. Electric railway journal . F. H. VAN VRANKEN E. L. LEWIS G. B. ANDERSON the employ of the Los Angeles CableRailway as a clerk. In August, 1890, Mr. Lewis wasmade chief clerk to the superintendentof the company. Upon the consolida-tion of all the lines in the city the lat-ter official, assisted by Mr. Lewis, tookcharge of the operation of the entiresystem. In 1902 Mr. Lewis was madeassistant superintendent. He continuedin that position until 1913, when he wasappointed general superintendent. F. H. Van Vranken, the new gen-eral superintendent, was born in Sche-nectady, N. Y., in 1865. At the a
. Electric railway journal . F. H. VAN VRANKEN E. L. LEWIS G. B. ANDERSON the employ of the Los Angeles CableRailway as a clerk. In August, 1890, Mr. Lewis wasmade chief clerk to the superintendentof the company. Upon the consolida-tion of all the lines in the city the lat-ter official, assisted by Mr. Lewis, tookcharge of the operation of the entiresystem. In 1902 Mr. Lewis was madeassistant superintendent. He continuedin that position until 1913, when he wasappointed general superintendent. F. H. Van Vranken, the new gen-eral superintendent, was born in Sche-nectady, N. Y., in 1865. At the age ofnineteen he became a brakeman withthe Southern Pacific lines. He servedthe Southern Pacific successively asbrakeman, freight conductor, yardmas-ter and passenger conductor. In 1902he was appointed division superintend-ent of the Pacific Electric Railway, con-tinuing in that capacity until 1911,when he resigned to join the LosAngeles Railway as assistant superin-tendent. Two years later his titlewas changed to assistant
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