Engineering and Contracting . asbeen principally connected with railroadwork, both as locating engineer and incharge of construction, which includes workin the United States. Philijipine Islands andMexico and South America. The firm hasalso become associated with Dr. Louis Dun-can and Lamai IjvndoTi. (t)nsulting Electri-cal Engineers. Mr. Baxter L. Brown, of Si, Louis. Mo.,has been appointed Chief Engineer of theTerre Haute. Robinson & Olni-y R. R., whichproposes the construction of a loo-mile linebetween the Wabash River and Mount Ver-non, 111. Arthur Koppel. of the Artliiu Koppel Co.,died at
Engineering and Contracting . asbeen principally connected with railroadwork, both as locating engineer and incharge of construction, which includes workin the United States. Philijipine Islands andMexico and South America. The firm hasalso become associated with Dr. Louis Dun-can and Lamai IjvndoTi. (t)nsulting Electri-cal Engineers. Mr. Baxter L. Brown, of Si, Louis. Mo.,has been appointed Chief Engineer of theTerre Haute. Robinson & Olni-y R. R., whichproposes the construction of a loo-mile linebetween the Wabash River and Mount Ver-non, 111. Arthur Koppel. of the Artliiu Koppel Co.,died at Baden Baden, Germany, on jlay 12,in the 57th year of his age. Mr. Koppel wasborn in Dresden, but lived all of his life inBerlin. He w^as not technically educated,but at an early age engaged in the structuralsteel building. In this wa> the idea cameto him of building portiible tracks for vari-ous uses. The llrst were built of second-hand materials, and were so successful forcontractors, factories and plantations that a. Arthur Koppel. plant was erected to begin the manufactureof Industrial Railways. which name to them by Mr. Koppel. Then camethe manufacturing of cars for use on theserailways. The business grew from its inau-guration In 1S76 in Germany until to-day thecompany has factories in France,Russia. Spain and America, and offices andagencies in every country of the world. Priorto 1905 the business was run as a firm, butin that year it w-as incorporated as a stockcompany. An extensive plant was built atKoppel. Pa., at that time. Mr. Koppel issurvived by a wife, a daughter and threesons, the eldest of whom is in charge of thecompanys business in New York. Walter G. Berg. Chief Engineer of the Le-high Valley R. died suddenly May 12 inNew York, aged 50 years. Mr. Bergs firstengineering work was with the DelawareBridge Co. as draftsman and bridge engi-neer; from 18S0 to 18S1 he was engineer ofbridges of the Richmond & Allegheny R. R.;ISSl to 1SS2. e
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