. Railway mechanical engineer . asing agent upon the retirement of Harrison B. Hodges. Harrison B. Hodges, purchasing agent for the Long Island atJamaica, N. Y., retired on September 1 under the pension rulesof the company. ^Ir. Hodges w^as born at Barre, Mass., on Au-gust 14, 1858, and aftercompleting his grammarschool education he at-tended the Boston LatinSchool and then special-ized in the study ofchemistry at the Univer-sities of Leipsic, Heidel-berg and Bonn in Ger-many. He also studiedthe engineering side ofchemistry and buildingconstruction at the Poly-technicum in .\ix-la-Chapel. He w
. Railway mechanical engineer . asing agent upon the retirement of Harrison B. Hodges. Harrison B. Hodges, purchasing agent for the Long Island atJamaica, N. Y., retired on September 1 under the pension rulesof the company. ^Ir. Hodges w^as born at Barre, Mass., on Au-gust 14, 1858, and aftercompleting his grammarschool education he at-tended the Boston LatinSchool and then special-ized in the study ofchemistry at the Univer-sities of Leipsic, Heidel-berg and Bonn in Ger-many. He also studiedthe engineering side ofchemistry and buildingconstruction at the Poly-technicum in .\ix-la-Chapel. He was thenfor five years instructorin chemistry and Germanat the Harvard Uni-versity. In 1886 began railwaywork as chemist and su-perintendent of tests onthe Union Pacific, re-maining with that road until 1892 when he went to the Baltimore& Ohio as engineer of tests. In 1895 he was appointed superin-tendent of tests on the Southern Railway and on January 1, 1897,he became purchasing agent of the Long Island B. Hodges OBITUARY W. B. Deveny, superintendent of shops of the Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe, with headquarters at Topeka, Kan., died on August22 as the result of an automobile accident. John R. Schradee, general car foreman of the New York Cen-tral at Mott Haven, N. Y., died Friday, -August 11. He was alsosecond vice-president of the Central Railway Club. Robert Quayle. who retired as general superintendent of mo-tive power and machinery of the Chicago & North Westernon May 1, 1922, died at his home in Oak Park, III., on Sep-tember 13 at the age of 69. Volume 96 November, 1922 No. II In few, if any, railroad shops are air compressor cylindersfinished by grinding, although this is a practice which couldapparently be introduced with consid-Why Not Grind erable profit. It is true that with theAir Compressor powerful modern boring machines andCylinders? heavy multiple-cutting tools rigidlysupported, cast-iron air compressorc}linders can be bored with accuracy, s
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