. Electric railway journal . Power & Light Com-pany and the OgdensburgGas Company, and enteredupon his duties with thesecompanies on Sept. 25. was connected withthe Empire United Railwaysfor two years. Before thathe was general superinten-dent of the electric railwayand lighting property atSheboygan, Wis. Mr. Vothis a native of Milwaukee,and was graduated from theUniversity of Wisconsin in1897. After designing, con-W. B. VOTH structing and operating several small hydroelectricplants in his native State, he was appointed resident engi-neer at Sheboygan in 1904 during the building of a s
. Electric railway journal . Power & Light Com-pany and the OgdensburgGas Company, and enteredupon his duties with thesecompanies on Sept. 25. was connected withthe Empire United Railwaysfor two years. Before thathe was general superinten-dent of the electric railwayand lighting property atSheboygan, Wis. Mr. Vothis a native of Milwaukee,and was graduated from theUniversity of Wisconsin in1897. After designing, con-W. B. VOTH structing and operating several small hydroelectricplants in his native State, he was appointed resident engi-neer at Sheboygan in 1904 during the building of a steampower station and the reconstruction of the local commer-cial and street lighting system. After finishing the con-struction work Mr. Voth remained to operate the plant asgeneral superintendent. At the same time he acted as con-sulting engineer for the Greensboro (N. C.) Company, con-trolled by the same interests, resigning, however, in 1914,to become chief engineer and purchasing agent of the Em-pire United September 30, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 701 H. Bertram Potter has been appointed assistant to thepresident of the Boston (Mass.) Elevated Railway. Thisoffice in the companys scheme of organization is intendedto supply President Brushwith a personal representa- Itive who shall be authorized to represent and act for himin all matters. Mr. Potteris thirty-five years of ageand has been in electric-railway work eleven was educated in the pub-lic schools at Cambridge,Mass. When he was six-teen years of age Mr. Pot-ter entered the industrialfield in a machine shop atSouth Boston. His busi-ness experience was broad-ened by a term of service as
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