Dee., 1921
THE JOURNAL OF INDIIXTRIAL A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
1173
INDUSTRIAL NOTES The waterworks, a t Hopewell, Virginia, which during the war supplied the munitions plant of E. I. duPont de Nemours Sr Co., as well as adjacent villages, has been sold to the Industrial Service Corporation of Virginia which took over operation of the plant on November 1. The transfer includes electric and steam pumping stations, filtration plant, boiler plant, transmission lines, etc., the plant having a capacity of approximately 30,000,000gal. per day. The Universidad Nacional, Tacuba, Mexico, is installing modern equipment to be used in connection with studies in the technology and manufacture of glass. With the completion of the dyeing plant at Greenville, S. C., a branch of the Franklin Process Co., of Providence, R. I., Greenville will have the last phase necessary to makecomplete a cycle in cotton manufacturing from raw to finished state. A new process will be employed in that the yarn will be dyed in the wound form instead of the skein, which has been found to be cheaper and more thorough. This will be the only plant of its kind in the South. The Director of Sales, War Department, has announced that a m y surplus material costing the United States Government $209,620,147 has been transferred to other governmental departments and establishments. The Department of Agriculture received $138,290,529 worth of the material, nearly 66 per cent, and all but $10,619 of its share was transferred without funds. Acids, chemicals, etc., constituted $19,156,517 worth of the material transferred. Reprebentative pottery interests a t Trenton, N. J., and vicinity are formulating plans to bring about an early readjustment and lowering of freight rates on commodities entering into the manufacture of sanitary pottery, including clay, feldspar, flint, etc. A committee has been appointed to compile data and carry out the details of the movement, under the chairmanship of M. D. Warren, traffic manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Trenton.
Canadian Dyes, Ltd., of Trenton, Ontario, on September 19, 1921, turned out the first batch of dyes ever manufactured in Canada, when about 17001bs. of Canadian Direct Blue 2B were successfully finished in the first process of making. Standardization of the different kinds, qualities, and sizes of window and plate glass was discussed a t a recent conference between glass distributors, architects, and engineers of the Bureau of Standards. The conference outlined a program that will be participated in by the manufacturers, distributors, architects, and the Bureau of Standards, and which it is believed will result in the elimination of unnecessary sizes, standardize quality, and enable a more efficient use of this material. Nomenclature in the glass industry will be studied and an effort will be made.to define trade terms that are likely to be used with various meanings. Arrangements are being made for the sale of approximately 81,000 tons of sodium nitrate from the army reserve supply, which has been recommended by officials of the Ordnance Department. The nitrate has been declared surplus and its sale is considered in the interests of the Government as it is a t present stored a t considerable expense in privately owned warehouses and the army is not in a position to move the 81,000 tons from the private storage into its own storehouse in which the bulk of the nitrate reserve of 300,000 tons is kept. It is. expected that the Director of Sales will soon issue a statement. calling for sealed proposals on all or any part, which will probablybe sold f. 0.b. cars. The Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates Co., Ltd., a new organization formed under the auspices of Brunner, Mond & Co. Ltd., of England, has commenced the laying out of new works. near Middlesbrough. The plant when completed will be use&( for the manufacture of ammonia, nitrates, and various chemicals. The Raymond Bros. Impact Pulverizer Company has located its permanent eastern office a t 50 Church St., New York City, in charge of Mr. S. B. Kanowitz.
PERSONAL NOTES U
Mr. A. P. Gloeckler has resigned as chief chemist of the Tropical Paint and Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio, and has aceepted the position of superintendent of the paint department of the Acorn Refining Co., CleveIand, Ohio. Mr. Philip L. Gile, formerly connected with the American Agricultural Chemical Co., in their agricultural service bureau, and for eleven years prior to that position chemist of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, is a t present in charge of the divisiorfi‘of soil chemical investigations of the Bureau of Soils, U . S. Department of Agricu!ture, Washington, D. C . Mr. Alfred S. Halland has resigned as chief chemist of the National Aniline & Chemical Co., Buffalo, N. Y . Dr. R. L. Sebastian, who was formerly connected with the Department of Health, State of Pennsylvania, in connection with work on mine drainage investigations, has joined the chemical staff of Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md. Mr. Herbert Brunt has left the firm of Brunt Dye & Chemical Co , Manchester, England, owned by his father and has taken over an analytical practice, established in 1870, in London. The name of the firm has been, and will continue to be, Hake and Marshall. Mr. Thomas J. Keenan recently announced his resignation as Secretary-Treasurer of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry in order to accept t h e position of editor of Papw, in the reorganization of which he becomes an officer and stockholder. Mr. Noah D. Lambert, formerly assistant superintendent of the N Y Mutual Gas Light Co , has resigned his position and is now chief engineer and secretary of the Lambert Meter Company, Inc., of Brooklyn, N. Y . Prof. Sidney S. Negus has recently resigned as head of the chemistry department of the Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, P a , to take up graduate work for his doctorate a t the Johns Hopkins University. I Mr. Edward A. Dieterle, assistant chief chemist of the Koppers Co., Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, P a , has been made chief chemist of the Chicago By-Product Coke Co., Chicago, 111.
Mr. Arthur Gallun, of Milwaukee, Wis., and a member of the
SOCIETV !or a number of years, recently died after an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Gallun was one of the most active organizers of the Leather Division of the A. C. S., and had financed the leather chemistry research a t Columbia. Dr. Clifford S. Leonard, for the past year fellow in chemistry to Sweden on the American-Scandinavian Foundation, has completed his research a t the Karoline and Nobel Institutes of Stockholm and has accepted the position of research instructor of pharmacology a t the University of Wisconsin. Mr. H. S. McAree, formerly with the Atlas Powder Co., Landing, N. J., is now engaged in the real estate and insurance business as a member of the firm of Campbell-McAree & Co., Scranton, Pa. Mr. Leslie R. Olsen, for two years chemist and supervisor of baking operations for the Seattle Raking Co , of Seattle, Washington, has become chief chemist in charge of the laboratories of the International Milling Co., New Prague, Minn. Mr. L. I. Shaw, assistant chief chemist and assistant chief of the Division of Mineral Technology of the Bureau of Mines, a t Washington, D C., was recently transferred to the Ceramic Station of the Bureau of Mines at Columbus, Ohio, where he is assistant superintendent and in charge of the physico-chemical work. Mr. A. D. Camp who was formerly with the American Eveready Works, Long Island City, N. Y., has joined the Williamsport Building Products Co., Williamsport, Pa., as factory manager and development chemist. Mr. Robert Calvert, who was director of the du Pont Company’s research laboratory a t Arlington, N J , is now teaching chemistry in the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal., and is also carrying on a general consulting practice. Mr. Robert G. Dort has severed his connection with the Bregeat Corporation of America, where he was assistant to the vice president, and has become a vice president of the Allied Explorations, Inc., New York City.
