39. No agreement be reached between officials and employees of any railroad to adjust differences except as provided in General Orders Nos. 13 and 29. 40. Special representative United States Railroad Administration-T. C. Pow ell appointed; also to continue duties as Manager of Inland Traffic. 41. Eastern Region-Railroads added July 10, 1918. 42. Southern Region-Railroads added July 10, 1918. 43. Registration and conversion of Liberty Bonds. 44. Road or street construction and other public improvements. 44-A. (Cancels Circular No. 44.) Road or street construction and other public improvements. 45. Acting treasurer United States Railroad Administration-L. G. Scott appointed. 46. Creation of Short Line Section and appointment of E. C. Niles as Manager. 47. Pullman Company Operating Department hereafter to be known as Pullman Car Lines. 48. Creation of Freight Claim Section. 49. Claims, manner in which claims are to be handled. 50. Bureau for Suggestions and Complaints organized. 51. Liberty Loan, Fourth-War Savings Stamps-Special appeal of Director General. 52. Appointment of H. B. Walker, Federal Manager, Coastwise Steamship Lines. 53. Creation of Division of Inland Waterways, G. A. Tomlinson appointed Director, and H. S. Noble appointed Federal Manager, New York and New Jersey Canals. 54. Creation of Insurance and Fire Protection Section, and Advisory Committee. 54-A. Insurance and Fire Protection Section name changed to Fire Loss and Protection Section. 55. Marine Section, Division of Transportation discontinued-Effective September 1, 1918. 56. Liberty Loan, Fourth-Director General urges all employees to cooperate and suggests they subscribe through railroads. 56-A. Liberty Loan, Fourth-Officials and employees urged to cooperate in securing a "100 per cent " result on every line. 57. Registrants under Selective Service Act, classification of. 58. Health and Medical Relief Committee appointed. 59. Banks and Trust Companies in which funds of United States Railroad Administration or of the various Federal Treasurers are deposited, in future must pay interest at specified rates. 60. Creation of Marine Insurance Section. 61. Telegraph and telephone facilities-Rules for relieving from unnecessary business. 62. Appointment of Charles A. Lutz treasurer. 63. Re Bureau for the Safe Transportation of Explosives. 64. Presents, Christmas, etc., from shippers to officers and employees of railroads should be discontinued. 65. Railway Board of Adjustment No. 3, organization of (see also G. 0. No. 53). 66. Railroads transferred from Eastern to Allegheny Region. 67. Instruction for handling loss of or damage to property by fire. 68. Railroads transferred-Allegheny to Eastern Region-Eastern to Allegheny Region. 69. Creation of Secret Service and Police Section, W. J. Flynn appointed Chief. CIRCULARS ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS. CIRCULAR No. 1. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 9, 1918. I hereby announce the organization of my staff as follows: General counsel, John Barton Payne. Director Division of Finance and Purchasing, John Skelton Williams. Director Division of Transportation, Carl R. Gray. Director Division of Traffic, Edward Chambers. Director Division of Labor, W. S. Carter. Director Division of Public Service and Accounting, Charles A. Prouty. Additional divisions will be created from time to time as conditions may justify. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 2. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 6, 1918. For the handling of car service and other matters formerly in charge of the commission on car service of the American Railway Association, the Car Service Section of the Division of Transportation is hereby created. Mr. W. C. Kendall is appointed manager of the Car Service Section; and Messrs. W. L. Barnes, E. H. De Groot, jr., A. G. Gutheim, C. B. Phelps, G. F. Richardson, and J. A. Somerville are appointed assistant managers. The Car Service Section (a) Will have charge of all matters pertaining to car service, including the relocation of freight cars. (b) Will provide through the regional director, on application of proper governmental authorities, for preference in car supply and movement, where more than 10 cars are involved. (c) Will receive from railroads such reports, periodical or special, as it may require in order to keep fully informed with respect to car service, embargo, or transportation conditions. (d) Must be promptly informed of all embargoes placed, modified, or removed, and will, from time to time, recommend such em bargo policies and exemptions as the needs of the Government, seasonal requirements, or other circumstances may demand. (e) Will deal directly with railroads with respect to matters within its jurisdiction, and will keep the regional directors properly advised. W. G. MCADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 3. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 9, 1918. The Locomotive Section of the Division of Transportation is hereby created, and Mr. Frank McManamy appointed manager, with office in the Interstate Commerce Building, Washington, D. C. The manager of the Locomotive Section will supervise the condition of, and repairs to, locomotives at all railway shops and roundhouses and at outside shops, in addition to his present duties for the Interstate Commerce Commission as its chief inspector of locomotives. