The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-18
yE IN MONTGOMERY
LIS of Coast Line Looked
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Waltsrs, V. e. Elliott,a Alex 1er Hamilton and Others. m Hot Elect President to
 Succeed MT. Eriwn, 4

&t E o'clock yesterday mgrning spe-
 train pulled into the Plant System [1D In West Montgomery and at 2
 1ek was brought to the Union Rail-
 Patton. 1t bore a party of officials
 1n1r first Inspection of their recently
 1roa property-the Plant. System-and 1rto6 of the officials of the Atlantic
 6g Ltne.
 0n Inc special were Harry Walters. [1 1Hout of the Atlantic Coast Line Com- H1V. q Connecticut, the financing com MxMx Of the Coast Line System; Warren X Elliott, President of the Atlantic Coast Xlues System. and Alexander Hamilton, 4coud e-President of the system, MT. l463e&rs being First Vice-P President Both yGpHA Elliott and Walters live in Will
 1Gton. N. C., while Mir. Hamilton is i0m Petersburg, Va. With the Coast <ue party was the officials of what will IC the Plant System for six weeks more MG111 July Ist They are R. G. Erwin, |ko resigned as President last Monday:
 q. Brown of New York;, Second Vice. Feeident; w. B. Denham of Savannah. 0eneral Superintendent; D. F. Jack of nqnunah, Freight Traffic Manager, and ". Wrenn of Savannah, Passenger Hran1c Manager.
 At 2 o'clock Hon. A. A. Whey. Counsel Gor the Alabama Midland Division of the R1nnt System and member of Congress xr0m this district met the party at the UHIon Station. A number of carriages ~ere In waiting and the oficfais were driven to the different properties of the x5ant System in Montgomery. The local Hko1xht ofFIce, the superintendent's office and general. otice building, shops and yards In West Montgomery were inspect od- After a drive through some of the beautiful residence streets of the city and hurried peep at some of the many points of interest in Montgomery. the party returned to the Union Station and shortly before 10 o'clock the special train steamed out of the shed on the return trip to Savannah. " - While in Montgomery the officials were very guarded in the information they gave out, and beyond stating that this trip was nothing more than an inspection trip to acQuaint them with thes different divisions of the Plant System, nothing < definite was said. t
 It leaked out. however. that a new President to succeed Mir. Erwin will not be elected. the Coast Line taking pos July. when Mir Elliott will. of course be the eNecutive head. r''''" r"'7e'
 A fhe8tines of the stockholders of Chs Coast Line will be held in Richmond, Va. on the 18th of next month, but one of the officials said yesterday that beyond com piefin8 the plans Tor the merger Of the Plant System into the Coast Line Sys- tenn and arranging for issuing the sS0000.- 900 of bonds. 1t is hardly probably that { anything more will be done until the merger is completed in July.
 Rufnors are flying between Montgomery and Savannah as thick as leaves on a blowy Fall day, and uneasy lie the heads EHht awear some of the crowns on the
 ant System. With the executive head
 the Plant System already out it is
 fthfn the range of possibility that sev- ral others of the present officials will oilow Mr Erwin by July 1st.
 Some months ago, 1t will be remember i ed. The Advertiser published a story to the effect that the Freight Traffic Man. aEers D. F. Jack. would resign his posi- ton and enter commercial life in Angus ia, Ga, He has large interests in Au- gusta. and yesterday the story was re-