Mr. H. G. Winsor, claim agent, recently attended the annual convention of the Pacific Claim Agents' Association in Portland. He was elected president for the coming year.

Tacoma's quota for the Third Liberty Loan issue was $2,600,000, which amount was subscribed during the first week. The total amount subscribed in Tacoma was $3,716,000.

Mr. H. E. Dingle of the sales department has been transferred to the sales department of the Seattle Division.

The Puyallup Short Line resumed operation May 15th after having been closed down for some time on account of the high waters washing out a portion of the trestle.

A giant flag pole, approximately 340 feet high, will be put up at Camp Lewis. It will weigh twenty-three tons and a nine-ton block of concrete will hold it solidly in place. The Tacoma Daily News is responsible for the putting up of the pole and for the flag, which will, no doubt, be the largest flag in the world. The next tallest flag pole is in England, 215 feet high, and weighing eighteen tons.

Tacoma has also the largest smokestack, that of the Tacoma Smelting Company, which upon its completion took the honor from Japan. The smelter pile of brick and mortar rises 575 feet from its base.

Tampa, Fla.

Mr. P. O. Knight, vice-president and general counsel of the American International Shipbuilding Corporation at Philadelphia, spent a few days at his home in Tampa during the month of May.

H. R. Sharpless, chief engineer of the Baton Rouge Electric Company, and Thos. E. Ware, who were formerly connected with this company, spent their vacations in Tampa.

Mr. R. G. Carroll, manager of the Key West Electric Company, visited the office on May 4th.

Mr. G. H. Wygant, commercial agent, F. E. Fletcher, assistant to the manager, W. M. Bird, superintendent of transportation, who hold the offices of 2nd lieutenant, secretary of the Egypt Temple Patrol and Chief Rabban of Egypt Temple, attended the Shriners' ceremony at Bartow, Fla., on May 16th.

Miss Marie Glass of the commercial department, and Mr. H. F. Fuller, formerly connected with the accounting department, were married on May 3rd, and will make future home in Daytona, Fla.

Mr. T. C. Folsom, roadmaster, visited Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans, Savannah, Pensacola and Jacksonville, inspecting track work. Mrs. J. C. Woodsome and daughter, Martha, have returned East intending to make their permanent home there.

Mr. H. E. Williams has entered the accounting department.

Mr. Leon J. Witman has been transferred from the accounting department to the line department.

E. B. Smith, former arc lamp foreman, has been appointed assistant to the lighting superintendent.

R. E. Cashwell has been made foreman of the meter department.

L. W. Crompton has been made foreman of arc lamp and repair department.

R. W. Williams and J. G. Simpson, of the Atlanta office of the Westinghouse Company, visited the office in May.

War Savings and Thrift Stamps sales for Tampa for the period ended May 10th amount to $181,067.51. The local Thousand Dollar Club boasts of 112 members. Mr. John Muench of Tampa is the leading mail carrier stamp salesman for the United States. One of the Tampa representatives of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stands 12th on the list of stamp salesmen for the United States.

The "Nameoki," the first of Tampa's wood ships, was launched at the yards of the Tampa Dock Co. on May 8th. The boat is 286 feet long and of 2,200 tons displacement. The keel was laid October 19, 1917.

There were 37,000,000 cigars manufactured in Tampa during April, this being a record breaking output. Between five and six million cigars were exported to soldiers on the European front.

An old-fashioned barbacue was prepared by local merchants on May 10th in honor of soldiers now posted at the local shipyards.

Local retail merchants commenced closing their stores at noon on May 2 and will continue until October 1st.

Members of the Rotary Club presented "What Happened to Jones" at the Tampa Bay Casino on May 3rd and 4th; the proceeds were given to various war charities.

We have recently connected a 200 H. P. motor at the Oscar Daniels Shipbuilding Co., which operates an air compressor; the remaining equipment, approximately 800 H. P., will be installed within the next few months.

Both the city of Tampa and Hillsborough County have oversubscribed the Third Liberty Loan, the allotment for Tampa being $1,409,850, subscriptions $1,660,750, which comprised 4,500 individual subscribers. The allotment for Hillsborough County was $1,523,100, subscriptions $1,755,750, comprising 5,250 individual subscriptions. Both the city and county have won the right to fly Honor Flags. Mr. Albert Thornton, chairman for Hillsborough County, won the gold medal presented by Mr. H. E. Adams for the largest number of subscriptions secured.

Eighty-nine employees of this company subscribed to bonds amounting to $5,450.

A number of the men to whom the Stone & Webster War Bulletin is regularly addressed have reported that their copies have not come to hand. We regret this exceedingly. Great care has been exercised in compiling the mailing list. In investigating the cases of non-receipt we find that in practically every instance the publication has been properly addressed and properly mailed. The trouble, therefore, must be ascribed to the unsettled conditions created by the war and the over-loading of the postal facilities.

