Evening star., 1896-11-16
receivers, and which paper has been stu
diouSlY kent from public gaze.

receivers, and which paper has been stu
diously kept from public gaze.
OF the members of the present board
Major Alexander Shaw of Baltimore Is
chairman of what is known as the Baiti-
more reorganization committee, and which
has been threatening to go into court with
the alleged intention of trying to force the
receivers to allow the minority stockhold-
ers, represented on the committee, TO
have an examination of the books of the
company made by expert appointed by
the committee.
New York Party Strong.
Whether this fact will cause Maj. Shaw
to lose any Of the votes by which he was
made director at the last annual election,
and by which he had been constituted a
member of the board during several years
previously. cannot yet be stated with
any certainty, and any active opposition
to him. If any such has existed, will not
probably be made known until during the
meeting.
Certainly no want of ability to perform
the duties of the place he has for long
and trying period held-that of chairman
of the finance committee-can be alleged
against Maj. Shaw, and the only reason to
fear that there Is danger that he may not
be reelected is to be found in the fact that
the Garrett estate, which has warmly and
effectively supported him in the past. is
now actively allied with the New York par
ties who, it is said, have a disposition to
exercise their power to put man of their
own choosing in Maj. Shaw's place.
Old board REFLECTED.
from Baltimore states that the count of the
votes showed that the old board of di-
reCtors, with one exception, was reelected.
Mr.. James l.. McLane, who represents the
Johns Hopkins Univ ersity interests, taking
the place of Mr.. Aubrey Pearre, who WILL
however. remain as a director in several of
the leased lines. This is taken to mean
that the security holders of the Bal
timore and Ohio in New York are not
alarmed concerning any action that the
Baltimore committee of reorganization may
take in carrying out their proposed attempt
to compel the former to allow the Baltimore
people to employ an expert accountant to
examine the company's books in order to
satisfy themselves of the true condition of
the Baltimore and Ohio's affairs.
1t was today stated to Star reporter by
a prominent Baltimore and Ohio official
that there would be no further changes in
the personnel of the company's staff. ex
cept for causes that may hereafter arise,
and that there was not an official In the
company's service at this time who is not
entirely satisfactory to the executive man.
agement.
The General Managers REPORT.
Among the matters referred to in the re-
port of General Manager Greene are the
immense system of improvements at Cum
berland, Nd, which place it is intended by
Receiver Murray shall become the Altoona
of the Baltimore and Ohio Company, and
which has heretofore been fully described
in The Star, and the doubling of the capac-
ity of the Locust Point yards at Baltimore,
thus providing storage room for $500 cars.
In all, six acres are being added to the
former area of the yard, giving the COM
pany twelve additional tracks, and making
one of the longest, If not the very longest,
freight yard In the United States, and COW
ering an area of nearly twenty acres in all.
The Few tracks will also run under Fort
avenue, one of the leading business streets
in the southern section of Baltimore, as do
other matters the extension of a bridge
along the street about 400 feet toward Fort
McHenry This will be steel structure
with substantial granite abutments.
The lot which Is being converted into the
new yards was formerly sort of public
dump and feeding place for the goats and
geese of Locust Point, the former having
great piles of tin cans upon which to whet
their appetites and the latter an abundance
of grain which fell from the cars AS they
were being taken to the elevators.
The Baltimore and OHIO has needed more
track room at Locust Pon: for some time,
ana more especially since tne rOdu went
into the hands Of receivers. OF late it has
been almost impossible to properly accom-
modate the heavy freight traffic there on
account of the smallness of the yard.
With the extension the company will have
almost a solid yard for distance of nearly
four miles. The yard will be run under the
new portion of the bridge the same as
under the old. At least thirteen miles Of
additional track will be laid. and the entire
Nost of the improvements will be about
$4,000.