. Electric railway journal . Howard Huntington,who remains as vice-president. R. M. Harding, who has been generalsuperintendent and director of trans-portation of the Columbus (Ga.) Rail-road for several years, has been madeacting general manager of the companyto succeed John S. Bleecker, who, asnoted previously in the Electric Rail-way Journal, has become connectedwith the New Orleans Railway & LightCompany. Hartley Le H. Smith, who has beenchief of the testing bureau of theBrooklyn (N. Y.) Rapid Transit Sys-tem, has resigned to take charge of thesteam engineering department of theNew England
. Electric railway journal . Howard Huntington,who remains as vice-president. R. M. Harding, who has been generalsuperintendent and director of trans-portation of the Columbus (Ga.) Rail-road for several years, has been madeacting general manager of the companyto succeed John S. Bleecker, who, asnoted previously in the Electric Rail-way Journal, has become connectedwith the New Orleans Railway & LightCompany. Hartley Le H. Smith, who has beenchief of the testing bureau of theBrooklyn (N. Y.) Rapid Transit Sys-tem, has resigned to take charge of thesteam engineering department of theNew England Power Company, Wor-cester, Mass. He will have supervisionof the steam-driven power stations ofthis company which are auxiliary to itshydroelectric power supply. He hasbeen connected with the engineering-staff of the Brooklyn Rapid TransitCompany for more than sixteen years,having joined it for the purpose oflooking after meter, coal, boiler andother testing work. The testing bureauwas organized soon after he joined the. H. LE H. SMITH staff and under his direction has grownto be a large department, with me-chanical, electrical and chemical sub-divisions each with its staff under com-petent supervision. The nature of thework done by this department is re-flected in the series of articles con-tributed by Mr. Smith to the monthlymechanical and engineering issues ofthe Electric Railway Journal dur-ing the past year. Mr. Smith is thirty-nine years of age. He secured hiselementary education in Camden, N. leaving high school he attendedDrexel Institute in Philadelphia andcompleted a three-year mechanic artscourse and a two-year electrical engi-neering course. Immediately thereafterhe spent one and a half years with theCamden & Suburban Railway as as-sistant to the electrical engineer whoat that time had charge of power sta-tions, rolling stock and lines. He leftthis company to join the B. R. T. staffas already mentioned. Aside from hisdirect work for his employers ha
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