. Electric railway journal . ll departments. He was madepurchasing agent of the system in May,1919. Will Direct City Utilities Carl H. Reeves Made Superintendentof Public Utilities of Seattle, Suc-ceeding T. F. Murphine Carl H. Reeves has been appointedSuperintendent of Public Utilities ofSeattle, Wash., by Mayor Hugh of that city. Mr. Reeves suc-ceeds Thomas M. Murphine, who re-signed following the municipal electionsseveral weeks ago. Since Mayor Cald-well took office the Public Utilities De-partment has been reorganized and inits place two departments have beenformed. The Seattle
. Electric railway journal . ll departments. He was madepurchasing agent of the system in May,1919. Will Direct City Utilities Carl H. Reeves Made Superintendentof Public Utilities of Seattle, Suc-ceeding T. F. Murphine Carl H. Reeves has been appointedSuperintendent of Public Utilities ofSeattle, Wash., by Mayor Hugh of that city. Mr. Reeves suc-ceeds Thomas M. Murphine, who re-signed following the municipal electionsseveral weeks ago. Since Mayor Cald-well took office the Public Utilities De-partment has been reorganized and inits place two departments have beenformed. The Seattle Municipal StreetRailway has been placed in charge ofD. W. Henderson, as previously an-nounced. As Superintendent of PublicUtilities, Mr. Reeves will direct the elec-tric lighting and other public servicework of the city, but will have noconnection with the electric railwaydepartment. Mr. Reeves has for a number of yearsbeen engaged in engineering work inconnection with the Seattle tractionsystem and on construction of other. C. H. REEVES city utilities. A resident of Seattle forthe past twenty-seven years, he served,in the office of the city engineer for anumber of years prior to 1906, andwhile serving in that capacity designeda large part of the citys sewer systemand other municipal projects. From1906 to 1916 he was assistant engineerof the Seattle Electric Company, re-signing to perform special work for theState Public Service Commission, afterwhich he took up private engineering-practice. Mr. Reeves was the first engineerofficer called from Seattle at the begin-ning of the war to active duty assign-ment in the Engineers Corps. He di-rected engineering work at Camp Fre-mont, California, at Puget Sound forts,at Camp A. A. Humphreys and at othercamps throughout the country. Afterserving for twenty-three months he washonorably discharged as a Major, onJune 4, 1919. Seattle is one of the very few citiesof any considerable size in the UnitedStates that operates both railway andli
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