. Electric railway journal . rvice, retired on Aug. 31. Hisinitial connection with railways began Mr. Pontius has been connected with became Secretary of Commerce. InSouthern Pacific interests about thirty announcing Dean Cooleys election as president of the American Engineering ■ Council of the Federated American Engineering Societies, the executiveboard of the council outlines some ofthe problems which will face the newPresident. Among these questions are unem-ployment; government reorganization,involving the establishment of a De-partment of Public Works and reformof the United States Paten
. Electric railway journal . rvice, retired on Aug. 31. Hisinitial connection with railways began Mr. Pontius has been connected with became Secretary of Commerce. InSouthern Pacific interests about thirty announcing Dean Cooleys election as president of the American Engineering ■ Council of the Federated American Engineering Societies, the executiveboard of the council outlines some ofthe problems which will face the newPresident. Among these questions are unem-ployment; government reorganization,involving the establishment of a De-partment of Public Works and reformof the United States Patent Office; leg-islation by the various states on theregistration of engineers; elimination ofindustrial waste and regional organiza-tion of the engineers of the nation alonglines marked by Secretary Hoover andhis associates in the council. Dean Cooley is perhaps best known inthe electric railway field because ofhis pioneer work in making 1902 Mr. Cooley assisted in the ap-praisal of the mechanical equipment of. D. W. Pontius vears, filling successively the positions Newfoundland railways, and in 1903 shortly after the close of the Civil War of telegraph operator, station agent, acted as consulting engineer in the Wis- in 1867 when he entered the employ trainmaster, district freight and pass- consin railroad appraisal. In 1906. he of the West Side & Yonkers Patented *nger agent, and was first connected was a member of the Traction Valua- Railvvav as a timekeener oavmaster with the present Pacific Electric lines tion Committee, Chicago; in 1907 ap- Railway as a timekeeper, paymaster ^ ^an?ger of the Log Angeles praised Michigan telephone property; Pacific Railway, which consisted of the in charge of appraisal of hydro and electric lines now serving the west steam-electric properties and railroads coast beach resorts, Santa Monica to for the Michigan Railroad Commission Redondo Beach, inclusive. since 1910. More recently he was in On Nov. 1, 1911, when the several c
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