. Electric railway journal . tcompany tendered a farewell dinner to Mr. Finigan. Inaccepting the vice-presidency of Pierson, Roeding & Com-pany. Mr. Finigan succeeds Mr. Safford K. Colby, who, aspreviously mentioned in the Electric Railway Journal, hasbeen elected one of the vice-presidents of the firm of Allen& Peck, Inc. Mr. Colby continues as a director of Pierson,Roeding & Company. OBITUARY George Hoeger, superintendent of the Schuylkill ValleyTraction Company and general manager of the Montgom-ery Transit Company, Norristown, Pa., is dead. Mr. Hoegerwas born in Germany in i860. His first
. Electric railway journal . tcompany tendered a farewell dinner to Mr. Finigan. Inaccepting the vice-presidency of Pierson, Roeding & Com-pany. Mr. Finigan succeeds Mr. Safford K. Colby, who, aspreviously mentioned in the Electric Railway Journal, hasbeen elected one of the vice-presidents of the firm of Allen& Peck, Inc. Mr. Colby continues as a director of Pierson,Roeding & Company. OBITUARY George Hoeger, superintendent of the Schuylkill ValleyTraction Company and general manager of the Montgom-ery Transit Company, Norristown, Pa., is dead. Mr. Hoegerwas born in Germany in i860. His first experience in rail-way work was gained in Milwaukee, Wis., in the horse cardays. Some nineteen years ago he became electrician of theRoxborough, Chestnut Hill & Norristown Railway underMr. J. C. Lugar. He was appointed general manager, su-perintendent and electrician of the Schuylkill Valley Trac-tion Company when that company took the Roxborough,Chestnut Hill & Norristown Railway over under lease io94 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 24. Construction News Construction News Notes are classified under each head-ing alphabetically by States. An asterisk (*) indicates a project not previously re-ported. RECENT INCORPORATIONS *Springfield & Central Illinois Railway, Springfield, 111.— Incorporated in Illinois to build an electric railway from apoint south of Springfield to connect with the main line ofthe Terre Haute, Springfield & St. Louis Railway. Capi-tal stock, $5,000. Incorporators: George W. White, Al-fred L. Lynch, N. E. McMillan, and W. C. Neubauer, EastSt. Louis, and William Larberg, C. P. Johnson, W. , Isaac Smith and A. C. Skillman, St. Louis. *Cushing (Okla.) Railroad.—Application for a charter hasbeen made by this company to build a 12-mile electric rail-way from Cushing to Drumwright. Incorporators: PaulArbon and C. R. Perry, Tulsa, and T. J. Hughes, J. HBellis and R. C. Jones, Cushing. *Guadalupe Traction Company, Seguin, Tex.—Charteredi
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