. The Street railway journal . been connected for anumber of years as general agent at Minneapolis. He waschief clerk to the general manager of the Twin City Companyfor a year before being assigned to the management of theSt. Paul lines. Mr. Low was very active during the buildingof the Selljy tunnel in St. Paul last year, which was describedin the Street Railway Journal, and because of the strain ofthis work and that incident to removal of the downtown sta-tions, and the dearth of men that was experienced in the north-west, his health suffered severely, and for this reason he de-cided to reti
. The Street railway journal . been connected for anumber of years as general agent at Minneapolis. He waschief clerk to the general manager of the Twin City Companyfor a year before being assigned to the management of theSt. Paul lines. Mr. Low was very active during the buildingof the Selljy tunnel in St. Paul last year, which was describedin the Street Railway Journal, and because of the strain ofthis work and that incident to removal of the downtown sta-tions, and the dearth of men that was experienced in the north-west, his health suffered severely, and for this reason he de-cided to retire. PROFESSOR C. F. HARDING has been appointed head ofthe School of Electrical engineering of Purdue University atLafayette, Ind. Professor Harding is a graduate of WorcesterPolytechnic and has had a broad practical training as an engi-neering teacher. His special training has I)een along the line ofhigh IciisioM r;iilvvay work, and he was electrical engineer for theIn-si railway cjf thai characler in New England. ITe has bean. S. VV. HUFF engineer for the D. & VV. Fuse Company, of Providence, R. I.,publication manager for the Fort Wayne Electric Company,engineering expert for Stone & Webster, of Boston, and asso-ciate professor of electrical engineering at Cornell. Through-out his varied experience Professor Plarding has kept steadilyin mind the preparation for teaching as his life work and hecomes to Purdue equipped in an unusual degree for the handlingof the theoretical and practical problems of electrical engi-neering. He expects to assume the duties of his position aboutMarch i. MR. S. W. HUFF, general manager of the Virginia Passen-ger & Power Company, of Richmond, Va., has been electedpresident of the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company,succeeding Mr. John L. Heins, whose resignation was an-nounced in the last issue of the Street Railway Journal. Mr, ^ Huff is well known in railroad circles in the North and West, aswell as in the South. A Virginian —- by birth, he
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