. Railway mechanical engineer . RSONAL MENTION MASTER MECHAMCS AXD ROAD FOREMEN OF ENGINES W. R. :Meeder has been appointed master mechanic of the Mis-souri & North Arkansas with headquarters at Harrison, Ark.,succeeding C. W. Bugbee, who has resigned. F. W. Bo.^rdman, fuel supervisor of the Texas & Pacific withheadquarters at Dallas, Tex., has been appointed general mastermechanic with the same headquarters. He is succeeded by L. PURCHASING AND STORES George Refer, chief clerk in the purchasing department of theLong Island, has been appointed purchasing agent, succeeding Hodges, r
. Railway mechanical engineer . RSONAL MENTION MASTER MECHAMCS AXD ROAD FOREMEN OF ENGINES W. R. :Meeder has been appointed master mechanic of the Mis-souri & North Arkansas with headquarters at Harrison, Ark.,succeeding C. W. Bugbee, who has resigned. F. W. Bo.^rdman, fuel supervisor of the Texas & Pacific withheadquarters at Dallas, Tex., has been appointed general mastermechanic with the same headquarters. He is succeeded by L. PURCHASING AND STORES George Refer, chief clerk in the purchasing department of theLong Island, has been appointed purchasing agent, succeeding Hodges, retired. CAR DEPARTMENT G. W. Easling, car inspector of the New York Central linesat Corning, X. has been retired after serving with the com-pany for more than 30 years. C. E. Copp, master painter for the Boston & Maine until hisretirement on a pension two years ago, returned to Billericashops in the early days of the shopmens strike to assist in super-vising the new men taken on to paint equipment. The emergency. H. Englebright being over, Mr. Copp has now returned to his summer home atAhon Bay, X. H. H. Englebright, master car repairer of the Southern Pacificat West Oakland, has recently retired from active serviceafter 52 years of continuous service with the same road. Bornin Xew Bedford, Mass.,Tune 10, 1852, Mr. Engle-bright was taken by hisparents to California atthe age of five, when thegold mines were still tViedominant industry in thatstate. He entered theservice of the old Cali-fornia Pacific as a black-smith apprentice in worked at this tradeat various points until1892, when he was ap-pointed roundhouse a n dcar foreman at. Fresno,Cal. He was appointedgeneral car foreman atSan Francisco in 189S,and master car repairerat Oakland, Cal., in position he heldcontinuously until his re-tirement, after an interesting experience which has seen the linkingof the west to the east by the first transcontinental line, the de-velopment of motive power fr
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