The personnel of the Division came with me from the Grand Fleet, and at the outset consisted of one flag officerRear-Admiral A.L. Duff, C.B.two captains, four commanders, three lieutenant-commanders, and two engineer officers, in addition to the necessary clerical staff.

Volunteers for the aviation corps, the marines, the field artillery, the engineer corps, and all the various branches of the military establishments came forward freely, and a general desire was expressed to send an American force to the trenches in Europe at the earliest possible moment consistent with proper training for the field.

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That an engineer with a bunch of waste in his hand is a better recommendation than an "engineer license."

It has extensive wharfs, dry-docks, and grain-elevators, engineer shops, shoe-factories, and sugar-refineries.

" Lieutenant-Commander Forman led the way, with all the members of the section wondering what was to be the nature of their first day's work in the engineer department.

"For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoist with his own petar.

Nor will the traveller who observes the construction of the New York and Erie Railroad up the Delaware Valley, of the Pennsylvania Central down the west slopes of the Alleghanies, or of the Baltimore and Ohio down the slopes of Cheat River, think for a moment that the American engineer grudges money where it is really needed.

It may look a little expensive, but a luxury usually costs something and by having one you will do away with a great deal of the rough and tumble part of an engineers life.

There is an intense rivalry, it seems, between our cook and the engineer-man's cook; and although we dined together, our bills-of-fare were kept jealously apart.

I have seen an engineer pour water into a boiler as soon as the escaping steam would admit it.

Lastly, there are 6 engineer regiments, including a telegraph regiment and an airship battalion.

Two battalions of engineer-sappers have reinforced the Fire Brigade.

Khalasa and Asluj being water centres became the points of concentration for two mounted divisions, and the splendid Colonials in the engineer sections worked at the wells as if the success of the whole enterprise depended upon their efforts, as, indeed, to a very large extent it did.

All supply and ammunition services and engineer services were called upon for great exertions.

The old artillery and engineer storehouses near La Punta, probably once used as strongholds, now mere storehouses for munitions of war.

ENGINEERS, ROYAL NAVAL, since 1848 have ranked as commissioned officers; salaries vary from £110 to £639 a year; admission is by examination; duties include the entire oversight and management of the ship-machinery; there are three ranksinspectors of machinery, chief engineers, and assistants, the latter being of three grades; in 1888 engineer studentships were created.

There may be a box or journal that has been giving the engineer trouble and the outsider knows nothing about it.

But a great system of laboratories and experimental stations, a systematic, industrious increase of men of the officer-aviator type, of the research student type, of the engineer type, of the naval-officer type, of the skilled sergeant-instructor type, a methodical development of a common sentiment and a common zeal among such a body of men, is an added strength that grows greater from the moment you call it into being.

KILMARNOCK (28), on the Irvine, 20 m. SW. of Glasgow, largest town in Ayrshire; is an important railway centre, has extensive engineer works, carpet factories, and breweries; is in the middle of a rich coal and iron district, and has a great annual cheese and dairy produce show.

Of course the engineer assentedhe had his large fund granted; a straight road was much cheaper to build than a curved one.

When Major Anderson arrived and assumed control he not only, as we have seen, repeated the demand for additional troops, but recognizing at a glance the immense interests at stake had himself renewed to Captain Foster the suggestion about arming some engineer workmen.

The engineer bureau at Washington, seconding the suggestion, had obtained the approval of the Secretary of War, and had issued the order to the storekeeper of the Charleston arsenal.

During the summer of 1860 Congress made an appropriation for these works; and the engineer captain who had been in charge for two years had indeed been ordered to begin and prosecute repairs in the two forts.

There was not much wrong, but her engineer commander recommended a renewal of some of the spur wheels.