. Electric railway journal . Comptroller of the City of New Yorkfor the first time in 1910, Mr. Prender-gast has been active in discussions ofthe citys transportation problem. Re-cently he has attacked Hylans do-nothing policy, asserting that theMayor by his attitude had forfeitedthe right to interfere. He has been astrong advocate of Governor Millerstraction plan. Mr. Prendergast was born in NewYork on May 23, 1867, and attendedpublic schools in Manhattan and Brook-lyn. He entered business at the age offourteen. Oliver C. Semple is a New York law-yer, who has had an extensive experi-ence in t
. Electric railway journal . Comptroller of the City of New Yorkfor the first time in 1910, Mr. Prender-gast has been active in discussions ofthe citys transportation problem. Re-cently he has attacked Hylans do-nothing policy, asserting that theMayor by his attitude had forfeitedthe right to interfere. He has been astrong advocate of Governor Millerstraction plan. Mr. Prendergast was born in NewYork on May 23, 1867, and attendedpublic schools in Manhattan and Brook-lyn. He entered business at the age offourteen. Oliver C. Semple is a New York law-yer, who has had an extensive experi-ence in traction affairs. He aided inthe drafting of the original PublicService Commission law and was him-self counsel to the commission be-tween 1907 and 1918. He was largelyresponsible for the drafting of the re-vision of that law and of the revisionof the rapid transit act of 1920. Healso assisted in drawing up the Inter-borough and the Brooklyn Rapid Tran-sit contracts in 1913. Mr. Semple hasbeen a consistent supporter of Gover-. (QPaul ThompsonLE ROY T. HARKNESS Photo hy Paul ThompsonGEORGE McANENY IQVndeTwood & UnderwoodMAJOR-GEN. J. F. ORYAN ©Underwood <£ Underwood ■W. A. PRENDERGAST tan. He started his career as a news-paper man, going back to it as asso-ciate business manager of the NewYork Times, in 1915, a post he relin-quished only recently. Mr. McAneny was born in Green-ville, N. J., on Christmas eve, was educated in the public andhigh schools of Jersey City, laterstudying law, although he never prac-ticed at the bar. He served on thecommittee which framed the municipalhome rule amendments to the StateConstitution adopted in 1894. Le Roy T. Harkness, former legal ad-viser to the New York Public ServiceCommission, is credited with signalservice in safeguarding the citys in-terest in the drafting of the dual sub-way contracts. He has had a wideexperience in New York traction af-fairs because of his long service withthe commission. Recently, with the co-operati
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