The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-11
FORCE IS REDUCED
MANY CHANGES MADE IN l.. AND N.
 OPERATING DEPARTMENT.
Policy of Retrenchment Because of Adverse Conditions Strikes the
 Operating Department at Union Station.


 The reduction in expenses which has been forced on the railroads through out this section made itself felt in the general office building at the union station yesterday morning when there was radical shakeup in the office of Chief Train Dispatcher Frank Young on the third floor of the building. The shakeup affected the office of Master of Trains T. H. Mizell. also while a reduction In salaries was made at several station agencies along the line of the Mobile and Montgomery. No change was made in the office of Su- perintendent J. I. Mckinney of the Nj. and NJ, and but one In the Master of Trains department. One office was abolished in the Master of Trains de- partment and one in the ofice of the Chief Train Dispatcher. the shakeup in that office being the greatest known in some years
 Something over year ago w. B. Holt, one of the dispatchers in the Chief ed and made Chief Train Dispatcher. About the same time Joe Burton, an other of the despatchers in Mir. Young's office, was promoted to the position of Assistant Master of Trains. He was put in chargs of the Alabama and Flor ida Division, his office being at Geor- giana. These two offices were created for the purpose of taking part of the work off of Chief Train Dispatcher Young and Master of Trains Mizell. the work in these two departments having become unusually heavy.
 The result of the promotion or DIS patcher Young was that every man m the Chief Train Dispatcher's depart ment, and even extending as far down. stairs as the telegraph office in the general waiting room on the first noor, was advanced. The three tricks in Mir. Young's office were changed. copy ist made spatchers, etc. The ofnce of assistant train dispatcher was abol- ished yesterday, Mir. Holt being put back at one of the tricks. the place he held before the office of assistant train dispatcher was created. while MT. Young will have the entire work of the office to do as before. At present the three trick dfspatcbers are Ben Harben, first trick; Tom Fucker, sec ond trick; Hugh Hairston, third trick. The office of Assistant Master of Trains was .aIso abolished yesterday, and Mr. Burton will be brought back to Mont gomery and put back at one of the tricks in the Chief Train Dispatcher's office the place he held before the crea- tion of the office of Assistant Master of Trains. The result of this will De that the three tricks in the Chief Dis pateher's office will be taken care of by t1Oll, barton anu AldIuCii. AhO Nh 9h trick Is from 8 o'clock in the morning until in the afternoon; second trick from 4 D. m. till midnight. and third trick from 12 o'clock midnight till a. m A trick is eight hours, and the first trick being all in the day time Is the one most eagerly sought.
 Tom Fucker who works the second trick at presnt will be put back to day copyist in the dispatcher's office, the place he formerly held. Hugh Hairston who works the third trick at present will be transferred to the tele- graph office on the second floor At present there are two copyists--one night and one day--and the office of night copyist will be abolished. John Elliott. the day copyist, will be trans ferred to the telegraph office in the general waiting room on the first floor while Wallace Long. the night copy ist, will be made clerk to Chief Train Dispatcher Frank Young. There will be only one copyist Tom Fucker do- ing that in the day time.
 This is the first time that the re- trenchment policy has affected the operating department of any of the Montgomery railroads and whether 1t will spread to any of the others is redhot question with all of the local employees.