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Show F. II, KNICKERBOCKER ACTIVE HEAD OF. -TIO 0 I IliL U. U. L. ' F. H. Knickerbocker, assistant to the vice president and general manager man-ager of the Oregon Short Line, has been appointed general superintendent superinten-dent of tho road to succeed W. A. Whitney, who has resigned .to accept the position of superintendent of transportation for the Union Pacific railroad. Mr. Knickerbocker will be succeeded as assistant to the vice president and general manager by G. L. Hickey, now trainmaster of the Montana district, and Mr. Hickey will be succeeded by H. W. Doty, one of the oldest passenger conductors in point of service on the Idaho lines. All the appointments will become effective ef-fective August 15, says the Tribune. On account of ill health for several months past, Mr. Whitney has been contemplating a change which would take him to a lower altitude. Two or three times during that period he has found it necessary to give up all work and got to sea level for rest. Mr. Whitney's headquarters will be in Omaha, where he will succeed W. D. Lincoln as superintendent of transportation of the Union Pacific. To what work Mr, Lincoln will be assigned has not been announced. Career of Whitney. Mr. Whitney began his railroad career ca-reer as a messenger in the office of the Alameda & Southern thirty-nine years ago. While employed in that capacity he learned telegraphy and through hard work advanced himself through various positions of responsibility respon-sibility to that of general superintendent superinten-dent of the Oregon Short Line. He served as telegrapher and train dispatcher dis-patcher on the Southern Pacific, uregon snort Xiine, wortnern ir'acuic, Santa Fe and Union Pacific, He was later promoted to the position posi-tion of assistant superintendent of the Union Pacific at Laramie, Wyo., and then transferred to Ogden as division superintendent. It was while he was at Ogden a dozen or more years ago that his health first began to fail. He gave up his position posi-tion and went to Honolulu. When he returned to the United States he entered the employ 0f the Denver & Rio Grande as train dispatcher at Grand Junction, but his ability soon gained recognition and he waB promoted pro-moted to the position of superintendent superinten-dent of transportation, with headquarters head-quarters In Denver. From there he went to the Southern Pacific as division di-vision superintendent and served In this capacity at various places on the system until he came to the Oregon Short Line as general superintendent about two years ago. Real Utah Product. Mr. Knickerbocker Is what might be termed a Utah product, and with-out with-out question is a product of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Lino. He gained his first experience In railroading when he went to Salt Lake from Omaha nineteen nine-teen years ago as a stenographer in the freight department of the Oregon Short Line. After serving an apprenticeship appren-ticeship in the general freight department depart-ment under the supervision of J. A. Reeves, general freight agent, then chief clerk in the general freight department, de-partment, Mr. Knickerbocker became private secretary to E. E. Calvin then general superintendent. Since that time ho has been identified with the operating department of that road, hi 1902 ho became private secretary to W. H. Bancroft, vice president and general manager, a position which, he held until January l, 1910, when he was appointed assistant to the vice president and general manager In addition to his work with tne operating operat-ing department of the Oregon Short Line, Mr. Knickerbocker Berved for eight years as secretary of tho Utah Light & Railway company, the period that It was under the control of the Harriman Interests. Experience Is am Although an operating official, Mr. Knickerbocker has had a wide experience experi-ence in a supervising capacity 0f practically prac-tically all departments of the railroad As tho assistant to the resident head of the road ho has come in contact with the many problems that confront the management as well as tho men and is well fitted to take up the duTies MfIve.pe,raUns ofllcial. During Mr. Whitney's absence on account nf ill health Mr. Knickerbocker tool over the work of the general superintendent superin-tendent and performed the arduous duties In a manner that left little quesUon as to bis ability in the m nds of his superior officers. Mr KnEXf erbocker is not only popular "with all fwif6 mClalS 0f rad 7 but with the men and is gonerallv nnnl lar in western railroad drcles .air;T I?ickey entered the service nf he Union Pacific system abJut ? ill teen years ago and has been i,L fled with the Harriman InS8ta m Doty also is ono of the w ' Mr Ployes of the road, tho of hisrn,ce having beenTthl fig |