. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s in the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and two years at the Uni-versity of California, in the latter institu-tion taking the course in mechanical en-gineering as a member of the class of1903. He then spent about 18 months inthe shops of the Southern Pacific at West 104 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. March, 1917. Oakland and Sacranientu, Cal., fuUowedby 6 months in the test department and 0months in the signal department of thesame road. In June, 1905, lie returnedeast and entered
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s in the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and two years at the Uni-versity of California, in the latter institu-tion taking the course in mechanical en-gineering as a member of the class of1903. He then spent about 18 months inthe shops of the Southern Pacific at West 104 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. March, 1917. Oakland and Sacranientu, Cal., fuUowedby 6 months in the test department and 0months in the signal department of thesame road. In June, 1905, lie returnedeast and entered the mechanical depart-ment drafting room of the Boston &Maine. He remained with that companyuntil October, 1911, serving during thelast 5 years of that period as chief drafts-man. From October, 1911, to April, 191-,he was engineer of tests of the New Eng-land lines, that is, of the New Haven,Boston & Maine and the Maine .^pril, 1912, as above noted, he becamesuperintendent of fuel service of the Dela-ware, Lackawanna & Western, which posi-tion he held np to the present H. HILL. H. HiU. George H. Hill, for tlie last eight yearsassistant engineer of the railway and trac-tion department of the General ElectricCompany, died at his home in Schenec-tady, N. Y., on January 31. He was ahigh authority in the electrification ofrailroads. He was in his forty-fifth yearand gave promise of much directed the equipment of many elec-tric railroads. He was a writer ofmarked ability, and an inventor of manyimportant devices. His early death isgreatly mourned by all who had thehonor of his acquaintance. Walter J. McBride. Mr. Walter J. McBride, formerly presi-dent of the Haskell & Barker Car Com-pany, Michigan City, Ind., died at hishome in Chicago last month in his fifty-seventh year. He was closely identifiedwith several of the leading car construc-tion companies, and was for severalyears president of the American Car &Foundry Company. Arc
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