Woonsocket, R. I., June 14th: During May, 1919, 70 building permits were issued, valued at $338,860, against 11 last year, valued at $23,500. General business conditions are excellent. Merchants report business conditions normal and the textile situation is improving all the time. Boston Office Mr. Russell Robb is on his vacation. Mr. L. H. G. Bouscaren and Mr. M. J. Whitson have gone to France. Mr. G. H. Clifford, local manager of the Northern Texas Traction Company, has lately visited the Boston office. Mr. A. S. Pratt has spent considerable time in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recently. Mr. Samuel B. Tuell of Hog Island visited the Boston office recently. Mr. C. F. W. Wetterer, division manager for the Southeastern District, has returned from a month's trip in the South. Mr. C. A. Sears, general superintendent of the Mississippi Power Company, visited the Boston office recently. Mr. Milliken, local manager at Houghton, Michigan, was lately in Boston. Mr. J. T. G. Nichols is on an extended vacation, which he is spending at Rockport, Mass. Mr. H. H. Hunt is spending the summer at Duxbury, Mass. Mr. M. M. Phinney has returned to the office after an extended vacation. Mr. H. A. Lemmon of Reno has been in Boston. Mr. Louis H. Bean, local manager at Tacoma, spent a few hours in Boston in June. Mr. J. P. Ingle, local manager of the Keokuk Electric Company, was here for a brief period. Mr. John W. Gale of the statistics department is in New York. Mr. Eben O. Smith of the statistics department has been transferred to the Cape Breton Electric Company, Sydney, Nova Scotia. Mr. Willard B. Newell of the statistics department has been transferred to the Key West Electric Company. Mr. Frank A. Tracy, University of Maine, 1919, has joined the statistics department. Mr. L. C. Bradley, division manager for the Texas companies, recently spent a short time here. Mr. K. M. Causland, local manager of the Lake Ariguinabo Company, Santiago de Cuba, has been at the Boston office recently. Mr. E. Stanley Glines, formerly head of the Stone & Webster Drafting Department and later at Hog Island, has identified himself with Lam, Glines & Company, Inc., a corporation organized to promote American interests in China. Mr. George C. England and Mr. Frederick S. Pratt are also directors of this company. The Chinese interests in this development are represented by Loy Chang, a graduate of Harvard University and later connected with leading banking institutions in the United States; T. K. Kao, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later connected with the American Rolling Mill Company of Middletown, Ohio, American Whaley Engine Company of Boston, and still later a representative of the Ameri can Rolling Mill Company in China; V. Fang Lam, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and successively with the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, the New London Ship & Engine Company and the New York Shipbuilding Corporation; Long Lau, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at one time assistant to Prof. R. A. Richards at the Institute, later chemist of the Juragua Iron Company of Santiago de Cuba, then chief engineer of the mine, subsequently chief engineer and acting superintendent, and in 1919 mine engineer of the Yang Iron Works, of China; K. C. Tsang, graduate of Cornell University and connected with the American Locomotive Works; H. F. Wang, graduate of Peyang University and Columbia School of Mines, with experience with various American mining organizations; K. Huang, a graduate of Yale, with experience as accountant and auditor in the United States. It is interesting to note that Mr. Fang Lam is a nephew of Wu Ting Fang, formerly Chinese Ambassador to the United States, and that Mr. H. F. Wang is a nephew of Mr. E. T. Wang, one of the Chinese representatives at the Peace Conference. Mr. H. C. Foss, district manager of the Southeastern District, announced the birth of a daughter June 26th. Mr. R. M. Harding, heretofore holding the position of general superintendent of The Columbus Power Company, Columbus Railroad Company and Gas Light Company of Columbus, has been appointed local manager. Mr. John J. Madden of Securities Department, 101st Infantry, has been recommended for the