. Electric railway journal . ndon. Mr. Eliot Wadsworth, of the firm of Stone & Webster,Boston, Mass., sailed for Europe on March 20 on theAmerican Line St. Louis, to prepare at Berlin for exec-utive duties in connection with Polish relief work under theauspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York. Mr. W. Leon Pepperman, assistant to the president ofthe Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York, N. Y.,formerly chief of office of administration of the Second Isth-mian Canal Commission, is the author of Who Built thePanama Canal? published recently. The book deals largelywith the work
. Electric railway journal . ndon. Mr. Eliot Wadsworth, of the firm of Stone & Webster,Boston, Mass., sailed for Europe on March 20 on theAmerican Line St. Louis, to prepare at Berlin for exec-utive duties in connection with Polish relief work under theauspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York. Mr. W. Leon Pepperman, assistant to the president ofthe Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York, N. Y.,formerly chief of office of administration of the Second Isth-mian Canal Commission, is the author of Who Built thePanama Canal? published recently. The book deals largelywith the work done by Mr. Theodore P. Shonts, presidentof the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, in formulatingthe plans for the canal during the time that he was at thehead of the Isthmian Canal Commission from the springof 1905 to February, 1907. Prof. Albert S. Richey, author of the Electric RailwayHandbook, which has just been published, was graduatedfrom Purdue University in 1894 with a degree and took the degree at. Purdue in 1908. After leav-ing school in 1894 ProfessorRichey was electrician, chiefelectrician, electrical en-gineer and chief engineersuccessively, first with theCitizens Street Railway atMuncie, Ind., and later withthe Marion (Ind.) CityRailway and the IndianaUnion Traction Companyand other companies whichare now included in thesystem of the Union Trac-tion Company of Richey was in active charge of the elec-PROF. A. S. RICHEY trical work during the building of all these variousinterurban lines. While connected with these companieshe also did considerable engineering work for other inter-urban electric railways in Indiana and Illinois. In 1905 hewas appointed assistant professor of electric railway en-gineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester,Mass., and was made professor of electric railway engineer-ing in 1907. While he has been connected with the WorcesterPolytechnic Institute, Professor Richey has done an in-creasing amoun
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