Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-27
FORMER WHEELING MAN.
ID. It McCabe the New Freight Manager u
Pennsylvania Lines.

Pennsylvania Lines.
Mr.. D. T. McCabe has been promoteu
from the position of general trelght
aeent of the Pennsylvania southwest
system TO that of freight traffic man
ager of the Pennsylvania line. ms Is
interesting to Wheeling people, from
the fact that Mr.. McCabe formerly re-
sided here. and has many Wheellhg
friends. He is younger Drother VI
Robert A. McCabe, Esq, ana son ol
the late Rev. DR.. James l.. McCaOe.
DR. McCabe. it will be remembered, was
the founder of st. Johns Episcopal
narisb below the creek. The Column
hus Dispatch contains an interesting
sketch of Mr.. McCabe, from which the
following is taken:
Daniel Trigg McCabe was born NO
vember .25. 1849, at Abingdon. Va, and
came to Columbus from Baltimore in
July. 1870. Just before attaining his ma
iority. He entered the auditing depart
ment of the Panhandle under Captain
s. r. Scull. the auditor of the road,
father of C. o. Scull, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore and Ohio. In
the fall of the same year he was trans
ferred to the general freight office as
claim clerk, and the next year went to
Pittsburg in the same capacity. In
1874 he was made chief clerk to the as
sistant general freight agent. On April
l. 1876. MIR. McCabe was made division
freight agent of the road at Logansport,
Ind. and on November l following the
office was moved to Chicago, the road
for which he served being then known
as the Columbus. Chicago and Indiana
Central, operated by the Panhandle.
In 1888 when the road was undergoing
reorganization as the Chicago, ST. Louis
and Pittsburg. he was general freight
agent at Chicago for year. When the
reorganization was completed he was
made general western freight agent OF
the Panhandle, and later division
freight agent of the road at Chicago. In
1856 he was transferred TO Columbus
as assistant general freight agent, ana
in 1892 was made general freight agent
in charge of the southwest system.
which position he has held ever since.
LAS freight man Mr.. AcCabe is re-
garded as one of the brightest IN the
country. and this is attested in the
prominent part which he has been ac-
corded in the deliberations Of freight
associations. In the Central Traffic AS
ISOLATION he was vice chairman or the
freight committee under the iaje J. /.
R. Mckay. general freight agent of the
Lake Shore. and on the retirement OF
Mr.. Mckay. some time before his death,
Mr.. McCabe was chosen chairman OF
the committee, He held the chairman
ship for three years. and on resigning,
in February, 1895. Commissioner
Blanchard made some very compli-
mentary references to his services and
the excellent tact which he had brought
TO the chair in disposing Of the bust
ness.
Among the railway officials Of Co
lumbus none stand higher. His social
qualities have made for him lasting
friendships, while his integrity is such
that he has the highest confidence Of
the officers of the great system he rep
resents. and those of competing lines as
well. In dispOsing Of the multitudin-
Gus and perpleXing details Of freight
traffic he has the happy faculty Of
bringing 10 bear such well directed en-
ergy that when he leaves the office it
is not TO carry with him the disuacting
details which make wrecks Of men long
before their time. He has a charming
home life. aud with his family he finds
his greatest enjoyment. One son, Mr.
G. S. McCabe. is now travelling freight
agent of the road at Richmond after a
thorough training in the general freight
department here, and is entering on a
very promising career. II is the inten-
ton OF Mr.. McCabe to assume his new
duties in Pittsburg April !, though the
family will not leave for some time yet.
He is no stranger in Pittsburg, and for
this reason he will be able to enter on
his new duties under very suspicious
circumstances. 1t is of interest in this
connection to note that Mr. J. B. Hill,
who succeeded Mr.. McCabe as general
western freight agent at Chicago in the
old days. comes TO Columbus to succeed
him as general freight agent