. Electric railway journal . 00 miles of line, and the ChicagoElevated Railways, controlling about 200 miles of line. Mr. Calvert Townley, assistant to the president of theWestinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, returnedto New York on April 19 after a tour through South Amer-ica on behalf of his companys affairs in that part of theworld. He sailed from New York on Oct. 14, going to Liv-erpool and, after a few days in London, re-embarked for Riode Janeiro, Brazil. His travels in South America took himsuccessively through Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bo-livia, Peru, the Isthmus of P
. Electric railway journal . 00 miles of line, and the ChicagoElevated Railways, controlling about 200 miles of line. Mr. Calvert Townley, assistant to the president of theWestinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, returnedto New York on April 19 after a tour through South Amer-ica on behalf of his companys affairs in that part of theworld. He sailed from New York on Oct. 14, going to Liv-erpool and, after a few days in London, re-embarked for Riode Janeiro, Brazil. His travels in South America took himsuccessively through Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bo-livia, Peru, the Isthmus of Panama, Colombia and Venezuela,and included therefore every country on that continent ex-cept Paraguay, Ecuador and the Guianas. He returned tothe United States via the islands of Curacoa and Porto entire trip lasted six months and five days. thinks that in the future American manufacturersmust expect to have to meet in South America just as keencompetition as in the past and that the interference with. H. D. CAPITAIN trade between South America and Europe caused by the waris only temporary, but affords an opportunity to get startedand make much more rapid progress than would be possibleunder normal conditions. OBITUARY J. Benson Foraker, son of former United States SenatorJ. B. Foraker, of Ohio, died in New York on April 24. was born in Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati,forty-four years ago. He entered Wesleyan University atDelaware, Ohio, and later attended Cornell University, ofwhich he was an alumnus of 1893. He entered the Cincin-nati Law School as a member of the class of 1895 and be-came an associate of his father in the active work of theprofession and remained with him until 1898. In that yearPresident McKinley appointed, him Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff of Major-General James F. Wade, forservice in the Spanish-American war. In 1901, when theCincinnati Traction Company was organized, Mr. Forakerwas elected vice-president of the co
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