Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-02
REPORTS ABOUT REMOVAL.
What Portland Reporter Learned Respect /.
.. ing II.

Argus .relativ to the removal Of Col
| Tucker from the management of the M
c. r. r.. 1.-THE following may be of inter
est as it enters more fully into detail
| than the reports sent out by telegraph:
| On train No. II from Boston yesterda,
was the private car No. 444 of the presi
dent of the Boston 4 Maine. In the cal
were President Tuttle. Lewis Cass Led
Gen. Samuel c. Lawrence. Henry II
| Reed of Boston and Hon. Joseph H. Man
ley of Augusta. These gentlemen were
the Maine Central. John Ware, Thomas
". Hyde. Joseph $. Kicker and VIM. G
Davis. This constituted the. entir.
board with the exception Of Mr.. Pullman
The directors proceeded TO the general off
| ces where President Wilson called the
| board TO order at l O'Clock. Some small
matters of routine were acted upon. when
| Gen. Lawrence acting 1t is understood
| for the Boston & Maine interest made the
| proposition TO General Manager Tucker
| that he should resign his office. The Ar
gus is informed that Gen. Lawrence and
Mr. I.elyard who supported him urged
upon Mr.. Tucker that he should retire.
that he had worked constantly. often day
| and night. for more than twenty years
and that he ought IN Justice to himself
and to his family and friends to step out
and take life easier.
Mr.. Tucker who was not as much taken
by surprise as some people might infer
replied that he did not propose TO resign
He said that he considered himself Sill
young and sound enough to remain at the
helm for while longer and that he
should not retire.
If the allegation was made that he
could not do the work required he should
deny it, If the directors doubted his
ability then they might GUST him if they
mad votes, enough. Otherwise he should
remain where he was. Surely no volun-
tary act of his, looking toward putting
himself on the shelf would be considered
for moment
A recess was then taken during which
Gen. Lawrence Is said TO have pleaded for
AN hour or more with Mr.. Tucker to re-
sign and relieve the board of the necessity
of voting him out, II being presupposed
that his retirement was the only thing to
be considered. Mr. Tucker remained firm
saying that there was no reason known to
him why he should either step out or be
thrown out but that at All events he
should not step out.
The board then reassembled and on
motion OF Gen. Lawrence 1t was voted to
elect George +. Evans general manager OF
the Maine Central railroad in place of
Payson Tucker 1t is said that the vote
stood:
Yes-Tuttle. Lawrence. I.edyard, Whit
ney. Reed. Kicker ana NANCY
Not Noting-Tucker-l
Mr., Tucker ut once went TO his office
and packed UP his private papers, leaving
at 1 O'Clock for his home on Deering
street.
Mr. Tucker was seen later at his house.
He naturally took the matter very hard,
as he said he considered it a freeze out.
He said that nearly everybody in Maine
knew his record that he had taken the
Maine Central - years ago whcnthe stock
was worth s. a share and had made it his
life and soul. working day and night ana
taking few holidays. He had brought II
up to its present standard of efficiency and
had made it pay per cent dividends ANA
stand on a footing equal 10 any other IN
the country. Now. because somebody had
an ambition TO be the supreme head cen
tire of a great system he WAS made to walk
the plank.
Mr. Tucker laid his downfall 70 Boston
& Maine influence He said that the
Boston Il Maine held an immense block
Of Maine Central stock and that they have
been drawing he lines tighter and tighter |
the Maine Central into a closer relation |
ship to the Boston Il Maine.
lit got So. said Mr.. Tucker. that er-
cry time they pulled the string IN Boston |
they expected me TO dance. | am too Old |
to dance and here | am.
Mr. Tucker said that he felt that his |
record was safe in the hands of his
friends-and he might have added that |
every man in Maine is his friend-and |
said that he considered that he stood high |
n than the element which ousted him.
There is evidently a great discrepancy |
between the statements OF the |
various interests involved. In fact the two |
wings don't flap together at all
1t is fact we'll known to various peo-
pie that a trusted official of the Boston Il
Maine came to this city more than a year
ago and investigated the entire financial !!
of the Maine Central. Accord
ng 10 his report by rearranging and
moving the offices to Boston and chang
ng the existing traffic arrangements the
gain and saving would be in round mum
5ers $500 900 a year It is presumed that |
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