The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24
NEWS OF RAILROADS
ALBERT j. EARLING ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF CHICAGO, MIL
WAUKEE n ST. PAUL
SUCCEEDS ROSWELL MILLER

VIII Have Charge of Operation of
the Road, While Mr.. Miller Looks
ductor Williams, of the Omaha,
Arrested at Window, Charged
With The Crime of MansIaughter.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept, 23.-At the
annual meeting of the Chicago, Milwau-
in this city today, the former second
vice president, Albert J. Earring, of Chi
cage was elected president of the road,
vice Roswell Miller, who was elected
chairman of the board of directors. Mr.
Miller's retirement from the presidency
was entirely unexpected, outside OF the
inner circles of the Milwaukee railway
company. While Mr.. Miller is still the
executive head of the road, the change
il the organization will relieve him of
large part of his operative duties, and
Genuine his duties to the financial affairs
of the company. Mr. Earring will have
absolute charge of all matters of opera
ticn Mr.. Earring was also elected a di-
AENNNl III place VI SiCtIIC D. OIChSS, VI
New York. The new board is as follows:
Philip D. Armour, Roswell Miller and A.
J. Earring, of Chicago: Frederick Lay
ton, of Milwaukee; August Belmont,
Frank S. Bond, Charles H. Coster, Peter
Geddcs, Charles w. Hargess, Joseph Mil
bank, William Rockefeller, Samuel Spen-
Ger and A. Van Santvoord, Of New York.
The board of directors organized and
elected Roswell Miller chairman of the
board and officers of the road were elect
ed as follows: President, A. j. Earring, of
Chicago; vice president, Frank S. Bond,
Of New York; general manager, w. G.
Collins of Chicago; general superintend-
enr, H. r. Williams. Chicago; secretary,
P. II. Meyers, Milwaukee; assistant sec
retaries and transfer agents, ]. NJ. Nc
kinley, c. B. Ferry and H. c.. Weston,
New York; treasurer, F. G. Ranney, Chi
cago; general auditor, w. N. D. Whine,
Chicago; general counsel, George r. Peck,
Chicago; general solicitor Burton Han
son. Chicago.
The office of second vice president, held
by A. J. Earring last year, has been dis
continued
Roswell Miller, as chairman of the
beard of directors, still remains the exc
cutiVe head of the road. The election
of A. j. Earring as president will merely
lessen in q measure the operating duties
of Mr. Miller.
1t was agreed to buy a number of small
roads in Illinois, which are now part of
the operating system of the road and
which were leased for 999 years.
Albert J. Earring, who was elected pres
ident OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway company, is the third presi-
dent that the company has had in nearly
forty consecutive years of its existence,
and in the history of the old Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway company, the present
organization, the first being Alexander
Mitchell and the second the retiring presi-
dent Roswell Miller.
Mr.. Earring was born In Wisconsin
about fffty-five years ago, and began his
rallroading as a telegraph operator when
he was boy. He rose through all the
grades from station operator, train dis
patcher, assistant superintendent, assist
ant general superintendent superintend-
ent, and after the promotion of Mr.. Mil
Ter to the presidency he was made gen
eral manager. A few years ago he be-
came second vice president, in charge of
the operating department under the presi-
dent, and occupied that position until to-
day, when he was elected a director and
made president of the road.
The roads which the company B;reed
today to purchase, and which are now
operated as a part of the system are:
The Central Illinois s. Wisconsin road.
running from Rockton, H., to Rockford,
ILL.,, the Chicago & Pacific railroad, run
ming from Chicago to Kittredge, ILL.,; the
Chicago Evanston & Lake Superior rail-
road, part of the st. Paul railroad, of
Illinois, road running from the Wiscon-
sin state line to Chicago, and a part of
the Chicago division; the Western Union
railroad, that runs from Racine to Port
Byron Junction, ILL.,, and from Elkhorn
70 Eagle, Wisconsin and the Cook, Lake
& McHenry Counties railroad, that is
now being built from Libertyville, ILL.,, to
Spring Grove, III.