Obituary

Albert Spies, engineer, author and editor, died suddenly at his home, 40 Glenwood Ave., Jersey City, N. J., on August 16, 1910. At the time of his death Mr. Spies was proprietor and editor of the newly established Foundry News. Mr. Spies was born in New York, July 20, 1862. In 1881 he graduated from Stevens Institute and was in engineering practice and technical journalism until 1893, when he became editor of Cassier´s Magazine. Until the death of Louis Cassier and the subsequent sale in 1906 of Cassier´s Magazine and the Electrical Age, Mr. Spies was vice-president, treasurer and managing director of the Cassier Magazine Company and vice-president of the Electrical Age Company. In February 1907 he assumed the editorial conduct of the Electrical Record, continuing until February of this year, when he resigned to bring out his own paper, Foundry News. In 1895 Mr. Spies was married to Miss Gretchen A. Weisker, who, with a son, survives him.