. Electric railway journal . opolitan. In 1908he was promoted to the position of en-gineer of substations and transmissionlines, with jurisdiction over the entiredistribution system of the was again promoted in 1910, becom-ing electrical engineer of the Metro-politan lines. Upon the consolidationof the several elevated railroads hewas made electrical engineer of theChicago Elevated Railways. Commissioned a captain of engineersin 1917, Mr. Blair was stationed atCamp Grant for nearly a year, at theend of which he was sent overseas withthe rank of major. He was subse-quently promoted t
. Electric railway journal . opolitan. In 1908he was promoted to the position of en-gineer of substations and transmissionlines, with jurisdiction over the entiredistribution system of the was again promoted in 1910, becom-ing electrical engineer of the Metro-politan lines. Upon the consolidationof the several elevated railroads hewas made electrical engineer of theChicago Elevated Railways. Commissioned a captain of engineersin 1917, Mr. Blair was stationed atCamp Grant for nearly a year, at theend of which he was sent overseas withthe rank of major. He was subse-quently promoted to his return to the Chicago Ele-vated Railways in August, 1919, he wasgiven the title of organization engi-neer and the duty of studying operat-ing conditions with a view to recom- April 17, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 835 mending improvements in Blair is well known to membersof the American Electric Railway En-gineering Association through his con-nection with several of its Copyright, 1920, Moffett, CliicagoE. J. BLAIR He is also a member of the committeeon electrolysis of the American Elec-tric Railway Association. Harry A. Johnson, appointed organ-ization engineer, was formerly super-intendent of shops and equipment. was born at Ottumwa, Iowa,on Dec. 8, 1884. In 1905, shortly afterhis graduation from Purdue Universitywith the degree of mechanical engi-neer, he went to work for the Metro-politan West Side Elevated Railroad,and for several months thereafter wasengaged as a night helper in the ThroopStreet shop, as a field engineer on theDouglas Park extension, and on variousother special jobs. He was then as-signed to design work on 1906 and part of 1907, in ad-dition to his work in this capacity, heserved as an inspector of car construc-
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