. Journal of electricity. n in California toknow that its conduct is to be in familiar hands. Goeffrey Porter has resigned as chief electrical engi-neer of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company,Ltd., of Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Porter intends to take upprivate practice as advising and contracting engineer, but inthe meantime will visit Japan. The company does not intendto appoint a successor to Mr. Porter at the present. Nand Singh Sihra, formerly a Hindu student in me-chanical engineering at the University of California, is now with the International Harvest-er Corporation at Milwaukee,en


. Journal of electricity. n in California toknow that its conduct is to be in familiar hands. Goeffrey Porter has resigned as chief electrical engi-neer of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company,Ltd., of Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Porter intends to take upprivate practice as advising and contracting engineer, but inthe meantime will visit Japan. The company does not intendto appoint a successor to Mr. Porter at the present. Nand Singh Sihra, formerly a Hindu student in me-chanical engineering at the University of California, is now with the International Harvest-er Corporation at Milwaukee,engaged in the manufacture ofagricultural motor attending the Californiainstitution some three yearsago, Mr. Sihra has traveled ex-tensively over many parts ofthe civilized world, and it willbe interesting to follow his ag-ricultural and engineering progress upon his final return tsIndia, where an ever-increas-ing interest is being shown inthings mechanical and electri-cal as developed in the United January 15, 1918] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY 95 J. H. Pardee, president, and J. P. Ripley, railway engi-neer, The J. G. White Management Corporation, New YorkCity, are on their way back to New York after visiting thePhilippine Islands, making a general inspection of the Ma-nila Electric Railroad and Light Co., and other interests inthe Islands operated by the Management Corporation. J. D. A. Cross, who has charge of General Electric Com-panys Heating Device Sales, and C. P. Randolph, engineer incharge of the General Electric Heating Device Production ati ittsfield, are included in the transfer to the new companyvd h the recent amalgamation of Hotpoint Company with theHughes and General Electric Heating Device interests. Frank G. Baum, consulting engineer of San Francisco,1; cl charge of the engineering and construction of a hydro-electric plant for the Cerro de Pasco Mining Company inPeru, and another for the Homestake Mining Company atSpearfish, South Dakota, an


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