Excerpt from Electric Railway Journal, Vol. 63: May 3, to June 28, 1924 E. W. Allen, formerly engineer and assistant manager of the Central dis triet of the General Electric Company, with headquarters in Chicago, has been appointed manager of the engineering department of that company, with offices at Schenectady. Mr. Allen was born in Buchanan, Va., on Nov. 8, 1880. He was graduated from the Vir ginia Polytechnic Institute in 1900 with a B. S. Degree in electrical engineering. He entered the employ of the General Electric Company in January, 1901, in the test department in Schenectady. On Dec. 1, 1902, he was assigned to the lighting engineering department, where he remained until Sept. 30, 1911, when he was appointed engineer of the Chi cago district. On Sept. 1, 1913, he was made assistant district manager in ad dition to his duties as district engineer. Early in 1917 he entered the military service and served two years. He re turned to the company in April. 1919. A. F. Riggs has been named district engineer to succeed Mr. Allen.
Herbert J. Flagg has resigned as chief engineer of the State Department of Public Works at Olympia, Wash., effective May 1, to become connected with the Grays Harbor Railway Light Company, Aberdeen. Which is controlled by the Federal Light Trac tion Company.
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