work of calibrating the meters of the power stations and large power customers and has returned to Boston.

Mr. George L. Arnold, formerly connected with the El Paso Electric Company, has arrived in Houghton to fill the position of meter foreman vacated by Mr. G. D. Oliver.

The Houghton Companies expect to be located in their new general office in the Masonic Building by May 1st.

An organization of the employees of the Houghton Companies, to be known as the L. & T. Club, was formed at a meeting at the Douglass House on March 26th. All male members of the companies will be eligible and the charter already bears the names of one hundred.

At the request of the men the officers for the first year will be department heads. They are as follows: president, William H. Kennedy; vice-president, L. H. Knapp; secretary, G. S. Francis; treasurer, R. P. Schumaker.

In time the club hopes to have a clubhouse. Meanwhile it will meet monthly at various places, including theatres. Its object is to promote intercourse among the members for educational and social purposes. President Kennedy will shortly appoint four standing committees, on program, sports, membership and a house committee.

Mr. E. S. Fitz, formerly with the Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric Company, Pawtucket, R. I., has arrived in Houghton to serve as electrical engineer for the Houghton Companies.

Mr. E. L. Milliken, manager of the Houghton Companies, made a short business trip to Boston during the latter part of March.

Pensacola, Fla.

Messrs. H. T. Edgar and H. C. Foss visited us during the month on an inspection trip.

Mr. T. J. Hanlon, Jr., our manager, accompanied them to South Florida.

Mr. Dudley Gunn of the engineering division is here to supervise the construction of a drawbridge over Bayou Chico, which work was ordered by the War Department in order to permit the passage of steel ships which are being built here.

Mr. D. M. DeBard, who has been here for the past month in connection with the sale of our new issue of coupon notes and bonds, has left for his home in Massachusetts. He stopped on the way at Savannah to visit relatives.

Messrs. Roberts & Sweetnam of the betterment division spent several days with us in connection with power plant operation.

The Texas Oil Company, which has had a small plant here for some time, has recently been given a permit by the city to construct a fuel oil station at a cost of approximately one million dollars. Actual work has been started. The location of this station here should result in additional shipping and export trade for this port.

The Bruce Dry Docks Co. has also been granted the right to construct a 5,000-ton floating dry dock on its waterfront property, and we understand that work on the dock, wharves and other necessary structures, is to begin at once.

Tampa, Fla.

Hereafter Mr. C. F. W. Wetterer, assisted by Mr. H. C. Foss, will be in charge of the properties under Stone and Webster management in the Southeastern District. Mr. Wetterer has been manager of the Tampa Electric Company since August, 1917.

Mr. Wetterer will be succeeded, as manager of the Tampa Electric Company, by Mr. T. J. Hanlon, Jr., who for a number of years has been connected with the Pensacola Electric Company, having been for several years past the manager of that company.

Mr. J. T. Hanlon, Jr., manager of the Pensacola Electric Co., spent March 30th and 31st in Tampa.

Mr. C. O. Birney was in Tampa March 23rd.

Mr. B. L. Grooms, manager of the Key West Electric Co., visited the office on March 29th.

On March 14th, Mr. G. H. Wygant, commercial agent, attended a meeting of central station men and electrical contractors, held in Jacksonville, Fla.

Mr. Paul Thomas has received his discharge from the navy and has returned to the accounting department.

Miss Louise Delaney, ledger clerk, has resigned, and has returned to her former home at Key West, Fla.

Mrs. C. H. Plyer, bill clerk, has resigned and will make her future home in Pittsburgh. Mr. Plyer has recently returned from overseas.

Mr. Leo Gonzalez, salesman, has resigned to accept a position in Chicago.

James Cooper has returned from overseas and has resumed his duties as boiler cleaner.

The members of the Tampa Electric Benefit Association produced a vaudeville show at the Casino on March 20th and 21st.

The Tampa Electric Company entertained 75 members of the Rotary Club with a Spanish luncheon on the lawn of the West Jackson Steam Plant, March 18th. With the assistance of charts, Mr. Wetterer explained the growth of station capacity and maximum demand compared with the growth of the city from 1900 to date; one chart showing the principal steps in the operation of the station was explained. Following the explanation of the charts the power station was inspected by those present, all of the equipment being marked with signs giving the designation and capacity of the machines.

The Boston Red Sox, who are training here at Plant Field, played the New York Giants on April 4th and 5th. Unlike most clubs in the major leagues, the Red Sox have not been crippled badly by the war.

We have recently closed a contract with the Florida Asphalt and Paving Company for a connected load of 83 H.P. in motors, to replace a complete steam equipment.

During the month we have connected the Tampa Packing Company to our lines. Their power load will aggregate 110 H.P. and will be used in the operation of a large abattoir, air compressor, etc. This installation also replaces a complete steam plant.

Reports from all parts of the state are to the effect that the citrus bloom is in splendid condition and the outlook is most propitious.

Since the armistice was signed the phosphate industry in this section of the state has taken a new lease on life and a tremendous business is expected. Ten additional one-man safety cars have been received recently, making 39 of this type cars in operation.

Woonsocket, R. I.

One of the most successful functions in the history of the club was the rural school play by the employees on March 13th, called the "District School at Crooks' Corner." Twenty-six members of the company made up the cast and the characters were all well taken. Jokes flew fast and furious and hardly a member of the company was untouched by the repartee that floated back from teacher to scholar. The Pawtucket division, about forty strong, paid us a visit on this night.

