. Electric railway journal . ears old, and the boy was com-pelled to earn his own way when only 13 years old. Hesecured a position at the local railroad station in Austinand qualified as an operator after 18 months service. Hethen held various positions in the railway field until heaccepted an appointment as telegraph operator at the gen-eral office of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Rail-,road, at Louisville, Ky. Subsequently he was transferredto the office of the general superintendent of the after the Louisville & Nashville Rapid Railroadpurchased the Louisville, Cinc
. Electric railway journal . ears old, and the boy was com-pelled to earn his own way when only 13 years old. Hesecured a position at the local railroad station in Austinand qualified as an operator after 18 months service. Hethen held various positions in the railway field until heaccepted an appointment as telegraph operator at the gen-eral office of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Rail-,road, at Louisville, Ky. Subsequently he was transferredto the office of the general superintendent of the after the Louisville & Nashville Rapid Railroadpurchased the Louisville, Cincinnati tv Lexington RailroadMr. Connette was transferred to the engineering depart-ment of the company. Two years later he was made chiefclerk of the Henderson division of the company, with head-quarters at Henderson, Ky. Mr. Connette was next ap-pointed assistant to the superintendent of the company atNashville, Tenn., and when the street railways in that citywen consolidated in 1890, Mr. Connette accepted the posi-. E. G. Connette tion of superintendent of the consolidated company. In1891 he was made general manager of the company and in1897 he was made chief engineer of the Cumberland ElectricLight & Power Company in addition to general managerof the street railways. On April 1. 1900, Mr. Connette ac-cepted the appointment of vice-president of the SyracuseRapid Transit Company, which position he retained until1905, when he was appointed general manager of the Wor-cester Consolidated Street Railway. Mr. Connette hasbeen active in the affairs of the American Street RailwayAssociation and its successor, the American Street & Inter-urban Railway Association, and has contributed severalpapers at meetings of the association. Fie was presidentof the Street Railway Association of the State of NewYork in 1903-04, and third vice-president of the AmericanStreet Railway Association in 1897-98. He is also chair-man this year of the committee on the welfare of em-ployees of the national a
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