The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-06
H~ARR[NAES YICVORYCERTAN.
or u ILLINOIS CENTRAL DIREC-
TORS 8 ARE WITH HIN.
vyarahan to ne Elcstei President To-mOr-
row and stuyvesant Fish VIII he Retired
After 10 YcArs-The Ultimate Merger
With the. Union Pacific Expected.

with the Union Pacific Expected.
The Illinois Central election is all over
but the shouting. When the directors meet
tomorrow they will depOse Stdyvesant
Fish, president Of the road for the last
nineteen years. n in all probability elect
j. 7. Harahan, who in 1880 was made second
vice president Of the company through
Mr.. Fish's influence and has since held that
place.
Neither Mr.. Fish nor Mr., Hartman would
discuss the contest yesterday, but Mr..
Barriman's supporters claimed and Mr..
Fish's supporters conceded the election Of
Mr.. Harriman's candidate by a. vote OF
sto 4. This is the alignment Of forces:
For Mr.. Harriman's candidate: John W.
Auchincloss, +. H. Hartman Charles A.
Peabody, r. W. Goelet. Walter Luttgen.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor
aud j. L. Harahsn.
For Mr.. Fish: Charles NJ. Beach, James
Dew. Cutting, Charles s. Deneen, Governor
OF Illinois and ex-officio memb er OF Inc
hoard, and Mr.. Fish himself.
John C. Wellings, first vice-president Of
the company. Is a loyal Fish supporter, but
is seriously i'll in Chicago. His place also
csn be filed by the Hartman forces. They
have it in their power as we'll to choose a
successor to he second vice-president; to
Alexander G. Hsckstaff. third ~vice-presi-
slspt and secretary, and to L. I. II. Gibson.
the treasurer. Just what he Hartman
party has decided upon in regard to these
matters is not announced. but it il con-
Sidered probable, that they will leave the
places opel until the regular meeting Of the
directors on November 81. II is not be-
lieved that many changes in the operating
force will be made in the nesr future.
In the course of time,' remarked a
Hartman supporter, MIR. Hartman will
no doubt 'Unionize' the road But there
~ill be no drastic action. 1t will all be
done gradually and Practically"
A very able and conservative banker
who is closely identified with the Hartman
party was disposed to deplore any strife
over the election, but at the same time
pointed out the relation OF the road under its
future management to the Union Pacific.
There is no contest for control he
said. 1T is purely a question Of policy.
whether Mn Fish may be deposed OF not.
The controlling interests may decide to
retain him for a time and hope hat they
do so decide. I do not think there will be
any meeting Of the directors before to-
morrow. / think you will find when the
affair blows over that the majority party
in the board also has a controlling interest
in the stock. You cannot state too posi-
lively that there is no personal luminosity
toward Mr.. Fish on the part of Mr.. Harri-
man. l do not know what Mr.. 'Fish's
feelings toward Mr.. Hartman may be.
but Mr.. Hartman is animated by only one
motive in this matter Inc that is the best
interests of both railroads concerned
That the majority for Mr.. Hartman had
become so overwhelming that Mr.. Hsrri-
mans supporters could declare that there
was no contest was due, friends Of Mr.. Fish
said, 10 the activity Of Charles A. Peabody,
president OF the Mutual Life, quite as much
as to the influence OF Mr.. Hartman. II Is
well known that the breach between Mr..
Peabody and Mr. Fish grew out Of Mr..
Fish's insistence on. a thorough mvestiga-
ton OF the Mutual Life by the Investigating
committee Of which both were members.
John W. ~Auchincloss, also a Mutual trus-
tee, sided with Mr.. Peabody, and the lat
ter was eventually able TO secure the support
Of both branches of the Astor family in his
contest against the rebellious trustee.
Mr.. Peabody is the business representative
Of William Waldorf Astor in this country,
and succeeded him on the illinois Central
hoard when Mr.. Aston changed his resi-
dence from New York to london.
John Jacob Aston, IN all estimates of the
boards alignment published prior to this
article. has been placed among the Fish
supporters. That he could not so be reck-
olcd was revealed IN the call Of the special
meeting to be held to- morrow IL takes but
tvo directors TO call q special meeting, and
though a majority OF the directors signed
his call John Jacob, Astor's name was
MT on the list. The second name was that
It T. T. Harahan. The meeting was act
uallv called by these two men. The other
sirnatnres emphasized the opposition to
Mr.. Fish, but did not make the call more
hnding.
MI. Harshsn. it was learned, signed the
call in this city, having come here and de-
Parted unhcrslded. He did not call at the
Illinois Central offices while in the city nor
in any other way make his presence known
~ Mr.. Fish's supporters. The call was
dated last Wednesday and. as before stated
served on the Fish supporters Saturday
while Mr.. Fish was en- route 10 Chicago.
Its purport was photographed TO Mr.. Fish
from his once Wnle ne WhS On ne uhiH.
Of the other directors placed in the Harri-
man column Mr.. Goelet is a director Of the
Union Pacific. as is Mr.. Peabody. Mr..
Luttgen is a member of August Belmont
4 Co, with which firm various Of Mr.. Harri-
mans associates have had close business
relations in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
merger; Mr.. Vanderbilt is a director Of New
York Central companies in which Mr.. Harri-
mans associates rave great Influence, and
Mr.. Harahan' is the man at present selected
for the presidency OF the road.
Mr.. Harahan is well known as an operating
railroad man. He began railroad work in
1894 at Alexandria, and prior TO his connec-
ton with the Illinois Central held such i'm
portant Offices as assistant general manager
Of the Lake Shore, general manager Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio and general manager
Of the Louisville nd Nashville. He was
elected vice-president Of the Illinois Central
in 1890, a few months after Mr.. Hartman
resigned as vice-president. His election
was advocated by Mr.. Fish and opposed by
Mr.. Hartman.
Gov. Deneen will probably attend TO-
morrow's meeting. though the alignment