Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1915 — F. C. FARGO HERE FOR INVESTIGATION [ARTICLE]

F. C. FARGO HERE FOR INVESTIGATION

William Field and J. L. Wikoff Call ISuperintendent to Help With Express Tangle.

F. C. Fargo, superintendent of the Indiana division of the American Express Co., came from Indianapolis this Friday morning to assist William Field and J. L. Wikoff, the traveling agents, in unwinding the tangle in the local office over which Walter Gehr, of Lima, Ohio, has presided since July 14th of this year. The agents have nothing to give out yet. Gehr is still here although C. N. Cravens, of** Tipton, has succeeded him as manager of the local office. TJie Republican learns that its estimate of Thursday that the shortage in the accounts is something like SI,OOO, is just about right, although it may exceed that amount to some extent. Mr. Gehr maintains that he has not spent any of the company’s money and says that he can not imagine where it has gone. He has not been arrested and it is probable that the visit of Superintendent Fargo here is to decide what action will be taken along this line. How Gehr could have disposed of about S3O per month is a mystery to t the agents. He has no bad or extravagant habits that have been discovered and has been right on the job all the time since he came i here to take the place. C. N. Cravens, who succeeded him, is a young man from Tipton. He has never worked for the American Express Co., although he has worked for the Wells-Fargo Co. He is a man of pleasing appearance and will doubtless prove an efficient man. The salary paid a local manager is not as : much, it would seem, as should be I paid, and the way in which trains run here and the extent of the hauls keeps an agent on the job from 6 o’clock in the morning until 7 and 8’ o’clock at night. It looks like $76 would be a small enough salary f (ft the job but it lacks quite a little of paying that amount and probably able men will use it only as a stepping stone to better jobs, just as George A. Hart did.