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HARTFORD, JULY 15, 1893.
J. M. Allen, Editor. A. D. Risteen, Associate Editor,
The Locomotive can he obtained free by calling at any of the company's agencies.
Subscription price 50 cents per year wlien mailed from this office.
Bound volumes one dollar each. {Any volume can he supplied.)
Papers that borrow cuts from us will do us a favor if they will mark them plainly in returning
so that we may give proper credit on our books.
We desire to acknowledge a copy of the April number of the Rivista Marittima,
published at Rome. It contains an interesting and important article by Chief Engineer
R. Bettini on the protective armor of war-vessels.
The second biennial report (76th and 77th annual reports) of the directors and
officers of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, of Hartford, is at hand. The
report includes a brief history of the institution, together with portraits of its founders.
The asylum is doing good work, and its officers have our heartiest commendation.
President J. M. Allen was elected one of the judges of awards in the Mechanical
Department of the World's Fair, While deeply interested in all that is being accom-
plished by this wonderful Exposition, regarding it as the greatest educational institution
of this or any previous century, circumstances beyond his control compelled him
to decline the honor.
President Allen has also been invited by the Hon. Ephraira Banning, Chairman of
the World's Congress Auxiliary, to deliver an address or read a paper before the Con-
gress, that meets early in October, relating to industrial property and kindred topics.
He has the matter under consideration, and, if he accepts, will probably have something
to say on subjects growing out of his experience in the field closely allied to the development
of our resources through mechanical agencies.
Herr J. F. Radinger, of Vienna, has kindly favored us with copies of his works on
Bampfmaschinen und Trammissionen in den Vereinigten Staaten, and on Dampfhessel
urid deren Ausrilstung in den Vereinigten Staaten. Both of these books are clearly written,
and they give excellent accounts of the boilers and engines in use in this country. The
former (on the steam engine,) contains 256 cuts, and the latter (on the steam boiler)
contains 107; so that both are very fully illustrated. The logical way in which Herr
Radinger classifies the subject-matter of his books could be imitated with advantage by
other writers on these subjects.