Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-17
CHANGES IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.

Mr.. G. L. Stone, Passenger Traffic
Manager of the Missouri Pacifc-I Iron
Mountain, announces some changes
which became effective on the first day
OF January, 1918. Mr.. j. G. Hollenbeck,
at present Assistant General Passenger
Agent OF the Iron Mountain at Little
Rock, is appointed General Passenger
Agent at st. Louis, succeeding Mr.. B.
ii. Payne who, on account of continued
Ill health, has been assigned to other
duties, in the Passenger Traffic Depart
ment at ST. Louis.
Mr.. F. f. Schroeder, for the past five
years Chief Clerk to the Passenger Traf-
nc Manager, has been appointed Assist
ant General Passenger Agent of the Iron
Mountain at Little Rock, succeeding Mr..
Hollenbeck.
Mr.. II. H. Butler, Chief Rate Clerk
in the Passenger Traffic Department, has
been appointed Assistant General Pas
senger Agent with headquarters at St.
Louis. He has been with the Missouri
Pacific for the past twenty years and is
recognized as an expert on matters per-
tanning to passenger rates. He will have
charge of rates, tariff bureaux, etc.
Mr.. Payne has been with the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain for 26 years, all
OF this time filling responsible positions
In his new occupation he will not be re-
quired to do any travelling, which will
afford him an opportunity to recuperate
his health. He will take vacation for
several weeks with his family in the
South before resuming active duties.
Mr. Hollenbeck was for number of
years Division Passenger Agent of the
L. & N. Railroad, at Atlanta, Ga. later
General Agent of the Passenger Depart
ment of the Missouri Pacific Ry. at Gin
cinnati, and for the last five years has
been Assistant General Passenger Agent
of the Iron Mountain at Little Rock.
A circular issued by Mr.. j. M. John
son, Yice-President in Charge of Traffic
of all the Gould lines, announces the APP
pointment OF Mr.. John Thompson Hen
bricks to be General Traffic Manager of
the Missouri-Pacific Iron Mountain, Sys-
tenn, effective January l, 1918. Mr.
Hendricks is at present Director and
president in Charge OF Traffic of
the Western Maryland Railroad.
The new head of the Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain Traffic Department was
born in Shelbyville, Indiana, September
20, 1855, and started his railroad career
in 1886 as clerk in the general offices
at Cincinnati of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton Railroad. Later he was
made Contracting Freight Agent for that
railroad at Cincinnati, and 1890 became
a Travelling Freight Agent for the Santa
Fe out of the Office of the General Agent
of that road in Cincinnati. He was made
General Agent of the International &
Great Northern at Cincinnati in 1898.
Later he was transferred to Houston,
Texas, then TO San Antonio as Travelling
Freight Agent for the line, and was final
ly sent to Dallas, Texas, as General
Agent OF the Company. In 1897 he went
to the Union Pacific as General Agent at
He left there November
l, 1905, to accept the position of Assist
ant General Freight Agent of the West
ern Maryland Railroad at Baltimore,
Md. On January Is, 1906, he was made
Freight Traffic Manager of the road, and
on the 10Th of last October was promot-
ed to be Vice-President in Charge of
Traffic and also elected director of the
company.