Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — E. ST. JOHN. [ARTICLE]

E. ST. JOHN.

Well-Deserved Promotion of a Railroad Man. [Chicago telegram.] President R. R. Cable, of the Rock Island Road, has issued the following important, notice: “Mr. E. St John is hereby appointed assistant to the General Manager, appointment to take effect July 1. The general ticket and passenger departments will remain under the jurisdiction of Mr. St. John as formerly, and all communications in connection with those departments should be addressed to him as General Ticket and Passenger Agent. ”

The above announcement of Mr. St. John’s promotion will be lead with interest and pleasure by the many who have become intimate with him during a very long career. He has been associated with the road so long that he is always considered a part of the system, good, reliable, and ever on time. Mr. St. John entered the railway service in 1862; was clerk in the general ticket office and depot ticket agent of the Quincy and Toledo Railroad at Quincy, 111., until its consolidation with the Great Western Railroad, when he assumed a clerkship with that company in its general ticket department at Springfield, 111., remaining in its service until July 3, 1863; on July 4, 1863, and until November, 1864, he was employed as clerk in the general ticket office of the Chicago and Rock Island Railway. Nov. 1, 1864, to Sept. 1, 1869, he was Chief Clerk in charge of the general ticket department; Sept. 1, 1869, he was appointed General Ticket Agent, and Jan. 1, 1879, he was appointed General Ticket and Passenger Agent, which position he continues to fill. On Saturday, July 4, Mr. St. John will celebrate the twenty-second anniversary of his connection with the Rock Island Road; Mr. St. John’s promotion is another illustration of the well-known fact that the Rock Island Road appreciates the merits of its officials, and gives tangible evidence of its appreciation.