Obituary

MR. John James Skidmore died of pneumonia at his home, 615 West Forty-fourth street, New York, on October 23. Mr. Skidmore was born at Douglaston, Long Island, August 28, 1873. He entered the service of the American Bell Telephone Company Feb. 20, 1893, as inspector in the instrument department, and from 1900 to 1904 was superintendent of the testing laboratory. On Oct. 31, 1904, he was transferred to the experimental laboratory where he remained until the present year, when he entered the employ of the Western Electric Company in New York. Mr. Skidmore was elected an Associate Sept. 28, 1906.