The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
Great RaiIrOad Magnates Defy Each Other at Meeting of
 the Illinois Central
VIM. NELSON CROMWELL Is
 ALSO MIXED IN THE FRAY
Hartman Party Claims Majority of Directors, Which Will Dust the Fish Crowd at Novem-
 Der Meeting,

Chicago, October 1.-The fight for the control of the Illinois Central Railroad company waxed hot today. Stuyvesant Fish, president of the road, and Win. Nelson Cromwell, representing E. H. Har- rlman, president of the Southern Pacific. clashed openly 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 victor but that the victory is not a final one Is lnsinuated by MT. Cromwell. The the Associated Press:
 or d directory of thirteen people there are still seven members who have placed themselves on record in opposition to Mir Fish in this contest. There will be q meeting of the board, probably in No- vember. This board will elect the Of ficers of the railroad. lou can draw up your own conclusions"
 Wased Over July Agreement.
 The clash between Messrs Hartman and Fish was waged over an agreement dated July 27. 1908. and signed by stuy- yesant Fish, Charles A. Peabody and E. Il. Hartman. In June Mr. Fish had begun the collection of proxies for use at the meeting held today. He states that ar effort was also made by MT. Har- riman to get proxies through Kuhn, Loeb and company. On July IS MT. Peabody introduced resolution at a meeting of the board of directors that committee should be appointed to collect proxies. However, on July 27. Messrs. Fish, Pea sody and Hartman entered into an agree- ment as follows:
 Three outgoing directors to be re- elected, Mir Grlnnells successor to be elected by a majority of the several -dl- rectors acting, MT. Peabody's resolution of July IS to be withdrawn and not to be revived this year. Mir. Hartman will ask that the Hartman Kuhn. Loeb prox- les be given to MT. Fish"
 Claims and Counter Claims.
 w. Morton Grinnell, d member of tha board of directors, had died during tho year. MT. Fish claims that the Hartman faction agreed that MT. Grinnelis sue cessor should be man whose presence Tn the directory would not be inlmical 10 the independence of the Illinois Cen tral railroad and would be acceptable to MT Fish. Henry DeForest director of the Southern Pacific, of which MT. Harll- man is president. and one of counsel Tor MT. Hartman, was named in a petition signed by MT. Hartman and six other directors to succeed MT. Grlnnell. By reason of his Southern Pacific affiliations Mir DeF crest was not acceptable to MT. Fish. MT. Cromwell declares that under the agreement MT. Fish is bound to ac- eept MT DeForest and to cast his own and the Hartman proxies for him.
 At todays meeting Mr. Fish after be- ing formally called upon by Mir Cromwell to cast the proxies in favor of DeForest. arose and declared with great emphasis
 "I will never under any circumstances vote for Mr DeForest."
 Mr. Fish thereupon placed James De- Witt Cutting of New York, in nomina- tion He then cast a total of 6l3,103 shares for MT. Cutting. Mir Cromwell es a matter of record, voted 2,lOo shares against Cutting and later cast them for DeForest whom he had placed in nomi- nation. Mir. Cutting was thereupon de- clared formally elected to fill out the uii- expired term of MT Grinnell. which is two years. Chas. M. Beach. J. T. Hara- ian and Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose terms had expired were reelected without opposition.
 MT. Fish gave his proxies to MT. Har-
  signed the Hartman petition In favor of the De Forest just before the meeting.
 Fish Calls Meeting to Order.
 At 10 o'clock this morning pc tory meeting of the board of dii was held a. which 1t was statef routine business was transacted. A the stockholders meeting was ca order by Mir Fish amidst expect fence. MT. Fish stated his side controversy in prepared stai which was in part as follows
 For the first time I am callei in behalf of the stockholders tC stand forcible and organized e change the policy of the compa in thsainterest of less than one- the stock to turn 1t over to the of another railroad system. For or more past h has been ma public notice that those connects the management of the Union Pac tenn of railroads have been pur shares of the Illinois Central c in large amounts.
 During the month of June lasi out as is my custom in years notice to each and every stockho record of the time and place of nual meeting with request for from which form of proxy, I tn for the reasons above stated. no the name of Mr +. II. Hartman dent of the Union Pacific Railroad com pany."
 Mir Fish thon went on to tell of the directors meeting of July 1S at which MT. Peabody offered resolutions that q committee consisting of Messrs. Astor. Auchincloss Goelet, Luttgen and Van derbilt, be appointed to collect proxies for the next annual meeting. . Turns Over Control of Line.
 .s1-hi. vaid Mir Icish ssforeed me fO lay before the directors then present in plain terms that MT. Peabody's motion appeared to be an attempt of such of the directors as were directors of the Union
 
 CONTINUED ON FACE Al