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365 Holden Avenue, Detroit, Mich., U. S. A. Penberthy Bulletin sent free on request for Three Months

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PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS-(Continued)

Nijam of Hyderabad has sanctioned the use of electricity within his dominions.

Bengal, the greatest Presidency in India, has not been idle, having lately installed electric tramways and lighting, with various other improvements, in her capital, known as the "City of Palaces" in history; and even the Northwest Provinces, since the Durbar of 1903 at Delhi, where the benefits of electricity were seen with advantage, have been stirred to seek to improve their districts.

The great problem of the day, however, lies in irrigation and agriculture; and once a suitable scheme is found, in which cost and maintenance are not too great for practical demonstration, then will India rise to the height of her ambition. ERNEST CHARLES DEEFHOLTZ, Student, American School.

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STARRETT
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are the standard for accuracy, workmanship, design and finish. Whether you use tools to earn your daily bread or for amusement and relaxation from a different vocation, it pays to use GOOD tools. You can get a better quality of bread and a good deal more pleasure.

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Drawing Materials
Surveying Instruments

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Draughtsmen Engineers, Architects

If

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PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS - (Continued) Electrical Course, writes that in an examination, which he took recently for chief engineer, his standing was the highest of any by 7 per cent.

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ese electric line. Since then he has been located in Tokio carrying on work for himself.

Among his notable enterprises has been the construction of the Hoshu Electric Railway, the lighting plants at Danuki, Tosa, and Miyagawa, and those of the Tokio and Osaka Stock Exchanges and the Osaka and Kabuki theaters, as well as the electric power plants for the Bessi copper mine and the Kanada coal mine. Mr. Saiga is at present preparing plans for three electric railways and five water-power plants. He is also the inventor of a rail bond much used in Japan.

MR. J. W. BUCKNUM, Chief Engineer, with McRoddin, Wiess Canal & Irrigation Company, Beaumont, Texas, writes:

"I have for an assistant engineer, Mr. D. Briggs, one of your students, whom I have known for two years, and must say that he is

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Our 1904 Catalog

Now ready for distribution; it is the largest strictly Electrical Supply Catalog ever published. An Encyclopedia of Electrical Supplies of standard material as used in mines, factories, power stations and telephone exchanges. By obtaining this catalog you place your name on our mailing list for future publications and printed matter. To engineers interested in telephone construction work, we will mail our estimate sheet giving detail list of material required to build an exchange.

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