. Electric railway journal . Trenton will goover the testimony presented in behalfof the company and if there is reasonfor cross-examination witnesses will berecalled for this purpose. The companywas recently granted permission by thePublic Service Commission of Penn-sylvania to increase its fares from 5cents to 6 cents on the Pennsylvaniadivision. 7D0 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 51, No. 16 Personal Mention W. H. Evans has been appointed elec-trical engineer of the Tidewater South-ern Railway, with offices at Stockton,Cal. George B. Schaeffer, Reading, Pa.,has been elected president of the A


. Electric railway journal . Trenton will goover the testimony presented in behalfof the company and if there is reasonfor cross-examination witnesses will berecalled for this purpose. The companywas recently granted permission by thePublic Service Commission of Penn-sylvania to increase its fares from 5cents to 6 cents on the Pennsylvaniadivision. 7D0 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 51, No. 16 Personal Mention W. H. Evans has been appointed elec-trical engineer of the Tidewater South-ern Railway, with offices at Stockton,Cal. George B. Schaeffer, Reading, Pa.,has been elected president of the Allen-town & Reading Traction Company,Allentown, Pa., to succeed the lateHoward E. Ahrens. Walter D. Whitney, superintendentof electrical construction of the TwinCity Rapid Transit Company, Minnea-polis, Minn., has had his duties enlargedto cover the underground conduit andcable systems. Mr. Whitney was bornin Gloversville, N. Y., on Jan. 25, was graduated from high school in1898 and from the electrical engineer-. W. D. WHITNEY ing department of Cornell Universityin 1902. He worked in the shops, test-ing department and instrument depart-ment of the General Electric companyat Pittsfield, Mass., from 1902 to 1904,and entered the service of the TwinCity Rapid Transit Company on Jan. 7,1904, on car testing work. He was ap-pointed superintendent of electrical con-struction of the company in charge ofelectrical construction work in thepower houses and substations on Oct. 1,1906. Walter L. Cheney, nominated byGovernor Whitman of New York forappointment to the Public Service Com-mission of the Second District of NewYork, has been confirmed by the Cheney succeeds the late WilliamTemple Emmett. William D. Wallace has been ap-pointed engineer of maintenance ofthe Terre Haute Division of theTerre Haute, Indianapolis & EasternTraction Company, Indianapolis, Wallace was graduated from RosePolytechnic Institute of Terre Haute,and has been connected with the com-pany


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