. The Street railway journal . C. Y. FLANDERS. H. C. been largely through his efforts that this pole has received such gen-eral adoption. He is of an old Holland family, the name beingoriginally spelled Vanzandt, and is a member of a number of clubsand social organizations in Philadelphia. Mr. B. W. Porter, superintendent of the Derby Street RailwayCompany, of Derby, Conn., is a native of Freeport, 111., where he was born in 1865. His firstrailroad experience was witha preliminary surveying partyfor one of the Western then entered the office of alarge manufacturing establish
. The Street railway journal . C. Y. FLANDERS. H. C. been largely through his efforts that this pole has received such gen-eral adoption. He is of an old Holland family, the name beingoriginally spelled Vanzandt, and is a member of a number of clubsand social organizations in Philadelphia. Mr. B. W. Porter, superintendent of the Derby Street RailwayCompany, of Derby, Conn., is a native of Freeport, 111., where he was born in 1865. His firstrailroad experience was witha preliminary surveying partyfor one of the Western then entered the office of alarge manufacturing establish-ment until the winter of 1888,when he went to Derby to enterthe employ of the Derby HorseRailroad Company, the prede-cessor of the Derby StreetRailway Company. In the fol-lowing year he was appointedsuperintendent and in 1894secretary of the company. TheDerby Street Railway is a his-torical road, having beenequipped in 1888 with the VanDeptaele system. The companyhas been through all the vi-cissitudes of railway motorwork, from the Van Depoeleapparatus, emp
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