. Electric railway journal . eat wallsof the city of Canton, China. is well known in the railroad con-struction field in the West and moreparticularly in California. He was theassociate of the late George Meyers andin conjunction with Mr. Meyers had aprominent part in building electric linesin Oakland and Alameda. It is under-stood that the American InternationalCorporation is interested in the projectat Canton with which Mr. Rank has be-come associated. W. A. Smith Heads OmahaTraction System William A. Smith, vice-president ofthe Omaha & Council Bluffs StreetRy., Omaha, Neb., has been
. Electric railway journal . eat wallsof the city of Canton, China. is well known in the railroad con-struction field in the West and moreparticularly in California. He was theassociate of the late George Meyers andin conjunction with Mr. Meyers had aprominent part in building electric linesin Oakland and Alameda. It is under-stood that the American InternationalCorporation is interested in the projectat Canton with which Mr. Rank has be-come associated. W. A. Smith Heads OmahaTraction System William A. Smith, vice-president ofthe Omaha & Council Bluffs StreetRy., Omaha, Neb., has been electedpresident of the company by the boardof directors. Mr. Smith succeeds thelate Frank T. Hamilton, who diedseveral months ago. Mr. Smith has been connected withthe street and electric railway indus-try for nearly fifty years. He joinedthe Omaha traction system in 1872when it consisted of two miles of singletrack and five horse cars. Today theOmaha & Council Bluffs Street Ry.,which owns the electric railway sys-. the 303rd Regiment, 78th Division atthe outbreak of the war, later beingpromoted to the rank of captain. Hewent overseas in the spring of 1918,was with the British in Flanders forfour months, and later served with theA. E. F. at St. Mihiel and in the Ar-gonne. H. Hobart Porter, vice-president andgeneral manager of the Brooklyn () City , has been elected adirector to succeed Seymour L. Husted,Jr., resigned. Mr. Husted was the old-est member of the company in pointof service of the Brooklyn City board,having been elected on Jan. 8, a letter to Frank Lyman, president,Mr. Husted, who is now in San Remo,Italy, said that his stay in Europemight be a long one and for that reasonhe felt that he should relinquish hisplace as director. Mr. Porter becamegeneral manager of the Brooklyn when the lines of that companywere separated from the Brooklyn RapidTransit system and returned to theirowners on Oct. 19, 1919. He is a mem-ber of the firm of Sanderso
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