Croix de Guerre. Mr. Howard F. Neill returned to the treasurer's office after overseas duty in the Artillery branch of the service, with the Rainbow Division. Miss Mabelle R. Bratton has entered the stenographic department of the treasurer's office, having returned from Washington, where she was a secretary in the Food Administration. Mr. B. Alcott Pratt has returned to the treasurer's office after overseas duty with the army. Mr. James B. Mahoney has returned to the treasurer's office after overseas duty in the Ordnance branch of the army. Miss Margaret McKendrick has left the organization and returned to her home in Scotland. Mr. A. Homer Hathaway has been transferred from the treasurer's to the securities department. The Great Western Power Company of San Francisco has placed a contract with Stone & Webster for the construction of a hydro-electric power plant of 40,000 k.w. capacity near Caibour. The Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company has placed a contract with Stone & Webster for the construction of additions to their plant at West Pullman, Illinois. Stone & Webster have been engaged to construct a laboratory building and a faculty building for St. Xavier College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stone & Webster have been asked to construct a building at London, Ontario, for the Holeproof Hosiery Company. Stone & Webster have undertaken the installation of boilers for the New Bedford Gas & Edison Light Company, New Bedford, Mass. The following is a list of those who left the Boston office for service in connection with the war, and who, being honorably discharged, have returned to the Stone & Webster organization: Walter W. Avery ....Sgt., Medical Corps, 11th U. S. Gordon H. Balch Machine Gun Batt., A. E. F.. Industrial .1st Lt., U. S. Naval Reserve Forces, Flying Corps ....... Robert J. Barrett..... U. S. Naval Reserve Force, Securities Accounting Mabelle R. Bratton... U. S. Food Administration, William W. Brigham.. Ensign, U. S. Naval Reserve Drafting Aviation, Washington, D. C. Purchasing George A. Cahill, Jr. Force, Miami, Fla. Camp, Camp Taylor Francis C. Carleton .. 1st Lt., Instructor Officers' George D. Carpenter.. Medical Corps, U. S. Base Hos pital No. 66 ... Carroll H. Carter.....1102 Aero Replac. Sqdu. Ameri can P. O. 725 . . . . . . Clarence E. Conkey .. U. S. Naval Reserve Force, William T. Crawford.. 1st Lt., 301st U. S. Infantry, A. E. F.... Charles P. Crowley .. Naval Detail, Commonwealth Joseph G. Crowley ... Pier... Treasurer's Drafting Drafting Purchasing Corporation Drafting Edwin W. Deering.... Depot Brigade, Camp Devens. Drafting George V. Donovan... U. S. Naval Reserve Force, Walter M. Driscoll Charlestown Navy Yard .... Construction .Sgt., Medical Corps, U. S. Field Hospital, A. E. F. Joseph J. Droulette.. U. S. Hospital Corps, Newport, Drafting Construction William J. Farrisee . . . Air Service School, Austin, Drafting Thomas W. Fernald .. 2nd Lt., Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va...... Auditing Joseph P. Fish Marine Reserve Corps, Navy Engineering John Di Giacomo..... Students' Army Tr. Corps, Harvard University Earl R. Fontaine ....Students' Army Tr. Corps, Auditing Boston College Purchasing Federico Glenton, Jr. . Capt., Engineering Corps, Camp Melville W. Grant ...33rd Co., Central Officers' Tr. School, Camp Lee, Va. Auditing John T. Griffin Corp. Utilities Detachment, Con- Construction Stephen W. Herthel ..Signal Corps, Aviation Service, 2nd Train Brigade, Kelly Clarence L. Hoyt ....Sgt., Labor Batt., Quarter Charles A. Hunter Mathew G. Kelly. J. Philip Lane. master's Corps, Camp Stuart, Va...... Drafting Accounting ... Master Gunner, C. A. C....... Drafting U. S. Base Hospital Unit No. 5 Auditing Gun Co., A. E. F. Meredith W. Littlefield Harvard Radio School, Cam Securities James B. Mahoney... Capt. Ordnance Dept., A. E. F. Treasurer's Howard F. Neill......Lt. Battery C, 314 Field Artil Willard B. Newell.... 2nd Lt., Headquarters Co., 129th Corporation Treasurer's Harold E. Putnam. . . . Corp., 101st Engineers, A. E. F. Drafting Boston College Charles Warren Smith Sgt., 156 Depot Brigade, Camp Sevier, S. C..... Eben Oswell Smith.... Ensign, U. S. Naval Reserve Construction Transfer Force, U. S. S. "Moccasin".. Statistical |