| Show HAR RIM A ra 1 1 I 1 FAILS TO GET TH M a 0 A ILLINOIS CENTRAL IS TO BE KEPT independent faise and fail i ed cato to namo ai harrman Harr mar director chicago oct 17 As soon as the meeting of the stockholders of tile tho illinois central railroad was called today it if became evident that there would be no fight for the control of the railroad as william nelson crom well acting for mr fr harriman Harrl man turned over to stuyvesant fish the president of the road all the proxies for stock held by mr fr harriman Harrl man and mr fish was empowered to vote all the harri 1 man an stock ln in the meeting mr harriman Harrl man was not personally present at the meeting air cromwell said that mr harriman left new york with him but had left the train at fishkill N yani yand had returned to new york president fish nominated J W cutting of new york to serve for two years as the successor of the late W ni grinnell tho the three retiring directors charles al beach J A hara it han a and a n d corn cornelius cli u S vanderbilt were nominated to succeed themselves as director for the term of four years all of the men named for directors were elected without a contest during the meeting president fish and mr cromwell engaged in several discussions which at times approached the acrimonious mr cromwell insisted insl eted that president fish was in honor bound by virtue of a promise which he declared mr ir fish had given to mr harriman Harrl man to name as a successor to mr grannell charles de forest this mr fish declined to do giving as his reason for refusing that mr fr de forest Is a director of the southern pacific and declaring at the same time tame hs determination to to maintain the inde independence pen dence of the Illin illinois central it was said by mr cromwell that fc beach hai harahan ahan and vanderbilt werd agreeable to both sides when tile the matter was waa discussed in new york anil and he today charged president fish gitil a wish to nominate others in their aiace alace when the men were fina annall named mr cro cromwell m well beclar declared d that president fish had broken his promise to mr air harriman in naming namin r cutting as one of the directors director ho he ald aid that president fish had kept but adne one half of his promise and that a promise half kept had not been wt it t all yan dangler gler oct I 1 16 A caravan carava n consisting san g of forty camels convey ios ermany goods to modoc co city ba been e pillaged and dr rosen the german anan minister has entered an energetic protest with the moroccan government no n L |
