. American engineer . George K. SteviArt has been appointed master meclianicnf the Missouri Pacific—Iron Mountain system, with office atCoffeyville, Kan. He was born August 5. 1869, at Ottawa,Kan., and received acommon school 1889 he began rail-way work as a machinistapprentice on the Atchi-son, Topeka & Santa Feat Topeka, Kan., and in1898 he went with theMissouri Pacific as a ma-chinist, and has beenwith that company eversince. He was night en-gine house foreman atCoffeyville for two years,and was day engine houseforeman for one year atthe same place. He wastransferred to Wichita
. American engineer . George K. SteviArt has been appointed master meclianicnf the Missouri Pacific—Iron Mountain system, with office atCoffeyville, Kan. He was born August 5. 1869, at Ottawa,Kan., and received acommon school 1889 he began rail-way work as a machinistapprentice on the Atchi-son, Topeka & Santa Feat Topeka, Kan., and in1898 he went with theMissouri Pacific as a ma-chinist, and has beenwith that company eversince. He was night en-gine house foreman atCoffeyville for two years,and was day engine houseforeman for one year atthe same place. He wastransferred to Wichita,Kan., as division foremanin 1909, and held thatposition until March 4,1912, when he was pro-moted to master me-chanic of the Missouri Pacific. George K. Mountain system. A. R. Avers, mechanical engineer of the Lake Shore & Michi-gan Southern, the Indiana Harbor Belt and the Chicago, In-diana & Southern at Cleveland. Ohio, has been appointed generalmechanical engineer ofall the New York Cen-tral Lines west of Buf-falo, with office at Chi-cago, a new Ayers was graduatedfrom Cornell Universityin 1900 as a mechanicalengineer, and began rail-way work with the LakeShore & Michigan South-ern as a special appren-tice in the same year,and he has been con-nected with the LakeShore ever since. Hewas special inspectorfrom 1903 to 1905, andin the latter year wasmade night engine houseforeman at Elkhart, next year he wasmade assistant general foreman of the CoUinwood shops, and in 1907 was promotedto superintendent of shops at Elkhart. From January 1, 1908,to November 1 of the same year he was assistant superintendentof shops at CoUinwood, and on the latter date was appointedassistant master
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