Railway and Locomotive Engineering . theleading officials of the Northwestern Pa-cific tendered a banquet to Col. Williamswho feelingly expressed his regret at hisdeparture. W. L. Manning has been appointed as-sistant superintendent of stores of theChesapeake & Ohio, with headquarters atHuntington, W. Va., and W. S. McDonaldhas been appointed general storekeeper ofthe Western division, and R. L. Morris,storekeeper, also with headquarters atHuntington. Jesse B. Snow lias been appointed en-gineer in charge of the construction of thefreight and passenger tunnel in New Yorkharbor between Staten Is
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . theleading officials of the Northwestern Pa-cific tendered a banquet to Col. Williamswho feelingly expressed his regret at hisdeparture. W. L. Manning has been appointed as-sistant superintendent of stores of theChesapeake & Ohio, with headquarters atHuntington, W. Va., and W. S. McDonaldhas been appointed general storekeeper ofthe Western division, and R. L. Morris,storekeeper, also with headquarters atHuntington. Jesse B. Snow lias been appointed en-gineer in charge of the construction of thefreight and passenger tunnel in New Yorkharbor between Staten Island and Brook-lyn, and Charles B. Drew has been ap-pointed principal assistant engineer. J. Wilgus and John F. Sullivan arechosen as consulting engineers. ArthurS. Tuttle, chief enginer of the board ofestimate and apportionment will have gen-eral supervision of the construction work. OBITUARYHenry F. Colvin. Henry F. Colvin, eminent railroad en-gineer and manufacturer, died at his homein Philadelphia, on August 4. He was. IIEXRV F. COLVIX born in Plainfield, Conn., July 6, 1838,and entered railroad service as a firemanon the Delaware, Lackawanna & Westernrailroad in 1856, and was promoted toengineer in 1859. In a few years he wascalled to the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in Providence, R. I., as an expertin testing new locomotives in service. Inthis work he was eminently successful,and became widely acquainted with theleading railroad men of his time. Amonghis intimate associates were M. N. Forney,John A. Hill, Angus Sinclair, D. , J. Snowden Bell and manyothers. Much of their literary work wassubmitted to Mr. Colvin for approval orcorrection. His memory was looked uponas almost uncanny in its unerring ac-curacy, and he became much .sought afteras an authority on the development ofthe locomotive. In 1876 he became identified with theRue Manufacturing Company of Phil-adelphia, makers of the Rue injectors, andin 1878 was made general manager of thecompany, rema
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