. Western electrician . y themselves the pleasure of making allusion tothe warm sentiment of esteem in which they congratulatehim on his happy marriage. In doing this they but echo theexpression of good wishes from a large number of friends inthe electrical field. Union College and the General ElectricCompany. At the recent annual banquet of the alumni of old LnionCollege of Schenectady, N. Y., held in the city of New York,President Raymond said that it was his privilege to an-nounce for the first time the introduction of an electricalengineering course in connection with the works of the Gen-
. Western electrician . y themselves the pleasure of making allusion tothe warm sentiment of esteem in which they congratulatehim on his happy marriage. In doing this they but echo theexpression of good wishes from a large number of friends inthe electrical field. Union College and the General ElectricCompany. At the recent annual banquet of the alumni of old LnionCollege of Schenectady, N. Y., held in the city of New York,President Raymond said that it was his privilege to an-nounce for the first time the introduction of an electricalengineering course in connection with the works of the Gen-eral Electric company at Schenectady. A plan of co-opera-tive work had been adopted, which, for range and thorough-ness of instruction, he said, was without a superior, if notwithout a rival in this country. The students in this coursewould have two months each year of practical work under di-rection in the shops of the General Electric company, with a?supplementary year for those who showed the greatest FIG. S. THE NEW POWER STATION OF THE LINDELLPRAILWAY COMPANY, ST. LOUIS.—OLD PLANT. contributing but little to the following potential, and involv-ing immense losses, but in the aggregate, taking coal as thelast clearing-house of natures banking system, leavingstill enough for the draughts of ages to come. But man, though he have this deposit in bank, cannotdraw upon it without the expenditure of a close equivalent,and in the succeeding transformations, which in one sensemay be said to be of his own making, he has learned thenecessity of economy. The energy of the raging torrent ofto-day, largely in excess ol his present demands, must bestored up for the drought of to-morrow, when there will be,without his aid, no energy from that source; the rivulet, in-sufficient for continuous nse, is conserved for intermittent maximum load of a day is from three to four times the mean,and the range of variation not unfrequently between zeroand a very large maximum, and the
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