Hinds

to have been gained soon after he joined the
Press, when he covered a session of the Maine
legislature and was said to have started an agi-
tation for the removal of the capital to Portland
which was defeated only by the intervention of
James G. Elaine. When Thomas B. Reed be-
came speaker in the Fifty-first Congress in 1889
he appointed Hinds speaker's clerk, but the ad-
verse results of the elections of 1890 and 1892
relegated him again to his editorial duties.
When Reed again became speaker in 1895,
Hinds was promoted to the post of clerk at the
speaker's table and at the advice of the speaker,
who desired to make the position one of dignity
and importance, began the study of parliamen-
tary law and procedure.

The diligence and capacity which Hinds dis-
played in this work made him an invaluable as-
sistant to Speakers Reed, Henderson, and Can-
non, and he retained his post at the speaker's
table from 1895to I911- During his incumbency
he was able to bring to completion his monu-
mental work: Hinds3 Precedents of the House
of Representatives of the United States (1907-
08), published as House Document 355, 59 Con-
gress, 2 Session. This study had had its modest
beginnings in a scrapbook in which he posted
the rulings of various speakers and other useful
material for consultation and had been preceded
in 1899 by the publication of a valuable manual
on the rules and practices of the House (House
Document 576, 55 Cong., 2 Sess.). In its final
form, containing five volumes of more than a
thousand pages each, with a multitude of cita-
tions covering the entire history of the House,
together with three additional volumes of index
and digest, it constituted a work of unique im-
portance. "His great work/' says the historian
of the House, "happily combines minuteness of
research with wideness of vision. Nothing seems
to have escaped his eye, or to have blurred his
appreciation of the historic value of the slightest
incident. . . . Congress should ever be proud
that it possessed a teacher whose constructive
work must always remain its richest heritage"
(D. S. Alexander, History and Procedure of
the House of Representatives, 1916, Preface, p.
xiv). Hinds succeeded Amos Allen as repre-
sentative of the 1st Maine district in 1911, but
his health had broken under the strain of labors
on the Precedents and his career as a member of
the House (1911-17) was not conspicuous. It
is also a matter of regret that failing strength
had obliged him to abandon a projected biog-
raphy of Speaker Reed which he would have
been admirably qualified to write. His death
took place in Washington, D. C. He had mar-

Hine
ried Harriet Louise Estey of Roslindale, Mass.,
Sept, 3, 1891.
[A. H. Hinds, Hist, and Geneal of the Hinds Family
(1899) ; G. T. Little, Geneal and Family Hist, of the
State of Me. (1909), HI, 1537-39; Who's Who in
America, 1918-19; N. Y. Times, May 3, 1919; Port-
land Daily Press, May 3, 8, 1919; Portland Evening
Express and Advertiser, May 10, 1919.] W.A R.
HINE, CHARLES DE LAND (Mar. 15,
i867-Feb. 13, 1927), railroad official, author,
and organization expert, was born at Vienna,
Fairfax County, Va. He was a descendant of
Thomas Hine who settled in Milford, Conn,,
about 1639, and the son of Orrin Eugene Hine,
a major in the soth New York Volunteer Engi-
neers, 1861-65, and of Alma (De Lano) Hine,
After graduating from the United States Mili-
tary Academy on June 12, 1891, and receiving a
commission as second lieutenant, he studied law
at the Law School of Cincinnati College and in
1893 was admitted to the bar. In 1895 he sev-
ered 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, ist District of Columbia Vol-
unteer Infantry, taking part in the siege and
occupation of Santiago de Cuba in July and Au-
gust 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
Aug. 20, 1917, to Jan. 9, 1918, he was in com-
mand of the i6sth Infantry, at first in the United
States and then in France; he was assigned in
January to special duties at headquarters (Serv-
ices of Supply), was transferred as colonel to
the Motor Transport Corps in September 1918,
and was honorably discharged at Washington
on Jan. 10, 1919, after the conclusion of hostili-
ties. In October 1921, he was appointed colo-
nel 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-Indian-
apolis division of this road. He thus gained an
intimate knowledge of the workings of the rail-
road machine which, with the background of a
legal and military education, an active, inquir-
ing 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, Va,,