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Smith (ALFRED H an American railway)

ALFRED H., an American railway official. He entered the service of the L. S. and M.

S. Ry. at Cleveland as a messenger boy in 1879, rising gradually to the position of general superintendent in 1901. In 1902 he became connected with the N. Y. C. and H. R. RR. as general superintendent, becoming general manager in 1903, vice-president in 1906, senior vice -president in 1913, and president of the N. Y. Central Lines in 1914. During the World War he was as- SMITH charge of transportation in the trunk line sistant director-general of railroads in territory E. of Chicago and N. of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and later regional director of the eastern district. At the end of his service with the Federal of the N. Y. Central Lines on June 1, 1919.

Government he was re-elected president