Men Who Manage Great Railroad Systems
D
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NTS In the
Rock Inland
system's gen
eral scheme
have been no rapid of
late that the public has
hardly been able to keep
tip with the movements
Of the magnate In con
trol. From a compara
tively conservative road,
with wa territory con
siderably circumscribed.
It lina been developed as
If by magic Into the
most extensive system
In the world. Line after
line has been taken Into
the system, until its
map, which not ao very
long ago didn't require
more than four or five
tatea, now takes In the
greater part of ' the"
union, and "The Rock
Island States of Amer
ica" has more signifi
cance than a mere ad
vertising catch phrase.
The mun who has been
given the active man
agement of the affairs
of this extensive system
hns doveloed almost as
rapidly as the plans of
the road'a owners. Ben
Wlnehell has long been
known In railroad cir
cles and to a certain
narrow element of the
railroad r patronizing
public as a man of ap-
parent ability, affable,
genial and pushing. He ROBERT W. R A
hiwl no.,-. K.I.I XJIIAOIVA 1J1V
ery prominent position with a big
road, but had had an Immense
amount of training on "Jerk-water"
lines, where he had all kinds of chances
to prove hla executive ability. He has
apparently proved It, for he was recently
called to Chicago to become third vice
president and general manager of the Rock
Island system Thl gives him more power
than Is vested In any other railroad gen-
eral manager In America, and that means
In the world. s"
Benjamin 1 Wlnehell Is one of those men
In railroad circles whose rise has been
steady. Mr. Wlnehell first entered the rail
road service In 18TS as a clerk In the office
of th general superintendent of machinery
on the Hannibal A BL Joseph. From 1875
to 1877 he was a clerk In the auditor's de
partment of the same road, and from
November 17, 1877, to December 81 of the
next year, when he was promoted to be
chief clerk in the office of tho general
freight and ticket office. dn January 1,
1S79, he was made assistant general pas
senger agent of the Atchison A Nebraska
railroad, which position he held until March
11, 1880. From April 1 to June 1 of that
year he was chief clerk In the general
passenger department of the Kansas City,
Fort Bcott A Gulf railroad and the Kan
sas City, Lawrence & Southern.
Mr. Wlnehell was then mode assistant
ajcfieral passenger and ticket agent of the
same roads, which position he held until
June 1. 1882. He became assistant general
passenger and ticket agent of the Kansas
City, Fort Bcott & Memphis and the Kan
sas City, Memphis A Birmingham rail
roads, and was In this position until May
1, 1895. For the next year he was general
passenger and ticket agent of the Union
i'aclrie, Denver A Gulf railroad and the
Leadville. Denver & Gunnison. He after
ward resigned this position to accept a
similar one with the 'Frisco, of which he
became general passenger agent, with
headquarters at St. Louis. Subsequently
he became general manager of the Colorado
A Southern at Denver and developed his
executive ability In all departments. He
afterward returned to Kansas City to the
Fort Scott line as chief executive officer
nd when the 'Frisco consolidation waa
effected he went to St. Louis as vice presi
dent and general manager of the 'Frisco
system. The Rock Iwland appointment will
not disturb his relations as vice president
of the 'Frisco system In general charge of
Its affairs and he will be frequently called
to St Louis from Chicago, where his head
quarters are now located, on 'Frisco busi
ness. Mr. Wlnehell will have entire charge
vt the affairs of the new Rock Island sys
tem In the west, having also special charge
of the deve'opment of the commercial in
terests of the system.
In the resignation of Robert W. Baxter
from the superintendent of the Nebraska
division of the Union Pacific, the employes
feel that they have lost a warm friend.
AJr. Baxter was a man who was ever ready
and willing to listen to any employe who
came to him, and the general impression
anions them is that he always gave them
good advice. He was always In clo?e
touch with his men.
Mr. Baxter was born In 1851 and entered
the railway service when but 10 years of
ge, working under his father as a mewen
gcr boy. He served in almost every capacity
up to roadmaster, and prior to August, lsso,
he was euperlnten dent of the Wyoming di
vision of the Union Pacific. His term of
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1SJON, UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.
service hue been continuously with tha
Union Pacific with but one brief interval,
when from April to Eeptember, 1891, he was
superintendent of the midland division of
the Baltimore & Ohio, located at Newark,
O. Later he received an offer from the
Union Pacific and accepted It, belngent to
Portland as superintendent of the Oregon
division.'- This was In September, 1891, and
he remained In the far northwest until June
of the following yeur. For a short time Mr.
