The electrification of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway

(Member): I am pleased to have an opportunity to contribute some remarks towards the discussion on this most interesting paper. The subject is specially interesting at the present time, in view of the projected S.A.R. electrification, and I express my warm appreciation of the missionary and educational work Mr. Kirk-land has been engaged on since July, 1917. I would like to record not only my appreciation of the paper itself, which is full of interesting data and suggestion, but also my admiration for what must constitute one of the General Electric Co.'s greatest achievements in the railway electrification line. With this understood, I shall now proceed to offer such criticisms as occur to me, and shall venture to put before the members of this Institute other data concerning railway electrification, which, while perhaps not strictly arising out of the subject matter of the paper under discussion, does arise in connection with some of the inferences the author has ventured to draw.