Arizona republican., 1906-10-18
f. Il. HARTMAN
 LOST A FIGHT
For Control of the Illinois
 Central
His Representative Says That Fish's Triumph Will be Short Lived.

Chicago. Oct. 1.-The fight for the control of the Illinois Central railroad company waxed hot today. Stuyvesant Fish, president of the road, and Wm. Nelson Cromwell, representing F. H.
 Hartman. president of the Southern Pacific, clashed before two hundred and fifty stockholders, who had come from various parts of the country, to attend the meeting. On the face of the record MT. Fish appears to have been the vic tor, but that the victory is not a final one is insinuated by MT. Cromwell. The representative of MT. Hartman said to the Associated Press:
 ''Of a directory of thirteen people. there are still seven members who have placed themselvs on record in oppOsi- tion to MT. Fish in this contest. There
 will be a meeting of the board, probab- ly in November. This board will elect the officers of the railroad. You can draw your own conclusions
 The clash between Messrs. Hartman
 and Fish was waged over an agree
 ment dated July 2, 1906. and signed by
 Stuyvesant Fish, Chas. A. Peabody
 and r.. H. Hartman. In June, MT.
 Fish had begun the collection Of prox- ies for use at the meeting held today. He states that an effort was also made by Mir. Hartman to ger proxies through Kuhn. Loeb and CO. On June 18th, MT. Peabody introduced a resolu- tion at a meeting of the board or di
 rectors that a committee of the direct Ory be appointed to collect proxies. However, on July 27th, Messrs Fish. Peabody and Hartman entered into an agreement as follows: Three outgoing directors to be reelected. MT. Grin ! nell's successor to be selected by q ajority of the several directors act ! ing; Mir. Peabody's resolution of July 18th to be withdrawn and not to be re- | vived this year; Mir. Hartman will ask that the Harriman-Kuhn, Loeb ! proxies be given to MT. Fish.
 | c. W. Morton Grihnell, a member of ! the board of directors, had died dur | ing the year. ldr. Fish claims that the i Hartman faction agreed that MT. i GrinneITs successor should be a man ] whose presence in the directory would not be inimical to the independence. of i the Illinois Central and would be ac- 1 ceptable to Mir. Fish. Henry De For | est. a director of the Southern Pacific of which Mr. Hartman is president. and one Of counsel for MT. Hartman.
 was named in a petition signed by MT. ! Hartman. and six o:,Ier directors to l succeed Mir. Grinnell.
 l by reason DI ms southern racine aI- | fiHauons, MT. De Forest was not ac- | ceptable to NJ. Fish. Mir. Cromwell de- ] clares that under the agreement MT. ! Fish was bound to accept Mir. De For ! est and to cast both his own ana Jhe ! Hartman proxies for him.
 At today's meeting. Mfr. Fish, after formally being called upon by MT. :, Cromwell to cast proxies in favor of De | Forest. arose and declared with great ] emphasis: "I will never, under any circumstances vote for MT. De Forest | Mir. Fish thereupOn placed Jas. Dc
 Witt Cutting. of New York. in nomina-
 ton. He then cast a total of 613.70;
 shares for Cutting. Mir. Cromwell as a | matter of record voted 2.10O shares
 against Cutting and later cast them foI ! De Forest. whom he had placed fT
 nomination. Mir. Cutting was thereup-
 on declared formally elected to fill out
 the unexpired time of Grinnell. whicr is two years. Chas. NJ. Beach, !. TT
 Harahan and Cornelius Vanderbilt
 whose terms had expired, were elected