. Electric railway journal . uperintendentof the company. Mr. Hart was foreman of the New Lon-don (Conn.) Street Railway for seven years, and was alsoforeman of the New London & East Lyme Street Railwayfor two years. For several years previous to entering streetrailway work he was employed by the New London North-ern Railroad. Mr. Wilbur B. Foshay has resigned as manager of thePacific Power & Light Company, Walla Walla. Wash., tobecome manager of the Washington-Oregon Corporation,Vancouver, Wash., which has taken over the VancouverWater Works Company, the Vancouver Traction Companyand the Vanc
. Electric railway journal . uperintendentof the company. Mr. Hart was foreman of the New Lon-don (Conn.) Street Railway for seven years, and was alsoforeman of the New London & East Lyme Street Railwayfor two years. For several years previous to entering streetrailway work he was employed by the New London North-ern Railroad. Mr. Wilbur B. Foshay has resigned as manager of thePacific Power & Light Company, Walla Walla. Wash., tobecome manager of the Washington-Oregon Corporation,Vancouver, Wash., which has taken over the VancouverWater Works Company, the Vancouver Traction Companyand the Vancouver Gas Company. Mr. Foshay was with theNew York Central & Hudson River Railroad for aboutfive years. He then entered the employ of the United GasImprovement Company at its branch at Tarrytown, N. next became assistant to the manager of the water,light and gas company at Hutchinson, Kan. Subsequentlyhe entered the employ of one of the subsidiary companiesof the New Jersey Zinc Company at Depew, 111. He was. also general manager of the gas and electric properties atFort Dodge, la., and manager of the natural gas and elec-tric properties at Wichita, Kan. Mr. George B. Wheeler, who was elected president of theWisconsin Electrical Association at the annual meeting ofthe association in Milwaukee on Jan. 18 and 19, 1911, was graduated from BowdoinCollege. After engaging injournalism for a number ofyears Mr. Wheeler enteredthe electric railway field in1891 as general manager ofthe Eau Claire Street Rail-way, Light & Power Com-pany, Eau Claire, he was re-ceiver of the property in theUnited States Court, andafter the reorganization hewas elected secretary andgeneral manager of theproperty, which has sincebeen succeeded by the Chip-pewa Valley Railway, LightG. B. Wheeler & Power Company. This company now owns all thewater power on the Menominee River and a valuable waterpower on the Chippewa River and supplies all the currentused in Eau Claire. Chippewa Falls, Men
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