. Electric railway journal . attached to the time-table department, inall the problems of which he takes a lively interest. Inaddition to having been secretary of the company sec-tion for two years, was for three years secretary of thePublic Service Railway Athletic Association. Frank J. Davis, report clerk of the company, is successor as secretary of the section. Im-mediately after completing his grammar school coursein 1903 he entered the employ of the North Jersey StreetRailway, one of the predecessor companies of the PublicService Railway, as mileage clerk. He afterwards com-ple
. Electric railway journal . attached to the time-table department, inall the problems of which he takes a lively interest. Inaddition to having been secretary of the company sec-tion for two years, was for three years secretary of thePublic Service Railway Athletic Association. Frank J. Davis, report clerk of the company, is successor as secretary of the section. Im-mediately after completing his grammar school coursein 1903 he entered the employ of the North Jersey StreetRailway, one of the predecessor companies of the PublicService Railway, as mileage clerk. He afterwards com-pleted a secretarial course in a local business college,was appointed as stenographer in the accounting de-partment in 1904, and in less than two years thereafterwas made head stenographer in charge of the steno-graphic and typewriting department. Chicago Elevated Section E. J. Blair, who is president of Company Section this year, is electrical engineer of the Chicago Ele-vated Railroads. He has been with the Elevated Com-. E. J. BLAIRPresidentChicago Elevated Ry. Sectioi M. W. BRIDGESSecretary-TreasurerChicago Elevated Ry. Section JOHN T. MOFFETT R. A. VETTER President SecretaryWashington R. & E. Co. Section Washington R. & E. Co. Section 1304 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVIII, No. 26 panies since his graduation from Cornell University in1905. At first he was put to work in the car shops ofthe Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway and, af-ter spending a few years in the equipment, main-tenance-of-way and power departments, he became elec-trical engineer of this company in 1909. At the timeof the consolidation of the elevated railroads in 1911,Mr. Blair became electrical engineer of the severalcompanies. He has been active in the work of the localsection since its inauguration and has also devoted muchtime and energy to the larger work of the EngineeringAssociation. His appointment to membership on theelectrolysis and power distribution committees was men-tioned in rece
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