The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-13
J. M. HALL MADE PRESIDENT
SUCCEEDS c. P. CLARK AS PREST.
 DENT OF THE CONSOLIDATED.

fam D. Bishop Becomes vice-President
 and w. l.. Squire Remains Treasurer. l The directors of the New York, New
 Haven and Hartford railroad met at
 the Grand Central station in New York
 Saturday It was of unusual interest,
 as action was taken upon the resigna-
 ton of Charles P Clark, who has serv- ed as president for so long. Mir Clark
 made speech declining reelection.
 He said that ill health made 1t impossi-
 ble for him to attend to the duties of
 the office. John M. Hall, vice presi-
 dent, was elected president in place of
 MT. Clark. Mr. Halls election was not
 unexpected, as it had been believed for
 some time that he would be the choice
 of the board.
 MT. Hall is a New England man, and
 had the support of the New England in
 tereStS in the board. He was also the
 personal choice of MT. Clark He is
 exceptionally popular, and his election
 gives satisfaction. MT. Hall, during the
 absence of President Clark in Europe,
 acted aa president and made an excel-
 lent impression as an executive. AL
 though by training and inclination
 lawyer, and formerly judge of the
 superior court of Connecticut speaker
 of the lower house and chairman of
 the judiciary committee of the state
 legislature, still he adapted himself to
 practical railroad work with great
 success and brilliant administration
 on his part is predicted MT. Halls
 election was unanimous.
 Charles F. Clark, the retiring presi- dent, will remain as a director and give
 the new president whatever help he can by advice and cooperation. Will liam D. Bishop of Bridgeport at one time president of the road was elected vice president to succeed MT. HaIl The bylaws of the company made it neces- sary to elect vice president and com plete the organization at Saturdays meeting, which was the first since the annual meeting of the stockholders. If was said that MT. Bishop might later retire and some one else be elected vice president William L. Squire was re- elected treasurer, and William D. Bish- op, jr., was elected secretary to the board.
 A committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressing the boards ap- preciation of MT. Clark's services The selection of the new officers does not mean, so it has been said, any change in the policy of the road.
 John Manning Hall passed his fifty eighth birthday last October. He was born in Willfmantic, this state, on Ocr tober IS, 1S41, coming from a family of English Halls who came to this coun- try in the early part of the seventeenth century and settled in Rhode Island. Among his ancestors was George Hall, who was judge of the general court of Rhode Island for twenty years, and who was a representative Rhode Is- lander of his time. His son, Dixon Hall, removed to Sterling, this state, and the next in the line was Horace Hall a state representative and man of influence in his country Judge Hall was the next in succession and was one of three children, of whom he alone is now living.
 Judge Hall obtained his early educa- ton in Willimantic in the public schools and at a private school in South Windham and then spent three years in his fathers business in Willi- mantic It was while watching the justice of the peace trials over which his father presided that Judge Hall ' got his love for the law, and he became a student at Williston academy, East hampton, Mass, to prepare for college. He entered Yale in 1862 and made signal success of his college life. He received the Townsend prize and was elected a member of the Skull and Bones society. After graduation, at he age of twenty-five, he entered the Columbia law school, being graduated n 1868, and practised law in New York ,ity for a time. In short while Judge Hall returned to Wilimantic and en- cred at once on his career in state law circles and politics.
 In 1870, when twenty-nine years old, fudge Hall was sent to the legislature IS representative from Willimantic, md was reelected the following two years. He was active in the fraud in yestigation of 1872, and was chairman if several committees He was chair nan of the judiciary committee later md of the railroad committee. In 1881 le went again to the capital, and served m the judiciary committee, and in 1882 vas chosen speaker of the house.
 A vacancy occurred on the superior ourr bench in 1889, Judge Hall was hosen for the place, and in the same ear was elected state senator and president of the senate pro tenn. Up o this time Judge Hall had had no ex- erience in railroads outside of his re- ations with the railroad committee, f which he had been chairman, and is future seemed to be tending rather oward high political honors than to- yard corporation.
 In 1S93 the New Haven road needing
 vice president of legal education and yith wide acquaintance in the state nd at Hartford, he was elected vice resident of the New Haven road, olding a similar place with Lucius 'uttle, now president of the Boston and Iaine. President Futile had worked is way up to the top from the ranks, nd Judge Hall had had no experience l the new line of work, but he soon howed that the directors had not mis- laced their confidence, and he became n the retirement of MT. Futile second nly to President Clark He has work with him in close harmony and 'ith great success ever since then, and as been the latter's choice as a suc- sssof.