The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-26
c. g. AbercrOmbie at Head of
New Corporation.
VIII Begin In Ten Days to Build
Plant on Old Pollard Place.
viii Furnish Power to
Street Railway.

This Pollard, or Nelson property, or
Jefferson Street. was sold yesterday, ant
1t was announced that it will be used b,
the Merchants Light and Power Com,
i pany, corporation recently organized by
4 Montgomery business men, with Charles
4 G. Abercrombie at its mead.
/ Mr.. Abercrombie says a big power
i house, Offices and car barns will be
erected on the property which Is 200 by
300 feet that the new company has closed
| a contract to furnish power to the Mont
| gomery Street Railway, and that the
| plant will be in operation by February /
| 1908. Work of dem oishing the fine old
Pollard residence will begin within ter
days.
II have been elected President of the
| new company" said Mr.. Abercrombie.
Its name is Merchants Light and Pow
| err Company. The other officers are Alex
Rice Vice-President; Henry C. Jones,
Secretary and Fred S. Ball, acting Treas
urer. A certain prominent and wealthy
gentleman who is largely interested, but
| whose name is withheld for the present,
will soon be elected Treasurer. Mr. Ball
has been our legal adviser and will be
General Counsel for the company. Only
| five directors have been elected, but four
others will be added in a short time.
liz I'VE Surviving at present are plcIldTu
Tillis, Alex Rice, G. l.. Ruth, Meyer L..
| Griel and myself"
Asked about the capitalization of the
| company. Mr.. Abercrombie said the cor
poration had been organized with an au-
| thorized capital stock of 100000, but 1t
was quite probable that that would be
| increased In year or SO.
Mr.. AbercrombIe was not disposed to
| go into details concerning the new COM
pany. He said, however, that when
Richard Tillis became owner of the con-
| trolling interest In the Montgomery Street
| Railway, 1t was sought to interest him
! in a new power plant. As result Mr..
Abercrombie and a few close friends
went to work and soon secured ample
stock subscriptions to insure the organ
| ization of a corporation. Power for the
Montgomery Street Railway is at pres
ent supplied by the Montgomery Light
and Power Company. President w. #.
Vandiver, of the last named company, Is
interested in the Montgomery Traction
| Company, a competing line of the Mont
gomery Street Railway. The contract for
power existing between the Montgomery
Street Railway and the Montgomery
| Light and Power Company will expire
| early in next year, and 1t became neces-
sary for Mr.. Tillis to provide power for
| his new properly, the street railway
company.
| Out of this necessity it is said. was
| born the Merchants Lisht and Power
| Company, although Mr. Abercrombie d.
clares himself ard associates have as
surances of excellent commercial patron
| age.
Before we organized our company"
| said Mr.. Abercrombie. I'VE consulted ex-
perts and every feature of the business.
and planned for a plant of the most eco
nomical operation. This includes the best
water tube boilers, cross-compound con-
densing Corliss engines, engine type rail-
way generators and direct connected al
! ternators. No power will be lost in belts
and shafting. central location has been