The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-03
ABlG DAY FOR BIG MEETINGS.
The Norfolk and Western c ON.
pany Heads the List.
Then Foil ,ws the Roanoke Machine
Works. the Pocahontas Coal Company,
the Roanoke Land and Improvement
Company, the Virginia Land Conn any.
the Arcadia Iron Company, the Grocer
Iron Company and Several Others.

the Arcadia Iron Company, the Grocer
Iron Company and Several Others.
Perhaps no other day this year will be
Of more material i'm por lance to Roanoke
and Southwest Virginia than this, the
81 day of May. Many OF the big corpc-
rations which have done SO much to
make Southwest Virginia prosperous,
industrial and manufacturing country
will hold their annual NEE .ings in Roa.
noke to day, and their proceedings will
be watched with much interest by all
classes Of people.
First and foremost among these will
be the annual meeting of the share.
holders OF the Norfolk and Western
Railroad Company. President T. ].
Ktmball and party reached the city yes
terday evening at o'clock on special
and also that OF Vice President and
&c, Q .al Manager III. Sands.
The party consisted OF f. ]. Kimball
and Clarence Fl. Clark, OF Philadel-
phia; William Vivian, of London,
England; Richard s. Brock and Joseph
I. Doran, of Phiiadelphia; A. J. Dull, of
Harrisburg, Pa; Col. W. II Taylor
and Col. William Lamb, OF Norfolk,
Va; Col. u L. Boyce, of Boyce, Va
and Cbas. ii. Mellon and A. j Hemp
hill. of Philadelphia. The party are
all CHARTERED at Hotel Roanoke. The
meeting is announced to take place this
morning at 10 o'clock in the Office OF
general manager, at which time thir
teen directors for the ensuing year wi
be elected, the annual. reports of officers
n l,oxo I'D
ness transacted as may properly come
before the meeting. When it is remem-
bared that very passenger carried over
the road and every pound OF freight are
all to be accounted for and ev ry cent
received and disbursed to be properly
shown up on the companys books it
will be seen that there is great deal
TO bs locked after by tho heads of the
different departments.
The Roanoke Machine Works, the
backbone OF Roanoke's industries, will
also hold its annual meeting and elect
seven directors for the ensuing year.
Following this c:mes the eighth
annual meeting of the Pocahontas Coal
Company, who control the entire output
OF the famous Pocahontas Flat Top
coal known and used now almost the
world over. The election of officers
this meeting. The present officers are:
D. H. Matson. vice presidens and trea-
surer; Q. Is. Bell, secretary and assis.
tant treasurer: II. M. Claxton, general
agent. Mr.. Mason has been acting
president since the resignation of Presi-
dent w. c. Bullitt, who was recently
elec.ed vice president of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company. The
board of directors consists OF L. j Kim
ball, w. G. Bullitt, II S. Trout, Joseph
l. Doran, JOSEPH q. Sands, j. Allen
Watts and Henry Fairfax.
This morning at IL o'clock will be
held the eleventh annual meeting of
the Roanoke Land and Improvement
Company. This is the first land i'm
provement company organized in this
section. and while its stockholders have
enriched themselves by wise invest
ments and Improvements they have also
aided materially in the upbuilding and
advancement OF the city. The annual
report OF the president of the board of
directors will be presented to-day and
nine directors ele cied for the incoming
year. Clarence H. Clark, OF Philadel-
phia, is president OF the company; II. S.
Trout, of Roanoke, vice president, and
III. K. Gerhard, OF Philadelphia, secre-
tary and treasurer.
These corporations have brought mil
lions of dollars into this and other
sections OF the State. and arc still
| developing and improving their terri.
tory, especially in the Southwest
a number of other corporations will
also hold their annual meetings for the
election Of officers and the transaction
OF routine business Principal among
these are the Virginia Land Company,
| the Suffolk Land and improvements Com
| pany, the Crewe Land and I'm provement
| Company, the Shenandoah Land and I'm
provement Company, the Arcadia Iron
Works Company and the Virginia Min
eral Railway Company.
The Grocer Iron Company, the Roa-
noke development Company, the Vir-
GINA Company, the Edith Iron Mining
Company and the Southwest Virginia
Real Estate Investment Company, will
also hold their annual meetings to dsy.
Hotel Roanoke is crowded with guests
most of whom are in some way inter
ested in the company meetings.
| President Kimball and pa ty are ex
| pected to leave tom orrow for Norfolk,
from whence moss of the party will re-
turn to their homes. Mr. Kimba!l and
Mr. Vivian will r3main and make a
tour of inspection over the road In Mr.
Kimballs private car The programme
for Roanoke includes visit to Rock
| ledge Inn.
The Atlanta and Florida Sold.
ATLANTA, May The Atlanta AND
Florida railroad was sold at public
auction today on petition Of the comp