Arizona republican., 1906-11-08
HARRIMAN'S THROUGH LINE
 FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN
He Secures Missing Link by Obtaining Con-
 trOI of the Illinois Central
President Fish Owes His DethrOnement to Harriman's Ambition and to His Own Arbitrary Conduct Toward the Board of Directors.

New York, Nov. By the election today of J. T. Harahan as president of the Illinois Central to succeed stuyve- sant Fish, it is believed that E. H. Hartman has at last realized the rfuI- fillment of his plan to control a rail road line from the Atlantic to the Pa ciic ocean. In this great plan an i'm portant link was missing to complete the line of track from New York to San Francisco and Portland. Oregon. and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Gulf to the Pacific again.
 Until within few months the east ern terminals of the Hartman system were at Kansas City Omaha and New Orleans An important step in the securing of au outlet on the Atlantic seabOard for the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific is believed to have been taken by MT. Hartman several weeks ago, when it was reported that interests under his control had taken over stock of the Baltimore and Ohio. by the purchase of a block of 400. GOO shares of the Baltimore and Ohio com pany which was sold by the Pennsylva- mia rOalroad.
 This will give MT. Hartman a route from Chicago and St. Louis to BaItf- more and New York. To complete his ambitious proposition for a continu- ous line from ocean to ocean it was necessary only to connect the termi- nals Of the Baltimore and Ohio with the eastern terminals of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific and this pur- pose the Illinois Central serves amply.
 Taken altogether, this system. if
  than 23.OOO miles Of track, capitalized at more than S1.7O0OOO.OOO
 James T. Harahan vice president of the Illinois Central, was elected presi- dent of the company at a meeting of . the board of directors in this city by vote of to o, the adherents of Presf- dent Stuyvesant Fish not voting. The meeting is reported to have been a ! stormy one. The directors who voted . for MT Harahan were John Astor. Inc W. Auchincloss. Robt- w GoeIet. Jas. T. Harahan. F. H. Hartman. Walter Luttmen. Chas. A. Peabody and Cor neliUs Vanderbilt
 The following directors did not vote Stuyvesant Fish. Charles NJ Beach. K. Dewitt Cutting and Charles s. Deneen. governor Of Illinois. who is ex-officio member of the board. John C. EIIing. former director. was not present owing to illness No successor to MT Harra- han was chosen, but the other officers of the company whose terms had ex- pired were elected by vote of 10 to O. Fish and Beach not voting
 Shortly before the meeting of the directors who voted for Mir. Harahan they sent a letter to Mir Fish stating their reasons for refusing to vote for his reelection. The letter declared that in June last, without consulting the other members of the directors. Mir. Fish issued circular to stockholders requesting proxies for the annual cleo tion.
 At the next meeting Of the board. it was declared. Mir. Fish. by breaking a quorum. defeated a resolution for the reappointment of a committee to so- licit proxies. Later Messrs. Fish and Hartman effected an agreement that the HaTriman-Kuhn-LOe proxies should be given to Fish who would vote 1 for Harriman's selection of a success or to GrinneH at the annual meeting Henry w. DeFOrest was Hartman s choice. but the statement says. Fish absolutely refused to vote the proxies ! as agreed. and instead used the proxies ] to elect Fish's Individual nominee