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Title: Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.)
Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: St. Louis : Board of Managers
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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an War of 1866, at the end of which he was made alieutenant in reserve. His employment at the United States Navy Yard datesfrom the year 1871, and for many years he remained a faithfuland conscientious technical expert in the Construction Depart-ment. The drafting room has always been his field of labor,and his daily task was to work out the innumerable details thatgo to make up this or that feature of the great vessels of our navy.This he did as well when he was nearly seventy years old aswhen he was in the prime of his life, and his satisfaction lay inthe knowledge that he had performed well his share of thework, whatever it may have been, with all the ability gainedthrough years of ripe experience and faithful application to duty. In fact, his whole life was a duty well performed. He wasfor some years the treasurer of the Technical Society of thePacific Coast, before his brother succeeded him, and he was at onetime the treasurer of the California Association of Civil Engineers. 234
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The Late George Ferdinand Schild, Naval Architect, Past Director of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast. OBITUARY 235 He leaves a wife, a former Miss Louisa de Mulder, of Cleves,and two married daughters. His fellow-members of the Society deeply mourn the lossof one of their oldest friends and oldest officials. He was betterknown to the older engineers of California, who will cherish hismemory until they, too, are called to join him. Editors reprinting articles from this Journat. are requested to credit the author, the Journal o*THE Association, and the Society before which such articles were read. Association OF Engineering Societies. Organized 1881. Vol. L. JUNE, 1913. No. 6. This Association is not responsible for the subject-matter contributed by any Society or for thestatements or opinions of members of the Societies. THE PROBLEM OF SMOKE ABATEMENT. By William A. Hoffman, Member of the Engineers Club of St. Louis. (Read before the Club, February 19, 1913.) In all large cit

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