GHERARDI, BANCROFT

(1873), an American telephone engineer; 6. in ‘San Francisco, Cal. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1891, continued his studies at the Cornell University school of engineer- | ing, after which he took a position as engineer’s a istant in the New York Telephone Co., in 1895. Since 1920 he has been a vice-president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.