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[US Coast and Geodetic Survey – History of Science – Case Western Reserve University] Yates, Charles Colt; Pritchett, Henry SmitBiblio.com

Archive of Charles Colt Yates Engineer and Captain with the US Coast & Geodetic Survey in the US Europe and the Philippines 1870s–1940s

1940List3440United States France and Germany 1940. Approximately 469 total items. Fifty-nine pieces of loose correspondence one with four photographs affixed. In large letter album approximately 199 pieces of written material: 118 pieces of incoming correspondence twenty-one drafts of outgoing correspondence and sixty other. 139 photographs: nine cabinet cards thirty-three smaller mounted or framed photos eleven CDVs or tintypes nineteen in small photo album sixty-six loose photographs and one real photo postcard. Eight pieces of loose miscellaneous written material totaling sixty-four pages; nine forms applications etc; forty-five clippings generally affixed to notebook pages; and ten pieces of unsorted ephemera. Written material generally dating from about 1891â€“1928. Photographic material and ephemera generally dating from about 1870s or earlier to 1943. Letter album with covers detached and damage to edges of paper very good plus; other material generally excellent. Overall very good to excellent. Charles Colt Yates 1868â€“1944 was born in Binghamton New York. He received a BS in Physics and an MS in Civil Engineering from the Case School of Applied Science now Case Western Reserve University before joining the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1892. Yatesâ€™ work with the USC&GS took him around the US and abroad; his work included observing the earthâ€™s surface density in Hawaii; surveying Lake Pontchartrain the Alaskaâ€“Yukon border and the Aleutian Islands; surveying and ship-building in the Philippines and Hong Kong; and surveying the oyster bars in Maryland and Delaware. Offered here is a large collection of photographic and written material belonging to Yates. The photographs are almost entirely family shots. Subjects are generally identified verso by their initials and include Yates; his grandparents James Dennison Colt and Abigail Weber; his parents Walter Lloyd Yates and Charlotte Colt; and especially his brother Alonzo Colt Yates sister-in-law Elizabeth Deming and their children Evelyn and Lloyd Deming Yates. The written material relates to Yatesâ€™ work and includes incoming correspondence particularly work assignments sent by the Surveyâ€™s various superintendents; Yatesâ€™ drafts of outgoing correspondence; field expense formsâ€”providing a look at the more quotidian activities of the Surveyâ€™s researchersâ€”and departmental circulars; resumes and applications; notes and article drafts; and newspaper clippings. The latter generally relate to either the 1916 controversy around Woodrow Wilsonâ€™s scientific appointments particularly of E. Lester Jones or to the 1916 and 1928 Merchant Marine Acts. The merchant marine issue preoccupied Yates as several of his letters and articles concern the subject; other of his articles are an 1898 â€œReport on the Establishment of a Self Registering Tide Gauge at Morehead City N.Câ€ and a 1914 report on oceanography. Early in his career Yates apparently wanted out of the Survey writing to several different people seeking a teaching position and explaining that his â€œdesire to become a teacher and ultimately a professor is so great that I am willing to make a considerable sacrificeâ€ in terms of pay July 16 1896. Of course there would have been upsides to leaving the Survey as working conditions at the time were far from ritzy; for instance fellow officer Alex S. Christie wrote of the employee at the Sandy Hook tidal station in New Jersey: â€œWhere now located on the west side of this sand spit the observer is completely isolated and threatens to resign. He has no love for nature and no resources within himself. I could be very happy there.â€ July 26 1892 Similarly Superintendent William Ward Duffield attempted to convince Yates that the conditions on the Alaska-Yukon boundary survey were more tolerable than he might think: â€œIt might pertinently be added here that the American Transportation and Trading Company has a number of stations on the Yukon and carries a large stock of goods including drugs etc. at points near the boundary. The country is better supplied with means of existence and communication than was supposed sometime ago.â€ February 29 1896 As references for a teaching position Yates offered his Case classmate and highly decorated electrical engineer Comfort Avery Adams then at Harvard and Case president Cady Staley. Yates corresponded occasionally with Staley including helping him with research by among other things giving him honest advice on the use of a theodolite: â€œFrom a personal experience: to approach a Vertical Circle without ever having seen one and having had it explained by a textbook is not only awkward but an embarrassing experience and perhaps even a disastrous experience when the proper approach of the level correction is reached.