. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d of a great railroad. Mr. Hen-derson has been with the Santa Fe sinceJune last, and left the position of assistantsuperintendent of motive power of theChicago & Northwestern to go there. Hewent with the understanding that he wouldbe advanced to the position of superintend-ent of motive power within two years. pany, 160 Broadway, on Wednesday after-noon, December nth, Col. Robt. An-drews, heretofore the vice-president of thecompany, was elected to the presidency ofthe company, vice Arthur W.


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d of a great railroad. Mr. Hen-derson has been with the Santa Fe sinceJune last, and left the position of assistantsuperintendent of motive power of theChicago & Northwestern to go there. Hewent with the understanding that he wouldbe advanced to the position of superintend-ent of motive power within two years. pany, 160 Broadway, on Wednesday after-noon, December nth, Col. Robt. An-drews, heretofore the vice-president of thecompany, was elected to the presidency ofthe company, vice Arthur W. Soper, de-ceased. The vacancy in the Board of Di-rectors was filled by the election of C. Soper to serve on the board. C. Soper is a brother of the late ArthurW. Soper. Col. Robt. Andrews is well known inrailroad circles and has a host of warmfriends. He was born in Wilmington,Del. He attended school at the EpiscopalAcademy at Cheshire, Conn., from whichhe was graduated in 1849. After leaving record up to the time of his election to the presidency of both the last named New President of the Safety Car Heat-ing & Lighting Company, Etc. At a meeting of the Board of Directorsof the Safety Car Heating & LightingCompany, held at the oflSces of the com- COL. ROBERT ANDREWS. the Academy he entered Trinity College,at Hartford, where he was graduated in1853. He then took a course in the Poly-technic College at Philadelphia, graduat-ing in 1854. His first position was that ofassistant engineer of the State Canals ofPennsylvania, in which capacity he servedfrom 1854 to 1857; his next appointmentbeing that of principal assistant engineerof the Sunbury & Erie Railroad. Heserved that company for the three yearsfrom 1857 to i860. From 1861 to 1864 hewas staff officer in the army during theCivil War. From 1864 to 1865 he waschief engineer of the Saratoga & HudsonRiver Railroad, and for the twenty yearsfrom 1865 to 1885 he served the WabashRailroad as division oUperinte


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