New Water Engineer at Baltimore
Walter Edward Lee has been appointed Water Engineer by Mayor Preston, of Baltimore, Md. The nomination was confirmed by the City Council. In announcing the appointment the Baltimore “Sun” said of Mr. Lee: He succeeds Ezra B. Whitman, who resigned in May, 1914, to take up private engineering work and who brought Mr. Lee to the Water Department nearly four years ago. Robert L. Clcmmitt, acting water engineer since Mr. Whitman resigned, will, it is stated, remain in the department as assistant water engineer. Mr. Lee is a native of Baltimore and attended the public schools of that city, afterwards going to the Polytechnic Institute and then to Cornell, graduating with the class of 1909. He then took up railroad work. The "Sun” says: "Mr. Whitman induced Mr. Lee to leave the Pennsylvania Railroad and take a position with the Water Department early in 1911 when work on the new dam in the Gunpowder Valley and the filtration plant at Lake Montebello was actively begun. He became Mr. Whitman’s principal assistant on the new work.
Walter Edward Lee has been appointed Water Engineer by Mayor Preston, of Baltimore, Md. The nomination was confirmed by the City Council. In announcing the appointment the Baltimore “Sun” said of Mr. Lee: He succeeds Ezra B. Whitman, who resigned in May, 1914, to take up private engineering work and who brought Mr. Lee to the Water Department nearly four years ago. Robert L. Clcmmitt, acting water engineer since Mr. Whitman resigned, will, it is stated, remain in the department as assistant water engineer. Mr. Lee is a native of Baltimore and attended the public schools of that city, afterwards going to the Polytechnic Institute and then to Cornell, graduating with the class of 1909. He then took up railroad work. The "Sun” says: "Mr. Whitman induced Mr. Lee to leave the Pennsylvania Railroad and take a position with the Water Department early in 1911 when work on the new dam in the Gunpowder Valley and the filtration plant at Lake Montebello was actively begun. He became Mr. Whitman’s principal assistant on the new work.
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