. The street railway review . lice in placeof the sub-stations: this means that some carriers will be removed,Inil employment will be given tliem in other capacities. Employes of the Spokane (Wash.) Street Railway Co. are pro-hibited by a rule of the company from smoking on a street carwhile in unifortu. even when off dutv. About a dozen street car conductors at .Vkron, O., had theirpockets picked one day last month by a gang of thieves. The carswere unusually crowded owing to the presence of a traveling showat the Fair Grounds. On May 17th, Mr. John .M. Roach was electcrl president of the(hic
. The street railway review . lice in placeof the sub-stations: this means that some carriers will be removed,Inil employment will be given tliem in other capacities. Employes of the Spokane (Wash.) Street Railway Co. are pro-hibited by a rule of the company from smoking on a street carwhile in unifortu. even when off dutv. About a dozen street car conductors at .Vkron, O., had theirpockets picked one day last month by a gang of thieves. The carswere unusually crowded owing to the presence of a traveling showat the Fair Grounds. On May 17th, Mr. John .M. Roach was electcrl president of the(hicago Consolidated Traction Co., succeeding .VIr. C. T. Yerkes,the change occurrliig as a result of the recent purchase by theUnion company of the Consolidated Traction properly, and onMay 29lh, Mr. Roach was made president of the Chicago UnionTraction Co. to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation o( Spalding. Mr. Roach will continue as general manaKer oftlie combitied systems, comprising nearly 540 miles of JOII-S M. ROACH. Mr. Spaldings retirement was made necessary through the de-mands on his time of his extensive private business and in his letterof resignation he urged in the strongest terms the selection ofMr. Roach as his successor. A portion of his letter is as follow?: The organization of your company has been fully completedand I have become thoroughly satisfied that Mr. John M. present general manager and one of your vice-presidents, isin every way fitted and competent to successfully operate yourrailroads. I feel the time for my retirement, as originally contem-plated, has come. Upon suggesting this course to my friends it was requested thatI remain in the office at least for the current year, but upon re-flection I have concluded that my resignation should be tenderednow, and that I should insist upon its acceptance. My principalreason for this conclusion is that I believe the interests of yourcompany would be best served by the electi
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