The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-19
w. S. Tinsman, General Super
intendent at Little Rock.
!. g. Blooms Authority Is to Be
Enlarged.
PLAN is APPROVED.
Divisional Plan of Operation Is
Adopted.
New General Manager to Have
Offices on First Floor.

D. L. Cain, the new general mana
ger of the southwestern and Choctaw
districts of the Rock Island system,
has announced the appointment of ".
). Iinsman, division superintendent OF
the Missouri division to be general su-
perintendent of the Choctaw district,
with headquarters at Little Rock, sue
ceeding F. O. Melcher who was made
general manager of the northern lines
of the system, with headquarters at
Chicago.
The change from the departmental
to the divisional plan of operation as
| outlined in Saturdays State Journal.
has been decided upon. The main
tenance of track will come under the
jurisdiction of the general manager,
general superintendent and division
superintendents in their respective
Jurisdictions and the division engineers
will report to the division superin-
/ tendent on the respective divisions.
It is understood that J. G. Bloom,
principal assistant engineer. who is
now in authority only on the south
western district Will be given juris-
diction over both the southwestern
and Choctaw districts to correspond
with General Manager Gains jurisdic-
| ton His title may remain unchanged
or it may be made assistant chief en-
gineer.
The clerical work now handled in
the Offices of the division engineer, will
be transferred to the division superin-
! tendents' Offices, with a probable saw
ing in salary expenses.
The vacancy caused by the promo
ton of W. s. Hinsman will be filed
through the promotion Of division su-
perintendents on the Rock Island. The
| changes viii be announced within a
few days.
s~-
Hiram Cable will be transferred from
the northern district to the central dis
trict as general superintendent. with
headquarters at Chicago. He leaves
America shortly for d. six months trip
to Europe and this change viii prob
ably be made when he returns.
No statement has been made public
/ in regard to an appointment of d gem
eral superintendent of the northern
district.
Mr.. Tinsman. who now becomes the
general superintendent of the ChOc-
| taW district, began "railroa ding
twenty-four years ago as a messenger
/ boy in the telegraph office in Trenton
/ his father at that time being a con-
ductor on the Missouri division out Of
/ Trenton. At the age of 16 Mr.. Tinsman
was made operator, and a few years
/ later train dispatcher, and since has
/ been successfully chief train dispatcher,
| trainmaster of the Kansas division
superintendent Of the Chicago terminat
/
of the Oklahoma division at Chickasha,
| from (which position he was promoted
/ to superintendent of the Missouri divis-
/ ion about a year ago at Trenton, where
/ he began his railroad career as a tele-
graph messenger boy He is 50 s years
old.
General Manager Cain has selected
/ the rooms formerly occupied by the
! division freight agent on the first floor
/ of the Rock Island general Office
| building, for his headquarters. The
Office of the general superintendent
will be moved from the second floor to
the first floor and will be in connee-
ton with the general managers Office.
The division freight agent will move
4 to the second floor and viii have the
/ Office formerly occupied by the gem
eral superintendent.
! Henry Lautz, of the Santa Fe gem
| eraI managers office, has been offered
/ the position of chief clerk to General
Manager Cain. but he has not yet ac-
| cepted the position. In event he does
not accept the place it will be given
| to A. Hadenan, an emplOye of 4Presi-
dent WincheH's Office at Chicago.
Mr. Gains private secretary, c. D.
! Van Becke, viii go with him to the
/ Rock Island For the present the
general managers Office will consist Of
! the chief and stenographer. a file clerk
land an outside man to work up sta
| tistics for the general manager. The
statistician will also have a stenogs
grapher.