FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING. Established 1877. Published Every Wednesday at 154 Nassau Street, New York Subscription Rates, $3.00 a Year. Foreign, $4.50 F. W. SHEPPERD, Owner and Publisher. JOHN PALMER PRATT, Editor. VICTOR W. PAGE, M.E. Author “The Modern Gasoline Automobile” Associate Editors. JOSEPH B. RIDER, C.E., Author of “The Little Engineer.”……. A. V. BENNETT, Chief Engineer Contributing Editors H. R. YATES, Chief Engineer H. W. BRINGHURST, Fire Marshal Entered at New York as second-class matter. New York, Wednesday, December 31, 1913