. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the general foreman of the Bergen shopsof the same company, vice Mr. O. , assigned to other duties at Mead-ville, Pa. A great many railroad pcnple will behighly pleased to learn that Mr. AlbertJ. Pitkin, formerly vice-president of theAmerican Locomotive Company, has beenelected to the office of president to suc-ceed Mr. S. R. Callaway, deceased. was born in Ohio fifty years ago,and passed through the machinist appren-ticeship in a machine shop in Akron. Itwas probably his lea
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the general foreman of the Bergen shopsof the same company, vice Mr. O. , assigned to other duties at Mead-ville, Pa. A great many railroad pcnple will behighly pleased to learn that Mr. AlbertJ. Pitkin, formerly vice-president of theAmerican Locomotive Company, has beenelected to the office of president to suc-ceed Mr. S. R. Callaway, deceased. was born in Ohio fifty years ago,and passed through the machinist appren-ticeship in a machine shop in Akron. Itwas probably his leaning towards locomo-tives that led Mr. Pitkin to choose a me-chanical career, for he tells that when aboy the sight of trains passing his homeinspired him with the ambition to be anengineer, which, like many other youthfulfancies, faded with the growth of infiuence, however, may have guided tosome extent his career, for on leaving hishome shop he went to the Baldwin Loco-motive Works, where he worked for sev-eral years, mostly in the drawing he became chief draughtsman of the. MR. ALBERT J. PITKIN,President .-\tnericau Locomotive Co. Rhode Island Locomotive Works which heleft to become mechanical engineer of theSchenectady Locomotive Works, risingthere to be general manager. Then whenthe American Locomotive Company wasformed he was elected first Pitkin has the capacity for workingdeeply into the affections of his Williams, of the Baldwin Locomo-tive Works, used to talk with patheticregret of the circumstances that took away from his firm. In mannerMr. Pitkin is very cool and apparentlysubdued, but in fact he is an engine ofenergy. The writer once followed him forseveral weeks through Europe, and nomatter what sleepless nights or laboriousdays had been passed, Mr. Pitkin was al-ways ready for a new journey on a mo- ments notice. We anticipate that theAmerican Locomotive Company will pros-per in the control of such
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