. Electric railway journal . ectricRailways. He was president of the Massachu-setts Street Railway Association in1916-1917 and is now the Massachusetts vice-president of the New EnglandStreet Railway Club. Mr. Belden is to continue as executivehead and president of the companieswith which he is now connected, but hewill be less active in matters of operat-ing detail, all of which work will bedelegated to the local officials in Haver-hill and Portsmouth. He expects toleave Haverhill in the fall and resumehis residence in Boston, where he liveduntil September, 1917. J. R. Wilson, formerly traffi
. Electric railway journal . ectricRailways. He was president of the Massachu-setts Street Railway Association in1916-1917 and is now the Massachusetts vice-president of the New EnglandStreet Railway Club. Mr. Belden is to continue as executivehead and president of the companieswith which he is now connected, but hewill be less active in matters of operat-ing detail, all of which work will bedelegated to the local officials in Haver-hill and Portsmouth. He expects toleave Haverhill in the fall and resumehis residence in Boston, where he liveduntil September, 1917. J. R. Wilson, formerly traffic mana-ger of the Sacramento Northern Rail-road, Chico, Cal., is now actively con-nected with the Latourette-Fical Com-pany, mechanical contractor, Sacra-mento, serving as vice-president andassistant manager. J. O. Penisten on March 1 becamesuperintendent of power distribution ofthe Union Traction Company of Indi-ana, Anderson, Ind., assuming the posi-tion made vacant by the resignation ofG. H. Kelsay, who has become associ-. J. O. PENISTEN ated with the Cleveland, Southwestern& Columbus Railway. Mr. Penistenjoined the Union Traction Company ofIndiana in 1907, in the bonding depart-ment, and was later made foreman ofthis department. From this position hewas promoted to substation operator,and in May, 1908, he joined the electricconstruction department in the work ofrepairing substation equipment andmotors. Early in 1913 Mr. Penistenwas made division electrician. He con-tinued in that capacity until madesuperintendent of power distribution onMarch 1, last. William S. Murray, for many yearschief electrical engineer of the NewYork, New Haven & Hartford Railroadand recently president of the Hoosa-tonic Power Company, which suppliespower to part of the lines of the Con-necticut Company, has opened an officeas consulting engineer in New York,He will specialize on electrical gener-ation and transmission, railroad elec-trification and conservation of naturalresources. Mr. Murrays conne
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