. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ry. In 1871the Eagle Works Manufacturing out of existence, and from it wereorganized Gates Iron Works and Fraser& Chalmers, each taking a portion of the business. Both of these companies inturn were taken over by Allis-ChalmersCompany in 1901. Messrs. Hoyt andGates, after a well earned vacation spentin traveling, will re-engage in business inChicago. Mr. Samuel Higgins. Mr. S. Higgins. mechanical superin-tendent of the Southern Railway at Wash-ington, D. C, has resigned his positionto
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ry. In 1871the Eagle Works Manufacturing out of existence, and from it wereorganized Gates Iron Works and Fraser& Chalmers, each taking a portion of the business. Both of these companies inturn were taken over by Allis-ChalmersCompany in 1901. Messrs. Hoyt andGates, after a well earned vacation spentin traveling, will re-engage in business inChicago. Mr. Samuel Higgins. Mr. S. Higgins. mechanical superin-tendent of the Southern Railway at Wash-ington, D. C, has resigned his positionto become general manager of the NewYork, New Haven & Hartford Higgins is one of the college gradu-ates who donned overalls and learned themachinist trade through a regular ap-prenticeship, having commenced railroadwork as apprentice in one of the ErieRailroad shops in 1881. He rose throughthe grades of shop foreman, general fore-man, assistant engineer, and master me-chanic to be assistant superintendent ofmotive power of the road when he be-gan work. Then he was called away to. MR. SAMUEL the higher grade of superintendent ofmotive power of the Lehigh Valley Rail-road, which he left under strong induce-ments to become superintendent of mo-tive power of the Union Pacific. Al-though his relations with the manage-ment of that great system he left after afew years of hard organizing work, be-cause the Southern Railway Companywas determined to have him as mechani-cal superintendent. His decided successin the important positions occupied com-mended Mr. Higgins for still higher re-sponsibilities, and no one was surprisedto learn that the New York, New Haven& Hartford Railroad had engaged him asgeneral manager. Leading characteristicsof Mr. Higgins are quiet, reposefulstrength of manner and clear headed ex-ecutive power. He is still a young man,only 44 years old, and he has an enviablefuture. We are proud of the latest offi-cial given to the operative by the me-c
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