. Railway mechanical engineer . moted to succeed Samuel McRob-erts as division chiefof ordnance, with head-quarters at Washington,D. C. His militan,rank, however, con-tinues the same. was bom atDetroit, Mich., on De-cember 1, 1867, andgraduated from theUniversity of Michiganin 1891. After leavingcollege he was engagedas engineer of con-struction at the WorldsColumbian R. P. Lamont jj^ Chicago, and from 1892 to 1897, was sec-retary and engineer of the contracting firm, Shailer &Schinglau. He then became connected with the SimplexRailway Appliance Com
. Railway mechanical engineer . moted to succeed Samuel McRob-erts as division chiefof ordnance, with head-quarters at Washington,D. C. His militan,rank, however, con-tinues the same. was bom atDetroit, Mich., on De-cember 1, 1867, andgraduated from theUniversity of Michiganin 1891. After leavingcollege he was engagedas engineer of con-struction at the WorldsColumbian R. P. Lamont jj^ Chicago, and from 1892 to 1897, was sec-retary and engineer of the contracting firm, Shailer &Schinglau. He then became connected with the SimplexRailway Appliance Company as first vice-president. In1905, he was elected fir,st vice-president of the AmericanSteel Foundries, and was elected president in 1911. Phillips has been appointed manager in charge ofthe oxyhydrogen plant and sales office of the InternationalOxygen Company at Pittsburgh, Pa. The company an-nounces also that Jack Heller, long with L. Heller & Sons,has joined its Xew York sales force, succeeding Mr. RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER \oL. 92, No. 11 George Quelch, one of the staff engineers of tlic InternationalOxygen Company, 115 Broadway, New York, sailed recentlyfor England to supervise the installation of a 4S0-cell plantof unit oxyhydrogen generators for the British admiralt). John P. Hopkins, chairman of the board of directorsof the Independent Pneumatic Tool Company, and formermayor of Chicago, died in that city on Sunday, October was ill only a few days and death was attributed to aweak heart superinduced by an attack of Spanish Hopkins was born in Buffalo, New York, in KS.^ moved to Chicago in 1880 and accepted a position withthe Pullman Palace Car Company as a machinist. Laterhe went into business for himself as a partner in the firmof Secord & Hopkins, general , at Pullman, venture proved successful and was the foundation fora large fortune. Mr. Hopkins was a national figure inpolitics. He served the unexp
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