National Republican., 1875-12-29
MIR. HARr,s lICrLE CANE.


There is desperate game being played
by Mr.. Hart, of Chatham street. New
York, to secure control of the Washington
and Georgetown railway at the approach
ing annual meeting Of the stockholders. A
board of directors is to be chosen at that
meeting which will manage the road dur
ing the ensuing year. The question al
issue is a simple one Shall this enterprise
be controlled by home board, or shall it
be again given over to the management Of
the plunderers of Chatham street? The
citizens of this District have had taste Of
both policies, and, as the EUenirg Star Of
yesterday truthtully says:
"They will not soon forget the late Hart
regime over this road-the filthy, rickety, IN
ventilated, vermin-infested cars, with smoky
lamps and impracticable windows; the miser-
able, worn-out tracks, so badly kept that the
cars were off them quite as often as on them;
and when it was the commonest of occur
rences to have the whole travel OF a street
blocked up while the effort was being made by
drivers, conductors and passengers to help the
wretched, halfstarved horses to lift q wrecked
car upon the dilapidated rails. And all this
shabby meanness Of management was not in
the line of economy for the benefit of the
stockholders, but to enable Mr.. Hart to keep
up his little Credit Mobilier inside arrange
ment, which included salary of $4,000 per
annum for Mr.. Hart's New York president
his own salary as vice president, mileage,
hotel expenses, and extras for his New York
directors on their trips to Washington, and the
various fat things in the way of contracts and
supplies peculiar to Credit Mobilier operations,
where the inner circle get the profits, and the
outside stockholders get assessments instead
of dividends"
The last two years of this despicable
management (E8llted in two per cent.
dividend 10 tiie si5t1k holders, and that paid
from borrowed money, while the road was
found TO be imperative on account of the
dilapidatCd condition Of the tracks and
rolling stock. A District board, composed
in part of such men as VIM. r. Riley,
VIM. Orme and VIM. Gunton, assumed
control, and, together with Mr.. Hurt the
present president, in few months have re-
stored the property Of the company To- a pay
ing basis, and at the same time placed it in
position 10 afford such accommodations to
the public as they have right to demand
and expect.
Mr. Hart and his associates now haYe the
cheek to ask the stockholders to intrust the
management again to them, that they may
once more put their blood-letting schemes in
practice at their expense. In order to
completely unmask the duplicity of the
Chathsm-street clique, and fully expose
the policy which it is pursuing to hood
wink small stockholders and obtain posses
sion of their property for ignoble purposes,
attention is invited TO the extracts from late
letters liom Messrs. Hart and Phillips
printed below:
Extracts from letters to the President of the
Washington and Georgetown Railroad Co.
MAY 81, 1871 am pleased to hear that
you arc getting on so well with the road"
(Signed) II. HART.
july q, lSf5-"Your favor of yesterday
came duly to hand, ard it afforded me good
deal of pleasure to read the contents thereof,
and it gave me good deal of satisfaction to
see you progressing so well with the road, and
paving of the debts Of the company"
(sigred) H.HART.
September %. 1S75-"Your several fayors
have been noticed, and Mr.. Remsen has been
out of town most of the summer, and he as
well as myself are much pleased that you are
doing so well, and hope in the future we may
go on improving"
H. IlAhI-
October 4, 1S75-"Your statement of COM
parison of receipts for nine months of 1874
and 1875, also to hand. / am also pleased to
notice that you are doing SO WELL,
october 10. 1s75-''Your favor of the 18th
instant came duly to hand this morning, and
/ am very much pleased to hear that the road
to do so, and that You will not find any trouble
| in meeting the usual dividends. Mr. Remsen
and myself are very much pleased with your
| letter.
(signed) II. HART.
January %. 1ST5-Letter to one of the
directors in Washington 81 fully agree with
| you as to necessity of building new stables,
and have proposed the following plan to the
| New York stockholders, to which they all
| fully agree"
| (Signed) SAMUEL L. PHILLIPS.
January %, 1S75-To the President 'You
must not think that am at all dissatisfied
| with your management. / know of no living
man with whom would sooner have nv in
| terests intrusted than with yourself You
have my entire confidence now, as you always
! have had"
(Signed) SAMUEL L. PHILLIPS
March 4, 1Sf5-"Yours is received. / am
much pleased with your administration"
| (Signed) SAMUEL L. PHILLIPS.
November II, 1S75-"I am much pleased to
| hear of your continued success. The road is
well managed, and We, as stockholders, re-
joice in your prosperity. 1t makes our stock
| valuable"
(Signed) SAMUEL L. PHILLIPS.
And now a careful reading of the follow
ing letter from this ''well pleased" Mr.. 81.
Hart will be fully appreciated by every
stockholder who wants to receive all diyi-
dends earned by the property of which he
| is the owner:
NEW YORK, December Is, 1875.
DEAR SIR: Several printed circulars have
| been issued soliciting your proxy for the next
| election of directors of the Washington and
| Georgetown Railroad Company. One of these
| was Issued by the president, and another by
| three gentlemen, namely. Charles G. Glover,
| owner of thirty shares; Edward Temple, owner
| of none, but whose wife has thirty shares, and
| Leonard Whitney, owner of one hundred
shares.
The ostensible purpose Of these circulars is
| to protect the present officers of the company,
but the real object is TO take the road from the
| management of those who have thousands Of
shares and bonds and transfer 1t upon others
| whose interests are so small that 1t would be
a matter IF no moment whether the company
| fails or not.
Ordinarily the amount invested is the meas
ure of mans interest. Partial statements of
the financial condition of the road have been
made for the purpose of influencing your votes,
but critical examination Of their own state