The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-15
PROMOTION FOR
EDGAR E. CALVIN
General Superintendent Of Short
Line Assumes New title.
MADE ASSISTANT MANAGER
OFFICE WHICH BE NOW HOLDS
WILL BE ABOLISHED.
RDGAR E. CALVIN, general. super

n DGAR E. CALVIN, general super
II intendent of the Oregon Short
Line railroad. has been promoted
to the Office of assistant general man
ager. Mr.. Calvin viii assume the du-
ties of the position on the 1st Of June.
The foregoing announcement viii be ia
the nature of an agreeable surprise TO
the friends of Mr. Calvin. While pro-
motion for him was not wholly unex-
pected in railroad circles. a change of
1 this kind was not anticipated at this
/ time
The promotion is understood to be
one of the results of the conference be-
! tween President Hartman and Vice
President ". II. Bancroft, recently
4 held in San Francisco. The matter was,
I however, not made public until yes
/ terday morning. II s understood that
I the appointment carries with IL a hand
some increase of salary.
During the past few months Mr.. Cal
WINS name has been several times men,
: tinned as possible candidate for high
( er Office where vacancies have occurred
/ in the Hartman system. Last October
/ he was prominently mentioned as the
( possible successor to Edward Dickin-
/ son, general manager OF the Union Pa
{ chic. In fact, it was announced at that
time upon the strength of what ap-
/ peared to be reliable information that
t he had been slated for the place It
was not the first time Mr.. Calvin had
/ been named for a position higher than
the one he was holding.
Slated for Higher Office.
In an interview at that time. Mr.. Cal
vim made the remark that ne was sat
isfied to remain with the Short Line,
and that he would not accept the Union
Pacific position even if l. were offered
him. This remark only strengthened
the opinion entertained by his friends
that his promotion 10 a higher position
with the Short Line might eventually
be looked for In this promotion, Mr.
Calvin is receiving the title to an office
which he has practically been filing
Mr.. Bancroft holds the position Of vice
president and general manager, but
much of the responsibility Of the man
agement of the road has rested upon
Mr.. Calvin as Mr.. BancrOft's time is
taken up with other and larger cares
Mr. Calvin is looked upon as one Of
the most able railroad men in the west
He is conservative, deliberate and un-
erring in judgment, and methodical IN
his work. Even in ordinary affairs ne
measures words and actions and when
he speaks il is after careful delDera-
ton, and then in the feWest WORDS
On June j. Wl6n ne assumes Alt AA~AC
OF the office. the. Office Of general super
intendeRt viii be abolished. Whether
the promotion has any bearing on the
consolidation of the Short Line with
the Oregon Railway & Navigation COM
pany is another question suggested by
Mr.. Calvin's promotion, but the InteH-
tion of such plans is not yet made
public.
His Railroad Record.
Edgar E. Calvin was born at Indian
apolis, Ind, on Oct. Is, 1858. He en-
telegraph operator for the Indianapolis.
Cincinnati & Lafayette railroad, and
with the exception Of one year, in 1876,
when he took a special course in school,
ne has been in the railroad service. In
1877 he went to work for the Union
Pacific as operator and was subse-
Quently made station agent He
s-Oll1ed for the road at a time when
General superintendent Edison of the
Rio Grande and other men. since be-
come prominent as officials. were re-
ceiving their railroad schooling. He
was made train dispatcher in 1882 and
then became trainmaster
In 1887 he was division superintend-
ent of the Missouri Pacific and in 1891
he was made superintendent Of the
Idaho division of the Union Pacific sys-
TEN. From June. 1895. until March.
1897. he was general superintendent Of
the international & Great Northern. a
service which he resigned to become
general superintendent of the oregon
Short inc