. Electric railway journal . still consists of three members appointedby the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, the termof office being six years, expiring serially. 766 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58s No. 18 The personnel of the present Railroad Commission ofWisconsin composes the following: Carl D. Jackson,chairman, an attorney; Henry R. Trumbbwer, a politicaleconomist, and Lewis E. Gettle, an engineer. The secre-tary of the commission, C. D. SeCheverell, is the exec-utive head of al other employees. The staff, under hisdirection, is divided into four departments, headed asfollows: (1)
. Electric railway journal . still consists of three members appointedby the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, the termof office being six years, expiring serially. 766 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58s No. 18 The personnel of the present Railroad Commission ofWisconsin composes the following: Carl D. Jackson,chairman, an attorney; Henry R. Trumbbwer, a politicaleconomist, and Lewis E. Gettle, an engineer. The secre-tary of the commission, C. D. SeCheverell, is the exec-utive head of al other employees. The staff, under hisdirection, is divided into four departments, headed asfollows: (1) Engineering—C. M. Larson, (2) Statis-tical—G. C. Mathews, (3) Service—C. B. Hayden, (4)Traffic—R. V. Adams. Most of the states, with the necessary exception ofMassachusetts, on account of a prior law, have fol-lowed closely ,the modeling of the Wisconsin law, butuntil very recently under no other commission are somany classes of utilities included. Some of these Statecommissions have powers somewhat similar to those. THE PECULIAR UNROOFING OF THE CAR PERMITTEDPASSENGERS TO BE REMOVED WITHOUTSERIOUS INJURIES Slack brakes coupled with some inattention on the part of themotorman were officially reported by the commission in connectionwith this accident in Milwaukee on June a, 1919, in which morethan seventy persons were injured. conferred on the Wisconsin commission. These includethe regulation of amost all phases of the operation ofthe following:Steam railroads, Electric urban and interurban railroads,Express companies,Sleeping car companies,Freight companies, Telegraph and distribution messenger companies, Companies or individuals doing transportation business overany railroad in the state, Common carriers engaged in passenger or freight transpor-tation partially by rail and partially by water, Telephone utilities, Gas utilities Electric lighting utilities,Water utilities,Heating bridge utilities. Municipal and privately owned utilities under theWisconsin
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