. Electric railway gazette . Rail-road Company. This was November 15, 1864, andfrom that day to the day of his death he pros-pered as a street railroad man. Two monthsafter entering the service of the company he wasmade Its president. His management increasedthe business of the road from $600 to $3,000 a continued with the company for two yearsand a half, when he secured a forty-year lease ofthe old Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad Com-pany. The line was in a dilapidated conditionand he improved it materially. In 1873 an oldmortgage on the property beoame- due, and secured th
. Electric railway gazette . Rail-road Company. This was November 15, 1864, andfrom that day to the day of his death he pros-pered as a street railroad man. Two monthsafter entering the service of the company he wasmade Its president. His management increasedthe business of the road from $600 to $3,000 a continued with the company for two yearsand a half, when he secured a forty-year lease ofthe old Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad Com-pany. The line was in a dilapidated conditionand he improved it materially. In 1873 an oldmortgage on the property beoame- due, and secured the road at the foreclosuresale and organized the Atlantic Avenue RailoadCompanj. The railroad was extended until itnow comprises ten independent lines. Mr. Rich-ardsons interest in the property was acquiredlast year by the Brooklyn Traction Company. Mr. Richardson was familiarlj known as theDeacon, although he never held this offioe inthe Baptist Church, of which he was a title was applied in newspaper reports of a. WILLI.^M EICHAKDSON. controversy growing out of Sunda3 track layingin Brooklyn. In 1870 Mr. Richardson was elected to theBrooklyn Board of Aldermen and ware elected thefollowing year. In 1878 he was nominated for theState Senate on the Republican ticket and wasdefeated by a small majority. He asserted thenthat he was not cut out for a politician and saidthat he proposed hereafter to stick to railroading,and he did not break his word. Perhaps no railroad manager in the countrypassed through more excitement than He had a number of inter-esting experiences in strikes. In 1886 he un-dertook to quell a strike on the Dry Dock road inNew York, in which he owned a large interest,and all his men In Brooklyn also struck. But hesuccessfully managed both strikes and did notgrant the demands of the men. He had Superin-tendent Murray and 600 policemen take a car through Grand Street, New York, and PoliceCommissioner Carroll rode on the front of a carto aw
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