works had for several years shown an annual deficit of about $400,000. Under 

 the management of The United Gas Improvement Company the city receives 

 in free gas for street lighting and public buildings, in extensions and better- 

 ments of plant (which will revert to the city at the termination of the lease), 

 and in cash (a proportion of the receipts from the sale of gas) a rental equiva- 

 lent to about $3,000,000 per annum. 



Mr. Dolan was at one time president of the National Association of 

 Manufacturers and was one of the organizers and the first president of the 

 Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia. He was one of the first members of the 

 Union League and a vice-president for several years. At the date of his death, 

 June 12, 1914, he was chairman of the Board of Directors of The United Gas 

 Improvement Company, a director of the Fidelity Trust Company, the Finance 

 Company of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Electric Company, and a trustee of 

 the School of Industrial Art. 



WILLIAM R. ECKART 



The death of William R. Eckart, which took place at Palo Alto, Califor- 

 nia, on December 8, 1914, after a lingering illness, closed a very successful 

 engineering career covering a period of fifty years' practice on the Pacific 

 Coast, during which period he did much for the development of the resources 

 of the State he had made his home. 



Mr. Eckart was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, June 17, 1841. In 1842 his 

 family moved to Cleveland, where his father had large shipping interests on 

 the Great Lakes. From the time he was twelve years old his school days were 

 divided between the public schools of Chillicothe and Cleveland. Later he 

 took a special course in mathematics at the St. Clair Academy, Cleveland. 



In the early fifties his father removed to Zanesville to engage in the 

 operation of a flour mill operated by water power. After working on the in- 

 stallation of some improved water wheels, Mr. Eckart got the opportunity to 

 serve as an apprentice in the works of Grifiith, Ebert, & Widge, which had a 

 high reputation in those days for general mill and steamboat work. 



During this apprenticeship he was fortunate in having tlie friendship and 

 guidance of Mr. Widge, who had been at one time a foreman in the famous 

 works of Joseph Whitworth, Manchester, England. Mr. Widge found the 

 way and the time to teach him how to improve on his work after he himself 

 had thought it "good enough." 



In June, 1861, he took an examination before the Naval Board of En- 



