Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — A West Pointer Becomes a Brakeman. [ARTICLE]

A West Pointer Becomes a Brakeman.

The President lias accepted the resignation of Second Lieutenant Charles DeL. lline, of the Sixth Infantry. Mr. Hine was appointed in 1888 to the Military Academy from Virginia by the late Representative Barbour. He had graduated from the Washington High School in 1885, and upon his graduation from West Point in 1891 he was given the commission that he has just relinquished in order to enter the service of the “Big Four” Railway Company. Mr. Hine has long had an ambition to join the ranks of railroad men, and after graduating from the Cincinnati Law School—which he had an opportunity to attend while his regiment was stationed across the river at Fort Thomas, Ky.—and learning telegraphy he decided to break loose from the mititary service and begin at the bottom rung of the ladder in the railroad work. He had an understanding with the authorities of the “Big Four” that if he should show an adaptability for the business he should receive recognition and promotion, and thus encouraged he took the plunge during the past spring and was granted a long leave from the army, with permission to resign at its expiration. That period has now passed, and Lieutenant Hine has become Brakeman Hine, working on a local freight train running in and out of Cincinnati. Hine writes to a friend in this city that he has had three months of mighty hard work, and sometimes he has missed the comfortable quarters at Fort Thomas; but lie has kept at his new work with characteristic vim and energy, and believes he will soon pass the trying days of apprenticeship, go ahead to the position of a conductor; and then reach tue grade of a superintendent. Those here who knew him in earlier years are confident that he will win his fight.