The Sentinel=record., 1913-09-24
INSPECTOR OF INTERIOR DE. APARTMENT RECEIVES RISER
 NATION sUPERlNTENDENc
CAME HERE FROM ST. PAUL
Appointment Finally Settles a PoIiti- cal Issue That Had Been Settled Once When pr. Leonard R. Ellis Was Named, But Who Resigned.

Capt Charles Russell Trowbridge IS superintendent of the Hat Sprii.1. < reservation
 For some months Captain Trow- bridge has been serving as an in. terior department inspector on .he Job here. and while there was some hint that probably iu the end of his appointment would result, yet the more popular impression was that he would be regarded by the interior department as too valuable in the general service to be located per manently in a station like Hot Springs.
 The appointment was received by letter from the interior department Monday, With his usual reticence Captain Trowbridge made no an nouncement of The fact, and yester- day morning referred to the appoint ment only in the most commonplace manner, such as might have been ex- pected from a man long in the gov ernment service who is accustomed to transfers.
 The appointment of Captain Trow- bridge, and the appointment of Dr J. l.. Greene of the Hospital for Nery- ous Diseases, on the federal registra- ton board, completes the govern ment organization here except for the vacancy caused by the death of the late Major Hallock. The regis ration board is now composed of Dr. Leonard R. Ellis, Dr. S. l.. Steer INr ,.I, D t.- Greene. This board will hold 9 meeting today.
 That the appointment of a Hot Springs, or an Arkansas man, failed in the matter of the superintendency will be a surprise to some people. However, the matter was one wholly within Inc province of the interior department, the appointment being one which did not require confirma- tion by the senate.
 Major Dr. Leonard R. Ellis had re- eeived the appointment more than two months ago, but there was mis- unders, ,anding as to the salary that was to attach to the place. The in- terior department had talked of unit ing the offices of superintendent of the servation, and medical director, with an increased salary attached, and with the impression that this would be done, and only physician qualified for the appointment, Dr. Ellis applied for and received the ap- pointment.
 The commission which Dr. Ellis received at the time did not cores pond to the tacit understanding he had with the interior department relative to salary, and after some correspondence on the subject, Dr. Ellis refused to accept the place.
 With the place thus in doubt, and with Superintendent Harry H. Myers, who had been in the office, anxious to turn over the place and renew the practice of law in Little Rock, the interior department sent Captain here to fill the office temporarily.
 Captain Trowbridge filled the of flee most acceptably. He was a com plete stranger to the peculiar local conditions which surrounded the place, but he quietly took up the reins of authority, and has been steadily on the job since.
 Captain Trowbridge is man of family, his wife and two children having arrived here the day previous to the big fire. They will reside in the superintendent home on Foun. tain street.
 Originally Captain Trowbridge came from St. Paul. He entered the volunteer service and was in the Philippines for three years, and later advanced to the captaincy of the Eleventh cavalry He continued this service under the civil government of the Philippines, and has travelled widely through the Orient. He was later made an inspector on 8 trans fer to the interior department.
 Captain Trowbridge is a quiet worker He no doubt has his own ideas of the situation here, but he is not expressive of them. His admins tration of the detail of the office of superintendent will no doubt be most acceptable.