The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-26
wRENNE REPLIES TO HARTMAN.
The Threatened ReceivershiD by the
Nashville Syndicate Denied


Nashville. Tenn. April 2f-Editor Morn
ing News: In your issue OF Sunday last
relative 10 the receivership OF the City
and Suburban railway Mr. J. y. Hartman
Is reported as making, among others, the
Following statements viz: Not more
tnan three months ago We were threatened
with a recelvership by the representatives
OF the Nashville syndicate II we refused
20 enter into the consolidation. MI. T.
w Wrenne Of Nashville, one OF the direc-
tors OF the Electric railway, told me that
the papers had already been drawn IN the
once OF Charlton. MackaU 4 Anderson,
ana that We could be put in the hands Of
a receiver In twenty-fOur hours"
! ask permission I'm your columns to cor
rect these statements. 1 assume that Mr..
Hartman is correctly reported and yet /
20 not believe that he intended TO state
incorrectly any conversation that / may
nave had with him. Nevertheless, the fore
going statements from him are so FAR from
tne Iacts that they require correction.
There is absolutely no foundation for the
hrst statement that they were threat
ehed with a receiVership II they refused
70 enter into the consolidation, and am
unable TO see how Mr.. Hartman can OF
Ter an excuse for making the same. a
threat OF that character would have been
so puerile and absurd that il seems to me
almost unnecessary to deny his statement
that II was made. i have several times
sald TO Mr.. Hartman that the City and
SuDgrDan railway could be put IN the
hahos OF receiver, and would be when
ever an application was made, and may
have said within twenty-four hours
time OF such application
me facts, as / understood them, touch
ing the management of the properties of
the city and Suburban and its policy to-
ward IT'S bondhOlders were such, that upon
an application for a receiver, the order
would follow as the day the night. but
at no time, told him or any one else that
a receiver would be appointed If they re
FUSED 10 enter into the consolidation or
a consolidation" nor did 1 intimate di-
rectly or indirectly such "A statement or
threat and this Mr.. Hartman well
The second statement that I told him
the papers had already been drawn in the
ONCE OF Charlton, Mackan & Anderson"
groundless
Mr.. Harriman's plans have been null
uLudlnous and he has confused statements
pie of this disorder
About the time that the amended bill OF
PeEear VS.. the Electric Railway Company
ana others was filed, charging the City
and Suburban railway and others with
conspiracy and before the hearing of the
PROOF on the question. efforts We're made
by Judge Speer, the receivers, and all par
ties IN interest, to adjust the differences
amicably and without trial. I Joined in
these efforts, and TO that end had sew
eral conversations with Mr.. Hartman
My position was, that IL would be to the
advantage OF all TO settle the differences
by mutual agreement and I particularly
urged that Mr.. Hartman change the DOif-
cy that he had pursued towards our prop
critics during the preceding months. In
one of these converse tions, as / now re-
member, l told him the papers were al
ready prepared, or would be prepared by
our counsel which would prove such n
state of facts in the conspiracy case, per
tanning to the management and policy
of tho city and Suburban, that when
brought to the attention of the court, the
court would, of its own motion, take con-
troll of that company and put il in tho
hands Of a receiver, to the end that sub
stantial justice might be done, its secu-
rity holders protected and the company
operated for the purposes for which 1t was
chartered. This is the statement that he
had in mind no doubt when he made the
publication referred to.
As l have said, Mr.. Hartman has had
many thing to think about, and when he
found that the bondholders of the Citv
and Suburban had, by the timely and
| etficaciOnS aid of the law, escaped the ar
| engagements he bad so carefully planned
| for them, il is but natural that he should
| have become nonplussed and lost his bear
| ings
| / have endeavored to state briefly the
! facts exactly as they occurred touchin I
/ the matter ingquestion, and as Mr.. Harri-
| mans mind has now been refreshed /
| think he will agree that ] have stated
| them correctly. Respectfully
Thomas w. Wrenne.