. American engineer . date until June 1. 1912, when he waspromoted as noted above. Frank Zeleny. whose appointment as engineer of tests of theChicago, Burlington & Quincy, with headquarters at Aurora,111., was announced in our .August issue, was born December 5,1876, at Hutchinson,Minn. He attended theUniversity of Minnesotafrom 1894 to 1898. grad-uating with the degreeof mechanical September, 1898, hebegan railway work withthe Chicago, Burlington& Quincy, where he wasa special apprentice un-til January 17, 1902. Onthe latter date he wasappointed assistant tothe superintendent ofsh
. American engineer . date until June 1. 1912, when he waspromoted as noted above. Frank Zeleny. whose appointment as engineer of tests of theChicago, Burlington & Quincy, with headquarters at Aurora,111., was announced in our .August issue, was born December 5,1876, at Hutchinson,Minn. He attended theUniversity of Minnesotafrom 1894 to 1898. grad-uating with the degreeof mechanical September, 1898, hebegan railway work withthe Chicago, Burlington& Quincy, where he wasa special apprentice un-til January 17, 1902. Onthe latter date he wasappointed assistant tothe superintendent ofshops at Aurora, whichposition he held untilJuly 3, 1912, the dateof his appointment asengineer of tests of thesame company withheadquarters at the direction of acommittee appointed bj the Master Mechanics .Association inJune, 1899, to ascertain to what extent the recommendations ofthe association were put in practice, Mr. Zeleny prepared analphabetical and a classified index of the subjects of all re-. ports, papers and discussions from the formation of the asso-ciation in 1868 to that time. George B. Foote, chief timekeeper for shop accounting of theLake Shore & Michigan Southern, at Collinwood, Ohio, has beenappointed chief clerk to the master mechanic at Cleveland,Ohio. Robert Robertson, who has been for some time in the me-chanical department of the Guayaquil & Quito, at La Tacunga,, has been ajipointed sujicrintendent of motive powerand floating equipment, with headquarters at Huigra, succeed-ing C. O. Bertsch, resigned. J. G. Smith has been appointed assistant locomotive super-intendent of the Nitrate Raiiways^ Ltd., with office at Iquique,Chile. .\rthur Squires has been appointed chief mechanical engineerof the Chilean State Railways, with office at Santiago, Chile. J. H. TiKXER. chief clerk to the master mechanic of the & Michigan Southern at Cleveland, Ohio, has been ap-pointed chief clerk to the division superintendent, with head-quarters a
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