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nize its significance, and a large measure of its success is due to
him, In 1886 Mr. Fritz built for the Bethlehem company a plant
for the manufacture of armor plate, which was the first plant
of its kind in this country. He introduced processes from Eng-
land and France for the manufacture of this product. He re-
signed his position as president of the Bethlehem Steel Company
in 1893 and retired from active business. Mr. Fritz was a vicc-
president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
from 1882 to 1884, and was president in 1896. fe had also been
president va the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and
was an honorary member of the American Society of Civil En-
gineers. In 1893 he was awarded the Bessemer medal by the
Iron and Steet Institute of England, and in the same year was
elected an honorary member of that institute, one of the great-
est honors an enginwer can receive. His eightieth birthday was
celebrated by a dinner given in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria.
New York, on which occasion the Jolin Fritz gold medal for
achievement in educational sieners in this country was founded.
This medal is awarded annually by a committee of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The first medal was
conferred upon John Fritz himself. Mr. Fritz understood thor-
oughly every branch of the iron and steel industry, and his great
value lay in his genius for organization, his ability to improve
un methods and his capacity for handling men.
Another important addition has been made to the Westing-
house associated companies by the incorporation of the Locomotive
Stoker Company, which corporation will take over the patents,
W. S. Bartholomew.
good-will and all other
rights and interests, per-
taining to mechanical
stokers for locomotives.
heretofore owned by the
Westinghouse Air Brake
Company. This includes
the Street locomotive
stoker. which has been
so successfully developed
under the auspices of the
Westinghouse Air Brake
Company, hy Clement F.
Street, who Now he-
comes vice-president and
one of the directors of
the Locomotive Stoker
Company. The directors
of the company are: 11.
El. Westinghouse, Joli
F. Miller. A. L. Hum-
phrey, W. S. Bartholo-
new and Clement F.
Street. The officers of the company are as follows: W. S.
Barthelemew, president; A. L. Humphrey, vice-president;
Clement F. Street, vice-president, F. L. Wassell, secretary P. W.
Lander, treasurer, and J. Fl. Lichez, auditor. The headquarters
of the company will be at Schenectady, X. Y, where the Street
stokers will he manufactured as heretofore. Additional mun-
facturing facilities have been provided to care for the rapidly
increasing demand. The New York office of the company is at
30 Church screet, and the Chicago office, 827 Railway Exchange
building.
W. S. Bartholomew, recently elected president of the Loco-
motive Stoker Company. has been in the railway supply busi-
ness for over twenty-five years, having been for many years
western representative of the Adams & Westlake Company, and
later eastern manager of that company, with headquarters at
Philadelphia. Ile went with the Westinghouse Air Brake Com-
pany, as New England manager, in 1903, and hecame western
nanager in 1905, which position he has held to date.
A. L. Humphrey, who, in addition to his many other duties, be
comes one of the vice-presidents of the Locomotive Stoker Com-
pany, is well known in railway and railway supply circles, having
A. L. Humphrey.
for ten years prior to
1888 been apprentice,
foreman and master ine-
chanic on the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy,
Union Pacific, Southern
Pacific and Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
ways. From 1888 to 1903
he was superintendent of
motive power of the
Galerado Midland,
Colorado Southern and
Chicago & Alton rail-
roads; 1903 to 1905,
western manager of the
Westinghouse Air Brake
Company, Chicago; 1905
to 1919, general manager
of the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company, Pius-
burgh, and from 1909 to
date vice-president and
general manager of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, which
position he still holds.
Clement F. Street, vice-president of the Locomotive Stoker
Company was born near Salem, Ohio, and at the age of 18, after
attending college for one year, entered the works of the Buckeye
Clement F. Street.
a
Fugine Company as
machinist's apprentice.
After three years he en-
tered the drawing office
of the same company.
The next two years were
spent in drawing office
work and in erecting
steam engines and boilers
on the read. Fur two
years after this he was
chief draftsman for the
Johnstown Company,
Johnstown, Pa., and for
the following four years,
chief draftsman in the
motive power depart-
ment of the Chicago &
St. Paul Railway with
office at Milwaukee, Wis.
In 1892 he resigned this
position to go to the
Railway and Engineering
Resia, Chicago. as mechanical editor, with which publication
he remained for seven years, both as mechanical editor and
manager. One year of this time, however, was spent in a trip
around the world in the interest of the Field Columbian Museum.
He left the Rutedy and Engineering Review to go to the Dayton
Malleable Iron Company and spent nine years in designing and
selling railway supplies for this company, for the Wellman,
Seaver, Morgan Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and for the West-
inghoase Electric & Manufacturing Company, Finlanrgh, Pa.
In 1907 he conceived his general idea of the locomotive stoker
and arranged with the Westinghouse Air Brake Company to
supply the necessary funds for developing it. Since that time
he has devoted his entire time and energy to the perfection of the
device, and during the past year has conducted a regular business
Di making and selling these stokers under the firm name of
Clement F. Street. Inc., Schenectady, N. Y.
