. The Street railway journal . poken of. He declares,however, that the guiding hand of General Manager Roach, andthe support given by Receivers Fetzer, Eckels and Sampsell, haveenabled him to make much of the progress he has been creditedwith in his new position. Conductors and motormen of the com-pany express themselves as having a keen interest in Mr. Here-leys welfare, and as having confidence that they will always re-ceive fair treatment at his hands, relations in the past having beensuch as to justify this confidence. MR. WILLIAM S. TURNER, of J. G. White & Com-pany, has just returned to
. The Street railway journal . poken of. He declares,however, that the guiding hand of General Manager Roach, andthe support given by Receivers Fetzer, Eckels and Sampsell, haveenabled him to make much of the progress he has been creditedwith in his new position. Conductors and motormen of the com-pany express themselves as having a keen interest in Mr. Here-leys welfare, and as having confidence that they will always re-ceive fair treatment at his hands, relations in the past having beensuch as to justify this confidence. MR. WILLIAM S. TURNER, of J. G. White & Com-pany, has just returned to New York from Auckland, New Zealand, where he has beensince 1901 installing an electrictramway plant for J. G. White &Company, Ltd., of London. Theline is owned by the British Elec-tric Traction Company, has 30miles of track and was describedin the Street Railway Journalfor Sept. 26, 1903. Mr. Turneris one of the pioneer builders ofelectric railways in this country,having been engaged in this W. S. TURNER M. B. HERELEY. work since 1888. He is a gradu-uate of Cornell University andreceived from that institution in1886 the degree of M. S. Thesame year he entered the em-ploy of the inter-ests, for whom he installed a number of electric lighting plants,among others an alternating plant at Carbondale, Pa., one of theearliest of its kind. The following year he joined the forces ofthe Edison Electric Light Company, at New York, and assistedin designing and supervising a portion of the early lighting sys-tem of that company in New York. In 1888, in connection withMr. J. Lester Woodbridge, he formed the firm of Woodbridge &Turner, engineers and contractors, whose business was continuedas the Woodbridge & Turner Engineering Company until of the electric railway plants installed by this company werethat at Salem, Mass., the first electric railway in New England, aportion of the West End system in Boston, Hartford, , Chattanooga, Quincy, 111., Provi
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