â€ February 24 1897 Another Case affiliate with whom Yates corresponded was Albert A. Michelson then at the University of Chicago. Michelson is best known for the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment a test of the speed of light performed at Case with Edward W. Morley and the assistance of Comfort Adams then a student. Yates had sent Michelson an observation of some kindâ€”though he did not save the draft of this outgoing letterâ€”and Michelson responds with several pages of reasoning: â€œI scarcely think it likely that refraction is the cause of the color observed â€“ but even if this were the case it would not help matters much. The angle subtended by the spectrum could certainly not be less than 10â€ if a consistent color could be appreciated . Nevertheless I would recommend that the color phenomenon be carefully observed and recorded â€“ for it may throw light on other matters of importance â€“ even tho not of immediate practical use.â€ March 8 1896 Yates also kept up with his Case classmates; several letter drafts in the archive are addressed â€œdear Classmatesâ€ and seem to be part of a semi-regular correspondence where the former classmates would update each other on their careers and lives though only Yatesâ€™ outgoing mail is represented. Yates writes a particularly interesting letter to his classmates describing his time in the Philippines and Hong Kong the surveying of which had become part of the USC&GSâ€™s duties after the US assumed control of the territory: â€œI was just leaving for a surveying cruise along the south west coast of Samar Island the island General â€˜Jakeyâ€™ Smith and brother officers made so famous by their approved â€˜water cureâ€™ and other ancient methods of obtaining information from the natives. We had an excellent Thanksgivingâ€™s dinner in Jakeyâ€™s former residence the â€˜bungalowâ€™ at Tacloban and although many of his officers were still there I feel quite certain that water was not mentioned but their liquid method of obtaining information was probably even more effective. No doubt the natives of Samar are well subdued at least we judged so from the fact that when they saw any of our boats put off from the ship they immediately abandoned house and home to the old and crippled. Apparently Americans are to be trusted in reference to these two classes. Disappearing streaks of red skirts indicating retreating females were sometimes seen but our male â€˜little brown brotherâ€™ was rarely discovered even on a run. This was quite a change from our previous experiences in other parts of the Philippines which had not received the benefit of the same intimate contact with our methods of civilization. In fact we were usually accompanied along the beach by a swarm of men women and children of all sizes and ages who though always polite and gentle were a nuisance sometimes through unintentionally getting in the way of our work.â€ October 15 1903 The â€œwater cureâ€ was a form of torture similar to waterboarding often used by American soldiers during the Philippine-American War. General Smith was infamous not for use of the â€œwater cureâ€ but for his orders during the Pacification of Samar to execute everyone over age ten and turn the island into a â€œhowling wildernessâ€; during the campaign several thousand civilians were killed. Later Yates explained to his classmates that he had had a nervous breakdown while stationed in Asia following the death of his only child at five months old and was sent home January 20 1907. He was assigned to survey oyster fields for the Maryland Shell Fish Commission which he described as â€œsurrounded by politicians as our work seems to be the political issue of the Stateâ€. In fact at this time Yates seems to have become more interested in politics especially the Merchant Marine acts mentioned earlier. He sent out his article titled â€œBy-products and Relative Values of a Merchant Marineâ€ to several potential publishers and also corresponded with Congressmen regarding the act including Jesse D. Price of Maryland Frank P. Woods of Iowa and Joshua W. Alexander of Missouri. He wrote to the latter who was the 1916 actâ€™s sponsor: â€œIf you succeed in passing the Bill you will deserve oceans of credit and even if you fail you will have gained the sincere admiration of those who have studied the subject and know the great aggregate of vested shipping interests both foreign and domestic which are fighting you so hard because they fear the results to their personal interest of the founding of a real American Marine which would be brought about by the passage of your Bill.â€ May 16 1916 Yates was also interested in the 1928 Act which concerned shipbuildingâ€”having built ships for the Survey in Hong Kong and Wisconsinâ€”and wrote an article that year giving suggestions for it. Otherwise the more recent contents of the archive are mainly ephemera of Yatesâ€™ brother diplomat Alonzo Colt Yates 1864â€“1950 including an ID card and passport. Overall a unique collection of an employee of the US governmentâ€™s first and for a long time only scientific agency the archive provides a look at the agencyâ€™s activities at home and across the globe. It also provides some history of the early days of the Case School of Applied Science especially the activities of early alumni and faculty. unknown

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