The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-20
ooNSo1rDATED RoAn.
Doings at the Annual Meeting of tho
 Company Yesterday.

Company Yesterday. The annual meeting of the stock
 holders of the New York, New Haven
 and Hartford Railroad company was held in room 201, at the office building
 in this city, yesterday afternoon. ow-
 ing to the storm the attendance was
 much smaller than usual President
 Charles P. Clark presided.
 After the reading of the call for the
 meeting the president submitted, for
 the directors. the annual statement for the year. When the motion to accept the report was made Henry L. Good win of East Hartford arose and made
 objection regarding the manner of mak- ing reports.
 President Clark said the remarks re-
 lating to previous matters were not in order at this time.
 Mir Goodwin, however, was allowed to proceed.
 Later the president said the remarks were hardly in order.
 MT Goodwin wanted to have read letter from Vice President Hall, asking MT. Goodwin and others to take a trip
 over the Harlem River branch. The president said the letter was not in order He said it had no reference to the matter of the annual statement. Mr. Goodwin then presented his usu- al motion that a committee of three be appointed to investigate the transfer of charges to the account of the Harlem and Portchester R. R. Go. Nobody sec onded the motion.
 The question then recurred on the ac- 1 ceptance of the annual report and the
 meeting voted to accept. The board of directors was reelected as follows: William D. Bishop, Bridge port; Henry c, Robinson, Hartford; | Charles P. Clark, New Haven; Joseph
 Park, New York; Chauncey M. Depew, | New York; Henry s. Lee, Springfield; | William Rockefeller, New York; Lev erett Brainard, Hartford; J. Pierpont | Morgan New York; George MacCul- | loch Miller, New York: John M. Hall,
 New Haven: Charles F. Choate, Bos- 1 ton; Nathaniel Thaper, Boston, Royal | C. Taft, Providence; Charles F. Brook
 CT, Tortngton; Carlos French, Seymour; 1 George J. Brush, New Haven: l. De i Yer Warner, Bridgeport; Arthur D. | Osborne, New Haven.
 | For stockholders auditors: Charles
 A. White New Haven. and William M. I Hudson, Hartford
 l There were cast 277,626 votes and the 1 ticket was elected unanimously with
 the exception of Hon. Henry c. Robin
 son of Hartford, whose vote was about l 200 shares less than the total stock 1 voted.
 | The meeting then adjourned | MT. Goodwin's resolution in full was l as follows:
 l Moved, that the annual report or statement" be referred to a committee of three stockholders with instructions | to examine and report at the next an-
 nual meeting whether the alteration in
 the books of the company, made since
 June 30 1896, whereby nearly $5,000.000
 was charged to the Harlem River and l Portchester R. R. Go. was warranted | by the facts in the case, | That said committee also report
 whether the cost of the New York, New
 Haven and Hartford railroad and it's 1 equipment was correctly reported in l 1S9b, when II was TeDreSeffCed to nave
 been upwards of $4ssoOO,0o0: and if it
 was then reported correctly, why up
 wards of $3,S00000 has been deducted | therefrom since June 30, 1896, and
 charged to the Harlem River and Port | Chester Railroad Co.
 DIRECTORS LEAVE ON INSPEC- | TON.
 After the meeting the directors dim
 ed with President Clark and then left
 for tour of inspection of the road,
 and of the new station in Providence
 and the company's new terminal sta-
 tion in Boston. They were also to look
 over the new union station and freight
 terminal at Readville and the freight
 yards in Boston. Returning on Friday
 they will come back to Hartford where
 the excursion party will break up. The l directors left on a train of three cars
 composed of the presidents car, din- | ing car and combination car.