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for what they had done for humanity, espe- 

 cially in the introduction of the air brake. 



We who knew him best were very proud of 

 him and could not but love him, and for that 

 reason we could have wished that he had de- 

 voted less of his time and energy to his enter- 

 prises in Europe and more to those on this side 

 of the Atlantic. He would have had very 

 much less worry and more peace of mind and 

 comfort during the last few years. 



He had a dream of seeing all of Great 

 Britain's system of railways electrified. He 

 thought the time had arrived when it could be 

 done. This was his reason for the erection of 

 the great works at Manchester, but he was a 

 little ahead of the times. England is an ideal 

 country for such a possibility, a network of 

 railways, an immense number of short light 

 trains, and coal mines so near that it would be 

 quite within the range of developed possibil- 

 ities of to-day to have the electric current 

 generated by gas engines at the mines and 

 distributed all over Great Britain by the high- 

 tension electric system. None of the lines 

 would have to be more than 200 miles long, 

 most of them much less. 



There are several schemes to erect monu- 

 ments to the memory of Mr. Westinghouse. 

 There can not be too many, or too costly; but 

 after all the greatest and grandest monuments 

 are the ones he built himself — the great works 

 all over the world employing some sixty 

 thousand workmen and two hundred million 

 dollars capital. 



Mr. Westinghouse was in every sense a 

 thoroughly practical man. He knew how to 

 manage men and how to handle tools with 

 his own hands. In going through his great 

 shops with him I have many times seen him 

 stop and show the workmen that what they 

 were doing was wrong, and then he would take 

 hold and show them the right way. Workmen 

 always respect such an employer. 



He cared little for music, art or amusements. 

 His favorite recreation was the working out of 

 some new mechanical problem. Many a night 

 after spending the evening with his guests I 

 have known him to work until the small hours 



of the morning with pencil and paper over 

 some new idea that had come to him. 



He was given many honors both at home and 

 abroad — among the principal ones are the 

 Legion of Honor of France, The Eoyal Crown 

 of Italy and the Leopold of Belgium. He has 

 been awarded the John Fritz medal and the 

 Edison medal, and just lately the Grashof 

 medal from Germany. He was honorary mem- 

 ber and past president of the American Soci- 

 ety of Mechanical Engineers, and honorary 

 member of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Scienc. 



He was one of the most lovable of men, 

 always the same, a perfect gentleman. He 

 was the soul of honor. His private life was 

 pure. His honesty and integrity were un- 

 questioned. During an intimate acquaintance 

 of 4Y years I never heard from any one any 

 statement that reflected in any way upon his 

 honesty or his upright character. I think 

 without question he will go down through 

 history as a peer for high character among 

 business men of his time. His home life was 

 ideal. His good wife was never forgotten 

 either when he was at home or when absent, 

 and every evening at a pre-arranged time, un- 

 less the ocean separated them, the telephone 

 was always brought into use for their evening 

 greetings. He was preeminently a true and 

 devoted husband to his dear wife and a loving 

 father to his idolized son. His family and all 

 of his friends will feel their loss in his death 

 more and more as the years go by and they 

 will realize that never in this life wiU they 

 find his equal. 



S. T. Wellman 



Cleveland, Ohio, 

 April 6', 1914 



BIOLOGICAL STATION WOBK AT TSE UNI- 

 VEBSITY OF WISCONSIN 

 The University of Wisconsin will open its 

 biological station to investigators from June 

 15 to October 1, 1914. During the regular uni- 

 versity summer session, courses will be offered 

 in general zoology, general botany, heredity 

 and eugenics, evolution, field zoology, teaching 

 of zoology, dendrology, morphology of algae. 



