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Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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an Engineer and Railroad Jour-nal from M. \. Forney, who remained as the editor forone year, the two papers then being combined under thename of the American Engineer, Car Builder and RailroadJournal. Two years later the name was changed to its prient title, and has been greatly enlarged and most succ<fully conducted by him. Mr. Van Arsdales success as apublisher was largely due to his extensive acquaintance andnumerous friendships; but perhaps more to his high idealsof what a monthly technical journal should be, hi-, excellentchoice of editors and the free hand he gave them in themanagement of the paper. His demise will be widely re-gretted. He leaves a widow, but no children. The remain-were brought to Chicago, his old home, for interment. Peter H. Peck, for years master mechanic of the Chicago &Western Indiana Ry., and closely associated with railroad so-cieties and organizations, died on November 28th. Mr. Peckhas been in railroad service since 1865. In July of that year he
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vlilier. p. h F. D. Mahoney has been appointed a master mechanic of theDenver & Rio Grande, at Grand Jet., Colo. J. H. Farmer has been appointed a master mechanic of theDenver & Rio Grande, at Alamosa, Colo. H. C. Patterson has been appointed the electrical and mechan-ical engineer of the Illinois Traction Co., with office at Decatur,111. F. B. Hartman has been appointed the general equipmentinspector of the Southern, with office at Washington, D. C. F. Galvin succeeds W. S. Cox as the master mechanic of theTexas & New Orleans with office at Houston, Tex. To Die No More Robert M. Van Arsdale, proprietor of the American En-gineer and Railroad Journal, died very suddenly of apoplexyat his home, 276 W. 71st street, New York City, on theevening of November 23d. He was born in Titusville, Mer-cer Co., New Jersey, on July 1, 1848. Mr. Van Arsdale wasconnected with trade journalism from his twenty-fifth year,when he became connected with a commercial paper in Chi-cago. In 1875 he

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