offices and an export department are maintained in the
Westinghouse Building at Penn and Seventh Avenues,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The officers of the Company are H. H. Westinghouse,
Chairman of the Board of Directors; John F. Miller, Vice
Chairman; A. L. Humphrey, President; W. S. Bartholomew,
Vice President; Charles A. Rowan, Vice President and
Controller; G. W. Wildin, General Manager; S. C. Mec-
Conahey, Acting Vice President and Treasurer; Jeptha
Newkirk, Assistant Treasurer; J. H. Eicher, Auditor;
John I. Rankin, Assistant Auditor; H. C. Tener, Secretary;
G. C. Dehne, Assistant Secretary; C. R. Ellicott, Assistant
Secretary.
The Company’s product includes complete Air Brake
Apparatus for Steam and Electric Roads; Friction Draft
Gear and Car Couplers for Steam Road Service; Auto-
matic Car-Air and Electric Couplers for Electric Railways;
Steam-Driven, Motor-Driven and Belt-Driven Air Com-
pressors, Governors and Accessories for Industrial Service;
Feed Water Pumps; Air Storage Reservoirs; Test Racks
for Air Brake Maintenance; Leather and Composition
Gaskets and Brake Cylinder Packing Cups.
The stock has heen earning and paying a regular
quarterly dividend of $1.75 per share.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Company gives to the
Pittsburgh District the distinction of having supplied by
‘ar the larger part of all Air Brake apparatus that is in use
today on steam and electric roads throughout the world.
The importance of the device in connection with modern
transportation cannot be ‘too strongly’ emphasized.
Through its marvelous efficiency, it enables an engineman
to maintain perfect control over a train of any speed,
length and weight that the most powerful locomotive can
haul. Before its invention, light trains and low speeds
were the rule, due largely to a lack of adequate braking
facilities. By making it possible to operate on a vastly
larger scale, therefore, the Air Brake has played a vital
part in the development and growth of the nation, which is
admittedly a result of our great transportation systems.
Being an integral part of virtually every steam and