Baxter was stationed at Laramie, and he
and Bill Nye became lifelong friends. They
were always seen on the stree'.s together,
and every time they could arrange it they
took their meals together. If Nye was not
at Baxter'a house a visitor was always sure
to find Baxter at Nye's home. Mr. Bixter
was acting general superin.entlent of the
Oregon dlvMon for two months in 1892, and
later in 1891 he became the general agent for
the receivers of the Union Pacific at Port
land, Ore., which position lie held until
1896, when he became general superlntend-
WILT.TAM A. DEUEL. WHO SUCCEEDS R W. BAXTER AS
?PfRIN,'K.Nn5NT NEBRASKA DIVISION, UNION PA
CIFIC RAILWAY.
ent of the Nebraska Uvitlon and. removed
to Omaha. His stay of ten years In this
city has been full of pleasure, and although
a very busy rnun he always had. time, to
stop long enough to listen to anything
called to his atten Ion He was thoroughly
liked by his employes and they are sjrry
to see him go, as he will be inifsed. One
of the yardmen ur.der Mr. Baxter has this
to eay: "It didn't make any difference
where I met Bob (he waa always Bob wl h
everybody), ho milter how I was dressed,
he always knew me and had a klnl word
for me. Hie head never got large, and I
thick If he was the president of the United
Etates he would sliil wear the same size
hat."
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William A. Deuel, who succeeded to the
place made vacant by the resignation of
Robert W. Baxter, has been in charge of
the Colorado division, with headquarters in
Denver. Mr. Deuel is a very close friend
of the higher officials of the Union Pacific
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HE?,r'.,VR.H0. 8l'COEEI8 W. A. DEUEL AS SUPERINTENDENT
COLORADO DIVISION, UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.
and Is almost as popular
with his men as was
Mr. Baxter. A man
whom any workman
Is not afraid to ap
proach and one who lis
tens to what Is to be
said and then proffers)
his advice, which is al
ways the very best, and
If the man seeking as
sistance heeds what Is
fold to him he will profit
by it. Mr. Deuel was
born November 30, 1842,
In Niagara county, New
York, and entered the
railroad service In Au
gust, 1866, an a brake
man on the Union Pa
cific. In November, 1882,
he became assistant
.superintendent of the
Nebraska division, re
maining In this capacity
until November, 1888,
..when he was made su
perintendent of the first
division of the Union
Pacific, Denver & Gulf,
with headquarters in
Denver. . December 1,
1891, he became super
intendent o'f the Colo
rado division of the
Union Pacific, Mr.
Deuel's residence still
remaining In Denver,
but he having charge
of a different portion of
the road. This position
he held up until Octo
ber 15, when Mr. Bax
ter's resignation took
effect, and on that day
his appointment to the
superintendency of the Nebraska di
vision was announced and he has pre
pared " to remove ' his , family . to
Omaha. " Besides being superintendent
of the Colorado division of the Union
Pacific, Mr.' Deuel was also president
of the Denver Depot company, which Is
controlled by the various roads for use as)
a union depot. This position Mr. Deuel
had to resign, but In accepting the position
as superintendent of the Nebraska division
he also became superintendent of the union
depot at this point.
On October 15, the day on which Mr. Bax
ter's resignation took effect. President Burt
announced the appointment of Henry' C
Ferris, then assistant superintendent of the
Nebraska division, to succeed to the su
perintendency of the Co'.orado division made
vacant by the transfer of W. A. Deuel to
Omaha and the Nebraska division. The ap
pointment came as a surprise to the many
friends of Mr. Ferris, as he Is a nephew of
the late general manager of the Union Pa
cific, E. Dickinson, who recently resigned
to go with the Orient as second vice presi
dent. Mr. Ferris had only been a resident
of this city for the laBt two years; and
during all this time it was as assistant
superintendent of the Nebraska division.
Henry C. Ferris was born in Sandusky,
O., in 1863, and after attending the Cleve
land public schools was graduated from
the Stevens institute in 1888 with the degree
of M. E. He obtained, a position with tha
Musslllon Bridge company and later went
with the Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati
railway as superintendent and engineer of
maintenance of way. This position he held
until he was made superintendent of the
western division of the Toledo & Ohio Cen.
tral, and at this time his headquarters were
In Columbus. On April 10, 1902, he received
an offer from the Union Pacific to come to
Omaha as assistant superintendent of the
Nebraska division and he immediately ac
cepted. Mr. Ferris has been an efficient -manager
during his stay here in connec
tion with the Nebraska division, and it Is
believed by his associates that it was his
careful business ways which gained for
him his recent promotion.
A Bachelor's Reflectidns
Maybe if women were not so busy with
their mouths in another way they would
really learn to smoke.
When a woman says a man treats her
brutally she means she can't make him
give In In an argument even by crying.
When a woman brags about a thought
ful child she has she means he forgot to
pull its tail out of the cat that morning.
The man who got up the theory that you)
can save money by being married must
have been the same idiot who started the
flying machine Idea.
Nothing makes a man feel to queer when
the minister calls as to hear his wife tell
him all the signs their father has no'.lced In
the children of a very religious sp rit. New
York Press.
As at the Zoo
Miss Pepprey When you speak of your
"man" you mean your "valet," I supposeT
Cholly Aw, yass. You wouldn't have me
call him me valet, would you?
Miss Pepprey Oh, no; under the circum
stances I think "keper" would be a belts
word to use. Philadelphia Press
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