The New York herald., 1873-07-09
ERIE IN PEACE.
Some of the Most Wonderful VOt.
ing on Record.
Annual Election Of Eric Directors-0ne Man
Swings 100000 Votes and Has 100000
Left-s6O, 100000 in HIS Brooches
Pocket-The Money that Erie Has
Earned in Six Months.


Erie Railway Company, 'for the election OF dt
ness as might come before the meeting" was held
yesterday at the on1ces OF the company in the
Grand opera House. To all outside appearances
there were no stockhoi ders, or anybody else, In
fact, present beyond the ordinary ofncers and
attaches Of the great corporation. At one
OF the tables In an inner apartment
sat some seven or eight gentlemen busy
with penA Ink and paper, and having
. small box Of the dimensions Of q cubic foot be-
fore them. The box had small sliding lid to close
an aperture ct the top. Among the gentlemen
seated at the table were Mr.. s. L. NJ. Barlow, A. s.
Hewitt, Charles Day and Mr.. ray. Mr. Barlow
seemed to be doing all the voting and the o''.or
gentlemen were inspectors and 'teners." Every
owner Of o share OF stock Ii entitled to one vote
for each share held by him. Mr.. Barlow deposited
votes for upwards OF forty million dollars Of stock
and had
PALrRY TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND VOTES
representing $20,000,o00 moro, In his breeches
pocket when he quit. The polls were open from
ten O'Clock A. M. to two p. NJ, and he could have
got through in about another hour; but he mad re-
peated as often as was necessary, and was at 1t as
early as any OF them. ew people who owned o
bagatelle OF from quarter to half million OF
stock crept up modestly and dropped in their little
tickets, and 1t was only at such intervals OF inter-
ruptiOn that Mr.. Barlow got chance Tor iest- Talk
about straight ticketsn There was only one ticket
at the Opera House yesterday, and That was made
out by Mr.. Barlow (mainly), his own name was on
1t rs one Of the candidates, and he voted 1t once
each share Ior about four hundred Thousand shares
OF stock and had about two hundred thousand
votes left Tor emergencies II that ISN'T "runnlng"
machine" perhaps sI,,d tue lase BOSS can give
said he didn't scratch" his name once, but voted
1t straight through like man. During the day
quite number OF prom.nent stockholders, stock
brokers and
RAILROAD MAaRArEs DROPPED IN
to see whether Mr.: Barlow was doing the thing
was. President Watson and the genial and gentle
manly Homer Ramsdeil were among the number
and expressed the opinion that Mr.. Barlow WAS the
best qualifed voter they had ever seen: 1t is said
they intend getting up "corner'' in votes by the
whole contract for both candidates. They
as Sus i. appeass that there we're
In England owning about iorty million dollars
owning about twenty millions worth, who had and
still have the most implicit confidence in Mr..
defeated to h the power to vote for them On
what are known as proxy" certificates He voted
on about one hundred and nfty Thousand shares
lOr American holders and on 25O, 900 for Europeans,
and then, a. two O'Clock came too soon,
HE HAD TO LEAVE OPT
before he had got In the other 200 000 Just after
the polls closed proxies 1000 shares additional
arrived from England by mail.
There was no opp0Slti0n tlcKet presented, so gnc
presumption is that everybody who holds Erie
stock Is satisfied with tho way in which things are
being done. The doors were all wide open, not
Prince and the affair passed OF without protest
OF any kind and there was no posse OF deputy
sherins nor Of "Pommy Lypchs gang" needed
THE TICKET ELECTED
Samuel D. BaDcock, John Taylor Johnston,
George II. Brown, Henry L. Lansing,
Herman K Baltzer, Edwin ID. Morgan,
Samuel L. NJ Barlow, Cortlandt Parker,
w. Butler Duncan, Homer Rausdell
Giles w. Kotchkiss, Lucus Robinson,
william l. Hart, Fred. Schuchardt,
Adrian l5elin, William W. Snippen
Peter II. Watson.
or these seven names are ne and the remain
ing ten were directors in lhc -Oi.- 5oard. The
new members are Messrs. Brown, Barter, Hotch-
kiss Hart lselin, Parker and Robinson. TIE seven
retiring members whom the above gentlemen sue
Pruyn' Alexander ). Diven J. T. oliphant, Charles
Day and w. Il. Iravers Mr.. Day and one or two
Of the other gentlemen were retired at their own
The new Board Of Directors will
MERT TO ORGANIZE
by the election OF President, Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer on Thursday morning Ito
morrow, at eleven O'Clock. There is no doubt
that MI. Watson viii be elected President. as his
direction has gwen the most unqualified satisfac-
tion. The prominent candidates for the Vice
Presidency are Mr. J. H. Deveraux, who, 1t Is said,
largely represents the Bischofrheim interest; MIR.
8. 0. p. Archer who has long been connected with
the road and was prominent In II under the FISK
,eoine. It IL said Mr.. Archer's chances are much
success.
1t had been generally anticipated tnat q dividend
would be declared by the retiring directors, but
those who expected 1t win be disappointed for the
present
the directory submitted yesterday the following
REPORT OF AFFAIRS
OF the company, as nearly accurate as at present
obtaiDaDie, up TO the period - o
or TIE ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY
New YORK, July s, 1879. J
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS or THE ERIE RAILWAY
COMPANY
The general law Of this state requires that re-
port shall be annually made for the year ending
September 3d. but the recent change in the time
for the holding oil the elections Of this company
from october to July would seem to make 1t proper
that partial report OF the operations OF the COM
pany TO this time should now be presented; but
this report Ia, from necessity, far from complete
even for the current six months as the returns
are not yet all in for the month OF May last In
the course of the next few weeks complete re-
port OF all operations to the LIST OF July can be
made and t Is intended that such report shall
then be made az viii snow. with precision the &C.
tua condition Of this companys AFFAIRS for the past
six months. - .,