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Charles DeLano Hine was an American civil engineer, lawyer, railway official and colonel in the United States Army. He took part in the Spanish-American War; served as an inspector of safety appliances for the Interstate Commerce Commission; receiver for the Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway; author of books and articles on wartime railroading.
Background
Charles DeLano Hine was born on March 15, 1867 in Vienna, Virginia, United States. He was a descendant of Thomas Hine who settled in Milford, Connecticut, about 1639, and the son of Orrin Eugene Hine, a major in the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers, 1861-1865, and of Alma (De Lano) Hine.
Education
After graduating from the United States Military Academy on June 12, 1891, and receiving a commission as second lieutenant, Hine studied law at the Law School of Cincinnati College and in 1893 was admitted to the bar.
Career
In 1895 Hine severed his connection with the army and began the railway service which was to be his life work, although he twice returned temporarily to army life. During the Spanish-American War he served as major, 16th District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, taking part in the siege and occupation of Santiago de Cuba in July and August 1898.
Nineteen years later, in July 1917, he was again called to military service; his first duty was that of commanding trains and military police for the 27th Division at New York; from August 20, 1917, to January 9, 1918, he was in command of the 165th Infantry, at first in the United States and then in France; he was assigned in January to special duties at headquarters (Services of Supply), was transferred as colonel to the Motor Transport Corps in September 1918, and was honorably discharged at Washington on January 10, 1919, after the conclusion of hostilities.
In October 1921, he was appointed colonel in the Officers' Reserve Corps. Dominated by a desire to learn railroading thoroughly, Hine became a freight brakeman in 1895 with the Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, and was successively, before 1898, switchman, yardmaster, conductor, and chief clerk and trainmaster for the Cincinnati-Indianapolis division of this road. He thus gained an intimate knowledge of the workings of the railroad machine which, with the background of a legal and military education, an active, inquiring mind, and an interest in human relationships, enabled him to become an organization expert of more than usual importance.
After the Spanish-American War, he occupied several positions with minor railroads for short periods, and spent some time engaged in farming in Vienna, Virginia, following his father's death in 1899. In 1900 he was an inspector of safety appliances for the Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1907-1908 he acted as receiver for the Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway, an electric line.
He was the author of two exceptionally vivid books, Letters from an Old Railway Official to His Son, a Division Superintendent (1904) and Letters from an Old Railway Official, Second Series, to His Son, a General Manager (1912). These two series contain the writer's philosophy of human relations as applied to problems of railroad organization. They are direct, conversational, intentionally filled with homely phrases and railroad metaphors, but skilfully composed and rich in thoughtful suggestions. While many of the problems discussed are local, pertaining to a given time and place, the series in general have elements of value which ensure them a place in the literature of railroad operation. He was also the author of an article on wartime railroading in Mexico contributed to The Railway Library 1913 (1914).
Hine was an advocate of what he called the "unit system of management. " This system he described in detail in a series of articles published in the Engineering Magazine from January to June 1912 and in a book entitled Modern Organization: An Exposition of the Unit System (1912). As proposed, the plan of reorganization was limited to railroads. From 1908 to 1911 he was organization expert for the Union Pacific System, and as such put his plan into operation on several of the Harriman lines. After the dissolution of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific combination by order of the Supreme Court, his plan was abandoned. In 1912-1913 he was senior vice-president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico, and the Arizona Eastern Railroad.