. Engineering and Contracting. at Chicago, having forthree years charge of the dredging, gradingand filling of the grounds and the construc-tion of roads, surveys and grades. At thededication ceremonies he was presented withone of the seventy medals received by the de-signers of the fair. During 1892-3 he was chief engineer of awater supply conduit 92 miles long fromWaukesha to the worlds fair grounds for supplying refrigerated drinking water. At theclose of the fair he assisted in compiling thereport of the director of works. In 1894 Mr. Alvord again visited Englandand the continent and broad
. Engineering and Contracting. at Chicago, having forthree years charge of the dredging, gradingand filling of the grounds and the construc-tion of roads, surveys and grades. At thededication ceremonies he was presented withone of the seventy medals received by the de-signers of the fair. During 1892-3 he was chief engineer of awater supply conduit 92 miles long fromWaukesha to the worlds fair grounds for supplying refrigerated drinking water. At theclose of the fair he assisted in compiling thereport of the director of works. In 1894 Mr. Alvord again visited Englandand the continent and broadened further hisinformation on foreign engineering home he opened an office in 1895for the general practice of his profession inthe especial lines in which he has been activelyengaged ever since. From 1S97 to 1901 he was consulting engi-neer to the commissioners of the Illinois andMichigan Canal, conducting important litiga-tion and advising on the construction of largehydraulic works at Joliet and reporting on. various hydraulic powers belonging to thestate of Illinois. In 1899 he was retained by the city ofColumbus, Ohio, as consulting engineer onsewer problems, designing a systernof 75miles of sanitary sewers for that city sinceconstructed; also reporting on the sewagepurification problem. In 1905 he was entrusted by the UnitedStates Steel Corporation with the design andconstruction of the sewerage and water sup-ply of its new steel city at Gary. Ind. Thiswork occupied three years, cost about $1,500,-000, and involved inlet tunnel underLake Michigan, a pumping station of 20,000,-000 gals, daily capacity, 25 miles of waterdistribution system and over 25 miles of trunkand local sewers with ultimate designs forsewage purification works. f» In 1907 he was engaged by the city of? Evansville, Ind., to advise and superintendthe erection of a mechanical filtration plant of12,000,000 gals, daily capacity on quite diffi-cult foundations; also a low lift pumpi
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