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 4. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 9, 1918. I hereby appoint an interregional traffic committee consisting of B. L. Winchell, traffic director of Union Pacific; G. F. Randolph, commissioner trunk lines; T. C. Powell, vice president southern rail ways. This committee is to make a study of the larger traffic movements with a view to seeing what steps can be taken advantageously in order to shift traffic from the more seriously congested gateways to the less congested gateways and from the more congested ports to the less congested ports, as well as the more advantageous distribution of such traffic. The situation will be viewed from the standpoint of a national railroad system consisting of all the railroads instead of, as heretofore, from the separate standpoints of independent and competitive railroads. The commission will deal principally with the questions affecting movements of traffic between the three regions and its work will not interfere with similar studies which will be conducted under each of the three regional directors with reference to matters within their respective jurisdictions. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 5. WASHINGTON, February 15, 1918. The Marine Section of the Division of Transportation is hereby created, and Mr. W. H. Pleasants is appointed manager with office at Washington, D. C. The manager of the Marine Section will supervise the operation of the shipping under the control of the director general and will also give special attention to coordinating the relations between all other shipping (including that on the Great Lakes) and the railroads. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 6. WASHINGTON, February 16, 1918. I hereby appoint a committee on inland waterways consisting of Maj. Gen. W. M. Black, Chief of Engineers, United States Army, chairman; Mr. Walter S. Dickey, of Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. G. A. Tomlinson, of Duluth, Minn.; Col. Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, secretary. This committee is to make a prompt investigation and to report as soon as practicable a definite plan describing the extent to which and the manner in which additional use may be made of the internal waterways for the economical and expeditious movement of traffic of the country so as to relieve or supplement the railways under existing war conditions. While the entire waterway and transportation situation is to be scrutinized, only those waterways that will effectively afford national relief shall be included in the plan to be presented. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 7. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 19, 1918. The Safety Section of the Division of Transportation is hereby created, and Mr. Hiram W. Belnap appointed manager, with office in the Interstate Commerce Building, Washington, D. C. The manager of the Safety Section will have supervision over the safety work on all railroads, utilizing such safety organizations as are already available and suggesting such others as are desirable, in addition to his present duties for the Interstate Commerce Commission as chief of its bureau of safety. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 8. WASHINGTON, March 2, 1918. It is represented that numerous railroad employees who are not paid fixed annual salaries have not kept accurate records of their earnings for the calendar year 1917, and therefore find it difficult to make an accurate return under the income tax law. The railroads are required to make to the collector of internal revenue a report as to each employee who received $800 or more for the calendar year 1917. It is therefore requested that you give each employee who does not receive a fixed annual salary, and who is included in the report to the collector of internal revenue as having received $800 or more for the calendar year 1917, a statement as to the amount of compensation which has been or will be shown in such report as having been so received by him, in order to facilitate the making of accurate income tax returns by such employees. W. G. MCADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 9. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 12, 1918. The Division of Capital Expenditures is hereby created and Judge Robert S. Lovett is appointed director thereof, with office in the Interstate Commerce Building, Washingtin, D. C. W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads. CIRCULAR No. 10. WASHINGTON, March 18, 1918. The question has been raised as to whether the Government ought to pay any part of the expense of the New York offices (including salaries of officers at New York) of railroad companies, except to the extent that such expenses are on account of operating offices properly located at New York; and, on the same principle, as to whether the Government is under any obligation to pay the expenses of offices of any of the companies in any locality devoted to financial and corporate matters as distinguished from matters pertaining to the physical operation of the railroad properties. Even if it should be decided that the necessary expenses for some of the purposes for which such New York offices, and to some extent similar offices at other places, should be chargeable against the Government, it seems very clear that in many instances the expenses cur |