Fritz Medal

The Scene: Engineering Societies' Building, Manhattan.

The Time: One evening last week.

John R. Freeman of Providence, consulting engineer and expert on hydraulics, sketched the career of a fellow engineer, witnessed the affection of other engineers for this particular member. Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern R. R.. lauded the laying out of that road, the planning and organization of the Panama Canal. Roland S. Morris, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan, extolled the administration of the Trans-Siberian Railway during the War. Then French, Chinese and...

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