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Elected President of F airbanks-Morse Co. At the annual meeting, March 29, of the directors of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., W. S. Hovey was elected presi- dent, the former president, C. H. Morse, becoming chairman of the board. This is the first time this position has been held by a man not of the original Morse family. Born in i875, a graduate of Cornell, Mr. Hovey joined the Sheffield Car Co., an affiliation of Fairbanks- Morse, in 1902, as assistant superin- tendent. Later he became _ superin- tendent, which position he held until 1913, when he was transferred to the Beloit works of Fairbanks-Morse as manager of the engine division. A few months later, he became general manager of that plant. In 1919, Mr. Hovey was elected vice president in charge of all the manu- facturing activities of Fairbanks- Morse and in 1924, was made general manager of the entire business. He will remain general manager. Benjamin Carpenter Dies Benjamin Carpenter, since 1888 a dealer in general hardware, railroad, THE LATE BENJAMIN CARPENTER mill and contractors supplies died Feb. 23 at his home 1545 Astor street, Chicago, at the age of 61 years, after an illness of more than two years. After graduation from Harvard university in the class of 1888 he entered the company of which he ultimately became president and for many years took a leading part in the civic and commercial life of Chi- cago. At the time of his death Mr. Carpenter was president of George B. Carpenter & Co. established in 1840 in Chicago as ship chandlers. In the management of the company two brothers succeed Mr. Carpenter. John A. Carpenter, vice president and Hubbard Carpenter, secretary-treas- urer, also a son, Benjamin Carpenter Jr., assistant secretary, and a second son, Fairbank Carpenter. William Goodman Dies William Goodman vice president of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., died in New York April 21. Mr. Goodman was 52 years old and had been prominent in the affairs of the company almost ever since his graduation from MHarvard. He had taken special interest in the develop- ment of the two-cycle double acting diesel engine, and lived to see its suc- cessful installation in two shipping board ocean freighters. Mr. Good- man was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Knickerbocker Golf club of Englewood, Lawyers club of New York and the Union club of Cincinnati. He is sur- vived by his wife and two children. Made Operating Manager W. W. Morse, formerly vice presi- dent and general manager of the Upper Mississippi Barge Line Co., Minneapolis, has resigned to become operating manager of the new upper Mississippi division of the Inland Waterways Corp., which service will be inaugurated this spring. Mr. Morse also is owner of the Morse Warehouses, Minneapolis, is a_ di- rector of the Mississippi Valley asso- ciation, and a past president of the National Warehousemen’s association. Made Marine Engineer Ira Short, formerly gear engineer of the Engineering department at the South Philadelphia works of the West- inghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., has been recently promoted to the position of marine engineer. Mr. Short was born in Woodville, Michigan in 1890. He was graduated from the North Carolina State college with the degree of bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, and in 1911 entered the apprenticeship course of the West- inghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., at East Pittsburgh. In 1912 Mr. Short was transferred IRA SHORT to the condenser engineering depart- ment, specializing on condensing ap- paratus as applied to marine installa- tions. He remained in this work until 1917 when he was transferred to the marine engineering department. He continued in marine engineering work until 1923 at which time he was promoted to the position of gear en- gineer, continuing in this capacity until his recent appointment as ma- rine engineer. During his work with the West- inghouse company Mr. Short assisted in designing propulsion equipment for a number of United States navy destroyers and merchant vessels. Proposed Diesel Or Oil-Electric Ferry HERE is shown in accompany- ing illustrations an outboard and inboard profile of the double ended steel ferry vessel GENERAL CHARLES F. HUMPHREY for service 26 of the war department in New York harbor to Governors Island. This is the second design for this vessel as the bids submitted on the original design Dec. 10, 1926 represented a MARINE REVIEW—May, 1927 range of prices beyond the congres- sional appropriation for the construc- tion of the vessel. New specifications have therefore, been issued on which bids will be taken, May 2, 1927.