Evening star., 1897-04-13
MIR. SCULL RESIGNS.
Sewers His Relations With the Bnlti-
more and Ohio.

Sewers His Relations With the Bnlti-
more and Ohio.
General Passenger Agent Chas o. Scull
| of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad last
| evening rendered his resignation of that
| important position to Receivers Cowen and
Murray, and will leave the service of the
| B. and 0. Company at the close of business
| tomorrow.
AS is well known to the readers of The
| Star, Mr.. Sculrs action is not because of
any criticism of his management of his
department by his superior officers, or de-
sire on their part to get rid of him, but is
the result of the appointment of Mr. D. B..
Martin, heretofore general passenger
agent of the Big Four, to be manager of
passenger traffic of the Baltimore and
Ohio.
1t is understood that Mr.. Scull felt that,
after having been general passenger agent
of the road for nearly ten years, during
which time his ability 10 manage the de-
partment has been CONCEDED by all the
great railroad men of the country. he could
not afford to become subordinate, and
that as Mr. Martin would be his superior
in rank, there other course for him
to follow except resign.
Mr.. Scull. who is native of Pennsyi-
vania, began his railroad life as clerk
when but boy, in the office of the Penn
sylvania company, which has charge of
the Pennsylvania. Railroad Company's
INES west Oh 1'ItlSDuTS lie showed great
adaptabiity in mastering the details of
the passenger business, and soon after
reaching his majority was appointed chief
clerk of the passenger department for the
Panhandle' division of the Pennsylvania
system, as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago line is called.
In 1856 he was invited by the then Cen
eral Passenger Agent of the Baltimore and
| Ohio. Mr.. c. X. Lord, to become assistant
general passenger agent of the latter,
which he accepted. and two years later,
when President Samuel Spencer appointed
Mr. Lord third vice president, Mr.. Scull
became general passenger agent 1t is un-
| derstood that Mr. Scull has recently re-
ceived a number of fiatterng offers from
| various important railroad companies to
| take service of high rank with Them but
| that he has as yet made no plans for the
| future.
In response to numerous requests from
! friends, Mr.. Scull last evening made the
| following statement relative to his resig-
nation:
My retirement from the service of the
Baltimore and Ohio is entirely voluntary
on my part. | have not been asked to re-
| sign On the contrary, l have been offered
a considerable increase in salary tC 1e-
main in my present position. / was unV-ill-
| ing, however, to serve as subordinate in
a department of which l have for long
been the head. and, therefore, rendered my
resignation. l not prompted to take
| this step by any feeling of hostility to the
gentleman who has been appointed man
ager of passenger traffic, but should have
followed the same course if any other gem
tleman whose official rank was 40 higher
than my own had been chosen.
"Of course, l feel regret at the breaking
of intimate official and business ties of so
| many years standing, but l have every
| reason to believe that, though 1 leave the
Baltimore and Ohio, the same kindly feel
| ing of mutual good will and respect that
has existed between myself and all my
fellow servants, throughout the rank and
| file of the service, will continue. l am
sytc1, thn hfcfn oJ1 f,,n
ure of success, and hope to see her again
occupy the conspicuous financial position
| she long held among the great trans
portation lines of the world