At the monthly club supper on March 27th, Mr. William Gould, commercial manager of the Massachusetts Lighting Companies, gave a very interesting talk before the employees on "Selling Yourself to Your Company." The talk was one of the most interesting ever delivered before the club.

The Bowling Tournament has finished, and the "Cluster Lights," headed by Eddie Tuite, came out on top. This team was made up as follows: Eddie Tuite, captain; Paul Millette, Henry Raymond, George Middleton.

The "Spot Lights," captained by Sylva Choquette, led the whole season through, but by losing two out of three on the last night of the tournament, and in fact losing the last string by only one pin, they were beaten out of the cups which the club had donated.

In the ladies' team, the "Shining Lights" beat the "Flash Lights" after an exciting race all season. This team was composed of: Mrs. Minnie McCooey, captain; Miss Alice Pratt, Mrs. Guy Andrews, Miss Grace Hopkins, Miss Lillian Osborne.

Some of the girls rolled so well, and some of the men rolled so poorly throughout the season, that it was thought it would be an interesting match to roll the best five girls against the poorest five.men, and lo and behold, the girls won out, trimming the poor "near bowlers" two out of three games. Oh men! will you ever learn that you can never get the best of the women.

C. E. Conkey, who has been in the purchasing department in the Boston office for the past seven years, joined our forces as purchasing agent during March.

Gardner Rogers, our manager, has been spending the greater part of the time since March 5th in New York.

H. J. Pettengill, Jr., commercial manager, has been helping out on the house wiring campaign which is now under way at Middletown, Conn., and has spent considerable time in Middletown in connection with the campaign.

The new Chamber of Commerce quarters are now ready for occupancy, but the Chamber has not moved because the elevator installation has not been completely made. It is expected that the Chamber will be in their new quarters by May 1st.

The company engaged in a very successful washing-machine campaign during the months of February and March.

The following is from a letter from Captain Maurice H. Richardson, dated Paris, February 22nd:

"I am on duty as officer of the day at the Provost Marshal's office. Tonight my tour of duty runs from midnight to 6.00 A. M. Sunday morning I have from six to noon, and so on.

"I am a police court magistrate and a general information bureau combined. Everybody arrested is brought before the officer of the day, who inquires into the case, passes judgment and decides the disposition of the case, whether to be tried, held for higher authority, held for investigation, forwarded to organizations or released. It is an ever-changing job and one in which countless different cases are constantly coming up, although most cases are those of men who miss trains accidentally or on purpose. This missing the train is pretty consistently worked. There are fourteen stations in Paris, and if a man misses his train consistently because he cannot find the station, theoretically he might steal fourteen days in Paris. The theory does not work so well in practice.

"I never got to the front, I am sorry to say. I was with my division in the centre of France until November 1st, when I was transferred to a newly organized service battalion at the then increasing army candidates

school at La Valboune, near Lyon, where I stayed six hectic weeks. Then I came to Paris via La Mans, and am now an A. P. M., with no company to bother my head about. How long I shall be here or where I shall go next, I am sure I don't know.

"Wicked old Paris is a frightfully expensive place. It costs beaucoup francs to turn round almost. Fortunately, I get some commutation for quarters.

"I find the Stone & Webster War Bulletin quite interesting.

"My old company, whole battalion in fact, is in Treves attached to G. H. Q. They were such a good looking, well-trained bunch that G. H. Q. snapped them up and said they were the best M. P.s in the A. E. F. The whole of the 76th Division is scattered and I seldom see any of them."

Private Dickson's Experience

Private Thomas J. Dickson writes from France under date of March 1, 1919, as follows:

"When I was transferred from the infantry to the artillery it was, no doubt, a decision the officers made after looking up my service record and finding out that in civil life most all of my time was spent in the drafting room. I was, while at Camp Devens, in what is known as the Reconnaissance Detail, which takes in the making of maps, etc. After reaching 'Sunny France' (where it rains 21 hours out of 24) I was selected to go to telephone school, as we were very short of telephone men. My job at the front was lineman and switchboard operator. We had a wonderful telephone system. Our lines from one battery to another were connected in such a way that if one line was shot up there were still two or three other lines over which you could get connection. We had a line running to the French operator at St. Mihiel and he could give me a connection with any part of France, or as we called it 'the outside world.' Our sector was between Verdun and St. Mihiel, with the forts of Metz directly in front of us. Our brigade headquarters, or 'the general's hangout,' was St. Mihiel. I was at Verdun, one of the bloodiest battle fields of the war, and it certainly looked it. The buildings were all shot to pieces, and the city is a mass of ruins. There are miles of barbed wire entanglements scattered all over the place.

"Thousands of graves with little crosses and the tri-color above them tell of the heroic efforts of the defenders of Verdun. The city itself is one big fort. To enter the city you must pass through one of the several gates, which are at all times guarded. The city has stone walls built all around it, and is the highest in elevation of anything for miles around. It is said that there is an underground city at Verdun, but we were not permitted to visit it. It was a common sight to see a dozen or more air planes go over into the enemy lines in battle formation, probably to bomb some railroad centre or sector of military importance.

"Jerry used to get nosey and come over our lines, but the anti-aircraft guns kept him so high that he looked just like a speck in the sky. He was kept much too high to be able to take photographs of any value. We would not know he was around until we heard the anti-aircraft guns blazing away. Up in the air we could see their shells bursting, and after straining our eyes some, would usually locate Jerry.