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Guy Eastman Cripp 1g64-192¢ UY EASTMAN TRIPP, since 1912 chairman of C; the board of the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa., died at New York, June 14, following a prolonged illness. Mr. Tripp was born in Wells, Me., April 22, 1865. He attended South Berwick academy, Berwick, Me., working at the same time in a general store. When he was 18 he ob- tained clerical employment with the Eastern Railway Co. When he left seven years later he was chief clerk of the maintenance of way department. In 1890, he became storekeeper for the Thomson-Hous- ton Electric Co., later becoming traveling auditor. In 1897 he joined Stone & Webster interests, later being made vice president of the Stone & Webster Manage- ment association and also of the Stone & Webster Engi- neering Corp. When Stone & Webster in 1910 were called into consultation on the affairs. of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co., of New York, Mr. Tripp was appointed their special representative, and in this capacity met the requirements of the situation so acceptably that he was elected chairman of the joint committee of the re- organization. It was upon completion of this work that he was selected on Feb. 10, 1912, as chairman of thie Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Shortly after the Unit- ed States entered the World war Mr. Tripp was made chief of the production division of the ordnance depart- ment. He entered the service as a major and within 10 months was promoted to brigadier general and assistant to the chief of ord- nance of the United States army. He was awarded the _ distin- guished service medal by the President for “particularly meritori- ous service.” Recog- nizing the importance of the rapid produc- tion of war material as a factor in national defense, Mr. Tripp up- on his_ resignation from the service, con- tinued his co-operation with the war department in its plan for industrial preparedness. At the time of his death he was a member of the advisory board of the New York ordnance dis- trict. For several years he was president of the New York post of the Army Ordnance association. In view of the material expansion of the international business of the Westinghouse company and in order to familiarize himself with world-wide conditions, Mr. Tripp in 1923-24 circumnavigated the globe, spending several weeks in Japan, where he effected co-operative arrangements with the Mitsubishi interests and was decorated by the Emperor with the Second-Class Order of the Sacred Treasure, the highest honor that can be conferred by that nation on a private citizen. His articles and addresses upon power development attracted wide notice and many of the more important have been compiled by the Knickerbocker Press as “Super- Power as an Aid to Progress.” Last fall a book by Mr. Tripp, entitled “Electric Development as an Aid to Ag- riculture” was published. Both received wide recogni- tion. Bates college conferred a degree of LL.D. upon Mr. Tripp in 1924. He was a director in many com- panies, including American Internation- al Corp., American Su- gar Refining Co., American Surety Co., Brazilian Securities Corp., Bryant Electric Co., Canadian West- inghouse Co.,_ Ltd., Chase National bank, Campania Westing- house Electric Inter- national, George Cut- ter Co., Electric Rail- way Equipment Securi- ties Corp., Internation- al Radio Telegraph Co., Krantz Mfg. Co., Martin-Parry Corp., New England Westing- house Co., R.. Di: Nut- tal Co., Perkins Elec- tric Switch Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh Meter Co., and Radio Corporation of America. In _ ad- dition to these and the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Mr. Tripp was a di- rector of the Westing- house Acceptance Corp., Westinghouse Commercial Invest- MARINE REVIEW—July, 1927 SI