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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1906)
± it i t > — XOith LETTER PROM SSANKUN. ^ Tmiosachic, Chihuaho*. Mex. Ojtober 28, 1906. Prof. Ji G. Nagle, College Station, Texas.' \ Dear Professor: I received ^pur letter of the 23^-d* yesterday. I intended to write to you sooner, but on account of a reduction of the force, and I being the short eat time dn the job, I lost my -position at Ocampo On the 5th at August. I left Ocampo August 8th and went to San Jose, at which place is located one of the Greene Gold and Silver Go. mines, and did some surveying in the mine When I finished at the mine the book keeper here wanted a vacation and the iMinerivtendc^t asked me to take the i>o*ition while the book keeper was absent', txmrti j f 11 U 00 in Mexican d for thia Work. iphant ’03 last fi ■ k fjl, r ■ : 1 iii V? f 11 I remained ther^ until the 22nd of October and then came in to Temoaachic: I received J12 -money and ray I saw J. W Monday, and he said if the — Company makes a deal they are . figuring on, he will give me a job with him. so I ant waiting here a few days to see how things turn out. ’ ( *j P • * ! Many | thaikka , lor letting^ me know abdut the vacancy ■ with the company yon mentioned. If.I can get in with Oliphant it will suit me better. I like Mexico fine. . with the exception of the cold weather ‘we are having. Signed, ; R. W. Sbanklin. LETTER FROM HOLMAN, j The following is n letter received .from J. R. Holman, '95. Portland, Oregon. , I u Ojct- *4. ’<*' Prof. J. G- Nagle. U Col lege Station, Tex. Dear Sir: The field book pur chased from you in 1898. is worn tout, from 044! in the field, and I have long been promising to mkke this an ewcuse to write to you, >ut have neglected it so far. I have Iwen requested by one of the transitmen to get one of your books for him, so Will ask yon to yMNBaa|fi4o. 1 | V 1 I have b< cn in this country since May,'1905. I came up here di rectly after Mr. ■ Boachke, who you will remember as builder of tiie sea-wall at Galveston. I am at present his principal assistant at $300.06 per month. We are hav ing' a good deal of work to do, and have had since t have been here. I have not done much actual location, or any direct construction but haveibeen in the office; though I have done a great deal of u, 01.nuance vtwrk. Since I have been up here I have made examination* of the states of Oregon. Washington, Idaho and Montana, as ^vell ; as Southern Bnttsli Colutnbih and the province of Alberta; locking’ up feasible (Uilroad routes, nnd the general-re- hhurct s of the country J j . Mr. S. A. j Cobb of 1896 is in charge of a locating jurty oa the Clearwater River, ffon' this com pany, and I see him 'occasionally. Signed, y i.jR. [Holman, W. W. LILLARD IN DALLAS W. W. Lillard, ’og. Who until a month ago was empk>\ c«las mason ry inspector on .G.iC. fife S. F railroad, has with the Ball-C who have a con all the permanent for Dallas County work is assisting the intenfient, both in'the 1 the field; On accdupt of a sufficient number foremen. Mr. Lillard bridge foreman on a eight miles frojn bridge above meut reinforced concrete through girder bridge, with one 40-foot span. It a position of DallM. building bridges is regu&ar supdr- and on the lack concrete t presept about | Itm is built of is not aslstrong a type of bridge fs the elleptical arch bridge, and is harder to build, bljifi- Lillard says, *‘The experience I a|n getting on this kind of work Ui pretty val uable, I think, and I am studyia|g about reinforced concrete a good deal. I am handicapped with lack of reliable information on the subject. “I see a good deal about it. in the engineering^ magazines, but very few bf the 'writers agree upon a set of laws dr formulas .regarding reinforced concrete!’1 j Mr. 1 .*Lilla • i's address is 3?* Wood -street, Dallas, fxe*as. ' jj ALUMNI NGTBS. T. P. donty, ’04. is in DaVi I. T., with the Santa: Fe railway, T. L- Fountain, ’oi,|is an engin eer in Ne\v York G^tv. His ad dress is Room 31. 