. The Street railway journal . andin 1879-80, in which last year he was promoted to the first lieuten-ancy, he was in charge of the surveys of Governors, Ellis, Bedloesand Davids Islands, in New York Harbor. From 1881 to 1883 he was adjutant and quartermaster of the bat-talion of engineers and instructor in photography, and from 1883 to1885 was assistant professor of civil and military engineering and theart of war at West Point. In 1885-6 he became aid-de-camp toMajor-General W. S. Hancock and chief engineer of the militarydivision of the Atlantic and department of the East. From 1886 to May,
. The Street railway journal . andin 1879-80, in which last year he was promoted to the first lieuten-ancy, he was in charge of the surveys of Governors, Ellis, Bedloesand Davids Islands, in New York Harbor. From 1881 to 1883 he was adjutant and quartermaster of the bat-talion of engineers and instructor in photography, and from 1883 to1885 was assistant professor of civil and military engineering and theart of war at West Point. In 1885-6 he became aid-de-camp toMajor-General W. S. Hancock and chief engineer of the militarydivision of the Atlantic and department of the East. From 1886 to May, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 323 he was assistant engineer commissioner of the District of Col-umbia, having charge under the commission of pavements, countryroads and all matters relating to electric lighting, telegraph and tele-phone comjKinies in the City of Washington. In 1887 he was pro-moted to be captain in the corps of engineers and resigned hiscommission on Oct. 5, 1889, in order to take charge of the railway. CAPTAIN EUGENE GRIFFIN. department of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, which heorganized in 1888. In 1891 he became second vice president of theThomson-Houston Electric Company, and in 1893 held also the officeof president of the Thomson-Houston International Electric Com-pany, which has since been consolidated with the General ElectricCompany. Captain Griflfin is a member of the American vSocieties of Mechan-ical and Electrical Engineers, and is one of the best business men inthe United vStates because of his prominent connection with a companywhich has been intimately associated with the development of elec-tric lighting and railway service in this country. He now resides inin Albany, New York. Obituary. Wm. S. BeaTTy. The many friends of Wm. S. Beatty, of the Pittsburgh office ofthe General Electric Company will be pained to learn of his death,Apr. 7, in New Orleans. Mr. Beatty was obliged to give up hiswork some weeks before, on accoimt of faili
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