The age-herald., 1901-10-31
TENNESSEE MAN
 STEPS UP NOTCH J. R. Vail Becomes Assistant Treasurer of Company HOOKER ACTING AUDITOR Appointment of Cost Accountant and Paymaster-AII Will Be Confirmed
 at Meeting of Board of
 Directors.

Effective November 1, J. R. Vail has been appointed Acting Assistant Treas urer of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at Birmingham
 Warned A Cooker has been appointed acting auditor of the company, in gen eral charge of the accounts of the Bir- mingham office and of the several divis- ional offices, except the Ore Mines Division.
 c. c. Enyeart has been appointed Cost Accountant, and MT. A. s. Morton has been appointed paymaster.
 The offices of Assistant Auditor, Gen. eral Accountant and Lasnier have been abolished.
 The order making these changes Is dated Birmingham October 2S and is signed by l.. T. Beecher, Secretary and Treasurer of the Tennessee Company; and it is understood that ar. Vail and MT. Tooker will be formally elected As- sistant Treasurer and Auditor respect lively at the next meeting of the direct ors. The other appointments stand con firmed
 Duties of MT. Vail.
 It is given out that Acting Assistant Treasurer Vail will have charge of the collection of such accounts as are not in the hands of selling agents or the Treasurer of the company. and shall turn over all accounts collected to the Treas urer. Furthermore, he shall have charge of all funds for the use of the Birming- ham office and shall pay all properly audited vouchers.
 Acting Auditor Tooker will have entire charge of accounts in the Birmingham office and the several divisional offices, the Ore Mines Division excepted. He will have full authority in the employ ment or discharge of. men in his depart ment; and will cause reports from his department to be sent to the Secretary. He will be the medium of communication between the accountin department in Birmingham and the office of the company in New York, and he will sign all corre- spondence in that direction. Cost Accountant Enyeart will have full charge of the distribution and auditing of operating and inventory accounts at the several divisions and works, subject to the general charge of the Acting Auditor.
 TO Attend 10 Fay hoitos Paymaster Morton will, under the Act ing Auditor, have charge of the prepara- ton and payment of the payrolls at the several divisions.
 These appointments are of men already in the service of the Tennessee Com pany, and therefore it does not mean that any one goes out of the company's serv- ice.
 Assistant Treasurer Vail has been in the service of the Tennessee Company in Birmingham for twelve or fifteen years, and is held in the highest esteem by the officials of the company and by the pub lie alike He has held various positions. and so highly do the higher officials ap- preciate his service that they have given him this new promotion. Auditor Tooker came to Birmingham with Chairman Don H. Bacon last sum- mer and since then has been in active service in the offices in Morris avenue. For eight years previous to coming to Birmingham MT. Tooker held responsi- ble position in the accounting depart ment of Armour & Co.,, Chicago Previous to going to Chicago he was the responsi- ble and confidential repreSentative or the late Col. Elliott F.. Shepard in the busi ness office of the New York Mail and Express. When Colonel Shepard pur- chased that newspaper of Jay Gould he knew nothing of the practical side of making a daily newspaper, so in short while he called MT. ToolSer to his aid and placed him in charge of the account ing department of the Mail and Express. Thus MT. Tooker is a man of wide and successful experience as an accountant, though he Is still young man. During his brief stay in Birmingham MT. Tooker has created most favorable impression in business circles and has won many friends socially.
 MT. Morton, the new paymaster, was long assistant to the late paymaster, N. N. Polk.