Chase, Charles P., Hydraulic Engineer, Sanitary Expert. Water Works Water Power. Sewerage; Chase Block, 123 Sixth Ave. Clinton, Iowa. INDIANAPOLIS Designing and Consulting Engineer Reinforced Concrete Bridges Exclusively. Associate Engineers in Each State. The G. A. Dunham Company of Marshalltown, Iowa The Under Graduate Engineer as Apprentice Economics of Electric Motor Drive Appreciation Editorial College Notes Alumni Notes 47 E. E. King 49 50 P. F. Hopkins 51 J. A. King 55 PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE COLLEGE YEAR BY STUDENTS OF THE DIVISION OF ENGINEERING IOWA STATE COLLEGE, AMES, IOWA Annual subsription $1.00 Single Copies, 15 cents THE RAILWAY ENGINEER HE railways of our country are gradually passing from a condition where private capital owns and operates its lines to suit personal ends without regards to the rights and considerations of the public to a point where private capital is working under government control and catering largely to the demands of its customers. During this change the state of uncertainty and unrest is very noticeable, but no more so than in all such cases, especially where the transitions are rapid. The railways employ a large percentage of our people and their present status cannot exist indefinitely if our government is to remain on a substantial basis. During the transition the engineer is not losing out, as it appears on the surface of things, but he is gradually finding a place in a greater field of usefulness and opportunities. Instead of being the man at the front he is becoming the leader in valuation work. His next step is in efficiency, developing more effective methods of operation, which will give greater returns to finance and better service to the public. -E. E. King. A Method of Plumbing Deep Wells P. F. HOPKINS, C. E. '16. An interesting investigation was carried out at Audubon, Iowa, during the past summer vacation by Prof. W. H. Meeker. During the years 1912 and 1913 the city of Audubon had put down an artesian well 2,400 feet deep and 14 inches in diameter at the top. In this well was suspended a drop pipe 400 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. The brass well-barrel or pumping cylinder is hung on the lower end of this drop pipe. The pump installed in this well had caused the city a large amount of annoyance and expense, due to the frequent breaking of the pump rods. The manufacturers of the pump claimed that the well was so crooked that the rods failed because of the stresses induced by cramping and binding in the drop pipe. The city claimed that the well was substantially straight and that the rods failed because they were being subjected to loads greater than this particular pump was designed to withstand. To determine the true condition of the well, the center of the well head flangs was accurately located by stretching two fine cords at right angles across the flangs. A point was then located twenty-six feet, eleven and one-quarter inches vertically above the center of the flangs. A three |