Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1916 — NEW CHIEF OF YARDS AND DOCKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW CHIEF OF YARDS AND DOCKS

Civil Engineer Frederic R. Harris of the navy, recently appointed chief of the bureau of yards and docks, navy department, to succeed - (Jivtl "Engineer Homer R. Stanford, has made an enviable record in connection with a number of important projects on which he was engaged since appointment to the navy corps of civil engineers. Among his achievements was the solving of the problem that long had attached to the dry dock at the New York navy yard, the contract for which was awarded in 1905. Five years later, after several contractors had failed on the Job, Civil Engineer Harris took charge. He employed an entirely new method of constructlo.n, he was instrumental In having the dimensions of the dock increased, and Jie successfully completed the work in 1912, In addition to many other achieve-

ment!, Civil Engineer Harris devised a new method of construction to be used In the completion of the dry dock: at Pearl .harbor, Hawall, the system irwartw ot floating - chftions or sections. He has been concerned as an assistant in the construction of the state dry dock at Boston and the project of the contemplated municipal dry dock at New York. He has been k valuable technical assistant to the department of Justice, and he has been a lecturer at the University of the City of New York, the New York college, and the Stevens Institute of Technology, m wsli M being the author of numerous technical papers.