CARTY, JOHN J

(1861), an American electrical engineer, born at Cambridge, Ma . He began with the Bell Telephone Co.; Boston in 1879 but left in 1887 to take charge of the cable dept. of the Western Electric Co. Two years later he became the chief engineer of the New York Telephone Co. and in 1889 resigned to accept the position of chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., of which he was made vice president in 1919. He invented many improvements and received three medals, including the Edison, for his achieveMents in connection with the development of the telephone. Served in France during 1918-19, on the staff of Brig. Gen. Edgar Ru ell and was Chief Signal Officer of the A.E.F. with the rank of Col. U.S.A. Seaport town, state Bermudez, Venezela; coffee, sugar. Pop. 10,000.