In 1883, the Union Iron AVorks, formerly Prescott, Scott & Company, 

 was changed to an incorporated company, and Mr. Eckart was retained as 

 consulting engineer in matters pertaining to the propelling power of the 

 government vessels built by that company. He was present at and assisted 

 in conducting nearly all the preliminary and government trials of these vessels. 



In 1889 he was appointed consulting engineer to the Standard Electric 

 Company and later became the resident construction engineer for all their 

 hydraulic works, including storage reservoirs, ditches, dams, flumes, pipe 

 lines, and power-house installations. This was the first or among the first of 

 the long-distance, high-potential transmission hydrauhc plants projected. 



Mr. Eckart was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 

 a member and past vice-President of the American Society of Mechanical 

 Engineers, a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine En- 

 gineers, a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London, and an 

 associate member of the Institute of Naval Architects, London. 



GEORGE N. GARDINER 



Mr. George N. Gardiner, who died on July 6, 1914, was born in New 

 York City in 1844, and was a graduate of the New York University and a 

 member of Zeta Psi Fraternity. 



From the time of his graduation he devoted his energies to the develop- 

 ment of coatings for the protection of ships' bottoms. He was the first manu- 

 facturer in this country of copper paints for the bottoms of wooden ships, and 

 later perfected the "American Mclnnes Compositions" for the bottoms of 

 steel and iron ships, which were largely used by the United States Navy and 

 mercantile marine. Mr. Gardiner was, for fourteen years, expert for the 

 navy on paints, his connection having commenced in the term of the late 

 Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Wells. He was recognized as an authority 

 on paints, and lectured before the engineering class of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology. 



Mr. Gardiner was founder and senior member of the firm of George N. 

 Gardiner & Son, president of the Gardiner Paint Company, and formerly a 

 director of the Old Union Ferry Company of New York and Brooklyn. He 

 was, for many years, a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the 

 Colonial Club, the Rockaway Hunt Club, the Democratic Club of New York, 

 Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of the War of 1812. 



