. Electric railway journal . uipment of the locomotivesfor that company. J. W. Brown has resigned as assist-ant general superintendent of the Pub-lic Service Railway, Newark, N. J., tobecome general manager of the Wheel-ing (W. Va.) Traction Company, takingover with that company, among otherduties, those previously performed byW. B. Atwood, general superintendent,who resigned to accept a position else-where. Mr. Brown has been connectedwith the Public Service Railway sinceApril, 1911. He has been assistant gen-eral superintendent since 1913. Previ-ous to 1911 he was with the Aurora,Elgin & Chi
. Electric railway journal . uipment of the locomotivesfor that company. J. W. Brown has resigned as assist-ant general superintendent of the Pub-lic Service Railway, Newark, N. J., tobecome general manager of the Wheel-ing (W. Va.) Traction Company, takingover with that company, among otherduties, those previously performed byW. B. Atwood, general superintendent,who resigned to accept a position else-where. Mr. Brown has been connectedwith the Public Service Railway sinceApril, 1911. He has been assistant gen-eral superintendent since 1913. Previ-ous to 1911 he was with the Aurora,Elgin & Chicago Railroad, and priorto that time was superintendent oftransportation of the West Penn Rail-ways, Connellsville, Pa. He entered theservice of the McKeesport, Wilmerding& Duquesne Railway, McKeesport, Pa.,about fifteen years ago as night cardispatcher. He also served as electri-cian and later as power stationengineer of this company. When thePittsburgh, McKeesport & ConnellsvilleRailway was formed Mr. Brown was. j. w. BROWN made master mechanic of the McKees-port Division of that road and laterwas promoted to division superintend-ent. When the transportation depart-ment of the company was organized in1903 he was appointed superintendentof transportation of the company. Heresigned from the West Penn Railwaysin August, 1910, to become connectedwith the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Rail-road. Mr. Brown has built up for him-self an enviable reputation in thehandling of men and in solving prob-lems in connection with the new scienceof employment. He has been editor ofthe employees publication of the PublicService Railway, the Trolley Weal,since its establishment in 1917. has been very active in the workof the American Electric RailwayTransportation & Traffic Association,particularly as vice-chairman of thejoint committee on block signals forelectric railways. His associates in thePublic Service Railway tendered a ban-quet to him on April 10. Among thosewho attended were R. E.
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