Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1918 — BIG FOUR TO MANAGE MONON [ARTICLE]

BIG FOUR TO MANAGE MONON

E. M. CATLIN MADE MANAGER OF THREE RAILROADS, INCLUDING THE MONON. .H. A. Worcester, federal director of the Ohio-Indiana district of the railroad administration, has announced officially the appointment of E. M. Castin as federal manager of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western, the Monon andthe Detroit, Toledo & Iron Mountain. The appointment comes from Director-General McAdoo. It was said there wduld.be no immediate changes in the headquarters of the lines. Mr. Castin was for years general superintendent of the Big Four with headquarters at Indianapolis and is well acquainted with the lines placed under his control. The Monon route, originally known as the Chciago, Indianapolis & Louisville railroad, is distinctly a Hoosier institution, in that practically all the property of the company is within the state of Indiana. The system has 631 miles of track within the state, using the tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana railroad and the Chicago Belt line in entering Chicago after crossing the line into Illinois. At Louisville the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Terminal tracks are used. . The general offices of the company are at Chicago. H. R. Kurrie, president, is a member of the Indiana state council of defense. H. C. May is federal manager of the system, with headquarters in the Transportation building at Chicago. The general superintendent of the road, two division superintendents and the shops are irt Lafayette. The trainmaster is at Bloomington. The Monon System serves the enormous coal fields of the state and the Bedford-Bloomington limestone district.