. Electric railway journal . o (N. Y.) GeneralElectric Company. From 1909 to 1911 he also investigatedspecial engineering matters for the Bay State Street Rail-way. From 1911 to 1913 Mr. Stratton was general managerof the Northumberland County Gas & Electric Company atSunbury, Pa. Following this began his connection with San-derson & Porter, from which firm he has gone to the ShoreLine Electric Railway. George H. Harries, for years prominent as a public utilityexecutive, has received a leave of absence from the variouscorporations with which he is connected in order to resumemilitary service.
. Electric railway journal . o (N. Y.) GeneralElectric Company. From 1909 to 1911 he also investigatedspecial engineering matters for the Bay State Street Rail-way. From 1911 to 1913 Mr. Stratton was general managerof the Northumberland County Gas & Electric Company atSunbury, Pa. Following this began his connection with San-derson & Porter, from which firm he has gone to the ShoreLine Electric Railway. George H. Harries, for years prominent as a public utilityexecutive, has received a leave of absence from the variouscorporations with which he is connected in order to resumemilitary service. He is nowin command of the Nebras- Ika National Guard, at FortCrook, having been commis- sioned brigadier general byGovernor Neville, as of June25, and will be recommend-ed by the War Departmentfor similar rank in the reg-ular army. Governor Nev-ille in selecting GeneralHarries to lead the threeNebraska regiments ex-pressed the hope that whenthey become a part of theregular army on Aug. 5, byapplication of the draft,. General Harries would con-tinue to command the bri- G- H- harriesgade. The Nebraska troops will be trained and brought to war strength at Deming,N. M. Since 1912 General Harries has been a vice-presidentof H. M. Byllesby & C ompany. He is also president of theLouisville Gas & Electric Company, the Omaha ElectricLight & Power Company, the Arkansas Valley Railway,Light & Power Company and an officer in a number of otherlarge utility organizations. During the past several monthsGeneral Harries has been engaged in work for the Councilof National Defense and War Department, having placedhimself at the disposal of the government when war wasdeclared on Germany. The son of an officer in the Britisharmy, born in Wales in 1860, General Harries came to theUnited States when a boy and served as a scout under Gen-erals Miles and Crook in frontier wars with the Indians. Hewas a member of the governments commission settling thegrievances of the Sioux Indians in 1891. In 1888 he
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