Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
Personnel of Commission.

Personnel of Commission.
The Right Honorable Lord Stalbridge,
chairman of the board of directors of the
London and Northwestern railway, Is a
former president of the congress and ex-
ollico member, is also Nicholas De
Fetroff, general of engineers and member
OF the council of the Russian empire
Among the members of the permanent COM
mission are the higher officials of many
European and American railways. Among
these names are found those of Sir G. ].
Armytage, president of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire railway; Lord Cawder, chairman
of the Great Western Railway of England;
De Bruyn, member of the chamber of rep
reSentativeS and former minister of public
works at Belgium, now manager of the
Termonde-St. Nicholas railway; Max Elder
Won Leber, imperial and royal aulic council
lor, chief of the department of electricity
of the Austrian ministry of railways; Sir
Henry Oakley, director of the Great North
ern Railway of England; Gustave Noble
MARIE, general manager of the Paris, Lyons
and Mediterranean railway; Theodore N
Ely, chief of motive power of the Penn
sylvania railroad; Chauncey NJ. Depew,
York Central and Hudson river road;
Stuyvesant Fish. president of the Illinois
Central; Frederick Harrison, general man.
ager of the London and Northwestern rail-
way; f. ]. S. HopWood, permanent secre-
tary of the board of trade of Great Britain;
Julius Kruttschnitt, director of operation
OF the SOutnern racine company, l.. +.
Loree, former president of the Rock Is
land company, and others whose names are
as well known in their own countries the
Americans who have been named are in
theirs. The active representation of the
permanent commission and the congress
is in the hands of Louis Weissenbruch,
chcief engineer and manager of the Belgian
state railways, who is responsible for the
publication of the bulletin under an edi-
torial staff which includes also President
Dubois and Vice President Ramaeckers.
AS in so many scientific organizations, /
has devolved upon the secretary to assume
the burden OF carrying on much of its
work and willingly and efficiently has it
been done.
At the fifth session of the international
railway congress, held in London in 1893,
the present King of England, Edward VII,
then Prince of Wales. presided. and at the
seventh session, soon to be held in Wash
ington, Vice President Fairbanks will pre-
side at the opening session In the absence
of President Roosevelt.
The American Section.
The members of the American section
are:
Stuyvesant Fish, president Illinois Cen
trail road
George w. Stevens president Chesapeake
and Ohio railway.
c. G. Waldo, general manager Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton railway
N.
Pennsylvania road.
w. c. Brown, third vice president New
York Central and Hudson River road.
Rollin II. Wilbur, general manager Le-
high Valley road.
G. l.. Potter, third vice president Bal
timore and Ohio road.
l.. E, Johnson. president Norfolk and
Western railway.
E. T. Jeffrey. president Denver and Rio
Grande road.
Joseph Ramsey, jr.. president Wabash
road.
Samuel Spencer. president Southern rail-
way.
]. NJ. Hall, general counsel New York,
New Haven and Hartford road.
Lucius Tuttle, president Boston and Maine
road.
e. T. D. Myers, president Richmond.
Fredericksburg and Potomac road
James McCrea, first vice president Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg.
Theodore Voorhees,. first vice president
Philadelphia and Reading railway.
c. E. Schaff, general manager Cleveland
| Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis railway
j. K. Kenly. fourth vice president and
general manager Atlantic Coast Line road
G. w. Buchholz consulting engineer Erie
| road.
E. C. Carter, chief engineer Chicago and
Northwestern railway.
| Howard Elliott. president Northern Pa
cific railway.
D. McNlcoll. vice president Canadian Pa
Charles M Hays. second vice president
| and general manager Grand Trunk rail-
way.
! j. G. Metcalfe, first vice president Mexi-
| can International railroad.
W. F. Allen, secretary American Railway
| Association.
In addition TO the foregoing, the rail-
! roads Of the United States win be geiier-