The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09

Chambers talked without hesitation or the change in the management Of the company.
 "Yes. 1t is true" he said, that MT. ". F. Vandiver has disposed of his interests and retired from the presi- dency of the company and It IS also true that the company has honored me with the position of Vice-President ana General Manager. -
 'I came with the company. in 1898 to manage the fuel department, and the following year I was given the position of Superintendent, which po- sition have since held until this pro- motion.
 T have every assurance from MT. vandiver that his retirement from the company does not carry with 1t the least unpleasantness and that his best wishes for the continued success Of my company lies with me in the future management.
 since my connection with the com pany. covering a period of six years. have at all times striven to do every thing possible for the advancement of its intersts and its patrons, and 1t is my intention hereafter to give the cit izens of Montgomery a live and ener- getic administration which l feel sure will meet with the approval Of my stockholders and consumers by giving the best of service and the best Of at tention to its consumers; by thorough painstaking and satisfactory attention to the individual wants of the com pany's consumers, down to the mlnut- est details.
 Many companies have instructed their employees to be polite and cour- teous to their consumers. My company will apparently go farther than this and insist upon 1t until it's employees in this respect that the habit of being polite, courteous, attentive and patient with the consumers will permeate the body polite of the whole force, both in the office and out of 1t.
 A New Ohice Building.
 We are now negotiating with par ties to build us a new and handsome office building, centrally located, which will prove to be of great convenience to our consumers and the public in general as we'll as to ourselves. Along the line of improvements we eX- pect to extend into new territory in order that we may serve the public everywhere we are called upon to do so.
 "Our engineers now have the plans and specifications for a fourth electric machine, water wheel. etc, for the hy- draulic plant at Tallassee, which will increase our capacity output at least 40 per cent"
 Questioned further about contem- plated improvements in the property or the company, Mir. Chambers said that 1t was proposed to extend the gas mains and the electric lines. One or the principal new lines of business he said would be to cultivate the sale of electric power for manufacturing pur- poses.
 We hope" said Mir. Chambers, by this means to help in movements to es- tablish new industries in Montgomery. It ia our purpose to make speciality of offering power so cheap to these manufacturing interests that 1t Will De to their advantage to locate here
 MT. Chambers could not express an opinion as to how soon the work on the office building will be under way but he was emphatic In the statement that the office would be removed from the corner of Bibb and Coosa Streets at as early a date as was possible.
 New Board of Directors.
 A telegram received yesterday by MT. Chambers from President McMillan announced that the following Board of Directors had been elected for the Montgomery Company Tor the next twelve months: Emerson McMillan, Henry l.. Doherty, H. B. Wilson and R N. King of New oYrk; F. s. Hamil- ion. Baltimore, and S. Roman, A. M. Balwin. R. J. Chambers, s. J. Greil. S. Cassenheimber, F. B. Fisk H. c. David son. E. G. Fowler. and w. K. Pelzer' of Montgomery.
 The oficial staff of the company is Emerson McMillan. New York, Presi- dent: R. J. Chambers, Montgomery Vice- President, and General Manager; F w. Bowen, Montgomery, Secretary and Treasurer, and George A. Mont anu a.,ar,- Montgomery, General Super intendent. .,,o rresidencv of the company is interest ad in about twenty electric power nIants in various sections of the coun-e