. Electric railway journal . ad charge of the af-fairs of the company for the past eightyears. W. S. Finlay Leaves I. R. T. Superintendent of Motive Power Joins American Waterworks & Electric Company as Vice-President W. S. Finlay, Jr., superintendent ofmotive power of the InterboroughRapid Transit Company, New York,N. Y., has resigned. Mr. Finlay hasbeen elected a vice-president of theAmerican Waterworks & Electric Com-pany, New York. The latter company,of which H. Hobart Porter, generalmanager of the Brooklyn City Rail-road, is president, operates a numberof waterworks, power stations andoth
. Electric railway journal . ad charge of the af-fairs of the company for the past eightyears. W. S. Finlay Leaves I. R. T. Superintendent of Motive Power Joins American Waterworks & Electric Company as Vice-President W. S. Finlay, Jr., superintendent ofmotive power of the InterboroughRapid Transit Company, New York,N. Y., has resigned. Mr. Finlay hasbeen elected a vice-president of theAmerican Waterworks & Electric Com-pany, New York. The latter company,of which H. Hobart Porter, generalmanager of the Brooklyn City Rail-road, is president, operates a numberof waterworks, power stations andother public utilities. Mr. Finlay was born in Hoboken, , in 1882. He received his early edu-cation in the public schools of Brook-lyn, and was graduated from CornellUniversity in 1904, with the degree ofmechanical engineer. Shortly aftergraduation he entered the employ ofthe Interborough Rapid Transit Com-pany as an assistant on the staff of thelate H. G. Stott. Mr. Finlays firstwork with the company was identified. W. S. FINLAT, JR. with the construction of the Fifty-ninthStreet power station. He later assistedMr. Stott in doing experimental and re-search work in connection with schemesfor that stations development and thepromotion of its efficiency. In 1907 hewas placed in charge of constructionwork involved in increasing plant 1909 Mr. Finlay left the Inter-borough to go into engineering workwith the New England EngineeringCompany. Subsequently he became as-sociated with his father, W. S. Finlay,Sr., in commercial work, returning tothe Interborough in 1915 to take chargeof the installation of turbines and aux-iliary mechanical equipment necessi-tated by the extensions to the subwayand elevated systems. Upon the deathof Mr. Stott, Mr. Finlay was appointedhis successor as superintendent ofmotive power. In that capacity he, inaddition to supervising operation of thepower-generating system of the com-pany, has had charge of the engineer-ing and construction work coming
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