. The street railway review . ations are placed call boxes and tell-tale in-struments by which the dispatcher can set at any station a call signalfor any crew on the line, and at the same time receive positiveinformation that the signal has been actuated. Personal. Mr. H. H. Crafo, president of the Dartmouth & Westport StreetRy., the New Bedford & Onset Street Ry., and the Union StreetRy., of New Bedford, has made a special study of Massachusettsrailroad law and enjoys the reputation of being one of the bestposted experts in the state on railway legal and financial father was a pro
. The street railway review . ations are placed call boxes and tell-tale in-struments by which the dispatcher can set at any station a call signalfor any crew on the line, and at the same time receive positiveinformation that the signal has been actuated. Personal. Mr. H. H. Crafo, president of the Dartmouth & Westport StreetRy., the New Bedford & Onset Street Ry., and the Union StreetRy., of New Bedford, has made a special study of Massachusettsrailroad law and enjoys the reputation of being one of the bestposted experts in the state on railway legal and financial father was a prominent steam railroad man, having held ;iresponsible official position with the Flint & Pere Marquette R. a number of years. Mr. E. E. Potter, general superintendent of the three street rail-way companies centering at New Bedford, began his railway careerat Providence in 1885 with the Union Railroad Co. of that city, andat one time was engaged in construction work for the Gen■. J _ : J _ ,. _ . ■ - . 1. RAILROAD CROSSING—ONSET LINE. Electric Co. Mr. Potter is a graduate of Brown University and ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other officers of the New Bedford companies are: Vice-president, T. B. Tripp; secretary, Clarence A. Cook; treasurer,Elton S. Wilde; chief engineer of power stations, A. S. Paine;general foreman car shops and repairs, J. S. Brown; division super-intendents, D. S. Hall and E. J. Marble; amusement manager andclaim agent, I. W. Phelps. POWER HOUSE AT NEW BEDFORD. Power for the New Bedford city system, for eight miles out onthe Onset line, and for a portion of the road to Fall River is fur-nished from one main station at New Bedford. This plant origi-nally contained a number of small high-speed belted units, but as be-fore stated, when the new line to Onset was proposed, it was de-cided to move two of these units to the power house at Wareham,and install new and more modern machinery at the New Bedfordplant. To this end the old wall
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