The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-18
HENRY |. DOHERTY---A
FRIEND TO HATT|ESB[|RG
SOMETHING OF THE HISTORY CAREER OF THE MAN WHO
BELIEVES AND is AIDING IN THE OF THIS CITY,

1 Pahy' Ine PueDlO (C0l.) Gas and Fuel
| Company, the Knoxville (Tenn.) Gas
/ Company, the Montgomery (Ala)
, Light and Water Company, the Leb-
! anon (Pa.) Gas and Fuel Company,
the Massillon (Ohio) Gas and Elec-
trio Company, the Gas and Electric
Securities Company, of New York.
The Urbana N. Y. Water Company of
Brooklyn, N. Y, The Doherty Oper-
ating Company, n. Y, the Combustion
Utilities Company, N. Y, The Trum-
/ bull Public Service Company, of
Warren. Ohio, and several others.
The Doherty business-getting meth
DDS are now being copied by all sue
cessful gas and electric corporations
and his rule Of meeting the public
more than half way in all matters af-
I"cting the interests both of the cor
roration and the public is also being
now generally Observed. No complaint
of customer is too trivial to receive
the attention of the company affected
in any Of his corporations, and that
this method has been popular with the
public is shown by the fact that in
every city where there is a Doherty
gas or electric property the public is
usually, by large majority, on the
side of the corporation and not against
it, as in cities where the old public
be-damned" method continues to be
followed
1t was the election of Mr.. Doherty
as president of the National Electri-
cal Lighting Association in 1901 that
started that organization on the way
to the commanding situation it now
has in the commercial electrical world
and his administration proved to be
the career of this association, now one
of the greatest in the country, over
5000 delegates being registered at its
last convention.
Mr.. Doherty is equally prominent
in his affiliation with other non-com-
mercial bodies interested in the gas
and electric industry. In 1901 he was
president of the Ohio Gas Ligt AS
sociation of which he is now an hon
orary member. In 1902 he was presi-
dent of the National Electric Light
Association; in 1906 he was vice-pres-
ident of the American Gas Institute;
was on the council of the American
Gas Association in 1905; and is now a
member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers the
Society of Illuminating Engineers, and
the Northwestern Electric Associa-
ton. His name is also on the rolls of
the New York Academy of Sciences
and the American Academy of Politi- |
cal and Social Science.
Although Independent in politics,
Mr.. Doherty is member of the Dem !
ocratic Club of New York, in which !
city he is also affiliated with the
Lotus, the Engineers and the Lawyers
Clubs. His club list also embraces
the Denver Club of Denver, the Min |
nesota Club, of st. Paul, the CONNER
cial Club of Lincoln, Neb., and the !
Columbus Club, of Columbus.
He was one of the organizers of the
Inventors Guild, an association which !
is limited in membership and includes |
on its rolls the leading scientific men
of the country. It's purpose is to safe /
guard the interests of inventors and |
to see that no matter how poor and |
humble an inventor may be, he gets |
a fair show for the development and |
sale of the product of his brain. Mr. !
Doherty has invented and taken out |
patents pending on more than 20 in
and has patents pending on
more than 20 additional inventions. !
Nearly all of these are new improve
ments in the gas and electrical bust
ness, but he also has gone outside of !
these one of his inventions having |
been a lime-burnng kiln which has
been said by the best engineers of the
country to be AN improvement upon
any process which engineers, who
have devoted a lifetime to this sub
ject, have been able to devise.
The energy of Mr.. Doherty is shown
in the decision to go to New York
City and form a firm devoted to the
and development of gas and
electric properties.
In 1905 the firm of Henry L. Doher-
ty & Co., began the business which
has steadily advanced until now it is
to be as much reckoned with as any |
financial partnership in the gas and