Mr. Davis' Lecture.

Mr. Davis' lecture last night before fifty members of the Electric club was especially valuable and interesting to those who haved decided on electrical engineering as a profession. His advice to such was to begin in a factory and become conversant with details, whatever branch of electricity they might afterwards follow. Then he showed a number of specifications for lighting contracts and carefully went through these commenting on the principal points; giving the benefit of his experience in the different kinds of dynamos, lamps, fuses, wires, meters, etc. The overhead system for street lighting is not per se any more dangerous than the underground, but companies have been so pressed with work that they have to employ ignorant and careless men. The subway system will eventually be used because it is more sightly. The alternating current has never really been proved more deadly than the direct, and in fact should be less dangerous thebretically. After the lecture Mr. Davis answered a great many questions from the club.