. The Street railway journal . at the works ofthe company, Lynn, Mass. In1887, he returned to Newbury-port and entered the employof the Plum Island Street Rail-way Company, as clerk, a roadwhich did a large summer busi-ness. Upon the organization, inthe fall of 1887, of the Newburyport Car Manufacturing Company, ofwhich his father is president, he became a bookkeeper for the acting in this capacity he was also identified with the manage-ment of the Black Rocks & Salisbury Beach Street Railway. Uponhis assuming the management of the street railway of Norwich, amarked change for th
. The Street railway journal . at the works ofthe company, Lynn, Mass. In1887, he returned to Newbury-port and entered the employof the Plum Island Street Rail-way Company, as clerk, a roadwhich did a large summer busi-ness. Upon the organization, inthe fall of 1887, of the Newburyport Car Manufacturing Company, ofwhich his father is president, he became a bookkeeper for the acting in this capacity he was also identified with the manage-ment of the Black Rocks & Salisbury Beach Street Railway. Uponhis assuming the management of the street railway of Norwich, amarked change for the better was speedily shown. Under his man-agement the lines of the road have been, several times, extended, elec-tricity has superseded horse power, and rapid transit has followed slowhorse car transportation. Mr. Shaw is well versed in street railway matters, including themakeup of the cars and the working of electricity. That he has provedan efficient manager of the road in this and other cities is conceded onall E. P. SHAW, JR. Obituary. The death, on April 14, of Gen. Henry W. Slocum, formerly presi-dent of the Brooklyn & Coney Island Railroad Company, and father ofthe present president of that road, will be mourned by a large circle ofintimate friends, of which he had a large number in street railway cir-cles, and by everyone who is familiar with his brilliant military achieve-ments and his sterling qualities as a citizen and a man. His end wassudden and quite unexpected. The immediate cause was heart failure,resulting from an attack of pneumonia. General Slocum was born in Delphi, N. Y.,on September 24, 1827,and at the time of his death was in his sixty-sixth year. He was edu-cated at Cazenovia Academy and West Point, and served in the armyas a second lieutenant until 1856, when he resigned his commission topractice law in Syracuse. When the war broke out, he immediatelyoffered his services to the Government. They were eagerly accepted,and he went to the. front a
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