. Railway mechanical engineer . ger department at , \t., and thenwas successively stenog-rapher and chief ticketclerk until 1X97, when hebecame chief clerk to thegeneral 190(1 he was ap-pointed traveling caragent of the Canada At-lantic Railway, withheadquarters at Ottawa,Ont., and in 1892 becamesecretary to the generalmanager of the sameroad. During 19(15 and1906 he served as chiefclerk to the vice-presi-dent and general man-ager of the Grand Trunk-Pacific at Montreal, Que. In 190/ he became assistant to vice-president and general manager and purchasing agent of the


. Railway mechanical engineer . ger department at , \t., and thenwas successively stenog-rapher and chief ticketclerk until 1X97, when hebecame chief clerk to thegeneral 190(1 he was ap-pointed traveling caragent of the Canada At-lantic Railway, withheadquarters at Ottawa,Ont., and in 1892 becamesecretary to the generalmanager of the sameroad. During 19(15 and1906 he served as chiefclerk to the vice-presi-dent and general man-ager of the Grand Trunk-Pacific at Montreal, Que. In 190/ he became assistant to vice-president and general manager and purchasing agent of the sameroad, with headquarters at Winnipeg, Man., which position lieheld at the time of his recent appointment as general purchas-ing agent of the Grand Trunk. J. D. Ferguson has been appointed general purchasing agentof the Xwolle & Eastern, with office at St. Louis, Mo. G. E. Motz has been appointed purchasing agent of the , Des Moines & Southern, with headquarters at Boone,la., succeeding H. S. Moore, G. W. Caye OBITUARY R. H. Crew, locomotive foreman of the Grand Trunk, at Ni-mico, Ontario, died in Toronto, Ontario, on December 7, asthe result of a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Crew was 48 years ofage and had been in the employ of the Grand Trunk at Nimicofor 28 years. NEW SHOPS The SOUTHERN.—This company opened bids on Jan-uary 15 for rebuilding the shops at New Bern. X. C, which weredestroyed by fire on November Id. The total cost will aggregateabout $14,000. A contract for the work is reported let to J. John-son. Norfolk, Va. 108 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 90, No. 2 Supply Trade Notes Frederick H. Eaton, president of the American Car & Foun-dry Company, died in New York on January 28. The New York office of the Locomotive Stoker Company hasbeen removed from Room 1032, 30 Church street, to Room 13S1,50 Church street. A. E. Schafer, for the past two years vice-president andgeneral sales manager of the Flint Varnish Works, Flint, Mich.,has severe


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