Obituary

Herbert Aubrey Barre (A´11) chief engineer, Southern California Edison Company, Ltd., died on June 28, 1934, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was born at Picton, Nova Scotia, Canada, on January 26, 1875. After his graduation from the University of California in 1897 he was employed by several power and transit companies in California until in 1902 he became assistant to a Los Angeles, Calif., consulting engineer. Four years later he was again engaged with power companies, and in 1908 came to New York, N. Y., as engineer with the Electric Operating Construction Company. He returned to California 3 years later as electrical-mechanical engineer for the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, a company later acquired by the Southern California Edison Company. Mr. Barre became executiveengineer of the latter company in 1917 and chief engineer in 1929. He waslargely responsible for the construction and operation of the first 150,000-volt long-distance transmission line in the world, that between the Big Creek-San Joaquin development and Los Angeles. This line wasconverted under his pupervision for 220,000-volt operation in 1923. He served the Institute on the transmission and distribution committee, 1915–17, and the power generation committee, 1920–27. Mr. Barre was also a member of The American Institute of Mechanical Engineers.