Engineers predict future of New York

On the evening of November 4 in the Engineering Auditorium the members of the New York Section of the A. I. E. E. heard six prominent engineers discuss the future of New York City. The first speaker, E. P. Goodrich, Consulting Engineer on City Planning for the Sage Foundation, had as his subject “Probable Growth of New York City and Distribution of Population,” and devoted himself chiefly to the presentation of a large number of very interesting slides giving growth of population, industry, consumption of products and their inter-relation. The second speaker, R. H. Shreve, President of the New York Building Congress, described “Architectural Requirements and Building Service.” He gave data relative to the factors limiting the size of buildings and mentioned as one of the developments which will possibly aid in the traffic and parking problems, the construction of buildings for office use with certain floors devoted to parking space for the machines of the occupants.