143 Liberty st; r—*1 ij i I* T. B. Warden, ‘03. is employed as Resident Engineer jton the G. V. G. fit N. Ry. at San Carlos, Aria. Thos. Blake, ’dA j ha-> roigned his position as lx*>k-keeper in Huntsville, and has accepted a po sition with a lumber company ini South Texas- 4 J. E. Washburn' ’05, is era- ployed by the National Carbon Co. at Cleveland, Ohio, as a mechan ical engineer. His address is 163 Wyandotte Ave., Lakewood, O. j—* f 1 S. J. Fountain, '014 who v architect for the Texas Woman’s College Imildrng, in Bryan, is at tending school in Paris, France Hi* - address is ( care American Art Association, 74 Rue Notre-Dame- Des-Champs. * Through the kindpefcs of Prof. J. C. Nagle, we are permitted to publish a few letters ffom various Alnmui of this College.; We hope they will lie of interest not only to- the Alumni of this iqsBtution, but | also to the students whd can thus see what the graduates af previous classes are doing. OF. FERMIER. THE BEAD OP THE NEW M. E. HFPARTMFM Professor Emile Jerome Fennier, who hms recently come to take charge of the Department of Me chanical Engineering, succeeding ! Professor Whitlock, received his general education in the schools of Indiana, in which State he was born. At the age of eighteen he re- |reived the degree of B. S. from the [Indiana State Normal school at ^Valparaiso. His technical' educa tion was received at Purdue Uni- | yersity wUere he was graduated in a 894 with the degree of B. M. K. He was at that time selected by The Faculty to represent the School of Mechanical Engineering at! the Commencement exercises. In 1895 he received his advanced degree from the same institution, having been instrnctor in the Me chanical Department during 94-95. While yet an undergraduate at Purdue he was engaged as assist ant i M the University of Michigan Where he taught descriptive geom etry and photography. * _ < • He has bad experience in teach ing mathmatics and thei sciences in Millttary Academy at Upper Iton, Illinois, and established and gam zed Manual Training in the ty of Detroit, Mich. He also was some time Director of Manual niadnx at Oak Park, Illino:-' om which position he was called ggain to-lPurdue where he remained XUtil coming to the A. and M.j t^ollege of Texas, g At the time of his resignation at Purctac* he occupied the position of ikssistant Professor of Applied Me chanics. Professor Fennier, while a| Purdue, conducted bonsiderable | research work in matters pertainmg j to the strength of materials, I in which subject he was particularly Uteres ted. He was a charter me 'her of the Purdue chapter of Tau Beta pi, an honorary Engineering Frater nity, and for a number of years a member of the National Executii Conncil of this organization. He is also a member of the American Society for the Promo tion of Engineering Education. ’iHe was married in June 1905, to Miss Nora E. Barnhart of Grand Rapids, Mich., who accompanies hifn here. — D g LIVERY STABLE The Only Stable on Main Street. FIRST CLASS TURNOUTS.; T«E ONLY RUBBER TIRE CARRIAGE IN BRYAN. fsr M. H. JAMES Leading Druggist BRYAN, TEXA3 mery, ; Pipes, Tobacco If Toilet Articles of all kinds U 1 ■. . r J ! F ! s 1 w r ■ ’-‘nf— ! — Remember Benson, ' fhe College barber, uhep you wantj jgood work and clever tn-atment.i ! ; tf ( U. H. HBNHY HEN RY BROS J. V. »KOOl>0> . i • & BROGDON VVHOLB8AI.K AND RETAIL i GRAIN DEALERS l -I—4-r«-» AND- A LTVRBY BUfilNMBB BXCLUHIVRLY FOR. 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Tlfe giant farmer- fullback of thfc Mount Carmel team crouched o t him, and as they collided a explosion was heard, he crowd saw the Vale mad and they yelled “He pulled fe on him!” The fullback gasped ie saw the crowd making for turned and legged it ove: s, clearing fences, till he mad< escape from the infuriate* ng in a swamp. Here hi as he saw the enraged stop and call vengetully for th« murderer to emerge. ' TM crohd then turned their attention to the supposed victim, and they fottpd the Yale man arising with th^wreck of a football in his hand. Bowen told the crowd that when ■ he Was tackled by the farmer full f back the ball burst and blew up,, causing the report. The trembling| funhack was enticed back from the swump and shook hands with BoWeu, whom be fosferd be had somehow killed, but the game ooujfelasat psoaaad,.Ior thane was no unexploded football in Mt. Carmel. DEALERS jlN- : .'f-; .1141 It Stationery Cigarsl Tobacco Spalding’s Athletic Goods ; wmimKmm ler’s Candies. 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