Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-08
BURLINGTON MAN
ON DIRECTORATE
G. P. Smith Chosen by N. E. Tele-
phone Company to Succeed
Proctor, Deceased.

Boston. May 5.-t'harles =, Smith of
Burlington, Vt. and r. 3. Winsow of
Portland, Ma, were added to the direc-
torate OF the New England Telephone
and Telegraph company at the annual
meeting held here to-day 1t has been
the practice of this company to select
men of standing to act as advisers for
the different States in which it operates
and In a sense to be a representative of
these States upon the board of direc-
tors
Mr., Smith is elected, therefore, to MI
the position formerly filled by the late
Ex-Governor Fletcher ID. Proctor. MIR.
Winslow succeeds to the Office recently
held by the late Ex-Governor John F.
Kin. MIR Smith is president of the Bur
lineton Savings bank, the largest insttu-
ton OF its kind in Vermont, director of
the National Life Insurance company of
Vermont, and treasurer Of the Cniver-
sty of Vermont Mr.. Wlnslow ia p"esi-
dent o; the Portland S,oneware com
pany, president OF the American Trust
comps ny, and director Of the First Ma
t.onal bank. the Union Safe Deposit &
Trust company. and the Union National
Lie Insurance. company If Portland,
With these additions, % OF the u dlrec-
tors are residents Of New England.
Francis a. Houston. general manager
or the New England Telephone AMI Tele
graph company was promoted to sue
coed Col w r. Driver as treasurer OF
That organization. Colonel Driver re.
signed after serving the New England
company as treasurer since It's organlza-
a n n IN
as treasurc of the American Telephone
d telegraph company. For yoar past
he has been DESTROYS of being relieved OF
some Of his collateral duties but he vii!
continue 10 serve as treasurer of tho
parent COMPANY
MI Houston's place az general man
aGer was filled ~ the appointmon, Of
William r. Driver, Jr.. Of Philadelphia,
general superintendent OF traffic ot the
Bell Telephone company Of Fennsyl-
Vania.
c. +, 4, SIedhof, assistant Sc rotary.
was promoted to pe secretary Of the
company to relieve T.. W. Longley, gem
eral auditor, Of his se'rctarial dutief.
Inc new treasurer is graduate OF
Harvard and tho Harvard Law school,
RE came TO tho New England company
IN 1910 as law clerk and has been success
siNely assistant to the general manager,
assistant general manager, general man.
ager since 1904, and vice. president since
1871 which office he still holds His sue
cessor Is New Englander by birth and
framing. He is the son of the former
treasurer, born in Beverly II years ago,
ana comes back home to position of
greater responsibility. lie was educated
al harvard, and in 1899 entered the en-
siheerng department of the New Eng
'ahd Telephone & Telegraph company,
one or the first OF the recruits obtained
by Dr H. V. Hayes, the electrical engin-
eef IN charge, from various eastern uni
Nersltles and technical schools one or
MI Drivers first Jobs was assisting in
the installation of the first common bat
terry switchboard at Lexington, Mass
This was the first installation Of that
typo or switchboard in this country ana
VAS the subject OF much speculative IN
terest among electrical engineers, ana
was the subject OF much speculative IN
terest among electrical engineers at that
time. all previous switchboards having
been of the magnetic local battery type
In 1894 Mr., Driver went to New York.