The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-07
NO WORD FOR THE ANXIOUS.
CONCLUSIONS OF OFFICIALS MEET
ING WE'RE NOT DIVULGED.

Vice President Gabbett Said the
Representatives of the G. & A.,
f. c. & p. and 5. A. L. Met TO Con-
slider Retrenchments in Expendi-
lures and Devise Means for In
creasing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS En-
pIOyes of the G. & A. and f. C. &
p. Find No Consolation in His In
formation-The Majority VIII he
Anxious Until the News Is Finally
Known.
A meeting of the leading officials of the
Georgia and Alabama, Florida Central
and Peninsular and the Seaboard Air
Line was held yesterday at the De Soto.
Vice-President and General Manager
Cecil Gabbett and General Freight and
Passenger Agent A. Pope of the Georgia
and Alabama, Vice-President E. st.
John of the Seaboard Air Line, Second
Viee-President and General Manager D.
E. Maxwell, Assistant General Manager
T. A. Phillips and General Passenger
Agent A. 0. MacDonell of the Florida
Central and Peninsular were at the meet
ing which occupied two sessions One
was in the morning and the other in the
afternoon at the De Soto. The gentlemen
were in close consultation for several
hours. Mr.. Gabbett was seen and asked
for information as to what had been de-
cided upon in the consolidation scheme,
but said there was nothing that could
yet be given out.
ACTIONS of such meetings" said Mr..
Gabbett, need to be confirmed, and 1t
would not be wise to give them out pre-
maturely. The object of the meeting is
to devise ways for decreasing the ex-
penses of the three lines represented by
the attending officials and at the same
time increase the revenues. Further than
that l can say nothing about the meet
ing"
Agents, employees and representatives Of
the Georgia and Alabama and the Florida
Central ana Peninsular in Savannah were
greatly interested throughout the day in
the deliberations of the officials and ali
had hoped to gain information as to what
mad been decided upon. The jobs of
number are jeopardlzed. Without doubt
there will be a number who will not be
needed when tAe local consolidate which
is said to be the first to be brought about
has worried many, and there are but
few who feel no alarm. 1t is said there
are several who have gathered in one
way or another that their services have
been satisfactory enough
1t has been the impression all along
that the preference, when. it came to a
selection of representatives at Savannah
for the consolidated lines, would be given
those now With the Georgia and Alabama
n INN aGefx,y
that it was the gentlemen interested in the
Georgia and Alabama who had bought
the controlling stock of the Florida Central
and Peninsular. 1t was considered no
more than might be expected for the Of
metals and employees of the Georgia and
Alabama who have been satisfactory to
the company still TO be maintained in their
positions.
Bringing the officials of the Florida
Central and Peninsular into the confer
ence is taken to mean, however. that
good men employed by that line are not
10 be- ignored in the consolidation scheme
Ii 1t were the intention to keep the force
of The Georgia and Alabama intact and
bring in other men to assist in the greater
amount of work that Will come about
with the consolidation, it is thought that
the whole thing would be settled by the
Georgia and Alabama officials. 1t is re-
garded as by no means improbable that
there win be a sort of tongue and groove
arrangement, employees, representatives
and officials of both lines being sand
wiched in to make up the, general oper-
ating and traffic departments.
Mr. St John and Mr.. Gabbett left last
night for Columbia. The connecting link
that is to run from Cheraw, S. c., to
Columbia is now under course OF con-
struction. The distance is something like
100 miles, and when the road is built be-
tween The two places the Seaboard and
the Florida Central and Peninsular will
be joined.