. The street railway review . vewater power and steam turbine station, enlarging the sysleiu, andrebuilding the track) ; engineer for the financial interests of theColumbus, Delaware & Marion Electric Railroad Co.; presidentand general luanagcr of tlie Mansfield (O.) Railway, Light &Power Co., and of tlie Mansfield-Shelby iuterurban company; di-rector and consulting engineer of the Freeport (III.) Railway, Light& Power Co.; president and general manager of the Venice &Granite City Electric & Power Co. of Illinois; vice-president andgeneral manager of the Belleville (111.) Gas & Electric Co.; v
. The street railway review . vewater power and steam turbine station, enlarging the sysleiu, andrebuilding the track) ; engineer for the financial interests of theColumbus, Delaware & Marion Electric Railroad Co.; presidentand general luanagcr of tlie Mansfield (O.) Railway, Light &Power Co., and of tlie Mansfield-Shelby iuterurban company; di-rector and consulting engineer of the Freeport (III.) Railway, Light& Power Co.; president and general manager of the Venice &Granite City Electric & Power Co. of Illinois; vice-president andgeneral manager of the Belleville (111.) Gas & Electric Co.; vice-president and general of the Centralia (III.) Gas & Elec-tric Co.; president of the Enid (Okla.) Electric & Gas Co.; con-sulting engineer of llie Shreveport (la.) Gas & Electric Co. * ■ » OBITUARY. MR. CHARLES HATHAWAY, a pioneer street railway buililer,died at his home in Cleveland, O., July 2d. He was nearly 79years old, having been born Nov. 7, 1824. in Grafton, Mass. His. CHARLKS IIATHAWAV. childhood was spent on a farm, and at the age of 15 years he wassent to a school at Worcester, Mass,, where he remained threeyears. He sliulied engineering there and upon leaving school be-came an apprentice in a machine shop. In 1K44 he constructedseveral branches of road for steam railway companies; he laid andballasted the first track on the Hudson River R. R., from Poiigh-keepsie, N. Y., to Bennington, Vt.; he then secured several eon- 428 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. xm, No. 7- tracts with llic K. K., con-triiitiiig tlit nwil liclwiiiiLcwisloii, Ta., and Altotiiui. In 1857 Mr. Ilalliaway liinicd lii»attention to the Imildintt of siricl railways, in that year lonstrnclniKa system of hues in Philadel|>hia. rollowinK that he bnih, ei|iii|i|ieil,leased or operated roads in nearly every leading eity of the UnitedStates and Canada, in iWio he went to ICngland at the siim(e>lioiiof Mr. George Francis Train, with whom he worked in company,and bui
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