ADAMS, FREDERICK UPHAM American author and industrial engineer, was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 1o, 1859. He removed to Elgin, Ill., and graduated at the high school there in 1876. He then studied mechanical engineering, which he practised from 1882 to 1890. In 1886 he invented an electric lamp-post, and in 1887 devised a form of electric light tower. He wrote books on engineering and on social subjects and also novels. He died in Larchmont, N.Y., on Aug. 28, 1921. Among his works are: Atmospheric Resistance and its Relation to the Speed of Railway Trains (1893) ; President John Smith (1896) ; The Kidnapped Millionaires (19oI) ; John Burt (19°3) ; How Cities are Governed in Great Britain (19o4) John Henry Smith (19o5) ; The Bottom of the Well (19o5) ; The Revolt (1907); The Vegetarians, a drama 0910 ; Ramley, a drama (i9ii); The Conquest of the Tropics (1914) ; The Romance of Big Business (1915); The Open Shop (1919).