The times., 1897-04-29
RAILROAD men IN COUNCIL
To Avoid Conflict With the Supreme
Court Decision.
Report to Thnt Effect Was Adopted
and Signed by Every Official
Present at the Meeting.

| -Raiifoau men were very much in eyl
| dence at the Hotel Raleigh yesterday
| where they thronged the corridors and
flooded the lobbies. Indeed, everybody oi
| importance connected with the railway
| business seemed to be there, except the
representatives OF the seaboard Air Line
Thereby hangs q tale.
| The meeting was OF the Southeastern
Passenger Association, which, after the
close OF the present month. win succeed
the Southern State Passenger Assoeia.
| tion. Harry Walters. OF the A. c. L., was
| elected president OF the new concern, and
Mr. Joseph Richardson, OF Atlanta, Ca,
| co;nmissioner OF the expiring associa
ton, chairman or the conference committee,
a new office provided for under the terms
OF the organization of The new body. Mr.
j. " Boyden was elected secretary OF the
| new association. Every ruad Connected
with tie association about to go out oi
existence was represented.
The purpose OF the meeting was to agree
upon government of the association wins n
woald not conflict with the decision re-
Supreme Court In the Trans Missouri case.
This decision was TO the effect that no
combination or railroads with the pur-
pose of controlling rates or pooling, as it
is commonly known, should hereafter be
legal,
fhe seahoard Air Line has always caai
tended against such a provision. aud has
positively refused to join any association
whose intentioas were In the directiea Of
such pOoitng. On account of this stand
ing they were not represented at yester-
days meeting. -
Among the well known railway officials
prese nt were Vice PresideutW. " Winley,
Vice President ard General Manager Frank
$. Cannon. Traffic Manager j. III. Cup,
General Passenger Agent w. A Turk and
General Superintendent W. NJ. Green. Of
tiie Southern; I. NJ Emerson, traffic man
ager. and II. NJ Emerson, gener al passenger
and freight agent, Atlantic Ccast Line;
Reuben E. Foster, general manager, Baiti-
more Chesapea ke and Richmond Steamboat
Company; B. W. Wrenn, passenger traffic
manager, Savannah, Florida and Wester
j. " Fry, general manager, Cape Fear and
Yadkn Valley; John \. Gee, general pas
senGer agent, Atlantic and West Point:
J. G. Halle, general passenger agent. Cen
trail of Georgia; A. O. Macdonnell, general
passenger gent Florida Central and
peninsuiar; William Checkley Shaw, vice
president. Georgia, Southern and Florida;
]. c. whitney, traffic manager, Merchants
and Miners Transport atiOn Company; VII
liam Mason, general pa sseuEer agent, New
York and Texas Steamship Company; c.
r. Atmord, general passenger agent, Louis
Vile Id Nashvilie;lW. l., Guillanden. vice
president and traffic manager, Old Do
Inirion Steamship Company, and others
The full list OF companies represented
were the Southern, Atlantic Coast Line;
Alabama Great Southern; Baltimore, Chesa-
peake and Richmond Steamboat Company.
Alabama Midland; Brunswick and Western,
Charleston and Savannah; Savannah, Flori
.1a and Western. Atlanta and West Point:
Western Railway of Alabama; Atlanta and
Knoxville Cape Fear and YadHin Valley
Railway: Central Of Georgia: ocean Steam
ship Company; Clyde Steamship Company;
Columbus. Southern; East and West Of
Georgia: Florida Central and Peninsula;
Georgia and Alabama; Georgia Southern
and Florida; Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company; New York and Texas
Steamship Company: Old Dominion Steam
ship Company. Western and Atlantic; VIII
mington and Weldon: Asheville and Spar
tanhurg: Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line,
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio: Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta; Columbia and
Greenvilic aneibranches Elberton Air Line;
Hartwell: High Point, Randleman. Ash"-
hgro and Southern; Milton and S8therliTJ
North Carolina and branches: North Caro-
Ina Midland: North western North Caro-
lima; Oxford and Clarksviile; Oxford aud
Henderson: Richmond and Mecklenburg;
Richmond. York River and Chesapeake:
Roswell: Statesville and Western; State
University: Virginia Midland railroad and
branches: Western North Carolina: Wash
ington and Ohio; Yadkin, and L olIisville and
Nashville.