Show 3 I Spreading broken stone for roads received special attention in a a paper presented to the International Road Congress by Mr l Ro Robert ert Philipps consulting surveyor to the Gloucester County Council England In his opinion stone should never be tipped from a cart or ot wheelbarrow on the place where it is to be e spread it should never be spread or pushed into place with the back of the the shovel it should not be lifted with the shovel and carefully placed in its position on the road A competent competent competent compe compe- tent spreader takes the stone stone on his shovel and spreads it with a circular motion like th the hand of seed so that the small and large stones drop equally into their positions letting letting letting let let- ting the road finish with a true surface The Utah Society of Engineers will hold their monthly meeting next Friday in n the Commercial Club rooms A paper will be presented presented presented pre pre- by Dr Ebaugh dealing with smelter smoke R. R S. S McCaffery l will also read a paper on The Temperature of Blast Furna Fur Fur- na naces naces es Students arc are invited to attend Reinforced concrete fences and stock pens are being used at the Union Stock yards in Chicago The fence adopted for general enclosures enclosures enclosures en en- closures consists of two reinforced slabs for each post bet between which are inserted ribbed- ribbed rail slabs and over their tops a reinforced shaped channel-shaped cap which binds the two halves of each post together The resistance of smooth surfaces to motion in the air when they are parallel to the direction direction direction tion of motion instead of perpendicular to it has been investigated by Prof Albert Frank of the Hanover I Technical School His re report report report re- re port of the experiments given in the of the Society of Germ German n Engineers Engineer indicates that about square feet of side surface surface sur stir face is necessary necessary to develop the same resistance resistance resistance tance as results from one square foot of front surface placed perpendicular Ow 10 to the direction of motion |