
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of the Central London Railway Co., according to xhich a system of ventilation will be installed capable of pumping daily 80,000,ooo cubic feet of ozonized air into the tube stations and tunnels of that company. One plant is already in operation and it is hoped that similar ones will soon be completed a t every station along the line. It is stated by one of the officials that the plant at each station will pump 4o0,ooo cubic feet of air per hour into the station, or a t the rate of 900 cubic feet per person per hour. The ordinary allowance in buildings is about 300 cubic feet of fresh air per person. The air is dra\\n from outside through a filter screen, which removes dust and dirt and impure gases. A part of the air is then highly ozonized by being passed over highly electrified plates, the proportion of ozone in the whole being one part in ~o,ooo,ooo. The air is driven by fans to the level of the bottom of the station, and two-thirds of it is distributed over the platform by ducts, with outlets a t a height of 7 feet above the platform. The remainder is driven into the tunnel. The size of the pumping plant is such that i t can be installed in a chamber I O feet by 8 feet by 4 feet, and there are z miles of duct work.
BOOK REVIEWS. Handbook of Alaska. By the UNITEDSTATESGEOLOGICALplication t o the Director of the U n i t e d States Geological S u r v e y , W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. SURVEY, Washington.
What may be t e r m e d the U n i t e d S t a t e s Geological Survey’s “ Handbook of A l a s k a ” has j u s t been issued i n i t s seventh v o l u m e , s u m m a r i z i n g for t h e y e a r 1910 the conditions of the m i n i n g i n d u s t r y i n our far n o r t h west t e r r i t o r y and the most i m p o r t a n t results accomplished by the investigations of i t s m i n e r a l w e a l t h . The volume consists of 13 c h a p t e r s , which are also published as separate p a m p h l e t s . The separate reports are as follows: The Mining I n d u s t r y i n 1910, b y A. H. Brooks, 2 2 pages. Geologic Features of A l a s k a n Metalliferous Lodes, by A. H. Brooks, 5 1 pages. Mining i n Southeastern Alaska, b y Adolph K n o p f , 9 pages. The Eagle R i v e r Region, by Adolph Knopf, 9 pages. The Upper S u s i t n a and Chistochina Districts, by F. H. Moffit, 16 pages. P r e l i m i n a r y Report on a Detailed Survey of Part of the Matanuska Coal Fields, by G. C. M a r t i n , 11 pages. A Reconnaissance of the Willow Creek Gold Region, by F. J. K a t z , 14 pages. P l a c e r Mining i n the Y u k o n - T a n a n a Region, by C. E. E l l s w o r t h and G. L . P a r k e r , 2 0 pages. Water Supply of the Yukon-Tanana Region, 1910, by C. E. Ellsworth and G. L. P a r k e r , 45 pages. Mineral Resources of t h e Bonnifield Region, by S. R. Capps, 18 pages. Gold Placer Mining D e v e l o p m e n t s in the InnokoIditarod Region, by A. G. Maddren, 35 pages. The Shungnak Region, K o b u k Valley-, b y P . S. S m i t h and H. M. Eakin, 35 pages. The Squirrel River Placers, by P . S. S m i t h , 13 pages. Most of the reports are illustrated by s k e t c h m a p s . Copies of any of the chapters may be had on ap-
The Paper Makers’ Pocket Book. By JAMESBEVERIDGE.Second and enlarged edition. 2 I I pp. 59 pp. advertisements. D. Van Nostrand Company, New York. 1911. Price, $ 2 . 0 0 net
The second enlarged edition of “ T h e P a p e r Makers’ P o c k e t Book” is essentially, as the author indicates i n the preface, a compilation of useful data f o r t h o s e interested i n paper mill work and paper. As the text w a s w r i t t e n i n E n g l a n d , much of the data, s u c h as cost, rates, etc., are based upon English practice and calculated upon the English system, and therefore do not necessarily a p p l y t o American conditions. T h e b o o k is divided i n t o eight c h a p t e r s and, aside from descriptive m a t t e r , c o n t a i n s much tabulated data as t o the yield of p u l p , p a p e r testing, cost, trade customs, loading materials, colors, p o w e r c o n s u m p t i o n , analytical methods, etc. The author has succeeded i n p r o d u c i n g a concise and v a l u a b l e handbook w h i c h will appeal e q u a l l y well to the p a p e r chemist, engineer and office official. 0. KRESS. Subject List of Works on Chemistry (Including Alchemy, Electrochemistry and Radioactivity) in the Library of the Patent Office. By W. TEMPLEFRASKS,Patent Office, London. Price, 6d. T h i s 12-month v o l u m e of 2 1 4 pages will be f o u n d p a r t i c u l a r l y useful i n building up trade and works libraries. Under e a c h of the twenty-two divisions of c h e m i s t r y are f o u n d enumerated the principal books and j o u r n a l articles relating t o the s u b j e c t i n question. Chemists a n d lawyers w h o have t o do with patent cases will be a b l e t o o b t a i n m a n y h i n t s f r o m this book, in looking up t h e i r cases.
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