entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and made the 

 voyage on the steamship Montana through the Straits of Magellan to San 

 Francisco. He returned to New York by way of Panama. In 1867 he 

 again went to San Francisco, this time as assistant engineer on the steam- 

 ship Grand Republic. She sailed in September, 1867, as the first regular 

 steamer on the Japan and China route of the Pacific Mail service. 



Mr. Hayward returned home in November, 1872, on three months' 

 leave after six years of continuous service, advancing to the position of 

 acting chief engineer before his return, but while home decided to resign 

 and entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, April 1, 

 1873, as machinist in the Altoona shops. He was subseqviently detailed to 

 duty in the draughting room, and in 1874 detailed for special duty on the 

 United Railroads of New Jersey Division with title as assistant road foreman 

 of engines. He was appointed assistant superintendent of motive power April 

 1, 1875, to which the supervision of the marine department was added in 

 1881. On October 1, 1882, he was appointed superintendent of motive power 

 of the United Railroads of New Jersey Division; he was also made super- 

 intendent of motive power of the West Jersey Railroad in 1883, and of the 

 Camden and Atlantic Railroad, including the ferries and floating equipment 

 on the Delaware River, in 1884. He had supervision of the motive power 

 and marine equipment of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad 

 from January 1, 1890, until his death. During the eighties he took out 

 several patents, including interior check valves on locomotives, one for car 

 journal box, another a cut-off valve for marine engine. This cut-ofif valve 

 was largely used by the various ferries in New York Harbor. 



He was a member of this Society and of the American Society of Me- 

 chanical Engineers, the Engineers' Club of New York, Engineers' Club of 

 Philadelphia, American Railway Master Mechanics' Association, Master Car 

 Builders' Association, and the New York Railroad Club. 



JOHN BROWN HERRESHOFF 



John Brown Herreshoff was bom in Bristol, R. I., in 1841. An attack 

 of infantile glaucoma destroyed his sight, but his education was carried on 

 in the schools of his native town. His bent for mechanism revealed itself 

 at an early age, and the handicap of total blindness seemed to serve as a spur 



