. Electric railway journal . M. Weatherwax, who for the last eight years has beenin charge of the transportation department of the ChicagoCity Railway, has been appointed superintendent of trans-portation of the Chicago Surface Lines. Mr. Weatherwaxwas born on a farm near Lansingburgh, now Schaghticoke,N. Y., in 1866. He was educated in the country schools andworked on the farm during vacation time. He began streetrailway work as a conductor on the Troy & LansingburghStreet Railway, Troy, N. Y., in 1884. He left railway workafter a few months service and came to Chicago. He wasthen eighteen ye
. Electric railway journal . M. Weatherwax, who for the last eight years has beenin charge of the transportation department of the ChicagoCity Railway, has been appointed superintendent of trans-portation of the Chicago Surface Lines. Mr. Weatherwaxwas born on a farm near Lansingburgh, now Schaghticoke,N. Y., in 1866. He was educated in the country schools andworked on the farm during vacation time. He began streetrailway work as a conductor on the Troy & LansingburghStreet Railway, Troy, N. Y., in 1884. He left railway workafter a few months service and came to Chicago. He wasthen eighteen years old. His first employment in the Westwas with the Northern Transportation Company, where headvanced successively from watchman to lookout and finallyto wheelsman of a large lake freighter running betweenChicago and Ogdensburg, N. Y. In 1886 he entered theservice of the Chicago City Railway as a driver of towhorses. He was soon thereafter transferred to general car-house service. He was next made a conductor, in which. J. R. Guilliams Sidney Ossoski position he remained until April, 1890, when he was ad-vanced to assistant foreman in charge of cars and trainmenat one of the carhouses. In April, 1893, he was made fore-man in charge of one of the carhouses, and later was trans-ferred to what is now known as the Englewood carhousewith the same title until the position was redesignated divi-sion superintendent. His last important promotion came inNovember, 1906, when he was made superintendent of trans-portation of the Chicago City Railway, which position he hasheld continuously since then. John Z. Murphy, who for the last fourteen years has beenchief engineer of the Chicago Railways, has been appointed January 24, 1914.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 211 electrical engineer of the Chicago Surface Lines. He enteredstreet railway work in 1889, with the West Chicago StreetRailway, then a cable line, as chief operating engineer incharge of outside mechanical equipment including cables a
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