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Promoted to New Position with Cunard Line The promotion of J. L. Austin, for 10 years manager of the Cleveland office of the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd., to the position of assistant gen- eral passenger manager of the com- pany with headquarters in New York, Jesse L. Austin Assistant Passenger Manager, Cunard Line is a fitting recognition of faithful and able service. He assumed his new duties on April 1. Mr. Austin opened the Cleveland of- fice of the Cunard line in 1919, his company being the first of the trans- atlantic lines to recognize the im- portance of this city as a travel cen- ter. Practically all of the other large steamship lines soon followed the lead of the Cunard line and opened offices in Cleveland. S. A. Eddy, formerly manager of the Minneapolis office of the line, succeeded Mr. Austin as manager at Cleveland. The steamship career of the new assistant passenger manager of one of the oldest and largest of the trans- atlantic lines began as office boy in the New York office in 1905 when he was 15 years of age. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1890, and comes of seafaring stock, his family having followed the sea for genera- tions. The Austins first came to America in 1638 on the good ship BEvis and settled in Salem, Mass. When he first joined the Cunard line the crack steamers of the fleet were the LUCANIA and CAMPANIA. He had varied experience in sey- eral departments until declaration of war in 1917 when he joined the Amer- o2 ican navy and served for two years. On release from duty in 1919 he re- joined the Cunard staff in the first class booking department, where he served for . few months when ordered to Cleveland to establish an office. The Cleveland office, serving Ohio and part of Kentucky, became one of the most successful offices in the Cunard chain under his alive and effi- cient management. All of his friends wish for him the greatest measure of success in his new duties. Completes Twenty -~Five Years of Service John Pannes, passenger traffic man- ager of the Hamburg-American line, celebrates his twenty-fifth anniversary with the company on Monday, April 15. Beginning as a booking clerk in the passenger department of the Ham- burg-American line in 1900, Mr. Pannes was appointed Southwestern manager in 1906, and had charge of the St. Louis office. In 1913 he was transferred to Philadelphia where he was stationed until the company dis- continued that office in 1917. In 1921 Mr. Pannes entered the em- ploy of the United American Lines Inc., as a member of the passenger department of the joint service op- erated by the Hamburg-American line and the Harriman shipping interests. Shortly afterwards: he was promoted to the position of assistant passenger traffic manager and on Jan. 1, 1928, he was appointed passenger traffic manager. He also was the recipient of a John Pannes Passenger Manager, Hamburg-American Line material recognition from the: board of directors of the company for his faithful services. MARINE REVIEW—May, 1929 Is Elected Chairman of Board of Directors Andrew Wells Robertson of Pitts- burgh, president of the Philadelphia company, was unanimously elected chairman of the board of directors of the Westinghouse Electric and Man- ufacturing Co. in a meeting of that A. W. Robertson Chairman of Board, Westinghouse Electric Co. board, held in its offices at 150 Broad- way, New York city, Jan. 16. Mr. Robertson is of Scottish par- entage. He is in his 49th year. He was graduated from Allegheny col- lege, Meadville, Pa., in 1906 with a degree of A. B. and from the law school of the University of Pitts- burgh in 1910 with a degree of L.L.D. After practising law in Pitts- burgh, he became general attorney of the Philadelphia company, which, with its affiliated companies operated all of the electric light and street railway properties and most of the gas prop- erties in the Pittsburgh district. After having served for several years as vice president of that company in charge of public relations and the law de- partment he was elected as its presi- dent in 1926, which office he has held since. In addition to. his important busi- ness activities, Mr. Robertson has been prominent in public affairs in Pitts- burgh, especially in connection with the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce. Mr. Robertson will withdraw from his other business activities and devote his entire time to the Westinghouse company. For the present his official headquarters will be in Pittsburgh. ig ss Paina Se cat ek ae eae