Boston Office

The employees of Stone & Webster at the Boston office, the Watertown Arsenal, the College of Pharmacy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology subscribed $10,322.10 to the Second Red Cross War Fund. Mr. James J. Shea, who acted as collector for the Boston office, tabulates the figures as follows:

Arthur Bornefeld of the auditing department entered military service on June 4th and is now at Camp Devens.

Nelson A. Talmadge of the mailing department has enlisted with the Naval Reserves and is now located at the Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I.

Harry E. Snow of the drafting division entered the service June 4th with the Naval Reserves.

Lieut. Guy E. Weymouth has resigned from service and is now located at his old desk in the corporation department.

2nd Lieut. William George Ryan of Co. M, 11th U. S. Infantry, American Expeditionary Force, formerly of the Stone & Webster engineering department writes us from the other side, as follows:

"When I left S. & W. engineering department I was a sergeant in the 6th Massachusetts Infantry. This organization was broken up and put into various units of the 26th division, filling this division up to war strength.

"I came to France with the same rank, as a member of Co. B, 101st H. T. & M. P. last October. Soon after arriving in France I was sent to a training school composed of non-commissioned officers of units then in France. All successful men at this school were commissioned second lieutenants, and I am now assigned to the Regular Army Co. M, 11th Infantry."

James O. Sullivan, who left the statistical department on May 9th for Fort Slocum, is now at Camp Jackson, South Carolina.

Robert E. Faribanks, Technology 1919, entered the statistical department on May 6th, but on June 9th left to enter the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps.

On June 8th the "Belmont Patriot," Belmont, Mass., published the report that Private Harry Swanson of the Massachusetts Field Hospital, No. 103, 26th division, had been officially reported as "Missing in action May 21st."

Since leaving the Belmont High School, Harry Swanson has worked for the Boston & Maine Railroad and in the drafting department of Stone & Webster, where he was employed up to the time of his enlistment in 1917.

Martin L. Barrett of the purchasing department has joined the United States Naval Reserve Force and is rated as Second Class Seaman.

Edward S. Steinbach of the engineering division has received his commission as second lieutenant at the Engineering Officers' Training Camp at Fort Lee, Virginia.

A. T. Rosene, formerly of the drafting division, is now second class seaman, Naval Aviation Section, Block Island, R. I.

Erwin O. Stark of the construction and engineering accounting department, has enlisted and is now in Company 118, Regiment 14.

A letter from Philip E. Hulburd, dated June 11th, announces that he has recently been promoted to the grade of captain in the Coast Artillery Corps of the regular army. At the moment he is acting adjutant to the 2nd Battery of the 66th Artillery C. A. C., a heavy artillery outfit. Lt. Linwood I. Noyes has recently been sent to the Aerial Observation Field at Langley Field, where he retains his grade of 2nd Lt. C. A. C. Clarence E. Conkey of the purchasing department has enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force and will be at Hingham, Mass., until further assigned.

Nelson Gay, formerly of the Treasurer's department has just received his commission as Ensign from the Harvard School for Ensigns, and is, we understand, about to report for transport duty.

Sergeant Elliott E. McDowell, of the 104th Intelligence Service, formerly in the drafting division, writes from France:

"Perhaps you have been reading of the doings of the American troops here, and if you have you must have heard something of the doings of the 104th. Our regiment has already been through three different sectors and has won on two different occasions the praise of both the French and American Government for excellence. *

Day after tomorrow we are to parade before the French General Staff and our colors are to be decorated, the reward for having received two citations."

Robert S. Murray, who has previously been reported as being in the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, U. S. A., Princeton University, is now inspector for the Government on aeroplane manufacture at the B. F. Sturtevant Company's plant at Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.

Hollis T. Gleason of the corporation department is at present with the Food Administration, and is located at Washington.

William Lee Abbott, formerly of the drafting division, has been honorably discharged from the navy as the result of physical disability occasioned by an accident while on active duty. He returned to the drafting division on June 3rd.

Wm. J. Farrisee and John M. Turner, of the drafting division, have entered service.

George A. Gordon, formerly of the drafting division, has left Camp Upton and is now with the American Expeditionary Forces.

Orton C. Newhall, formerly of the drafting division, who has previously been reported as a corporal, has received a lieutenant's commission.

Benjamin R. Rosenberg, formerly of the drafting division, who entered the Naval Reserves, is now at U. S. A. N. training camp, Hingham, Mass.

Charles A. Goldamer, who went from the drafting division to the Washington office last fall, is now in the United States Naval Reserves.

Word has been received of the safe arrival on the other side of Walter W. Avery, formerly of the industrial department, who entered the 11th Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Division (Reg.) Medical Detachment.

Harold J. Tierney, of the drafting division, has entered service and is now at the U. S. Radio Research Laboratories, Camp Alfred Vail, Little Silver, N. J.

Otto S. Schulz, of the drafting division, has entered service. Lieutenant Minton M. Warren, formerly of the engineering division and now in France, writes: "I haven't done much hydraulics here, but in one town we needed more lights so I dismounted and cleaned their water wheels and increased the possible peak load."

Baton Rouge, La.

George Persac, storekeeper, has enlisted in the navy.