Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-09

ward Wilder, secretary and treasurer
OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company. from the necessity
and responsibility of attending to the
detail work of his offices, the execu'
tive committee Of the company Las
appointed Augustus o. Wellman as as.
sistant treasurer Of the company and
J. Fred Scott as assistant secretary.
These appointments were made at
a meeting of the executive committee
which was held In New York on No
vember IS, and the regular circulars
announcing them have not yet been
issued, but will be within the next
few days when the appointments will
become effective AMI Mr.. Wellman
and Mr.. Scott will enter on their new
responsibilities.
Continued Ill health on the part Of
Mr.. Wilder Is responsible for these
appointments. His condition has been
such .or some months that he has
been unable to visit his offices except
at rare intervals, and Of late he has
not been able to leave his home at all.
although his present condition Is not
at all dangerous. He Ia holding his
own and is able to be up and about
the house.
During his long illness, however.
MI. Wilder has managed to keep in
touch with the affairs at the office
and has attended to much Of the work
demanding his personal supervision
and there is a lot Of this-at his home.
But the executive committee has de-
termined that he shall be relieved of
as much of this work as possible. so
that he will have little or no business
affairs to worry over and can concen.
trate his attention on his health.
In order that he might have person
al representatives at the office, who
could act for him with the necessary
authority in emergencies. and In fact
at all times in everything that per-
tains to the work Of the office, the
executive COMMITTEES deemed 1t wise
to appoint Mr.. Weliman and Mr.. Scott
as assistant treasurer and assistant
secretary.
In their new positions Mr.. Wellman
will look after the financial affairs OF
the office and Mr.. Scott will devote
his attention to those things which
come up in the secretarial line. AS a
matter of fact these appointments will
mean no radical change in the work
ings Of the office, for since Mr.. VIII.
der's illness Mr.. Wellman and Mi.
Scott have been attending to the az
fairs in the office, but It has been ne.
cessary for MI. Wilder to pass upon
their acts. Now they will have
authority to dispose Of all routine
matters which come before them, aud
while Mr.. Wilder will continue still
to direct the business Of the office
In a general supervisory way. he will
be relieved of much responsibility and
care.
Mr.. Wellman has been in the secre'
tary and t%reasurer's office since 1882
For a year prior to that he was assist
ant to Thomas Nickerson, who was
then president Of the company and
had his offices in Boston. Mr.. Well
man is q native of Boston. but mas
made his home in Topeka since com
ing there in 1882. He has served IN
almost every position in the secre
tary and treasurer's office and for
number Of years and up to the present
tine he has held the responsible 20
sitlcn Of head bookkeeper.
Mr.. Scott Is an emplaye OF tnt
Santa re Of twenty-seven years stand
inx. All Of this time he has spent II
the secretary and t~reasurer's ONCE
starting in there in 1878. There II
hardly a position in the office which
he has not filled with credit, and fol
the last fourteen years he has beer
connected with the work in tle office
incident to the duties Of secretary
Mr.. Scott was born in Philadelphia ant
before coming to Topeka to work 10
the Santa Fe, ne spent some TIM
there in the mercantile business.