Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-25
Too Much Specialization In Business
 Says Originator Of The Unit Systen

Here. drop that wheelbarrow and take a sAoyei what do you know about machirery2"
 With this little fragment iron the loud monologues heard out on the tracks. Maj. Charles De Lane Hin, illustrates the economic vice of over specialization. Man" he says. "ex aggerstes his speciality. A book keep CT will stop work ustil an ofties boy can be found to fill his inkstand In the government navy yards, until recently. if a carpenter needed s piece of iron he would not borrow it of the machinist, but would vail until it could be bought and brought in from outside"
 Professionally. Maj Hine is an or ganization expert a specialist him self Railroads. ordinarily, are his employers. but ne viii work any where if the task is big enough for man of his parts. Last summer he had a desk at the White House for two months. Half of each year, however. he exclusively gives to the Hartman lines, out on the road and at terminals and accounting eenters l saw him just after his . HUH htANlOs HAEAE Mt htA1 called to modernie the methods of it's great system of government owned transportation. Today he may be in New York. Tomorrow he may be in St. Louis. At the end of the week he may be on the Pacific Coast He travels more than 50.000 miles a year, and his acquaintance starts in the offices of the presidents A. ats. men who run the trains and keep the rights of way free from weeds and grass.
 Resigned to Be Brakeman.
 Efficiency. possibly. is an over worked word The Germans do no. think so. Neither do progressive bls- mess men in the United States. Only sn efficient army, whether with guns or with pig iron, cotton, machinery. Pork, beef. wheat and corn, can win the battle for which it was trained MaJ. Hine is a military man-he resigned from the army to become a brakeman. What he might have done to prepare the country against it's enemies bearing arms he is now doing against it's competitors for the trade of the universe. While other efhcieney engineers are devising means to produce cheaply, he is taking up the slack in conveyance so that hushel of wheat. a sheen or a steer may be hauled from the West to the Atlantic seaboard with out any loss of tine or motion.
 Edward H Hartman" he said to me, twas the Napoleon of rail roads. He had no predecessor, and Be will never have e successor Julius Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance and operation of the Hartman system-the Union Pa cific, the Oregon Short Line. the Oregon Railroad and Navigation com pany and the Southern Pacific-ig the yOn Moltke of rail transportatiou I called on him one day and ex- piained my unit plan of organization We bargained the next day. On the third day l started for California. to be gone for six months. I didn't have time to send home for my clothes. All the baggage l had was suit case"
 So began a revolution in the way of doing things on one of the. worlds greatest railroads. But Hine had been soldier, and a valise was as good as a trunk Since then he has put his scheme of simplifcation into operation and twenty-three of the thirty-oRe divisions constituting the Hartman system. As a small boy, at the ed1e of a village iu Virginia, he began feeding his fathers chickens on a definite plan of coordination, giving corn to the most cumulative hans first. in their order Of ferocity, and then to the rest, which stood at a distance in ieaT and eagerness. Soldering or Tailroading. ultimately. was to be his bnsHeSs. Going tO West Point, he was graduated in 1891 and was com missiOned as lieutenant in the army, serving four years. principally in Cincinnati. He read law at a school that city and was admitted to practice.
 FEiencs Said He Was Crazy.s
 Then the railroad began to call, % he said to me. Indeed, I studied law with the call in my ears and the old visions Of my bOyhOod coming back very regularly. Besides I was an active man. you understand and wanted to be doing something out side of my military duties. When l finally decided to quit the army
 
 said I must be crazy. went to Melville F. IngaIls. president of the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway commonly known as the Big Four, and plainly told him of my intentions. First of all l wanted to learn railroad fundament- sls. MF. IngalIs, therefore, sent me to the trainmaster and the train master put me on the list of substi- tute brakemen. saying to himself. as he later informed me, that after sliding down Long Hiu' three or four times, turning brakes by hand ana rg frlr1 car t1 cor on The gallon would promptly hand in my resignation.
 T earned SEQ the first month, as against SIPS as a lieutenant of in- fantry. The second month I drew Ss0 from the pay car. Afterward 1 was a sWitchman. At Anderson, Ind, where l was yardmaster, I actually denenstrated that I had some ca pacitv for the practical details of tAe saiiIoad business. Meanwhile I