were taken on the lines of the gas companies. This increase 
was incident to the building of homes, which was carried on 
to a greater extent than for a number of years past. The 
total sales of gas were more than 32 billion cubic feet, an 
increase of over 9 billion cubic feet, or 419, over the previous 
year. Gross earnings from the sale of gas amounted to 
$13,662,351, an increase of $3,452,787, or 38.89,.” 
The following is the official roster of the Philadelphia 
Company: 
Board of Directors: James D. Callery, chairman, James 
H. Reed, Gerhard M. Dahl, George S. Davison, Benjamin S. 
Guinness, Charles Hayden, George E. McCague, Moritz 
Rosenthal, Mason B. Starring, Everett B. Sweezy, Eugene 
V. R. Thayer, Arthur W. Thompson. 
Officers: President, Arthur W. Thompson; Senior Vice 
President, James H. Reed; Vice President, Andrew W. Rob- 
ertson; Controller, Curtis S. Mitchell; Secretary, Winfield B. 
Carson; Assistant Secretaries, Edison W. Washabaugh, Alex- 
ander W. Stevenson; Treasurer, Carl J. Braun, Jr.; Assistant 
Treasurers, James W. Murray, Hugh W. Annett, R. Elton 
Hanna. 
AMERICAN NATURAL GAS COMPANY 
The American Natural Gas Company was incorporated 
ander the laws of Pennsylvania in July, 1889, and began 
business with one well. Other wells were soon drilled and 
acquired, all of them in Allegheny County, but the property 
had reached only modest proportions when in 1898 the com- 
pany purchased the property of the Pioneer Gas Company, 
which is believed to have been the first company to pipe gas 
into the Pittsburgh district, which was about the year 1878. 
Its lines extended from Etna, Pa., to the Lardintown district 
in Clinton township, Butler county. This purchase was 
followed during the next 10 or 11 years by numerous other 
purchases of like properties, including the following: 
1898. [Etna Natural Gas Company, owned by Spang, 
Chalfant & Co., and supplying their mills at Etna, Pa. 
1899. West Penn Gas Company, supplying Apollo, Pa., 
and vicinity.