. Electric railway review . se portrait is presented here-with, was recently elected president of the Omaha & CouncilBluffs Street Railway of Omaha, Neb., succeeding Mr. Guy , resigned, aspreviously noted in theElectric Railway Re-view. Mr. Wattles wasborn at Richford. X. Y.,on May 12, 1855, and in1867 removed to Car-roll, la. He attendedthe Iowa State Collegeat Ames, la. In 1880 hebecame president of theFirst National Bank ofCarroll, la., and, afterremoving to Omaha in1892, was successivelyvice-president and pres-ident of the LTnion Na-tional Bank. In 189S hewas president of theTrans-
. Electric railway review . se portrait is presented here-with, was recently elected president of the Omaha & CouncilBluffs Street Railway of Omaha, Neb., succeeding Mr. Guy , resigned, aspreviously noted in theElectric Railway Re-view. Mr. Wattles wasborn at Richford. X. Y.,on May 12, 1855, and in1867 removed to Car-roll, la. He attendedthe Iowa State Collegeat Ames, la. In 1880 hebecame president of theFirst National Bank ofCarroll, la., and, afterremoving to Omaha in1892, was successivelyvice-president and pres-ident of the LTnion Na-tional Bank. In 189S hewas president of theTrans-Mississippi andInternational expositionat Omaha. His streetrailway connectiondates from 1902, whenhe became associatedwith the Omaha &Council Bluffs Street Railway as director. Since 1905 he has been vice-presidentof that company. He has been president of the Omaha GrainExchange since its organization in 1904, and has been vice-president of the United States National Bank of Omaha forseveral years past. J. E. Gurdon W. Wattles. Ask Investigation of Electric Railways. A number of citizens associations of the District ofColumbia have jointly adopted a resolution petitioning con-gress to direct the bureau of corporations or the interstatecommerce commission to make an investigation of the electricrailways of the district with respect to their organization,capitalization, etc., and to ascertain whether legislation re-quiring the companies to render better service should be en-acted. A second resolution petitions congress to grant au-thority to the district commissioners to regnlate the serviceof the companies. January 25, 1908. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW L33 Financial News Cleveland (O.) Electric Railway.—At the annual meetingof stockholders on January 15 the directors were place of Charles L. Pack, who had retired, was not B. Andrews, the president, reported that the grossearnings for the year ended December 31, 1907, approximated$5,700,000, a g
Size: 1421px × 1758px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1906
