. Electric railway journal . department, both of which willreport direct to the president. Mr. Joseph B. Eastman has been appointed a member ofthe Public Service Commission of Massachusetts by Gov-ernor Walsh, succeeding Hon. George W. Anderson, whoresigned recently to become United States District Attor-ney. Mr. Eastman was born at Katonah, N. Y., in he was graduated from Amherst College in 1904 hespent some time at the South End House, Boston, in socio-logical work, later becoming counsel and secretary of theBoston Public Franchise League. For the last nine yearshe has played a pr
. Electric railway journal . department, both of which willreport direct to the president. Mr. Joseph B. Eastman has been appointed a member ofthe Public Service Commission of Massachusetts by Gov-ernor Walsh, succeeding Hon. George W. Anderson, whoresigned recently to become United States District Attor-ney. Mr. Eastman was born at Katonah, N. Y., in he was graduated from Amherst College in 1904 hespent some time at the South End House, Boston, in socio-logical work, later becoming counsel and secretary of theBoston Public Franchise League. For the last nine yearshe has played a prominent part in many commission andlegislative matters affecting electric railway, lighting andgas companies and assisted in drafting the bill which estab-lished the Public Service Commission in 1913 upon its pres-ent basis. Among the matters of street railway interestwhich have occupied Mr. Eastmans attention have beenthe renewal of tunnel leases at Boston, the investigation of January 9, 1915] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 121. D. D. CURRAN holding companies and the study of railroad and streetrailway relations. During the last eighteen months served as counsel for the unions in the arbitra-tions of wages on the Boston Elevated Railway and theMiddlesex & Boston Street Railway, and is at present counselfor the union in the arbitration between the Bay State StreetRailway and local branches of the Amalgamated is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and theBoston City Club. Mr. D. D. Curran, whose election as president of the New Orleans Railway & Light Company, New Orleans, La., was noted in the Electric Railway Journal of Dec. 26, 1914, will assume his duties with that company on Feb. 1. In a statement which he is-sued Mr. Curran said that he accepted the presidency of the company with the full knowledge that it was a local institution; that large sums of New Orleans money were invested in the securities of the company, and that his best efforts would
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