Excerpt from Annual Report of Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads: 1919 Mr. C. A. Morse, chief engineer, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, who was. at the time of the creation of this committee, Assistant Director, Division of Operation, United States Railroad Administration, was appointed at that time chairman of the committee. On June 1, 1919, Mr. Morse resigned as Assistant Director and from the chairmanship of the committee, and Mr. A. M. Burt, bis successor as Assistant Director, was appointed in his stead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.