. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nten-dent of the St. Louis division, is ap-pointed superintendent of the Chicagodivision, with headquarters at Chicago, inplace of Mr. H. Baker, who is made super-intendent of the Amboy division, withheadquarters at Clinton, III. The lattersucceeds Mr. J. C. Dailey, who goes toCarbondale, 111., as superintendent of the May. 1900. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 217 St. Louis division, in place of Mr. Mc-Court. Mr. H. R. Dill, superintendent ofthe Freeport division, is appointed assist-ant superintendent at Evansv
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nten-dent of the St. Louis division, is ap-pointed superintendent of the Chicagodivision, with headquarters at Chicago, inplace of Mr. H. Baker, who is made super-intendent of the Amboy division, withheadquarters at Clinton, III. The lattersucceeds Mr. J. C. Dailey, who goes toCarbondale, 111., as superintendent of the May. 1900. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 217 St. Louis division, in place of Mr. Mc-Court. Mr. H. R. Dill, superintendent ofthe Freeport division, is appointed assist-ant superintendent at Evansville, Ind., inplace of Mr. Egan, and Mr. H. U. Wal-lace, assistant superintendent of the Evans-ville district, Louisville division, is ap-pointed superintendent of the Freeportdivision, with headquarters at Freeport,III., in place of Mr. Dill. ■ The Oldest Engineer on this Continent. Mr. Christian Smith, the subject of ourillustration, is the oldest living locomotiveengineer on this continent. Mr. Smith•was born at Middleburg, Md., on the14th of .^pril, 1812, and is consequently in. MR. CHRISTIAN SMITH. his eighty-eighth year. Mr. Smith fol-lowed farming until twenty years of age,when he entered the service of the Balti-more & Ohio Railroad as teamster. Heremained in that position about six monthsand was then promoted to the position ofbrakeman, and continued as such untilApril, 1836, then went to firing an engineon the Washington branch of the Balti-more & Ohio Railroad. On June i of thesame year he was sent to Plane No. 4 onmain stem to run engine John QuincyAdams between Plane No. 4 and Pointof Rocks, continuing in said capacity until1840, when he was made conductor ofthe first mail train that was run betweenBaltimore and Frederick. In 1842, theroad being completed to Cumberland, heagain took an engine, running about sixyears, when he went with the Little Mi-ami Railroad, in Ohio. He returned tothe Baltimore & Ohio in 1851, and leftagain in 1852, going with Smith & Per-k
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