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Vol. Ill
SEWICKLEY, PA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1906
No. 19
Resigns Presidency.
Marked Ability and Successful Career of Mr. G. T.
Braden in the
Oil Fields.
WILL SERVE ON
ADVISORY BOARD.
Mr. G. T. Braden, of Thorn
street, has severed his connection
as president and general manager
of the Hope Natural Gas company,
the Reserve and Connecting Gas
companies, all affiliated branches
of the Standard Oil company.
Mr. Braden has been continuously in the employ of the Standard
company for S3 years, having begun as a gauger with the United
Pipe Line in Butler county when
quite a young man. It must not
be understood, however, that his
retirement is occasioned by old age,
for he is still on the sunny side of
fifty, and severs his connection and
active management with the company that he may give more of his
time to the management of his
private affairs, being largely interested in oil, gas, mining and other
enterprises.
To briefly recount Mr. Braden's
long years of experience in the
transportation and producing business," it will be necessary to hark
back to the early seventies when
he began as a gauger in Butler
county, and was later transferred
to the Bradford field when it was
in its zenith.
When the great gushers were
struck at Cherry Grove he was sent
there in the capacity of foreman
of construction, and showed such
marked ability that he was put in
charge of the Thorn Greek field,
in the same capacity, when it was
at its height. Later he was promoted to the general superintend-
ency of the Southwest Pennsylva-
MR. G. T. BRADEN.
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nia Pipe Lines, with headquarters
at Washington, Pa. A few years
later he was again promoted and
made general superintendent of
the National Transit company's entire pipe line system, embracing all
of its lines in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Southeastern Ohio.
Mr. Braden held the position for
a number of years and then resigned to accept the general management of the South Penn Oil Go.,
the largest and most active development company of the Standard
Oil Co. For seven years he held
that position, or during the time
the company was the most aggressive in developing the fields of West
Virginia. After seven years of
strenuous field work he resigned to
accept the presidency and general
management of the Hope Natural
Gas Go. and the Reserve and Connecting Gas Go's. The Hope and
its underlying companies make it
the largest natural gas plant in the
world, Since its inception the entire management and its development have been under the super
vision of Mr. Braden, and the
working out of the details in bringing it up to perfection has been a
task of vast magnitude.
At Pine Grove, W. Va., the company has the best equipped gas
plant in the couhtry. The plant
has two 5,000 horse-power gas
engine compressors, with a capacity
of 50,000,000 cubic feet per day.
With Mr. Braden's retirement from
the presidency he does not entirely
sever his connection with the company, but remains for a year in an
advisory capacity.
■ The new officers elected to fill
vacancies made by the retirement
of Mr. Braden are as follows:
Daniel O'Day, of New York, president; John G. Pew, of Pittsburg,
vice-president; Dennis Hastings,
formerly of Toledo, 0,, general superintendent, and Robert W. Hannan,
of Pittsburg, assistant superintendent. Mr, Hastings has been with
the company since its organization
as field manager, and Mr. Hannan
has been in the operation department during the same time, having
resigned a similar position with the
South Penn Oil Co. to go with the
Hope company soon after it was
organized.
Borough
Council.
General Assortment of Business Transacted on Tuesday Evening.
GARBAGE FURNACE
ON BOROUGH LOT.
When President Straw called
council to order on Tuesday evening Glerk McFarland called the
roll -to which every member responded except Mr. R. R. Brown,
who was absent from home.
After the routine business had
been disposed of Mr. J. M. Montgomery was granted a hearing relative to the borough adopting his
plan of lots. He presented a plan
and the matter was discussed at
some length, but was finally referred back to the committee for
further consideration.
The next matter to receive attention was the police question,
which was taken up by the police
committee some time ago. Several
witnesses were heard relative to
the arrest of Thomas Berkley recently, using language unbecoming
an officer, etc., and it was finally decided to withdraw the qharge pending before Squire Johnston if Berkley was willing to drop the matter,
Mr. Gharles A. Woods, Esq., was
permitted to submit a plan for tbe
Hospital Association concerning the
vacatian of a certain alley. When
he discovered that the alley did not
affect the hospital property he
withdrew.
A report from Borough Solicitor
Stoner gave as his opinion that under the condemnation proceedings
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