. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. ic highschool. He undertook to pay his own waythrough the Institute, but suffered financialreverses when half way through, and becamea beneficiary of the Vreeland Fund, in orderto finish the course. He was engaged aselectrician in the incandescent departmentof the Mount Morris Electric Light Co., NewYork, at intervals between 1892 and 1898;was electrician in the equipment depart-men of the Brooklyn Navy
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. ic highschool. He undertook to pay his own waythrough the Institute, but suffered financialreverses when half way through, and becamea beneficiary of the Vreeland Fund, in orderto finish the course. He was engaged aselectrician in the incandescent departmentof the Mount Morris Electric Light Co., NewYork, at intervals between 1892 and 1898;was electrician in the equipment depart-men of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1898-99;in the testing-department of the GeneralElectric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., 1899-1902;in the electrical department of the BristolCo., Waterbury, Conn., 1902-03; and hasbeen mechanical engineer with the WesternEngineering & Construction Co., San Fran-cisco, from 1903 to date. Kidde, Walter (, 97), was born inHoboken, N. J., March 7, 1877. He was THE ALUMNI 455 constructor with Burhorn & Granger, con-tracting engineers, New York, 1897-1900,making a study of electricity and power-transmission as applied to factories; and haspractised as engineer and contractor. New. Walter Kidde York, from 1900 to date. His first inde-pendent work was the erection of a factoryfor the manufacture of a special roofingpaper, the design of the machinery and sys-tem of operation being original. This fac-tory plant is the first of its kind in whichthe paper is so treated as to get the desiredresult in one continuous operation; wherebyboth output and efiiciency have been greatlyincreased over old methods, marking a dis-tinct advance in this line of current transmission of poweris used throughout the works, and the con-trol of the motor speeds has contributed tothe successful operation of the plant. Sincethe completion of this work Mr. Kidde hashad charge of change-over to electric trans-mission and motor system of several millsin and about New York and in New Jerse
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