. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN WEST END PARK Frank Jay Gould, of New York. The officers of the companyare now as follows: F. Sitterding, of Richmond, president;Mr. Gould, first vice-president; Augustus Wright, of Peters-burg, second vice-president; Guy Phillips, of New York, secre-tary and treasurer, and William Northrop, of Richmond, as-sistant secretary and treasurer. In addition to the officers thefollowing are also directors; Messrs, Edwin Gould, A, H. Calef and Alfred Skitt, of New York, and J. D. Patton, ofRichmond. S. W. Huff is general manager, and C. general superin
. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN WEST END PARK Frank Jay Gould, of New York. The officers of the companyare now as follows: F. Sitterding, of Richmond, president;Mr. Gould, first vice-president; Augustus Wright, of Peters-burg, second vice-president; Guy Phillips, of New York, secre-tary and treasurer, and William Northrop, of Richmond, as-sistant secretary and treasurer. In addition to the officers thefollowing are also directors; Messrs, Edwin Gould, A, H. Calef and Alfred Skitt, of New York, and J. D. Patton, ofRichmond. S. W. Huff is general manager, and C. general superintendent. William C. Whitner is chiefengineer of the water-power development, and Calvin White-. VIEW IN FOREST HILL PARK ley, Jr., is chief engineer of the railway department. GeorgeH. Whitfield is mechanical and electrical engineer. THE RECENT STRIKEAn account of the Richmond system would not be completewithout a reference to the recent strike that has already beencommented on in these columns. It will be of interest torecord the issue that was drawn and the result of the strike was notable in that the union started out with anabsolutely solid front and wound up thoroughly disorganizedand disrupted. The men had been granted arbitration thespring previous, under which wages were materially advanced,and, not willing to abide by this, even for a year, the unionwithin ten months demanded a 30- per cent increase in wages,recognition of the union, arbitration of all questions that mightarise between the company and its employees, and the usualclauses that accompany extreme union demands. The general
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