better. Just before "going home time" the crowd got together and extended a vote of thanks and appreciation to the arrangement committee. The whole affair was voted a howling success, and it was agreed to make it an annual event.

A Letter from a Company
Customer

Rochester Gas & Electric Co., City.
Gentlemen:

I want to express my appreciation of the prompt and careful attention that was given to my telephone request on the 15th when I asked you to have the gas and electricity turned on in the new residence at No. 410 Oxford Street.

Your man was there and the electric current and gas were usable within an hour after I telephoned that they had been shut off when the former owner of the place had left the home. That kind of service leaves a pleasant taste in our mouths and I wanted you to know that we appreciate it.

Very truly yours,

M. L. WHIPPLE.

Tennis Teams Victorious

After a rather disastrous season for the Baseball team, it is gratifying to record the results of the tennis matches participated in by the Company's teams in the I. A. R. A. League. The girls' team represented by Misses Neff, Kaplan, Swarthout, and Legler, romped through the season and incidentally on all their opponents winning every set played a total of 14. This string of victories is not the result of poor playing on the part of the R. G. & E. opponents, rather the excellent work of the girls representing our Company.

The men's team also enjoyed a very successful season, losing only three sets out of twenty-seven, and but one

match. The team consisted of George Bailey, Captain, and Messrs. Kieffer, Booth, Seidel and Loveland.

The Company teams were able to get in good condition well before the season opened, through use of the splendid courts at Station 33. Both were equipped with lights for night playing, giving much more time for practice.

We take this opportunity to congratulate members of both teams on their successes, and feel that in so doing express the sentiments of employees throughout the Company.

Weddings

D'our ranks and played consider

CUPID Esq. has again entered

able havoc with a number of hearts. Result: Weddings, and here they are.

Mr. Richard Kruger and Miss Emily Cutler, Sept. 11th, at the home of the bride's parents on Kislingbury Street.

Mr. Leighton Smith and Miss Ethel Brown, Sept. 7th at the Calvary Baptist Church.

Mr. George Pink and Miss Anna Seefried at the Calvary Baptist Church.

Mr. Otto Wilde and Miss Anna Gerow, Aug. 29th, at the home of the groom's parents on Portland Avenue. Mr. Walter Hanifen and Miss Francis Katsky, Sept. 15th at St. Monicas Church.

Mr. Andrew Brostrom and Miss Anna Younggren Sept. 18th, at the Parsonage of the Brighton Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Charles T. Kelly and Miss Janie S. Teamerson, Sept. 21st, at the Brighton Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Andrew S. McDowell and Miss Lillian Bergener, Sept. 30th.

Mr. Wm. Spall and Miss Helen Moynihan, Sept. 7th, at the Immaculate Conception Church.

Gas & Electric News extends its felicitations and wishes each long life and happiness.

ALMOST A "RA-ZOO" PARTY

Rastus Ebenezer was telling a listening circle of chalk-eyed negroes what a wonder his new "gal" was. "Oh, Lordy, how dat gal do love!" he exclaimed. One listener, carried away by his eloquence, shouted, "Ah say she do!" At which Ebenezer reached for his razor and turned round. "What yo' all say, niggah?" The little negro, losing much of the ebon of his countenance, hastily gulped, "Ah say do she?"

SAFETY FIRST

-Topics.

Love your enemies or take chances. -Scientific Refining.

YOU TELL 'EM!

Dad "What makes the butterfly?" Skeets-"Hotcakes."

THE HUMAN DUD

While he was making his way about his platoon one dark night a sergeant heard the roar of a "G. I Can." overhead and dived into a shell hole. It was already occupied by a private, who was hit full in the wind by the non-com's head. A moment's silence-a long deep breath, and then

"Good Lord, is that you, Sarge?" "That's me.

"Thank Heaven! I was just waiting for you to explode."

-The American Legion Weekly.

HELP!

She: "Fess up, now, that you men like talkative women as well as others."

He: "What others?"

-Boston Transcript.

SHADES OF MR. DARWIN

Mr. Saphedde: "Do you think men have descended from monkeys?"

Miss Caustique: "Not very far."

-London Tit-Bits.

THE HYPNOTIC BUGLER

Two darkies in a negro regiment were boasting about their company buglers. "G'long wit' you, boy," said one; "you ain't got no booglers. We is got the boogler, and when 'at boy wraps his off lip around that horn and blows pay-call it sounds jes' like that um Boston simphony band playin' "The Rosary.""

"Yeh, I hearn you, replied the other. "Talk up boy; talk up. Yo' is wadin' deep into trouble.'

"-An' when he sounds 'at tapoo the angile Gabri'el hisself is lendin' a ear, boy. A ear is what I says."

"Well, if yo' likes musik they is all right, but if yo' is yearnin' fo' food yo' wants a boogler with an hypnotic note like we is got. Boy, when Ah hears ole Custard-Mouth Jones discharge his blast Ah looks at mah beans and Ah says, 'Strawberrehs, behave yo'selves! Yo' is crowdin' the whip cream out o' mah dish." American Legion Weekly.

ARECENT inspection of the Gas RECENT inspection of the Gas Distribution Department of the Detroit City Gas Company at Detroit, Mich. brought out some very interesting facts, which are well worth consideration at this time. Their daily send-out at the present time is forty-five million cubic feet of gas, of which twenty-eight million cubic feet is received from three industrial coke oven plants, six million feet is manufactured in their own coal gas plants and the balance of eleven million cubic feet is water gas. They have a holder capacity of but nineteen million cubic feet. This un

usual condition of small holder capacity, as compared with the daily send-out, calls for very close supervision of the amount of gas manufactured and sold. This has led to the creation of a Dispatching Dept., which has entire charge of the distribution and manufacture of gas of the Company, and predicts the daily load coming from various sources and the necessary holder capacity required.

This Company will probably lay ten thousand services and install sixty miles of main this year, which is very unusual, considering the high cost of building material and labor. This has been brought about by two factors, one of which is the extremely low gas rate of 79 c per thousand feet of gas and the other is the rapid increase of the automobile industry in Detroit. This increase has brought a great many people to Detroit in the

past, and although there is a lull now, the company is so far behind in its service and main program that it will have a great deal of work to do, in order to catch up with the demand.

The system of distribution in Detroit is somewhat similar to that of

Rochester, in that a maximum presdistributing system to carry the gas sure of six pounds is used in the from the holders to the various regular stations throughout the city. They are constructing at the present time a 16" cast iron main, using a combination joint, consisting of cement and lead wool, which will be operated at a maximum pressure of twenty-five pounds. This is a decidedly high pressure for that type of joint and the gas fraternity will follow the experiment with a great deal of interest.

Some idea of the amount of work to

be done is gained by considering the organization of the Street Depart

ment. Detroit is divided into four districts, with a District Street Foreman in charge, who has from fifteen to twenty service and main foremen under him. The total number of men employed in the Street Department is near five hundred, and all the districts are in direct charge of the Superintendent of Streets. In Rochester we have but one district, which includes the entire city, but the time may soon come when the size of Rochester will be such, that it will be necessary to have a somewhat similar arrangement to that in Detroit.