. Railway mechanical engineer . wayBusiness Association in the winter of 1908-9 arrangementswere made with the American Locomotive Company wherebyMr. Basford gave part of his time to that association as secre-tary. A more complete sketch of Mr. Basfords career will befound in the American Engineer of April, 1913, page 225. E. A. Averill was born at Richland, N. Y., August 13,1878, and after a preparatory education in public and privateschools entered Cornell University in 1896. He was gradu-ated in 1900 with thedegree of mechanicalengineer and special-ized in railway mechan-ical engineering du
. Railway mechanical engineer . wayBusiness Association in the winter of 1908-9 arrangementswere made with the American Locomotive Company wherebyMr. Basford gave part of his time to that association as secre-tary. A more complete sketch of Mr. Basfords career will befound in the American Engineer of April, 1913, page 225. E. A. Averill was born at Richland, N. Y., August 13,1878, and after a preparatory education in public and privateschools entered Cornell University in 1896. He was gradu-ated in 1900 with thedegree of mechanicalengineer and special-ized in railway mechan-ical engineering duringhis senior year. Thesummer of 1899 hespent in the shops ofthe Philadelphia &Reading, Reading, Pa.,and after graduationwent into the shops ofthe Chicago, Burling-ton & Quincy at WestBurlington, Iowa. Afterfour years service withthe Burlington, thegreater part of whichwas spent in shop androundhouse work andon the road, Mr. Averilljoined the staff of theRailway and Engineer-ing Review of Chicago,editorial staff of the. E. A. Averill On January 1, 1906, he joined theAmerican Engineer and RailroadJournal, and on April 1, 1910, became managing editor ofthat publication. On March 1, 1914, he was made en-gineer of operation of the Standard Stoker Company, withwhich company he has been connected until recently. George L. Wall, vice-president and manager of the LimaLocomotive Corporation, has resigned and taken an office atroom 219, Opera House block, Lima, Ohio. H. K. Porter, formerly southern sales agent with office atAtlanta, Ga., for the U. S. Metal & Manufacturing Company,of New York, has accepted a position with the Hyatt RollerBearing Company, of Newark, N. J. Watson H. Linburg, president of the United & Globe Rub-ber Manufacturing Companies, Trenton, N. J., died onJanuary 6. Mr. Linburg was one of the pioneers in the man-ufacture of air-brake hose and other mechanical rubber goodsused by the railroads. Frank Snyder, general superintendent of the Mt. VernonCar Manufacturing C
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