Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-03
HUNTINGTON GETS
SPLENDID POSITION
Central Superintendent Made
Head OF Eastern Roads Oper-
ating Department.
To Be General Superintendent
Of the Jersey Central After
May IL.
appointment Comes as Surprise,
and Was Unsolicited As. His
Railroad Career.
Former Central Man Made As
sistant General Freight Agent
OF the c., R. E NJ.

" . VA
c. w. Huntington, who has been con.
nected with the Iowa Central railwa,
as general superintendent and superin'
tendent of transportation for the pas
seven ard one-half years, has today the
satisfaction of knowing that his many
years of faithful and conscientious rail
road work have brought satisfactory
results from abroad, and that he is
soon to take entire charge of the OPP
Grating department of one of the prin-
cipal roads of the east-the Central
Railroad of New Jersey.
To Mr.. Huntington, and to his many
friends likewise, the simple fact of his
promotion is a secondary consideration
to the knowledge that he has been ap-
preciated, that his continuous wood
saving against difficulties too, has
come to the notice of eastern railroad
men and that without any solicitation
on his Part, and much more, without
any so-called pull" President George
f. Baer has come out into the will
derness, as 1t were, and selected a head
for his operating department. Mr..
Huntington will probably feel, as have
others who have left the Central and
bettered their conditions, that the
schooling received. under difficulties
that sometimes seemed unsurmount-
able, was just what was needed and
,,-ba% ,,,-tJa :, :, n 10 hn coIJphf af-
ter.
Mr.. IIuntington's first knowledge
that ne was being considered in the
general SUPPLEMENTARY of h Jer-
sey Contra came to him on II 10Th
ult., when he received a letter from
General Manager w. G. Besler asking
him if he would consider a proposition
to succeed M. NJ. Richey, at present
acting general superintendent, as much
sooner than May II as was possible. Mr..
Huntington notified Mr.. Besler at once
that he would accept the appointment
and it was rendered him yesterday for
mally thru President George +. Baer.
| Mr.. Huntington's resignation as super
intendent of transportation Of the Iowa
Central was sent to General Superin-
tendent N. Sweeney Friday.
His Railroad Career.
Clarence w. Huntington's, railroad
career would make a good subject for
IN article IN Success" 1t has covered
a period of twenty-five years and was
begun in Iowa--at Des Moines-on the
Rock Island road in 1875, when he was
placed as third man on a way freight
running between Des Moines and
Brooklyn. After 'braking'' a short time
on the Iowa division of the c., R. ] a.
p. Mr.. Huntington was made a rassen-
ger brakeman and after a short service
in that capacity was taken MO the
Office Of H. #. Royce, at that time SUI
p~erintendent of the Iowa division, and
detailed to special work over The en-
tire division, hunting up lost cars,
weighing mail, etc. In 1897 he was
made clerk and time keeper in the SUI
p~erintendent's Office. and later made
chief clerk. He continued as chief
clerk thru the successive admlnistra-
ton of John Givin, who succeeded Mr.
Royce as superintendent when rhe lat
ter was made general superintendent
with headquarters at Chicago. 1t vas
in the Rock Island superintendent
office that Mr.. Huntington received his
thorough schooling that has made him
fitted for higher positions. He was in
that one office thirteen years and
worked hard. In 1892 he got his first
big rise, when has was asked by f. M.
Hubbell & Son to AXE charge as SUI
perintendent of their property, the Des
Moines Northern & Western railway.
now the Des Moines division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul. He re-
NAMED in charge of the d. M, N. & w.
two and one half years when Col /. NJ.
Martin, then general manager of the
Central, who knew what there wa in
the Des Moines superintendent, asked
him to take charge of the operating de-
partment of the Iowa Central as gen
eral superintendent. This was in No
vember, 1894, and Mr.. Huntington has
been with the property ever since, as
| general superintendent till six months
ago, when he was made superintendent
of tr transportation. Six years of that
time We're spent in Marshalltown.
His New Position.
An idea of what the change in Mr.
Huntnigton's position means may be
better understood when it is known
that the Central Railroad of New Jer-
sey is one of the important roads of the
east. 1t is one of those small roads that
Goes ar immense amount OF business.
Il is 655 miles in length, running the
entire length of the state of New Jer-
sey, tapping all of the important sea-
shore resorts and touching the great
anthracite regions of Pennsylvania.
Many of the important cities of the
cast are reached by the road and its
branches and W. it is run a continu-
Gus stream of trains. Its rolling stock
embraces 400 locomotives, 400 passen-
ger coaches and 10, 900 freight cars. AL
tho an independent system. and oper-
ated as such, it's owners are the same
as control the Philadelphia e Reading,
another prominent eastern road. Mr..
Huntington's headquarters will be at
Jersey City. Aside from the railroad
duties proper he will also have charge
of the company's ferry business, the
road operating it's own line of ferries
ut the foot of Liberty street.
Who Mr.. Huntington is to thank for
his promotion he is not yet able to say
to q certainty. The only official of the
road with whom he is very well ac-
auainted is General Manager Besler.
who was formerly a western man and
at one time division superintendent of
the c., 3. & @. at Beardstown, III. MI.
Besler went east about four years ago
as division superintendent of the Phila-
delphia & Reading, was later made