. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . one dollar. Send for it. Charity is more than dropping a crustin the slot in the expectation of draw-ing out a three-layer cake. July, KJ05. RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVli ENGINEERING 327 Of Personal Interest. Mr. George Gibbs, a few years agothe most popular railroad mechanical•engineer in the country, was a verywelcome visitor at the Railway Mechan-ical convention and had a busy time re-newing old- acquaintances. Mr. Gibbsdrifted for his financial health into elec-trical railroad engineering and i
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . one dollar. Send for it. Charity is more than dropping a crustin the slot in the expectation of draw-ing out a three-layer cake. July, KJ05. RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVli ENGINEERING 327 Of Personal Interest. Mr. George Gibbs, a few years agothe most popular railroad mechanical•engineer in the country, was a verywelcome visitor at the Railway Mechan-ical convention and had a busy time re-newing old- acquaintances. Mr. Gibbsdrifted for his financial health into elec-trical railroad engineering and is onevf the best authorities in the world onelectric traction and mechanism. Hehas been for several years consulting en-gineer of the Interborough RapidTransit Company, New York, a positionhe has recently left to become chief en-gineer of electric traction of the terminaloperation of the Pennsylvania Railroadin New York, and also chief engineer ofelectric traction of the Long IslandRailroad. Mr. Gibbs will also be con-sulting engineer of the MetropolitanRailwav and will retain oilier influential. & Savannah, with headquarters atMacon, Ga. Mr. Edward L. Douglass has been ap-pointed general manager of the Gaines-ville Midland, with headquarters atGainesville. Ga. Mr. P. W. Nunan has been appointedtrainmaster and car accountant of theMississippi Central, with headquarters atHattiesburg. Miss. Mr. James M. Wisler has been ap-pointed master mechanic of the ToledoRailway & Terminal Company, with of-fice at Toledo, Ohio. Mr. F. E. Sanborn has been ap-pointed superintendent of the Portlanddivision of the Maine Central, withoffice at Portland, Me. Mr. D. D. Robertson has been ap- GEORGE GIBBS. engineering connections. We considerGeorge Gibbs the most eminent engineerof all those who have risen throughsteam railroad channels and he thor-oughly deserves the good fortune he hasworked lor. Mr. R. H. Gray has been appointedmaster mechanic of the St. Louis &San Francisco. Mr. E. H. Daniel h
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