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James S. O'Rourke has been made vice president
in charge of sales of the Murray Body Corporation of
Detroit, the new concern formed by the consolidation
of the C. R. Wilson Body Companv, Towson Body
Company and J. K. Widman & Company, all of Detroit.
Previous to his connection with the Murray
Body Corporation, Mr. O'Rourke was general sales
manager of the J. W. Murray Manufacturing Co.
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C. B. Starr has joined the Robert June Engineering
Management Organization of 8835 Linwood Avenue,
Detroit, Mich. He was assistant mechanical engineer
with the Duff Manufacturing Company of
Pittsburgh, Pa., and later served in the capacity of
sales engineer with the Detroit office of the Wayne
Tank & Pump Company.
* * *
George T. P Klix has resigned as chief engineer of
the C. R. Wilson Body Company, Detroit, to join the
American Body Company, Buffalo. O. J. Crowe, who
has been associated with the purchasing department
of the Wilson Body Company for the last ten years,
goes with Mr. Klix as director of purchases for the
Buffalo concern.
* * *
J. H. Frantz, vice president of the American Rolling
Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio, has been elected
a director of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago &
St. Lous Railroad Company, succeeding William H.
Lee of St. Louis, retired because of advanced age.
* * *
Russell Huff, chief engineer of Dodge Bros, since
1915, now has the title of director of engineering.
Clarence Carson, formerly assistant chief engineer,
has been appointed chief engineer. Mr. Huff is also
a member of the board of directors of Dodge Bros.
* * *
Prof. Michael I. Pupin was elected president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
at its seventy-ninth annual meeting held in Washington,
D. C, recently.
* * *
E. W. Harrison of Philadelphia, long identified
with the steel industry, has resumed his connection
with the American Tube & Stamping Company,
Bridgeport, Conn., after a trip abroad and a long vacation.
Mr. Harrison will act as director of sales promotion
and will have offices in the Franklin Trust
Bldg., Philadelphia, after March 30.
* * *
Oscar W. Loew will assume charge of advertising
and sales promotion for the Truscon Steel Company,
Youngstown, Ohio, effective February 1.
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Mr. T. E. Barker, president and manager of the
recently formed Accurate Steel Treating Company,
Chicago, and who is well known in steel treating
circles, has been awarded a founder's membership in
the American Society for Steel Treating. He was
the first chairman of the Chicago Section of the Steel
Treating Research Society in 1917-1918, and for two
years national president of the American Steel Treaters
Societv, and from 1920 to 1921 first vice president
of the American Society for Steel Treating.
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Announcement has been made by the Detroit Steel
Products Company, Detroit, Mich., of the appointment
of L. T. Miller as purchasing agent to succeed
T. F. Thornton, who recently resigned to take the
presidency of the Roehm Steel Rolling Mills, Detroit.
OBITUARIES
February, 1925
George Burkhardt, president of the Champion
Welding Company, Buffalo, died recently in a sanitarium
in Detroit.
* * *
L. Leslie Hammer, general manager of the N. & G.
Taylor Company, Cumberland, Md., manufacturers of
tin plate, died of typhoid fever at the age of 47 years.
He started work'with the Taylor Company many
years ago as a chemist in the open hearth department.
In 1903 he was made superintendent of the
black plate department and in 1916 became general
manager, also being elected to the board of directors,
becoming assistant secretary-treasurer.
* * *
Daniel Gray Reid, romantic figure of the tin plate
industry and one of the outstanding personalities who
guided the modern steel business in this country
through its formative period, died at his home in New
York. January 17th. Death was due to pneumonia,
but Mr. Reid' had been in ill health since 1918.
* * *
Jonathan R. Jones, a veteran of the steel industry,
and one of the best known figures in the eastern section,
died in Philadelphia, January 3. Although active
until recently, Mr. Jones had been in ill health for the
past two years.
* * *
Frederick C. Riddile, aged 59, general manager of
the Edgewater Steel Company, Pittsburgh, died December
21, in the Columbia Hospital after a week's
illness.
* * *
Charles M. Whitmore, head of the production department
of Crompton & Knowles Loom Works,
Worcester, Mass., died recently at his home.
* * *
Robert A. Bruce, formerly head of the research
department at the Hydraulic Steel Company, Cleveland,
died recently in New York, at the age of 53.
* * *
Harry R. Kimmel, chief .hemist of the Marion
Steam Shovel Company, Marion, Ohio, died January
19 at Kalamazoo, Mich., aged 46 years. He was a
graduate of the Case School of Applied Science,
Cleveland.
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Feed Water Heaters—A new information leaflet
has just been published by the Griscom-Russell Company,
describing the well-known G-R instantaneous
heater for supplying hot water for boiler feed, heating
systems, industrial processes, etc. This leaflet concisely
outlines the applications, special advantages
and construction specifications of the heater and includes
a complete table of sizes, capacities and
dimensions.
Coal Meters—The Republic Flow Meters Company,
Chicago, has issued a bulletin describing a device
for measuring the volume of coal passing to a
combustion chamber. The meter is based on the fact
that equal volumes of coal have equal weight, within
narrow- limits, regardless of the size of the pieces.
Full description, engineering data and illustrations
are supplied.