. American engineer . le serving aslieutenant in the United States Army. He began railway workin April, 1895, and for three years was employed by the Cleve-land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis successively as freightbrakeman, switchman, yardmaster. conductor, chief clerk andtrainmaster of the Cincinnati-Indianapolis district. He was thengranted leave of absence in .April, 1898, to serve in the Santiagocampaign of the war as Major U. S. \olun-teers, returning to the Big Four in February, 1899, as train-master at Cincinnati, O. In September of that year he wasmade general supe
. American engineer . le serving aslieutenant in the United States Army. He began railway workin April, 1895, and for three years was employed by the Cleve-land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis successively as freightbrakeman, switchman, yardmaster. conductor, chief clerk andtrainmaster of the Cincinnati-Indianapolis district. He was thengranted leave of absence in .April, 1898, to serve in the Santiagocampaign of the war as Major U. S. \olun-teers, returning to the Big Four in February, 1899, as train-master at Cincinnati, O. In September of that year he wasmade general superintendent of the Findlay, Ft. Wayne & West-ern. He was inspector of safety appliances for the InterstateCommerce Commission in 1900, resigning November 1 of thatyear to go to the Chicago & Alton as assistant superintendentat Roodhouse, 111. Major Hine was receiver of the Washington,Arlington & Falls Church Electric railway 1907 to 19*08, andsubsequently held various staff positions in special work and. Charles Hine. November. 1913. AGE G.\ZETTE, MECH.\\IC.\L EDITION. 631 reports on the Chicago & .-Mton, Cliicago, Rock Island and Pacific,St. Louis & San Francisco, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago,Burlington & Quincy, Erie, Intercolonial, Prince Edward Island,Delaware & Hudson, Georgia & Florida railroads and NationalRailways of as well as other smaller roads. While withGunn, Richards & Company, in 1907, he assisted in a revision ofthe business methods in the Department of the Interior atWashington, D. C. As temporary special representative of Presi-dent Taft in 1910, he outlined a programme for improving or-ganization and methods of executive departments of the UnitedStates government. From July, 1908, to December, 1911, asorganization expert for the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific,he originated and installed the Hine unit system of was then in January, 1912, made vice-president and generalmanager of the Southern Pacif
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