. The Street railway journal . , of Philadelphia. This company, as is generally known, is a recent or-ganization and controls andoperates a large number of for-merly independent railway andlighting companies in the neigh-borhood of Philadelphia andWilmington, Del., also in otherparts of Eastern Pennsylvaniaand in New Jersey. Among thecompanies included in this con-solidation are the WilmingtonCity Railway Company, Wil-mington City Electric Company,Wilmington & Chester TractionCompany, Chester Traction Com-pany, United Traction Company,of Reading; Reading & Womels-dorf Electric Railway Company,
. The Street railway journal . , of Philadelphia. This company, as is generally known, is a recent or-ganization and controls andoperates a large number of for-merly independent railway andlighting companies in the neigh-borhood of Philadelphia andWilmington, Del., also in otherparts of Eastern Pennsylvaniaand in New Jersey. Among thecompanies included in this con-solidation are the WilmingtonCity Railway Company, Wil-mington City Electric Company,Wilmington & Chester TractionCompany, Chester Traction Com-pany, United Traction Company,of Reading; Reading & Womels-dorf Electric Railway Company,Holmesburg, Tacony & Frankford Electric Railway Company;Roxborough, Chestnut Hill & Norristown Railway Company;Trenton Street Railway Company, of Trenton, N. J.; CitizensElectric Light & Power Company, of Delaware County; Dela-ware County & Philadelphia Electric Railway Company, theLebanon Valley Street Railway Company, the Edison Electric &Illuminating Company, of Lebanon; Wilkesbarre & Wyoming. F. L. FULLER. November, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 843 Valley Traction Company, Wilkesbarre, Dallas & Harveys LakeRailway Company, and the Metropolitan Electric Company, ofReading. To this company Mr. Fuller will bring a long experience in elec-tric railroading, obtained in Chicago and elsewhere, which hasgiven him a high reputation in this line of work. Mr. Fullersconnection with street railways dates from January, 1888,when he entered the service of the St. Paul City Railway Com-pany, at which time he was appointed foreman of the Selby Avenuecable line, just then put in operation. In the following year thecompany decided to substitute electricity for horses on the greaterpart of its system, and at that time Mr. Fuller was appointed as-sistant superintendent. He remained with this company until theconsolidation with the Minneapolis system in April of 1893, whenhe resigned and entered the service of the West Chicago StreetRailway Company, of Chicago, as assistant superintenden
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