. The Street railway journal . y and his friends, toundertake the responsible workwhich has been given him. Hewill devote himself to the railwayinterests of the British Thomson-Houston Companj, Limited, li-censees of the General ElectricCompany for Great Britain. training for his newposition is of the best, as he wasformerly connected with the rail-way engineering department ofthe General Electric Companyunder W. H. Knight, and wasassistant for the past two years toW. J. Clark, general manager ofthe railway department, who isknown as one of the most ener-getic and successful men int
. The Street railway journal . y and his friends, toundertake the responsible workwhich has been given him. Hewill devote himself to the railwayinterests of the British Thomson-Houston Companj, Limited, li-censees of the General ElectricCompany for Great Britain. training for his newposition is of the best, as he wasformerly connected with the rail-way engineering department ofthe General Electric Companyunder W. H. Knight, and wasassistant for the past two years toW. J. Clark, general manager ofthe railway department, who isknown as one of the most ener-getic and successful men inthe electrical trade. The BritishThomson-Houston Company hasrecently been reorganized, and will enter most actively into the elec-tric railway field, which gives prospects of offering abroad, as wellas in America, highlj- profitable opportunities for the investment ofcapital and the sale of apparatus. Both Mr. Baylor and his newemploj-ers are to be heartily congratulated on their prospects for thefuture in this new ARMISTKAD K. BAYI^OR. Obituary. F. K. Hain, vice-president and general manager of the elevatedrailway system of New York, was killed by a freight train at CliftonSprings, N. Y., last month. Mr. Hain was born in 1836, in , and had an extended railroad experience with the Delaware,Lackawanna & Western and Pennsylvania Railroads. He was alsofor a number of years in charge of the designing department of theBaltimore Locomotive Works, and during the late war he servedin both the army and navy. In March, 1880, he was appointedgeneral manager of the Manhattan Elevated .system, with which hehad previously been connected as master mechanic. In 1891 he waselected second vice-president of the company. Colonel Hain was a man of broad mind as well as of greatactivity, and was conversant with the minute details of the extensivesystem of which he had control. He possessed excellent executiveabilities and introduced and maintained a strict system of discip
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