. Men who made San Francisco. o go it alone in the strange, newfield of California; the first few months as aworkman for a traction company in Oakland,the next year as salesman for the GeneralElectric Companys San Francisco branch, thenext two and a half as an engineering em-ployee of the gas companies at San Francisco,Oakland, Sacramento and Stockton, the nexthalf-year at Centralia, Washington, as generalmanager of the water comipany of that town; the next two years and a half at Bankok,Siam, in charge of the electric lighting of that oriental capital, and the past nine withthe several Califo

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. Men who made San Francisco. o go it alone in the strange, newfield of California; the first few months as aworkman for a traction company in Oakland,the next year as salesman for the GeneralElectric Companys San Francisco branch, thenext two and a half as an engineering em-ployee of the gas companies at San Francisco,Oakland, Sacramento and Stockton, the nexthalf-year at Centralia, Washington, as generalmanager of the water comipany of that town; the next two years and a half at Bankok,Siam, in charge of the electric lighting of that oriental capital, and the past nine withthe several California concerns that have been amalgamated into the Pacific Gas and ElectricCompany, and now, at the age of 39, engineer of electric distribution for this com-panys system in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Berkeley and otherplaces, and chief engineer for its water works in the city of Stockton, where pumping plantsat seventeen deep wells supply water through many miles of mains to a community of 30,

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