. The Street railway journal . ience in power plant and structural steel design. Hisearly experience consisted of a number of years upon the cablerailway system of the Brooklyn Bridge, during which he securedhis education at Pratt Institute. Subsequently he was employedthree years by the Atlas Portland Cement Company in powerplant and building design, from which position he came to theRapid Transit Subway Construction Company. MR. J. C. BRACKENRIDGE has been appointed consultingengineer by the New York Central Railroad, to serve in connec-tion with the electrification of that companys lines wi
. The Street railway journal . ience in power plant and structural steel design. Hisearly experience consisted of a number of years upon the cablerailway system of the Brooklyn Bridge, during which he securedhis education at Pratt Institute. Subsequently he was employedthree years by the Atlas Portland Cement Company in powerplant and building design, from which position he came to theRapid Transit Subway Construction Company. MR. J. C. BRACKENRIDGE has been appointed consultingengineer by the New York Central Railroad, to serve in connec-tion with the electrification of that companys lines within whatis known as the electric zone. This area includes all of thatpart of the New York Central lines extending from the Forty-Second Street terminal to Yonkers. Mr. Brackenridge workedout and installed electricity on the Brooklyn Union Elevated line,which, up to that time, covered the heaviest electric traction in-stallation attempted. At the same time, Mr. Brackenridges gen- 620 STREKl RAILWAY TOURNAL. [Vol. XXVII. Xo. i;. A. n. POMEROY eral railroad knowledge gives him a command of practical trac-tion requirements that are of inestimable value in the successfulworking out of the problems that will inevitably be met in connec-tion with the work in which he has been retained. Mr. Bracken-ridge will continue as president of the Rossiter-MacGovcrn Com-pany, of New York, which office he assumed last January. MR. ALSON H. POMEROY, of Berea, Ohio, formerly presi-dent of the Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company andprominent in the operations of the Pomeroy-Mandelbaum syndi-cate of Cleveland, died at his home last week. Three yearsago Mr. Pomeroy was stricken with apoplexy, and at that time heretired from active business, and was succeeded as president ofthe Cleveland & Southwest-ern by his son, Mr. F. Mr. Pomeroy wasone of the pioneer street rail-way men of Ohio, and iscredited by many with havingbuilt the first suburban roadin the State. He entered thebusiness in
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