FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING Published Every Wednesday at 318-326 West 39th Street, New York Subscription Rates, $3.00 a Year. Foreign, $4.50 By Fire and Water Engineering, Inc. CHARLES B. HAYWARD FREDERICK W. SHEPHERD EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ROBERT H LOCKWOOD Editor K. S. McKAY Associate Editor FREDERICK SHEPPERD – – Technical Editor BUSINESS DEPARTMENT I. H. CASE —-Business Manager Entered as second-class matter, January 9, 1903, at the post office at New York, N. Y.. under the Act of March 3, 1879. New York, Wednesday, August 27, 1919