Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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gone and we miss her. But she will soon return, and as, in gala attire, she sweeps around the curve below the Dorm, homeward bound, the shriek of her whistle will wake the echoes — and the boys. The chance to run upon rails is not the only reward which Schen- ectady is to receive from her suftering in the flames. Instead of tak- ing her old place in the general laboratory, with a room full of other machinery, she is to have an abiding place of her own ; moreover, it is whispered that while the inside of her house may be deficient in varnish, there will be no question as to the completeness of its mechan- ical appointments. In fact, it is fully expected that Schenectady will, from time to time, entertain others of her kind who will visit for the purpose of matching their iron muscles against hers. FAc-rs.- 1. The Purdue Railroad is an institution which belongs to the Universit} ' . It begins at the rear of the Engineering Laboratory and runs westerly to the boarding hall drive, south on this drive until South Street is crossed, and thence in a southwesterly direction to the switch of the L. E. W. R. R. at the top of the grade. The length of the Purdue Railroad is one and one-half miles. 2. The new Locomotive Laboratory is to be a brick structure, 30x70 feet, having walls twenty feet high. It is to be equipped with apparatus which will serve for testing any locomotive whatsoever. All parts will be adjustable to suit the requirements of different engines. 3. The floor space in the Engineering Laboratory, left vacant by Schenectady, will be taken by new machinery.

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Tb? Purdue Rjiilroid ind tbe Locomotive Liboritory. of tread-mill on the night SHORT two years siace, when the pro- moters of our Engineering Labora- tory first undertook to solve the diffi- cult problem of locomotive testing, it probably did not occur to them that their efforts would so soon re- sult in raising Purdue to the dignity of a railroad terminus. Yet this is e eu - o Purdue now has direct connection by rail ith all America. Old Schenectady came to us after a week ' s laborious journeying across the fields, ■ here there was no track on which to rest her wheels. After three years ' service, and 4,000 miles travel in the course of science ; after her desperate plunge of January 2.3d; after ministering hands have raised her fifty tuii.-, a uiiiliipuis from a dci-th uf a.-hcs ; after all this, she has rolled f uickly away at the beckoning of a switch engine. She has

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Schoof of Civif Enoineerino. ALFRED EDWARD PHILLIPS, A. M , C. E , Professor of Civil En- gineering. A. B., Union College, New York, 1887; C. E., same college, 1887; A. M., 1890; Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Xi; Assistant Engineer Cumberland Valley Unaka Railroad Company, 1887; Assistant Engineer New York State Board of Health; examined sanitary condition of water supply of Xew York City, 1888; memljer St. Louis Society of Civil Engineers, Indiana Academy of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science. WILLIAM KENDRICK HATT, A. B., C. E., Asso,-iate Professor of Civil Engineering. A. B., University of New Brunswick, 1887; C. E , Cornell Uni- versity, 1891 ; Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Xi ; engineer ' s office, Intercolonial Railroad, one year, 1888; Resident Engineer, con- struction of Grafton Upson Railway, Massachusetts, 1889; En- gineer Windsor Branch Railway, 1890 ; with Berlin Iron Bridge Company, summer, 1891 ; Professor of Civil Engineering, Uni- versit} ' of Xew Brunswick, 1891-92; Instructor Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1892-93.