. Electric railway journal . spent the following four years on aranch in the West. After five years spent with theOmaha (Neb.) Gas Company he became auditor of the U. and in 1897 was appointed assistant general agent atJersey City. Later he was successively assistant treasurerand secretary of the Hudson County Gas Company and comp-troller of Public Service when it was formed in 1903 and treas-urer also in 1914. Shortly thereafter he was appointed vice-president of the operating companies also. Aside from hisinterest in accounting matters Mr. Young has been activein the commercial side of
. Electric railway journal . spent the following four years on aranch in the West. After five years spent with theOmaha (Neb.) Gas Company he became auditor of the U. and in 1897 was appointed assistant general agent atJersey City. Later he was successively assistant treasurerand secretary of the Hudson County Gas Company and comp-troller of Public Service when it was formed in 1903 and treas-urer also in 1914. Shortly thereafter he was appointed vice-president of the operating companies also. Aside from hisinterest in accounting matters Mr. Young has been activein the commercial side of the work of the company andserved a term as president of the National Commercial GasAssociation. For nine years he has had charge of the com-mercial department of Public Service, on both the gas andelectric sides. He is well known also for his sympatheticand practical interest in the development of the young menon his staff and outside of it, especially encouraging thetaking of correspondence courses and college courses when. P. S. YOUNG DUDLEY FARRAND practicable. Mr. Young holds the degree of Bachelor ofCommercial Science from New York University. Dudley Farrand, formerly general manager of PublicService Electric Company, becomes an assistant to PresidentMcCarter. He has been in the local electrical industry forthirty years, beginning as clerk in the office of the NewarkElectric Light & Power Company when just out of NewarkAcademy. At the time the company had a small arc and in-candescent lighting business. Mr. Farrand has continuedwith the same company and its successors. By way of con-trast with the merger of electrical equipment of 1887 inNewark it is of interest to note that his last important actas general manager of the electric company was to close acontract for a 50,000-kw. turbine unit, which is to be de-livered in 1919. Mr. Farrand has always taken an active interest in theelectric railway. He was one of the incorporators of theNew Jersey Street Railway, about 1898,
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