Show ll WANT A AS S SHOWDOWN E. E E. E H. H HARRIMAN HARIMA CHICAGO Oct Ot 17 Wh When When n the annual meeting of the tho C Central stockholders ers reconvened toJO today It was evident e that lint the chances chance were small smal for tor a vote on the tho directors today Tho The pOX proxy committee which hail had worked for the greater part par of oC the thc night had hod ono gone on through the the letters leters A and B and had har gotten a little way Into C The Harriman Hariman faction action acton was anxious for fora or ora a showdown and A Attorney Cromwell Cromwel proposed d to the other attorneys attorney that all th the proxies bo ho hI submitted to the meeting al no as 8 the they stood and that lint n a test of strength th be had haJ In Iii this wa way Judge Karrar Farrar for or Mr Fish objected saving that it I was known leown that thai man ninny many revocations revo reVo- of or proxies 9 ho had hod be bean belm n given hen and that the tho showdown would not nol be bo a true truo tro test of strength t th During this debate which preceded the thc calling to order of or th the m meeting Mr Ir Cromwell Cromwel a again aln proposed that hint nil all 01 the proxies bo be thrown on th the table arid and the conflicting proxies ruled out out This would have ha hn annulled annuled all al the tho ro revocations and the tho proposition was y refused by th the tho Fish attorneys I The Thc meeting was wa called caled to order an nn hour hoar late latE b by President Harahan n hr said Tho The proxy committee Is not read ready to report and anI nd wn wo will wi wait a Q f few w minutes to see if the they can cnn give ue US anything definite before we adjourn Tho The meeting after considerable waitIng waltIng walt wait altIng Ing voted to adjourn until 3 |