. Railway mechanical engineer . Nebraska, graduatingin 1898 with the degreeof electrical upon grad-uation he entered theservice of the UnionPacific at Omaha, andserved in both the loco-motive and car 1902 he became round-house foreman at GrandIsland, Neb., and in 1903resigned from the UnionPacific to take a similarposition at Trenton, Mo.,with the Chicago, RockIsland & Pacific. In Oc-tober of the same year hewas transferred to theSilvis shops as assistantsuperintendent of 1905 he was appointedmechanical engineer withthe Railway MaterialsCompany, at Chicag
. Railway mechanical engineer . Nebraska, graduatingin 1898 with the degreeof electrical upon grad-uation he entered theservice of the UnionPacific at Omaha, andserved in both the loco-motive and car 1902 he became round-house foreman at GrandIsland, Neb., and in 1903resigned from the UnionPacific to take a similarposition at Trenton, Mo.,with the Chicago, RockIsland & Pacific. In Oc-tober of the same year hewas transferred to theSilvis shops as assistantsuperintendent of 1905 he was appointedmechanical engineer withthe Railway MaterialsCompany, at Chicago, and was engaged in the design of metal-lurgical furnaces for blacksmith shops and boiler shops, andin 1910 he refitted and took charge of the Phoenixville, Pa.,plant of this company. Two years later Mr. True resigned hisposition with the Railway Materials Company to become worksmanager of the Superheater Company at East Chicago, whichposition he held until his election as vice-president, as abovenoted. TRADE PUBLICATIONS. C. H. True The Richmond, Va., office of the Vapor Car Heating Com-pany, Inc., has been discontinued and all future business fromthe Southeastern territory will be handled from the offices ofthe company in Washington, D. C. The Washington office isin charge of Harry F. Lowman, who is assisted by L. , Jr., previously connected with the sales departmentof the U. S. Light & Signal Corp. Mr. Rhodes, Jr., has beenassigned to the Southeastern territory formerly handled byhis father, L. B. Rhodes. J. Brookes Spencer, assistant to first vice-president of theSouthern Wheel Company, St. Louis, Mo., has been electedvice-president of the same company with headquarters at Mr. Spencer was born in St. Louis on January 15, was educated at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and wasgraduated from Yale University in the class of 1910. In 1917he entered the service of the Southern Wheel Company at and has been with the company since that time wi
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