. Electric railway journal . antdemand on him and he decided to retire from the com-pany so as to devote himself more largely to his otherinterests. Last year Mr. Calhoun made eleven trips betweenNew York and San Francisco in the interests of the prop-erty in the latter city. It is understood that he will retainhis financial interest in the property. Mr. Calhoun haslong been interested in the affairs of the American Elec-tric Railway Association and was a speaker at the midyearbanquet of the association held on Jan. 27, 1911. His sub-ject was Intelligent Popular Government and Public Utili-tie
. Electric railway journal . antdemand on him and he decided to retire from the com-pany so as to devote himself more largely to his otherinterests. Last year Mr. Calhoun made eleven trips betweenNew York and San Francisco in the interests of the prop-erty in the latter city. It is understood that he will retainhis financial interest in the property. Mr. Calhoun haslong been interested in the affairs of the American Elec-tric Railway Association and was a speaker at the midyearbanquet of the association held on Jan. 27, 1911. His sub-ject was Intelligent Popular Government and Public Utili-ties. He also addressed the members of the association atthe midyear conference on Jan. 26, 1912, on Lessons of theSan Francisco Strike. He also spoke at the 1910 annualconvention of the American Electric Railway Association atAtlantic City. Mr. Jesse W. Lilienthal, who has been elected presidentof the United Railroads of San Francisco to succeed Calhoun, was born in New York in 1855. At an early age his family moved. to Cincinnati, where he re-ceived his primary educa-tion. He studied at theUniversity of Cincinnatiand later at the HarvardLaw School, from whichhe was graduated in fourteen years there-after he practised law inNew York. On account ofthe ill health of his wifeMr. Lilienthal in 1894 re-moved to San Francisco,where his law offices arelocated. Fie has been ex-ceedingly successful in his profession and is identifiedJ. W. Lilienthal as a director with numer- ous Western corporations,among them the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank,the Anglo California Trust Company, the Marin CountyWater Company, the La Grange Gold Dredging Company,the Sierra & San Francisco Power Company, the WesternMeat Company and a number of incorporated enterprisesin South San Francisco. He is also senior vice-presidentof the San Francisco Bar Association. Mr. Lilienthal isknown and respected in San Francisco as a philanthropistof high ideals. He is president of the Recreation Le
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