The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-10-13
NORFOLK GAINS ANOTHER
NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD HAS
CREATED NEW OFFICE HERE.
is ASSISTANT TO MR.. HUGHES
Frank Walters, Division superlnten-
dent at Sioux City and a Man of
Twenty-Five Years Experience, is
Promoted to NorfoIk-Siqnifican
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Norfolk's importance as a railroad
center and as the most available city
as headquarters for the Northwestern
system in the three states of Nebras-
ka, South Dakota and Wyoming, has
once more been emphasized by the ap-
pointment yesterday of Frank Wal
ters, division superintendent Of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad at
Sioux City, Iowa, to the position of
assistant general superintendent of
the Nebraska and Wyoming division
with headquarters in Norfolk. Mr..
Walters will arrive in Norfolk Satur-
day and will assume his new duties
here Monday morning.
Mr.. Walters has been promoted and
will act as assistant in Nebraska.
South Dakota and Wyoming, to Cen
eral superintendent G. G. Hughes, who
also has headquarters at Norfolk.
Many changes are being made in
the railroad offices and system this
season and the extension from Casper
has, it will be seen, made Norfolk a
before. The Nebraska and Wyoming
division is now the most important on
the entire Northwestern system. The
casper line opens up rich lands in
the ShOshoni and Wind river reserva-
tions, and 1t is expected that a great
rush will be seen through Norfolk
when they open.
The Increased imO0rtauco Of the di-
vision and Of Norfolk were the req
sons for creating the office of assist.
ant general superintendent and Mr.
Walters will be the first man to hold
down that place
Concerning Mr. Walters, the Sioux
City Tribune says:
Frank Walters has been suoerinten-
dent in Sioux City for lust two wears.
Previous to his coming to Sioux CITY
he was assistant suDerintendent of the
Ashland CWis) division of the North
western Railroad company for four
months, being appointed to that posi
tton while he was still sunerinten.
dent OF a division on the Rock Island
route with headuuarters at Cedar Ran
ids. The Dosition on the Rock Island
he held with much success for several
wears, being advanced to 1t after sery-
ing as a sunerintendent on the Bur-
lington, Cedar RAPIDS and Northern
An Excellent Record.
Mr.. Walters has been in the service
Of railroad companies TWENTY-FIVE
years starting as a car checker for
the Minneapolis and st. Louis Rail-
road company in Fort Dodge. From
this he has been continually advanced
until he has reached, while still q
young man in the vigor of his career
the new position to which he was an
pointed today. During the TWENTY-FIVE
years OF service he has never lost n
day That is saying a good deal in
these days OF vacations and lay-offs,
nut Mr.. Walters work has been his
recreation and he has fairly "eaten"
hard work. If he left Sioux CITY for
'hlcago on company business, his mail
met him half way across the state,
ana long before he arrived in his Of
nee at Sioux City the mail had been
sorted, dlgostod and he knew lust
what to do with it when he arrived
Mt headquarters.
For two years he has not had q
wreck on his division which amount
co 10 even n minimum loss to the
company. A way car has been de-
ralIod, now and then, or a car gone
wild on n siding, but the tools carried
on the train were sufficient to nut tbe
wreck back on the track and start
me train out on its run. This record
mas been seldom eQualed by any op-
Grating man who has had headouar-
tors in the northwest