. Electric railway journal . companies build-ing and operating railway and other properties in that dis-trict. Under his direction the organization of practicallyall of the electric railway, lighting and gas properties inAlton and adjoining towns was effected. In 1906 he waselected president of the Tri-City Railway & Light Company,and subsidiaries, Davenport, Iowa, which he has operateduntil the present time. Talmadge C. Cherry, who was recently elected vice-presi-dent and general manager of the Rochester & SyracuseRailroad, Inc., has been made a vice-president of Allen &Peck, Inc., electric r
. Electric railway journal . companies build-ing and operating railway and other properties in that dis-trict. Under his direction the organization of practicallyall of the electric railway, lighting and gas properties inAlton and adjoining towns was effected. In 1906 he waselected president of the Tri-City Railway & Light Company,and subsidiaries, Davenport, Iowa, which he has operateduntil the present time. Talmadge C. Cherry, who was recently elected vice-presi-dent and general manager of the Rochester & SyracuseRailroad, Inc., has been made a vice-president of Allen &Peck, Inc., electric railwaymanagers and engineers. I Mr. Cherry has been asso-ciated with that firm for anumber of years. He waselected vice-president andgeneral manager of the Au-burn & Syracuse ElectricRailroad, Syracuse, N, Y.,in April, 1916. Upon theresignation of Ernest Gon-zenbach as general managerof the Empire United Rail-ways, Syracuse, under the^-receivers, C. Loomis Allenand Hendrick S. Holden,Mr. Cherry was made oper-. ating manager of the Em-pire United system. Re- T- c- CHERRYcently the co-receivership was dissolved, Mr. Allen remaining as receiver of theRochester, Syracuse & Eastern Railroad, and Mr. Holdentaking the receivership of the Syracuse, Lake Shore &Northern Railroad, preceding the sale of the two propertiesseparately. Since then Mr. Cherry has been general man-ager of the Rochester, Syracuse •& Eastern Railroad, theSyracuse, Lake Shore & Northern Railroad passing into theoperating management of Ford, Bacon & Davis under itsseparate reorganization plan. When the Rochester, Syra-cuse & Eastern recently was reorganized into the Rochester& Syracuse Railroad, Mr. Cherry was made vice-presidentand general manager. Mr. Cherry entered railway workas timekeeper on construction and track work and as rod-man with the engineers of the Syracuse Rapid Transit Rail-way. Subsequently, in 1900, he became superintendent ofconstruction of line and track for the Lorain (Ohio)
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