WIRE PUSH BROOM FOR STREET PAVING AND CLEANING

pany's portable heating kettles and surface heaters are well known to street superintendents. The two products here illustrated are the asphalt scraper and the wire push broom. The scraper is especially designed for cleaning streets, bridges and sidewalks, and is being used successfully by a large number of municipalities. This steel scraper measures 30 by 13 inches, and it is claimed that it wears off to a sharp edge and will not curl, as is the case with most scrapers. The heavy, coarse steel wire push broom illustrated herewith is used exten

ASPHALT SCRAPER, USED FOR CLEANING
PAVEMENTS AND SIDEWALKS

Engineering Firm Prominent in
Municipal Work

The Scofield Engineering Company, Philadelphia, Pa., has established an enviable reputation for appraisal work, its reports having been upheld by the courts in numerous cases. Nine appraisal reports have been made for the city of Philadelphia, and in each case the court has practically given award upon the Scofield appraisal. Associated with this company is a prominent bridge engineer, a man who has had over thirty years' practical experience in both bridge design and construction. This firm makes a specialty of municipal electric lighting plants, and has designed several plants which are classed among the most economically operated in the country. Flood protection and highway engineering are also features of its work. Municipal sewage, water-power and water-supply systems and Liberty Buildings are among the other specialties of this company.

Asphalt Association to Promote the Training of Highway Engineers in Colleges

Arthur H. Blanchard, Professor of Highway Engineering at the University of Michigan, says: "Highway officials, progressive educators and many prominent business men realize that a serious condition will confront the United States and Canada if graduates of our technical schools are not properly trained in highway engineering.

"Highway appropriations will increase rapidly during the next five years, as is indicated by the 1919 appropriations of $500,000,000 in the United States and a relatively large amount in Canada for highway improvements, and a widespread demand for the construction of a system of 50,000 miles of national highways by the United States Government under the direction of a National Highway Commission.

"Estimates made this year by the United States Bureau of Public Roads disclosed a remarkable field of opportunity for highway engineers, as investigation shows that for federal and state highway work alone, exclusive of cities, counties and towns, there are required 122 chief executives and administrators; 360 division engineers of the Federal Government, division chiefs of Bureau, division chiefs of highway departments, district engineers of highway departments, etc.; 3,630 supervising engineers and chiefs of party, and 6,350 junior engineers, rodmen, chairmen, draftsmen and others of similar calibre."

The Asphalt Association, 15 Maiden Lane, New York, takes the definite stand that as much time should be given to the essentials of highway engineering as is given to sanitary, hydraulic or railroad engineering. Professor Blanchard will coöperate with the engineers of the Association in developing a plan with colleges and universities under which highway engineering courses of instruction will receive increased attention.

Former Sanitary Corps Officer with Wallace & Tiernan

Wallace & Tiernan Company, Inc., New York City, manufacturers of chlorine control apparatus, have recently announced that former Capt. Lucius A. Fritze, Sanitary Corps, U. S. Army, has become associated with their Technical Staff, and will be the manager of the new office which they have opened at Kansas City, Mo. This office will cover the territory comprising the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.

A Compact Recording
Water Meter

The indicating rate dial and recording meter shown in the following illustration is one of the products of the Simplex Valve & Meter Company, 112 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. One of its particular features is a

vantage of providing the same space for pen movement at all rates of flow. Furthermore, its record can be observed thruout the whole period at one view without rotation. If it is desired to check the quantities of flow from the chart, its area can be determined by the usual type of planimeter, the use of a special planimeter being unnecessary. Each chart is provided with a facsimile of the total register dial. Thus the meter reader may sketch in the point of positions on the chart at the time of its removal and have another record for checking any readings desired.

Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation Again Expands

Announcement has recently been made that the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation has purchased plant, patterns, accounts, patents and other assets of the Epping-Carpenter Pump Company located at Pittsburgh, Pa. This well-known plant will be operated in the future as the Epping-Carpenter Works.

AT LAST!

A REAL HIGHWAY HANDBOOK

AMERICAN HIGHWAY ENGINEERS' HANDBOOK

Arthur H. Blanchard, Editor-in

Chief and a staff of Specialists

This Handbook has been endorsed by the leading engineers of the country as the authority on highway work. It covers every subject to which the engineer is likely to refer. Every page is packed with reliable facts ready to be applied to your daily work.

County engineers - city engineers and other officials, should have this book. Your position requires that you be acquainted with all types of highway construction, streets, paving, etc. Here is the book that tells everything you want to know-everything that you should know. Get your copy to-day. Mail the coupon.

WATER WORKS ENGINEERS (FREE)

We publish a small pamphlet giving a list of the best books on Water Works and related subjects. This pamphlet is your guide, -it tells you the books to read on these subjects. May we send you a copy free? Remember you can examine, free, copies of any of our books.