Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-30
FIR ANK co Ne
Goes TO AURORA
WELL KNOWN BURLINGTON RAIL-
ROAD OFFICIAL MOVES Up
WARD A NOTCH. ~
w. S. KIRBY ADVANCED
Former Local Superintendent to As
sist on F. E. Wards staff-N. c.
Allen Comes to Ottumwa-
! ,@ Changes Made.

! Among the official notices to be
I sent out over the Burlington lines
January l., 1912, will be one announc-
| ing Assistant Superintendent Frank
| Cone of the Ottumwa division trans
| ferred to similar post on the Aurora
division, at Aurora. Ill
| This advance of the Ottumwa Of
fetal is step higher in the ranks of
Off cialdom although the position taken
| is the same in nature as that held
here. The Aurora division is the
heart of the road and the busiest di'
! vision along the lines Of the Burling'
ton. and usually stepping stone to
higher places. It was to Aurora that
w. s. Kirby. who succeeded A. "
Brown as superintendent of the OF
tumwa division, was sent from here
and incidentally Mr.. Kirby is the real
center of a huge shift in officials that
aside from Mr.. Cone, affects two other
former officials of the Ottumwa divis.
ion, Mr. Kirby and Robert Rice of the
| St. Joseph division.
] A General Shift.
| The change beginning at the top
starts with the transfer of w. s. Kir'
=, by from the superintendency of the
Aurora division to a post on the staff
of General Manager F. E. Ward. RObt
Rice the present superintendent of the
| St. Joseph division, who succeeded
G. w. Fabens on the Ottumwa divis'
ion as trainmaster several years ago.
will succeed Mr.. Kirby as superintend.
ent of the Aurora division. Superin-
tendent B. B. Greer of the Hannibal
division takes the place of Mr.. Rice at
St. Joseph and w. c.. WEIGH who has
been superintendent of the Brookfield
division, goes to Hannibal to succeed
Mr.. Greer. Assistant Superintendent
Chittendon Of Aurora goes to the
Brookfleld division as superintendent
and Frank Cone of Ottumwa who has
been the assistant superintendent for
the past two and a half years, sue.
ceeds Mr.. Chittendon at Aurora. N
G. Allen recently brought to the OF
tumwa division from the Centerville
division and made successor to M. e.
Hughes at Burlington on the east end
Of the Ottumwa division, comes to OF
tumwa to succeed Mr.. Cone in the
| train department and T. G. Dough
erty Of Galesburg, who has been train
master of the Aurora division, sue
ceeds Mr.. Allen at Burlington on the
| Ottumwa division Thus three change:
are made on the Aurora and two or
the Ottumwa divisions with one each
on the others named.
| Cone Has Advanced Fast.
Ottumwans as whole will be pleas
ed to learn of Mr.. Cones advance al
though regretting his departure with
his family from Ottumwa, where mos
Of his railroading has been done GOV
ering q period of nearly twenty-foul
years. Frank, as he is best known
among his friends, began service with
the same company away back in 1885
as brakeman and got to run a train
as conductor in 1891. He was main
line conductor here for eleven years
or until in 1902 when he was made
general yardmaster at which post hi
served until transferred to the same
position at Burlington in 1906. Aftel
year in charge of the yards in Bur
lington, Mr.. Cone was made assist
ant trainmaster at St. Joseph, Mo-. al
which place Ed Wcrden, another form
er Ottumwan, was trainmaster. H
was sent back to Burlington in veal
as trainmaster on the Ottumwa divis
ion and in July 1909, was made as
sistant superintendent of the Ottum
wa division with headquarters in the
| general off ce in Ottumwa ~.
| Mr.. Cone returned last night from
Aurora where he has been for a day
or two and expects to leave Sunday
for his new post.