Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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TEE ORACEE, 29 Sophomore German. First Prize—Marjorie Mae Brown. Second Prize—Meta Pennock. Honorable Mention—Otis Wadsworth Hovey. Latin PrizeEs—Given by Mr. Alexander Gilb ert. Vergil. First Prize—Esther Barton Crampton. Second Prize—Washington McIntyre. Honorable Mention—Marjorie Mae Brown. Cicero. First Prize—Agnes Marguerite Van Norden. Second Prize—Sarah Anne Brouwer. Honorable Mention—Stanley Parsons. Caesar. First Prize—Meta Pennock. Second Prize—Bessie Alpaugh. Honorable Mention—Barbara Fleming. COMMERCIAL PRIZES. Given by Ernest R. Ackerman. A first prize of three dollars, and a second prize of two dollars, to be expended in books. Bookkeeping. First Prize—Howard Judson Runyon, Jr. Second Prize—Carola Edna Hart. Honorable Mention Arthur William Johnson. Typewriting. First Prize—Harry Brick. Second Prize—Annie Mauger. Honorable Mention—Nettie Garretson Stillman. Stenography. First Prize—Harry Brick. Second Prize—Mary Ethel Mathews. Honorable Mention—Carrie Markley Baker. Amanuensis. First Prize—Donald Cameron Mortimer. Second Prize—Eleanor Ackerman Thompson. Honorable Mention—Charles Henry Line.

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28 ELE ORCA Clk: Award of Prizes, 1908 ENGLISH GOMPOSITION: I. The George H. Babcock Prize, given by Mrs. George H. Babcock. Iirst Prize—Walter Edward Knowlton. Second Prize—Louise Townsend Nicholl. Honorable Mention— Eleanor Van Tuyl. Maud Kathryn Sminck. Horace Barnard Earle. II. The Daily Press Prize for the best essay written by a member of the Senior Class on a topic relating to municipal affairs. Prize—$10.00 in gold, Sara Louise Sanderson. MATHEMATICS. The Dr. C. H. Stillman Prize, given by Mr. Wm. M. Stillman. First Prize—$15.00 in gold, Washington McIntyre. Second Prize—$r1o.00 in gold, Otis Wadsworth Hovey. Honorable Mention—Douglas Davis, Thomas Enory Ricketts TRANSLATION PRIZES For the best translation of assigned passages, a first prize of three dollars, and a sec ond prize of two dollars, to be expended in books chosen by the receiver of the prize. Mopern LAnGuAGES—Given by Mr. Ernest R. Ackerman Senior French. First Prize—Percy La Barre Mygrant. Second Prize—Marjorie Mae Harris. Honorable Mention—Clara Savage. Junior French. First Prize—Elsa Mae Cook. Second Prize—Stanley Parsons. Honorable Mention—Leroy Clhffton Whitall. Junior German. First Prize—David Bryant Thickstun. Second Prize Agnes Marguerite Van Norden. Honorable Mention—George Stanley Robins.

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30 ABU. ON NOL A Trip Through the Eagle Works of the Standard Oil Co. WALTER EDWARD KNOWLTON. I had the good fortune, a short time ago, to make a tour of the Standard Oil works at Bayonne, in company with the chief engineer of the plant. The engineer, by the way, is essentially a self-made man, having started at the lowest round of the ladder and worked up to his present position by slow and toilsome steps. He, therefore, knows every little detail of every part, and is fully competent to explain them clearly and concisely. The watchword of this immense plant seems to be “Unity ;” and in no place is this so well shown as in tracing the crude oil as it comes in from the pipe-lines, through the various steps, until it is loaded in barrels on the lighters and shipped away. In the first place, two main pipe-lines have their terminals at this sta- tion; one coming from West Virginia, and the other from New York State. These empty into a series of immense tanks, 115 feet in circumference, and from twenty-five to forty feet high. From here, the crude petroleum is pumped to the stills. These stills are built over furnaces, and it is here that the oil is vaporized. The purpose of this distillation is to separate the dif- ferent oils, and to leave as many of the impurities as possible behind. At first glance, it is not easy to see how the different kinds of oil are separated by being vaporized, but its principle is simply that the lghter oils turn into vapor at a lower temperature than the heavier oils, and so pass over first. The oils being vaporized and separated, the different vapors are conducted in separate pipes to the condensers. These are a series of huge tanks filled with circulating water pumped directly from New York Bay, which borders the lower boundary of the works. In these tanks are coils of pipe through which the oil vapor is forced. When the vapor comes in contact with the chilled walls of the pipes, it is liquified. Then the oil is piped to the testing building. Here are experts who take samples of the oil, and determine its gravity by means of a small in- strument called a hydrometer. An oil with a certain gravity is piped to one tank; an oil with a different gravity, to another.