The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-22
NO CHANGE IN DIRECTORS.
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY
SHAREHOLDERS MEET TODAY.

ing of the s., r. and w. StockhOId-
ers For a Trip Over the System.
Present Boards VIII BE Reelected
For Each Line-SecOnd Vice Presi-
dent Plant on Tourist Outlook.
Grand Duchess Still at New York.
The annual meeting of the shareholders
of the Southern Express Company will be
held this morning at the office of Supt.
c. L. Myers of this division. The direc-
tors and officials of the company for the
ensuing year will be elected. The officials
say that no changes will take place, and
that the same boards will serve for an
other term.
The officials of the company are al
ready here. Some of them arrived yes
terday, while others got in Saturday
night with the party of Plant system Off
Gals Those who will be present at the
meeting are President H. B. Plant, Vice
President NJ. T. Plant, General Manager
NJ J. O'Brien, Assistant General Manager
T W. Leary, Traffic Manager C. L. Loop,
supt. W. ]. Croswell of Wilmington,
Supt. w. K. Halle of Jacksonville and
MIR. R. G. Erwin of Messrs. Erwin, du-
Bignon & Chisholm. general counsel for
the company.
The annual meeting of the Express Com
pany's shareholders falls conveniently for
the officials who are also at the head of
the Plant system. 1t is during this week
that the annual meetings of the stockhold-
ers of the lines comprising the Plant sys-
TEN are held. Two trips to the south for
the purpose of holding the meetings of
the two companies are thus avoided.
The meeting of the stockholders of the
Savannah Florida and Western railway
will be held tomorrow morning. There
will be no changes, the officials say, in the
board of directors or officials of the Sa
Vannah, Florida and Western or any other
of the lines. The party Of officials will
leave Savannah tomorrow at noon for
Brunswick, where the meeting for the
Brunswick and Western Will be held. From
that place the party, travelling in the pri-
Vate cars of the president and vice presl-
dent, will go to Albany and Thomasville.
The gentlemen already in the party will be
Joined to-day by Mr.. Frank Q. Brown of
Boston in the event his mother, who has
been quite i'll, has sufficiently recovered to
admit of his leaving her. Mr.. Brown is
president of the Florida Southern railroad,
and third vice president of the Plant sys-
tenn
The law requires that the annual meet
ings of the stockholders be held at those
places that are the legal headquarters of
the several lines. For this reason, the
party would like to go to Montgomery, the
headquarters of the Alabama Midland, the
Abbeville Southern and the Belt line but
the fact that some of the points it is pro-
posed to visit have not yet raised their
quarantine restrictions against that city
will probably prevent its being taken in
on the route. In the event Florida points
remove their quarantine by the date upon
which the party expects to be in Mont
gomery, the city will be visited. If 1t is
not found practical to go to Montgomery,
the meetings of the stockholders of the
lines for which it is the headquarters
will be held during the trip of the officials,
and the papers will be sent to Montgomery
TO be recorded.
Jacksonville. the headquarters of the
Florida Southern and the Jacksonville
Terminal Company, will be visited first
of the Florida points. After the meetings
of those companies are held, the party
will go to Sanford where the meeting of
the South Florida Telegraph Company
will take place. Ocala will be taken in
on the itinerary and there the meeting of
the Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf road
will be held. At Oakland the Sanford and
St. Petersburg meeting will be held and
al Tampa the meetings of the Tampa and
ThOnotosassa and the Winston and Bone
Valley will take place.
President H. B. Plant will not go back
with the party of officials. He will re-
main at Tampa during the winter. He
finds that the northern climate at this
season is injurious to his health on &C
count of the sudden and pronounced
changes to which it is subject Mr.. Plants
friends will be glad to learn that his
health this winter is much better than
last The other northern gentlemen or
the party will return to their homes soon
after they reach Tampa, which is the OBJ
1ectve point of the tour of the system.
The officials of the system think that the
outlook for good winter tourist business
Is bright. Second Vice President M. F.
Plant says that he learns from the traffic
officials of the system, that large crowd
of the winter visitors to the south may be
expected. His observations in the east in
dictate that that section will, as usual, send
down many seekers after health and pleas
ure 1t is his belief that the cry of hard
times heard last year will, in one sense,
be of benefit to the tourist interests of
Florida. In view of the depressed condi-
ton of matters financially many of those,
who often go abroad during the summers,
did not take their customary trips last
season. Mr.. Plant thinks that they will
consequently take the winter trip to Flor
ida as a sort of indulgence to themselves
for having given over the more expensive
trip abroad.
Mr.. Plant was asked about the Grand
Duchess. He said that the vessel is still
al New York. She has not yet been ac-
cepted, and the builders of the vessel and
her makers are engaged in a controversy
as to where the blame for her failure to
meet the requirements rests. There are
defects about the vessels boilers. The
makers of the boilers say that the build
ers must have strained the boilers when
they took the vessel on her first trial
trip, while the Newport News builders
get back at the makers of the boilers by
saying that the products of their works
We're not in perfect condition when they
We're received at the yards.
As the Plant system has not accepted
the Duchess, it remains for the builders
and boiler makers to settle the question
Of responsibility. In the meantime, the
vessel is lying idle at New York, with all
OF her crew, except some of the officers,
discharged. Many of those who were dis
charged from the vessel, Mr. Plant says,
were given positions ON other vessels of
the companys fleet.
A COLONY of Pennsylyanians has been