Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-22
THE RAILROADS.

he New England Freight Injunction
hoard Of Directors for the New Eng.
land Road - The New Haven Rail-
road shops - No Undue Preferences
or Favoritlsm . A Splendid Equip.
ment.
At the Office of the Consolidated Rail-
Dad company the important announce
nent is made that after conference with
Judge Wallace 1t has been decided that the
:ecent Injunction In regard to payments Of
freight on the New England road does not
apply to Connecticut and will not be OBJ
served in this stats. The proceedings were
brought in . suit for the southern district
Of New York in which the two roads have
no junction points. This practically kills
the Injunction unless new proceedings
are brought by the New England receivers,
who will probably have to apply in that
case to Judge Townsend, and perhaps be-
gin regular suit.
NEW ENGLAND ROAD ANNUAL MEETING.
At the New England road meeting In
Boston yesterday the reorganization COM
pany reported the ticket for directors ~
follows: A. @. Tower, Philadelphia; John
Keane, jr, Thomas Q. Platt, Benjamin r.
Tracy, New York; Spencer Erwin, James
F. Sinnot. Philsdelphis; Arthur Brock,
Lebanon, Pa; A. Vaughn, Providence; D.
s. Plume, Arthur Sewsll, Portland; Cor
don A. Blyott, Charles T. Adams, I'd, A.
8. Bigelow, s. N. Weld, Boston; John. G..
Moore, General Samuel Thomas, New York;
John W. Doane, Chicago; N. J. Perry,
Rhode Island.
The new directory is considered to be a
very strong one, was received with ap'
plause and was unanimously elected by the
votes OF 131 ,573 shares. The election Of 9
president was deferred and the meeting
again adjourned subject to the call of the
directory. The reorganization committees
did not max a formal report, as 1t had not
had sufficient time to thoroughly investi-
gate the affairs of the road, and asked fol
moro time. The committee was Instructed
to report to the stockholders by mail.
Gordon Abbott is vice president of the
Old Colony Trust company, and A. @.
Tower Is junior member Of the banking
firm of Tower, Giddings & Co. The next
FIVE nsmes are of New York men. MIR.
Doane is from Chicago, and is one of the
Union Pacific receivers. Messrs. Erwin,
Sinnot and Brock are from Philadelphia,
Messrs. Perry and Vaughn from Provi.
and Arthur Sewall, the nineteenth direct
or, ia from Bath, Maine.
The new board will probably not organ
iEs by choice of president, etc for q week.
It is not yet decided as to how long the
new board chosen will remain in Office, but
the only question will be the reduction
of its number from nineteen to thirteen.
The permanent board will be made up,
however, of those chosen yesterday, If the
number of members Is reduced. The
board is spoken of as a business
mans board in the interest of the city OF
Boston. The only names that can be iden
titled with the New York, New Haven and
Hartford are ssid to be those of A. O. Tow
or of Boston and John G. Moore of New
York. It Is understood that Mr.. Hart
trustee of the second mortgage bonds
who also represents !, 900 shares of stock
and who is said to be identified with thu
New York, New Haven and Hartford in
terests, was denied representation on tn
board.
Charles Francis Adams, I'd, is one O
the younger members of that family, Il
not far from thirty years of age, and law
yer.
Francis O. Lowell, not over forty, ant
of the law firm of Lowell, Stimson & Low
ell.
The directors met in the afternoon ant
adjourned until Tuesday next at II o'clocl
| .. NJ, when they will organize.
1 THE OoNsoL1DATED's CAR DEPARTMENT sEB
Superintendent Fry of the Consolidate
road says of the story floating around II
garding the discharge of men in the ca
department and that u-due preference
had been given outsiders, thai the ca
never better than now, both passsnge
and freight, and adds:
1--WE operate on both systems abor
| 800 trains daily, and the percentage {
delays attributable to defects in car equil
ment is reduced to the minimum, demon
strating The healthy condition Of the o
equipment over so large . system and Il
high character of the equipment In all r
spects."
| As to the employment of police, l
says:
1.-THE facts are that We have an area
about forty.fvs acres assigned to the Of
department for storage of the company
cars and material and supplies. As it b
been found that tramps and other evil II
clined persons have been engaged in stes
ing such items as lead pipes, brass metal
ETC., and considering that there is higl
way which renders it an easy matter +,
these thieves to hide around the cars,
| was deemed necessary to have some pr
lection and the same was provided by tW
special policemen, one of the men being
charge of the property and yards, Il
second night watchman in same yards, WI
would patrol the yards"
| As to the reported undue discharge
New Haven men Mr.. Fry says:
shall let the figures speak for then
selves. At the time the writer took char
of the Car equipment department the nun
Der of men employed at the New Have
shops amounted to 270 and the MONTH
pay roll to $4,000. At the present wri
ing we have 600 men and the total of tt
monthly pay roll amounts to SEQ, 900, q
increase of 100 per cent. Out of this nun
Der there are about seventy from abroa.
including Wilmington, New York, Phil
delphis, Baltimore and other cities; Il
balance are New Haven men and men frol
surrounding towns. This shows that IL
number of New Haven men has not d.
creased, while, on the other hand, may
ask, do not tho citizens of New Haven q
the benefits Of this increased force, whic
certainly show satisfactory results In q
increased circulation of your paper"
1.-THE real economy exists in the oentra
ization of labor, and it was thought prope
to bringt his to New Haven, and, in 40 d.
ing, the various shops along the line wei
not closed but simply assigned to maxim
running repairs, while the extraordinar
and better class of work required In orde
to get uniformity was performed at Ne,
Haven. In centralizing this small army o
labor and to meet competitive prices o
car manufacturers, 1t was absolutely nee
essary to secure experts, and for that pur
pose men were recruited from the variou
car manufactures all over the country
which should not appear singular, If yo'
stop to consider that this department
composed of fifteen different branche
foreign to one another, and such steI
was also necessary to keep so large forcl
of inexperienced New Haven men,"
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