. Electric railway journal . ctric company was to close acontract for a 50,000-kw. turbine unit, which is to be de-livered in 1919. Mr. Farrand has always taken an active interest in theelectric railway. He was one of the incorporators of theNew Jersey Street Railway, about 1898, and was a director ofthe Consolidated Traction System which absorbed it. On thelighting side he was manager of the Peoples Light & PowerCompany, in which position he made a record for speedy res-toration of service after the destruction of the companyspower house by fire. In 1899 the scope of this company wasenlarged
. Electric railway journal . ctric company was to close acontract for a 50,000-kw. turbine unit, which is to be de-livered in 1919. Mr. Farrand has always taken an active interest in theelectric railway. He was one of the incorporators of theNew Jersey Street Railway, about 1898, and was a director ofthe Consolidated Traction System which absorbed it. On thelighting side he was manager of the Peoples Light & PowerCompany, in which position he made a record for speedy res-toration of service after the destruction of the companyspower house by fire. In 1899 the scope of this company wasenlarged and it became the United Electric Company of NewJersey, Mr. Farrand becoming general manager. On theformation of Public Service with its several departments hewas appointed general manager of the electrical department,and when the operating company organization was putthrough in 1910 Mr. Farrand became vice-president and gen-eral manager of the Public Service Electric Company. April 14, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 715. John L. OToole also becomes assistant to the president ofPublic Service Corporation, being promoted from havingcharge of its publicity department. During the eight yearssince he left the city editorsdesk of the Newark Even-ing News he has done muchmore than publicity work inthe usual sense of that fact, as a member of thecompany committee on pub-lic relations since its forma-tion in 1913 he has hadmuch to do with organiza-tions representing commun-ities as well as with thegeneral public. Mr. OToolewas with the News for six-teen years, during the latterhalf of which he was cityeditor. The new treasurer ofPublic Service, T. Wilson J- L- 0 T00LE Van Middlesworth, is a man of thirty-three, who has by consistent attention to detailearned steady promotion. He was born and still lives inNew Brunswick, where he graduated from the city highschool. After a business college course in Newark he becamea clerk in the office of the engineer of the Essex & HudsonGas C
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