. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. of the Erie at Hornell,N. Y., announces the following changesand proninlions in his staff there: R. Horrigan. transferred frompipe litter ti> foreman tin, pipe and copperdepartment, vice Mr. J. Griffith, L. Smith, transferred from foremanof tank shop to foreman erecting shop,vice Mr. H. G. Oxerby, resigned. E. Van Antwerp, transferred from car-penter to foreman of tank shop. We have received from Mr. JamesCran, Art smith, Plainfield, N. J., somespecimens of artistic blacksmithing thatare the finest we have ever seen. Onerepre
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. of the Erie at Hornell,N. Y., announces the following changesand proninlions in his staff there: R. Horrigan. transferred frompipe litter ti> foreman tin, pipe and copperdepartment, vice Mr. J. Griffith, L. Smith, transferred from foremanof tank shop to foreman erecting shop,vice Mr. H. G. Oxerby, resigned. E. Van Antwerp, transferred from car-penter to foreman of tank shop. We have received from Mr. JamesCran, Art smith, Plainfield, N. J., somespecimens of artistic blacksmithing thatare the finest we have ever seen. Onerepresents a Scots thistle with the leavesand flower as finely worked out as theyare in iiature. In medieval times, whenblacksmiths did wonderfully fine work onarmor, tliese artisans were in the habit offorging imitations of flowers and manyfine specimens are still to be seen inEuropean museums, The writer has ex-amined many of these triumphs of theblacksmiths art, but he never saw anyspecimen that was finer than the workdone bv Mr. C. C. OWEXS. Mr. C. C. Owens has recently beenplaced in charge of the Detroit District ofthe Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-turing Companys sales office with the titleof district manager. Mr. Owens was bornin 1877 near Annapolis, Md., and gradu-ated from Columbian L^niversity, Wash-ington, D. C, with the degree of Bachelorof Science in electrical engineering. tlie employ of the company in1?96, taking the apprenticeship course forthree years, after which he spent four\-ears in the Engineering Department,specializing on switchboards and con-trollers. For the last eight years he hasbeen connected with the New York salesoffice having had charge of the Industrialand Power Division for the two previousyears to his transfer to Detroit. The officers of the L. S. Starrett Com-pany for 1912 are: Mr. L. S. Starrett,president; Mr. F. A. Ball, vice-president;Mr. F. E. Wing, treasurer and secretary;Mr. W. G. Nims, assistant treasurer; witha board
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