Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-18
.SOUTHERN'SL|NES
ARE REORGAN|zED
Entire System in Two Divi-
sions, EAST and "West,"
President Announces.
MANY PROMOTIONS MADE

ATLANTA, Ga, January llS.-The
lines of the Southern Railway Com
pany, the Cincinnati. New Orleans and
| Texas Pacific Railway Company. the
Alabama and Great Southern. the New
Orleans and Northeastern and the
Northern Alabama hereafter will be
| officially known as the Southern rail-
| way system and will be grouped. for
administration purposes. into divisions
| known as Tines east" and Zines west"
| according to announcement by Fairfax
Harrison. president of the Southern.
| and made public here by NJ. w. Miller,
vice president of the Southern.
The lines east" will be composed OF
| those portions of the system east and
| north of the Old East Tennessee. Vir-
! einla and Gulf line from Chattanooga
| to Brunswick The Zines west" will be
made up of the other lines of the
Southern Railway Company and includ-
| ing the Cincinnati. New Orleans and
| Iexas and Pacific, the Alabama Great
| eastern and the Northern Alabama
| railway.
Changes of several officials effective
| at once also were announced. J. NJ.
|
the company. has been retired from
| active duty and hereafter will serve in
an advisory capacity. 1t is announced
that this change was made at the re-
! quest of Mr.. Culp because of the state
| of his health.
To Direct Traffic Department.
| The administration of the traffic de-
| partment will be under T. C. Powell,
vice president, at Cincinnati. and Lin
| coin Green. formerly freight traffic
manager of the Southern, who is pro-
| noted to vice president, and will have
| headquarters at Washington.
E. II. Coapman. formerly vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
Southern, becomes vice president in
| r. Loyal. formerly general superin-
| tendent of the middle district of the
Southern, was selected as assistant to
Vice President Coapman.
w. n. Foreacre. formerly general
superintendent of the eastern district
| of the Southern, will be general mana
| ger of the Zines east" with headquar-
tiers at Charlotte.
Horace Baker, formerly general man.
| lger of the Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Texas Pacific and Alabama Great
| ;outhern, becomes general manager of
| lines west" with headquarters at
| Cincinnati.
/! Vice President Coapman announced
the promotion Of the following officials
| to be assistants to the vice president
! with headquarters at Washington:
| G. w. Taylor. now general superin-
| tendent of transportation; j. Hainen
now general superintendent of motive
| power and equipment; F. w. Brown
| now assistant to the general manager
T. H. Gatlfn. now assistant chief en-
:ineer Of maintenance Of way and struc-
lures: H. H. Laughton, now auditor
| w. H. Gatchell, now superintendent Of
| agencies: Alex Grant. now general SUI
| perintendent of mail transportation
| and w. NJ. Netherland. now assistant t
the general manager.
! Appointments on Zines East"
General Manager w. N. Foreacre o
the Zines east" announced the follow
ing appointments: B. Herman. chic
engineer of maintenance of way ant
structures: w. NJ Cowhig, general SUI
perintendent of transportation: E. c
Sasser. superintendent of motive pow
er: H. L. Hungerford, general superin.
| tendent of eastern district; J. A. Jones
Superintendent Of telegraph; J. w. Con-
| nelley. chief special agent, all with
| ris. general superintendent of middle
| district. and E. G.. Goodwin, fuel agent
! both at Knoxville.
| General Manager Horace Baker of the
| Tines west" announced the following
| Curtis Dougherty, chief engineer OF
| maintenance of way and structures
w. S. Andrews. general superintendent
of transportation; w. H. Dooley, su-
Il, perintendent of motive power: r. D.
| Quickel, fuel agent; w. S. Melton, su-
! perintendent of telegraph; E. r. Griffin
chief special agent, all with headquar-
tiers at Cincinnati. and w. T. Caldwell
general superintendent of southwestern
district, with headquarters at Chatta-
nooga.
appointment of H. E. Hutchens as
inspector of passenger transportation.
with headquarters at Washington, and
| of w. S. Murrian as Superintendent of
motive power at Knoxville was an
nounced by both general managers.
The following appointments of di-
vision superintendent were also made:
C. R. Buddin, Washington division.
vile. division, Asheville, N. c.: J. w.
Wassum, Charlotte division. Greenville.
S. c.; F. s. Collins, Columbia division,
Columbia. S. c., and C. E. Erwin, Atlanta
division. Atlanta, Ga.
Traffic Department Promotions.
Promotions in the freight and passen-
ger traffic departments were announced
in the following appointments by Vice
Presidents T. C. Powell and L. Green:
Freight traffic department.: To be
freight traffic managers, Randall Cliff
ton, Washington; George P. Biles, Gin
cinnati; E. H. Shaw. Atlanta, and E. T.
Steele, Birmingham; foreign freight
traffic manager r. l.. Mcclellan, Louis
vile; assistant freight traffic managers.
George X. Caldwell. Washington. and
H. A. Poveleite, Cincinnati; general
freight agents, C. Z. Bell and F. H.
Behring, Washington; J. B. Ford and
non. New CLEANS; ]. E. Fitzwilson. New
York. and w. L. Shipley, Charlotte: