. The Street railway journal . single operatoi without the slightest per-sonal danger from arcs or short circuits. There were also ex-hibited the Westinghouse No. 49 () railway motor openand with a separate armature, the Westinghouse 38 B. ()railway motor with parallel side bar suspension, the Westinghouse12 A () railway motor, several controllers, a tank lightningarrester, a Wurts lightning arrester, a street car choke coil, a N. W. Storer, IT. D. Murdock, Maurice Coster, of Chicago:Charles Bragg, manager Philadelphia office; Calvert Townley,manager Boston ; R.
. The Street railway journal . single operatoi without the slightest per-sonal danger from arcs or short circuits. There were also ex-hibited the Westinghouse No. 49 () railway motor openand with a separate armature, the Westinghouse 38 B. ()railway motor with parallel side bar suspension, the Westinghouse12 A () railway motor, several controllers, a tank lightningarrester, a Wurts lightning arrester, a street car choke coil, a N. W. Storer, IT. D. Murdock, Maurice Coster, of Chicago:Charles Bragg, manager Philadelphia office; Calvert Townley,manager Boston ; R. S. Brown, H. M. Southgate, of Boston;H. C. Farnsworth, manager Boston office Sawyer-Man LampCompany; J. R. Gordon, of Atlanta; C. C. Frenyear, of Buffalo,and Thomas Ahearn, of Ahearn & Soper, Ottawa, Canada. Veterans at the Convention Among the familiar faces at the Convention were many who hadengaged in the early electric railway work in Boston and indulgedin reminiscences of the trials and vicissitudes which were common. FOUR VANDEPOELE MEN AT THE CONVENTION when that work was performed. Among the pioneers were fourwho had been associated with Vandepoele, and formed, so tospeak, a corporals guard of those who had engaged in the historicwork on the first electric railways. The photographer of theStreet Railway Journal succeeded in catching a group of these 686 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XIV. No. io. members of the old guard standing in front of the associationbuilding one day during the meetings. They are R. J. Ran-dolph, general manager of the Sterling Arc Lamp Company; C. , general manager of the Carbondale Traction Company;Elmer P. Morris, of New York, and W. N. Sheaff, of Sheaff &Jaastad, of Boston. Mr. Randolph was the first selling agent o!the Vandepoele Company, and Messrs. Morris, Flynn and Sheaffwere engaged in the construction department of that company in(881, and later, in 1885, assisted Mr. Vandepoele in bis early elec-tric railway work. ♦♦♦ - An El
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