—A reception was given by Miss Hackett to
her many friends, at the cottage, on Saturday eve
ning, October 27th. The event was in honor of
Miss Hackett's friend and guest, Miss Mae Up
perman, of Philadelphia. The cottage, always a
delightful place for such occurrences, was made
doubly so on this occasion by the presence of fair
women and tasteful decorations, the guests all de
parting with the memories of a delightful evening
lingering in their minds.
—The signal corps has been using the helio
graphs this fall for short distance signaling.
The flashes from the six inch mirrors were seen
very easily from three to four miles, and although
the instruments have not been tried at longer dis•
tances here, in Utah where they were used by the
army, messages were sent as far as ninety miles.
The record for heliograph signaling was broken
a short time ago when, eight inch mirrors being
used, a message was sent from Pike's Peak to a
mountain one hundred and eighty-three miles
--The engineering excursion planned for all
the engineering students in the Senior class and
for the mining students in the Junior class has
been postponed from the early part of the month
but may be made during the latter part of No
vember. It is rare that such an opportunity of
fers as extended by the railroad recently. The
students who had intended making the trip
would have been in charge of the heads of the
different departments. It was intended to visit
the rolling mills of Cramp's ship yards, the Mid
vale Steel Company, the mint, the zinc and iron
mines and furnaces near Bethlehem, and the ex
tensive works at Steelton.
—The models of the coal washer and ore
dressing works now placed for the Department of
Mining in the building recently used as the Me
chanic Arts Building are the first of their kind
known to have been in any mining school in
America. They will serve hereafter to fully il
lustrate the processes of cleaning phosphate rock
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in Florida, iron ores in Alabama, Michigan or
Pennsylvania, lead ores in the Mississippi Valley,
ores of the precious metals in the Rocky Moun
tains, and coal.
The coal washer contains five pairs of crushing
rolls, six revolving screens for sorting the coal in
to thirteen sizes, shutes automatically delivering
the sized products to one of the thirteen separate
pockets, a gyrating screen of Coxe's pattern, two
link belt scrapers or conveyers for dust and waste,
two elevators with sixty cups in each, four jigs,
and other appliances of mechanical nature.
The ore dressing model is illustrative rasher
than a working plant. It contains a crusher, a
pair of rolls, an elevator belt, three screens, six
sets of four compartment jigs, a sluice jig, a hy
draulic separator and all the other needful ap
paratus. •
Ex-'97. Leland Von Abrams is attending the
Western University of Pennsylvania.
'94. A. D. Belt is working for his father in
the Wellsville Whip Co., Wellsville, Pa.
'94. W. M. Dickinson is in the drafting de
partment of the Warren Webster Co., Camden,
New jersey ; manufacturers of feed water heaters
for boilers.
'94. H. P. Dowler, who has been engaged
during the last summer in surveying in the ad
joining coal mining counties, now expects to as
sume the duties of Mining Engineer for a firm
in Tyrone.
'93. C. R. Fay is chief chemist and assistant
superintendent of the the Cambria Limestone Co.,
Aetna, Pa. •
Ex- 1 93. M. E. Benson has become connected
with the firm of Bailey, Banks and Biddle, Phila
delphia, Penna.
'93. E. P. Butts has secured a position as
draughtsman in Baldwin's Locomotive Works,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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