Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-19
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spcctively.
In connection with tho formation Of the
operating vice-prcsident's staff, there will
be a change o. general Importance to the
whole system, affecting the Altoona, Pa,
shops Heretofore these shops have been
| operated ms part Of the Eastern Pennsyl-
vana Grand Division. They have, how
ever been cvcloped to tho point where
they have bee one general construction
and repair shops for all lines OF the system,
| employing n IT $1,000 en-. They will,
therefore, under the now organization, be
recognized IN that capacity, separated
fro the Eastern Pennsylvania Grand
Division and operate under the charge
of a Works Manager. who will be located
in Altoona, but will report to the Chief
of Motive Power at Philadelphia. The
Works Manager will be r. +. Smith, Jr.,
George ID. Dixon. viee-presldent IN
char of traffic, in addition to exercising
general supervision over freight and pas
senge' traffic and rate matters for the
four regions, will have jurisdiction over
mail traffic, including relations with the
government in connectio with mail trans
portation; and also over express traihc
and relati ms with the express companies.
The appointment of Robert G. Wright,
to be general traffic manager OF the
system, and the chief of Mr.. Dixon S
staff, has already been announced.
A. NJ. Schouer, will be appointed
manager of through freight traffic, report
ing as to traffic matters to Mr.. Wright
and ms to operating matters to the Chief
of transportation. His office will be at
Philadelphia.
V. j. Bradley will become chief OF mail
service and traffic. and ID. NJ. Sheaffer,
express traffic agent, both with head
quarters at Philadelphia. They will be
joint departmental officers, dividing their
duties between the statfs OF the traffic
and operating vice presidents. ). G..
Scott, will become assistant express and
mail traffic agent, with office at Pittsburg
The staffs of the vice president in
charge of finance and the vice president
in charge of accounting, Henry TatnalI
and A. ]. County, respectively, will he
chiefly affected by the restoration to the
corporations constituting the Pennsylvania
system Of the treasury and accounting
responsibilities devolving upon the Gov
ernment during Federal control. j. Il.
Fahnestock will be treasurer at Phlladel-
phia. and +. H. b. Mcknight will be
treasurer at Pittsburg, reporting to Mr..
Tatnall On MIR. County's staff T.. \.
Stockton will be Comptroller at Phila-
delphia, and J. w Orr at Pittshurg.
NJ. G., Kennedy, who is now resident
vice-presltlent of the Cumberland Valley
district. but who ON March lst becomes
Vice-president in charge of real estate.
PURCHASES and insurances, Will have rs
the principal members OF his staff. Thomas
W Hulme, In the capacity of general
real estate agent; Samuel Porcher, as
general purchasing agent. and X. III.
sb,ssr of thn in
surance department. all with jurisdiction
over the four regions.
In the department of Lewis Nelson,
secretary, Harry +. Wilkins. will be
restored to his former position of assistant
Robert \. Croft. at present
assistant secretary, will retire from active
duty, under the pension regulators, on
February 90 after a total service Of over
As years. of which the last 70 have been
spent as assistant secretary. Otherwise,
there Will be no changes IN the secretary's
department.
The legal department at Philadelphia
will be restored, under the leadership of
Francis l. Gowcn, general counsel by the
return 10 the corporation Of the legal
officers whose duties were transferred TO
the Federal interests during government
possession. Alan ii. Strong, formerly
general attorney, becomes general solici-
tor, filling the vacancy caused by the
on December ], 1919. OF
George Stuart Patterson. Judge G. II.
Heiserman, who remains as general coun-
sci at Pittsburg, will not only be in charge
of corporate legal affairs there, but viii
also act as legal adviser to the vice-presi-
dent Of the Central Region.
At Pittsburg, there will be only two
general executive officers, J. ]. Turner,
who remains as vice-president OF the
Railroad Company in charge
Of the corporate affairs. at Pittsburg, and
Samuel H. Church. who continues as
at that city.