He devoted all of his energies from eight in the morning until six at night to his tremendous engineering problems. No task was too big for him to undertake. It was probably through his genius and foresight that the Roebling Company had kept pace with the rivalry in the iron and steel industry. The master stroke of Mr. Roebling in providing for conditions to meet competition was the creation of the great mills at Roebling, New Jersey Had it not been for the steel furnaces that he planned and built there, the company might have been lost in the race.

Throughout his life Mr. Roebling was awake to the future needs of the company of which he was for so many years the head. It was he who designed all the intricate and costly machinery that was needed by the plant to pass from one to another of the wonderful developments in the steel and rope industry. An example of his genius in meeting emergency conditions is shown in the incident which forced the Roeblings out of the manufacture of small wire for the binding of wheat. When wire was used pieces of the wire binders were ground into wheat and many people died from eating the steel bits in flour. This situation killed the wire sheaf binder business and he was called upon to transform the plant for the manufacture of wire cloth. Fire several times nearly wiped out the company's buildings, and each time Charles Roebling rebuilt and re-equipped on a far greater scale than before.

When New York wanted to bring Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt Mr. Roebling was called upon to design the machinery for the task. The wonderful obelisk was taken from its original place along the Nile, brought overseas and erected in Central Park without being even chipped.

Mr. Roebling was the owner of the greatest private collection of orchids in the world. He made a specialty

of hybridizing, and his efforts were attended with wonderful results, that won for him each year many blue ribbons in orchid shows in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.

He was an accomplished pianist and violinist and was a great lover of automobiling. He possessed a choice library of books and a fine collection of valuable paintings. He was a member of the New Jersey Legislature in 1903, but declined re-election because of his dislike of being bossed by politicians. He served Trenton as a member of the Water Board. He was one of the Republican presidential electors from New Jersey in 1904. Mr. Roebling was a member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Mining Engineers, the Engineers' Club of New York and of the Lotus Club of Trenton.

Besides his business connection with the Roebling Company he was president of the New Jersey Wirecloth Company, vice-president of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company of New York and a director of the Mercer Automobile Company. He was said to have been the largest individual stockholder of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in New Jersey.

He married, in 1871, Sarah Mahon Ormsby, daughter of Oliver Ormsby and Jane Eliza Forsythe, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Roebling had seven children. His son, Washington A. Roebling, 2nd, went down with the "Titanic." He is survived by two daughters, Emily Margaretta, wife of Richard McCall Cadwalader, and Helen, wife of Carroll Sergeant Tyson; and by two brothers, Colonel Washington A. Roebling, Edmund Roebling, and one sister, Mrs. Josephine Jarvis.

Mr. Roebling died October 5th, 1918. He was a noble type of the American gentleman and a patriotic citizen. He was a man of masterly ability, sterling

honesty and uprightness of character, endowed with great natural abilities and strong convictions, and had also a most sympathetic and tender heart for the little children and his fellow men in distress, as evidenced by his philanthropic connections with the various charitable institutions of his native city and state, to which he gave valuable time and gave liberally of his means for the benefit of the poor, the homeless and the destitute.

There was also inwoven with the strong masculine traits of his character a thread of almost feminine grace and delicacy of perception and emotion that responded intimately to all beauty of form, color, sound or sentiment. This deeper and richer self never manifested itself in the presence of the more masterful qualities that dominated him in the realm of mechanical art.

Philip Hanson Hiss

HILIP HANSON HISS was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 16th, 1868; son of Philip Hanson and Susan Shirk Hiss. He was graduated as A. B. at Johns Hopkins University in 1891, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Columbia in 1895. He was appointed assistant in bacteriology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1895. The following year he became assistant in bacteriology at the college under Professor T. Mitchell Prudden and also alumni association fellow in pathology. In 1899 he was appointed instructor in bacteriology and hygiene, and Alonzo Clark scholar for the year; in 1903 he was made adjunct professor in bacteriology, and in 1906 a full professor in bacteriology, with a seat on the medical faculty of pure sciences of the university. He was bacteriologist in the Health Department of New York from 1896 to 1899, and professor of hygiene in the Woman's Medical College, New York, 1898-99.

He was a member of the Society of Naturalists, Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Society of Bacteriologists, Society of Experimental Biology, American Medical Association, Public Health Association, New York Pathological Society, New York State and Kings County Medical Society and the Harvey Society. With Zinsser he was the author of a widely used textbook of bacteriology, and had published a valuable series of technical studies.

Dr. Hiss had made himself famous by his methods of detecting typhoid bacilli and by the use of the leucocyte or