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IAVIES WAKEFIELD
HEADS SEABOARD
!. Caples and W. Roscoe
Bonsal Are Named as Vice
Presidents.

Baltimore, Nd, July 25.-At a
heeting of the directors of the Sea-
GARD Air Line Railway Company
(eld today, S Davies Warfeld, chair
han of the board, was elected also
president. Mr.. Warfield is president
f the Continental Trust Company
BIZ Baltimore. In combining the two
bHices of chairman of the board and
president, recognition is made of the
TACT that the president of a railroad
corporation under federal control
now becomes the financial head OF
the company and directly represents
those who own it's securities and is
therefore in line with MI. Warield's
duties as president of the National
Association of Owners of Railroad
Securities.
Mr.. Warield became chairman of
the board of the Seaboard in
1912, when he, together with his as
sociates, acquired a controlling in
terest in the property. He has, how
ever, been identified with the Sea-
board as a director from its organi-
cation with the exception of a short
while when he resigned, but shortly
came back into the property. Under
Mr.. Warfeld; the Seaboard again be-
came a Southern managed railroad
and has been a progressive force in
the upbuilding of the South.
Martin J. Caples, another South
ern man, was elected vice president
and a director of the corporation.
Mr.. Caples will act for the corpor-
alton in such supervision as is nee
essary over the general operations
of the property during federal con-
troll and in that capacity will CO.
operate with the federal manager of
the railroad, W. J. Harahan, who re-
signed as president to become fed
eral manager. Mr.. Caples is well
known as a railroad official. He en-
tered the service of the Boston &
Lowell Boston & Maine) in Nov
ember, 1883, in the engineering de-
partment and filled positions from
rodman to division engineer. He
entered the service of the Norfolk
& Western Railroad as a resident
engineer of construction work in
1889 and afterwards served as track
supervisor, division engineer and
Superintendent. He left the Norfolk
& Western in 1908 to become gen.
eral manager of the Carolina,
Clinchfeld & Ohio Railway, had
charge of the building of that road
and was in charge of operations as
vice president, president and gener-
al manager for two years after the
completion of the road. Mr.. Caples
left the Carolina, Clinchield &
Ohio to become vice president in
charge of operations of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroad and the
Hooking Valley Railway in Novem-
Der, 1911, and has been with the
latter two companies until the pres
ent time.
Since 1914 he has been in charge
of all departments of the Hooking
Valley and has also been vice presi-
dent of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
way, Mr.. Caples has spent rs years
in connection with railroad operat-
ing in Southern territory.
w. Roscoe Bonsal was also elect
ed a vice president of the corpor-
alton. MI. Bonsal has been vice
president of the railway for some
time and since the Carolina lines OF
which he was the president, were
taken over into the Seaboard Air
Line Railway Company. Mr.. Bon
sal is we'll known in the South as a
successful railroad operator and en-
eineer and is interested in a number
of Southern enterprises. He has
been identified for a long time in
the development of the Southern