. Electric railway journal . ay and its subsid-iary properties, tendered his resignation as president and member of the boardof directors at its meeting on May 25. Alex Dow, president and general man-ager of the Detroit Edison Company, has been elected to the board of will represent new Eastern financial interests which have entered the com-pany. Malcolm Mclntyre has resigned from the position of night superintendentto accept the appointment as general superintendent of the Mobile (Ala.)Railway. PRESIDENT BROOKS resigned be-cause of failing health. It waswith unanimous expression
. Electric railway journal . ay and its subsid-iary properties, tendered his resignation as president and member of the boardof directors at its meeting on May 25. Alex Dow, president and general man-ager of the Detroit Edison Company, has been elected to the board of will represent new Eastern financial interests which have entered the com-pany. Malcolm Mclntyre has resigned from the position of night superintendentto accept the appointment as general superintendent of the Mobile (Ala.)Railway. PRESIDENT BROOKS resigned be-cause of failing health. It waswith unanimous expression of re-gret the resignation was accepted bythe directors. Mr. Brooks successorhas not yet been named. He has madeno definite plans other than to rest frombusiness affairs. Owing to Mr. Brooks failing healththe resignation has been expected forsome months past, although it was thehope of his associates that he wouldbo able to continue his responsibilitiesduring the present fiscal year. How-ever a more recent development of his. F. W. BROOKS physical ailments has required him tosurrender his labors with the company. The career of Mr. Brooks is virtuallythe history of interurban railway de-velopment, especially in the vicinity ofDetroit. Mr. Brooks was born in Waco,Texas, March 4, 1865. He was educatedin private schools in Waco and was grad-uated from the Texas State College,where he specialized in 1882 he became identified with theconstruction of the New Orleans &Texas Pacific Railway. In successionhe followed his chosen engineering workv;ith the Queen & Crescent Railwayand the Louisville, New Orleans &Texas Railway, afterward part of theIllinois Central. From steam roads Mr. Brooks turnedto the field of electric railway construc-tion and operation in 1895, when he be-came general manager of the RapidRailway, then under construction andone of the first lines in the country todevelop the use of the trolley for thedelivery of freight and mail as well asto carry passen
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