Evening star., 1935-09-21
ATTERBURY DIES;
FUNERAL MONDAY
Former Pennsylvania Rail-
road President Expires
Suddenly From ApopIexy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. September 2l.-
Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, So
who rose from a scents hour ap-
prentice to president of the Pennsyl-
vanis Railroad. died suddenly yester-
day of apoplexy.
He was conversing with his wife and
two of his four children in a hospital
chair at Bryn Mawr when he COL
lapsed.
known nationally as the man Per-
shing got when he asked for the best
railroad man in the United States" to
direct the transportation of American
troops to the World War front. After
bury's entire career was tied to rail-
roads
Retires Because of Health.
He withdrew from the affairs of the
Pennsylvania, which he helped to
build. in April, after he failed to re-
cover completely from severe attack
of gallstones suffered more than
year ago. Five days ago he was ordered
to the hospital for observation.
Although retired as president and
eligible for pension next January. At
terbury retained a dictatorship in the
company and was credited with hav-
ing picked his successor, Martin w.
Clement.
Atterbury started in the Altoona
Railroad shops soon after he finished
at Yale's scientific school He became
foreman and advanced through exec
utive positions to be vice president
and. in 1925. president.
His company gave him leave of abb
sence in the war years a. the Govern
ment's request.
Co-ordinated Troop Movements.
AS director general of tranSporta-
ton of the American Expeditionary
Forces, he had to coordinate troop
movements with those of Allied ma
tions-most of which recognized his
services with military honors. The
United States gave him the distin-
guished service medal.
He was active in Pennsylvania Re-
publican politics in the Harding Cool
e-Hoover era, but retired as ma
tional committeeman in 1880 after
Clifford Pinchot was nominated for
Governor.
Funeral services are planned for
Monday at Bryn Mawr with private
interment at Radnor.
Born in Indiana.
Atterbury was born at New Albany,
Ind, January 81, 1866, the son of John
G. and Catherine Oarned) Atterbury.
He spent his boyhood in Detroit and
after his preliminary education studied
at the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University, where he was grad
uated in 1886. The university awarded
him an honorary masters de-
gree in 1911 and the University Of
Pennsylvania made him an honorary
doctor of laws in 1919.
On June 10, 1915, Atterbury mar
ried Mrs. Arminia Rosengarten Mac
Leod of Philadelphia.
A few months after his graduation
at Yale, Atterbury began learning the
railroad business in the Altoona shops
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. where
he started as an apprentice He was
promoted to foreman in 1889 and for
three years served in that capacity on
various lines of the company. During
the next IL years he went through
different operating positions, being
made general manager in 1908.
Entering the executive department
in 1909, he was made fifth vice presi-
dent in charge of transportation and
in May, 1912, became vice president
in charge of operations. He was in
that position when called upon in 1917
to aid the United States Government
in its military operations.
Aided in Mexican Controversy.
Before his service in the World War,
Atterbury gave valuable aid to the
Government in another emergency. the
controversy with Mexico in 1915. That
year he was elected president OF the
American Railway Association, COM
posed of common carriers whose sys-
TENS extend at least 100 miles. The
purpose of the association is to dis
cuss and recommend methods OF OPP
Grafton and management of railroads.
In his capacity as president, After
bury played an important part in or
ganizing the railroads to transport
troops and supplies to the Mexican
border, 1t was the success he achieved
on that occasion that was responsible
for his selection for the larger job and
responsibilities in France.
Atterbury was a member Of the
American Society Of Mechanical Engi-
neers, the American Society Of Civil
Engineers and the American Philo-
sophical Society. He belonged to the
Union League Club of Philadelphia, as