The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-24
PLEASANTS GOES IN
AS VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL
MANAGER OF o. 5. $. co.
TO TAKE CHARGE SEPT. IS.
WILL EXERCISE FULL CONTROL
FROM NEW YORK.

Election of Mr.. Peasants Took
Place at Macon Yesterday Mt Meet
ing of the board of DirectOrs-He
Will Have Charge of Operation
and Trafic-WiII Report to Presi-
dent Hanson-Au Sub-OmciaIS, Ex-
cept Treasurer and Auditor, Will
Report to Vice President-Ehects
of the ChnnGe-Mr. Peasants
Career.
Mr.. w. H Peasants was elected vice
president and general manager of the
Ocean Steamship Company at a meet
ing of the Board of Directors yester-
day morning at Macon.
Mr.. Peasants will enter upon the
discharge of the duties of his new po-
sition not later than Sept. Is. His
headquarters will be in New York. He
will have charge of operation and of
traffic, and all of the sub-officials of
| the company save the treasurer and
the auditor, will report to him. The
treasurer and the auditor, representing
the financial department of the com
pany, will continue to report to Maj.
j. F. Hanson. The reports of Mr..
| Peasants as vice president will be to
! the president.
MI. Peasants will have absolute
control and authority in all matters
of traffic and operation, however, the
Board of Directors having determined
to give him full sway.
| Elected in Macon.
Maj. Hanson presided over the meet
ing at Macon. President John NJ.
Egan of the Central Railway, who is
director in the Ocean Steamship
Company, Mr.. Malcolm Maclean and
| Maj. Edward Karow, who are also
directors, and Col. A. R. Lawton, gem
cral counsel, attended the meeting.
/ Mr.. Peasants was not in Macon.
| Col. Lawton, Mr.. Maclean and Maj.
Karow returned last night, and gave
| the information of Mr.. Peasants cleo
| ton. Col. Lawton said that Mr..
| Peasants will assume charge on Sept.
| Is, or earlier, should he find it posi-
BILE and convenient. His election as
vice president and general manager of
| the Ocean Steamship Company means
that Mr.. Peasants will tender his res
| ignation to the Seaboard Air Line of
| which he is traffic manager. 1t is not
known who will succeed him in that
| position.
other Changes to Follow.
Capt. P. e. LeFevre is now general
manager of the Ocean Steamship Com
pany, being it's operative head, while
Mr.. E. 7. Charlton is general freight
and passenger agent. Captain
| superintendent by Mr.. Peasants. This
is position he held before he became
| general manager. Mr.. Charlton will
continue as freight and passenger
| agent. He was Eastern agent in the
! office of the Ocean Steamship Com
pany at New York, when Mr.. Pleas
| ants was its traffic manager.
The career of Mr.. Peasants has been
! meteoric Four years ago he was gen.
| eral freight agent of the Florida Cen
trail and Peninsular Railroad at Jack
| sonVille. Upon the consolidation of
that road with the Seaboard Air Line
| he was not offered a position of suf-
| ficient magnitude to hold him in its
service, and, for brief period, he was
| unemployed. His talents were not to
remain long unusued, however for The
! Ocean Steamship Company was at
that time about to undergo a segrega-
| ton. 1t had been operated in con-
| junction with the Central Railway, the
two companies having the same traffic
manager. When the traffic of the
steamship company was taken from
the jurisdiction of then Traffic Man
ager e. H. Hinton of the Central
| there was need for some one to take
charge of it. Mr.. Peasants was recog-
| nlZed as proper man for the place.
and he was made general freight ana
| passenger agent, with the understand
ing that his title would be later chang
ed to traffic manager.
AS S. A. LIS Traffic Manager.
In due course of time the change was
made, and Mr.. Peasants became traf-
:. tic manager. He was not long in that
position, however, for several months
ago the Seaboard Air Line decided that
| a change was needed. BY the irony of
fate it turned to the man whom it had
consolidated out of a job not long
| before. A tender was made Mr. Pleas
ants. He held an excellent position
with the steamship company, but so
attractive was the position offered by
the Seaboard that he accepted, sue
ceeding Mr.. HI. w. B. Glover as traf-
| fee manager.
Enjoying a fine salary, popularity
said to be $4,000 a year, and having
| congenial surroundings in an import
ant position the work of which he liked
| Mr.. Peasants was well satisfied with
the Seaboard. He introduced a policy
in traffic matters that helped the road
wonderfully.
offered Better Place
| A need for a change was apparent in
| the Ocean Steamship Company. Mai.
! Hanson was elected president of the
! company, and almost Immediately
overtures were made to Mr.. Peasants.
who was wanted as vice president and
| general manager. 1t became a matter
| of terms. An offer was made that
Mr.. Peasants accepted, and he goes
back to the Ocean Steamship Company
under fine salary, one higher than
he received from the Seaboard
| Mr.. Peasants is a popular man His
| popularity, in fact, extends throughout
| the South. He is courteous and affa-
! BILE in manner and not the least of the
charms of his personality is the ease
| of approach that is afforded those in
| subordinate positions. This has al
ways made Mr.. Peasants well liked by
those who have worked under him.
! Savannahians know the new vice
| president and general manager of the
| Ocean Steamship Company very well
As general freight agent of the Sea-
! board Air Line he was accustomed TO
make many trips to Savannah, and
| then he met the business men.
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