. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of the most persistent rumors aboutMr. Vreeland is that he has decided toresign his position with the InterurbinCompany and go away to the country forhis health, or accept a position underYerkes to straighten out the urban trans-portation problems in London. We haveno doubt but that he would help Lon-don very materially in straightening outtheir congested street railroad traffic. Hehas lately been invited to appear beforethe Royal Commission which is investi-gating the question of s
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of the most persistent rumors aboutMr. Vreeland is that he has decided toresign his position with the InterurbinCompany and go away to the country forhis health, or accept a position underYerkes to straighten out the urban trans-portation problems in London. We haveno doubt but that he would help Lon-don very materially in straightening outtheir congested street railroad traffic. Hehas lately been invited to appear beforethe Royal Commission which is investi-gating the question of surface traffic inLondon. Fle has gone over there to helpout our English friends and to take alioliday. Mr. Vreeland is a great jokerand we expect to hear some amusingstories of his experience among thegreat men of London. We have not yetheard that he was dining with King Ed-ward, but we would not be surprised tolearn that he had a special invitation togo to Windsor. Grand Chief P. M. Arthur. While beginning to speak at a banquetwhich closed a union meeting of theBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. PETER M. .\RTHUR. - held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, P. i\, grand chief of the Brotherhoodof Locomotive Engineers, dropped Arthur, although sixty-nine yearsold, was a remarkably well preservedman, and was seemingly in excellenthealth when he was stricken down. Peter McArthur was born in Scotlandin 1834, and came to this country withhis parents when he was years began railroad work as a blacksmithshelper and shortly afterward obtained aposition as fireman on the Schenectady& Utica division of the New York Cen-tral Railroad. Here he rose to be a pas-senger engineer. He took a very active part in the Brotherhood of LocomotiveEngineers and was elected chief of hisdivision. Having written something forpublication about Brotherliood mattersthe printer left out the c of Mc and hisname went abroad as P. M. Arthur. Thatname suited him and he determined toabide by it. H
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