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Show ; PROMOTIONS COME TO RAILROAD MEN I General Freight rVgenl Reeves ol .shmt Line Makes Announcements. An-nouncements. FOUR MOVE UP A PEG Appointments Are to Become Effective First of Next j Month. J, A. Rcoves, general freight agcnl of the Oregon Sbor Line yesterday snnot "1 tke promotiops In his depart- nicnl which hs a 1 n eipeeted for some time The announcement, bow-over, bow-over, was withheld pending the arrival Thursday of ice President -1 A roc. Those to be promote,) are I . R. Oraj, who becomes assistant general freighl agent; H. B. Godwin to be district freight agent; I J. Kyes, to hn district passougeT agent, and B. 3 A rJanson, to Ijc contracting freight agenl These promotions will become effective effec-tive Fobruarj 1, and are, in ihe opTn-j ion of i hose familiar wiih the work of the local men, o 1 1 deserve, I The chaugCB the freight dopartmenl were made peceBBary bv lbo recent promotion promo-tion of Prank U. Plaisted Prom tbe office of-fice of assistant genera freight agent of the Oregon Short king to thai of assistant to tbe general freight of the Oarrtnutn system. New Office Created. Ry the appointments a new office wa? created, from the hitherto combined one of district freight and passonger agent, and the duties formerly connect cd with it, have been divided. Mr. Gray, appointed to suc eed Mr. Plaisted, entered railroad work in the early '80s as a r lerk on the Pcun-vl vanis svstem in Indiana. He later served i" car ous capacities wiib the Southern Pacific and in the reorganisation reorgani-sation of the, llarrinipn linos in 1901 waa appointed ro his present office of lintrict. freight fod pn-escntfer agent, from winch hp i now promoted, 1" trie division of Mr. (Mar's office, Tl F.. Godwin tsH 1 1 become district, freight agent, an 1 L. -T. Kyes district passenger .'IL'ent . Mr. Godwin, who ha been contract - inc frei'cbt .ient since Hhltt. began I railroading In t!i ca?t in tbe transportation transpor-tation department, and entered tbe service of the Oregon Short Line in 1807 and ba- worked his wav up trnntj the position of clerk in the freight de-partment. de-partment. Kyes Is a Veteran. Mr. Eyes; a1 present city ticket, agent, promoted to district passenger airent. first saw railroad service at! Peoria. Olinois, in im, and in l S ; went to the southern California road at San Diego, later going to I-os Angeles. Since then lie has served with the Rio i.n.n.ie Western in Salt Lathe ami the Onion Pacifli in Helena, and in 1890 1 became ticket agent with the Oregon Short Line B. .1. Hanson, who succeeds Mr. Godwin as contracting freighl agent. began his service ivith the road as messenger boy under Mr. Godwin, and ! has worked hi wav up in the depart incut, becoming familiar with all phases of local freighl traffic affairs. |