The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-24
FISH STILL FIGHTS
WANTS PROXIES TO GUST
HARTMAN.
Illinois Central Railroad Stockholders
Asked to Help Former President in
His Struggle to Regain Control.

NEW YORK. Sept. 24.-That stuyvesant
Fish means to fight f. II. Hartman to
a finish and assume once more a position
of commanding Importance in the Affairs
of the Illinois Central. from which Mr..
Hartman ousted him, was made evident
yesterday, when Mr.. Fish sent out a long
letter to stockholders asking them for their
proxies to vote at the annual meeting
OF the company, which will be held in Chi
eago on October 16.
Mr.. Fish has not heretofore solicited
proxies. In a statement he made last All
gust. when the old row between himself
and MIR. Hartman blazed up again, he
said that he intended to be present at the
meeting and vote his own shares and
such proxies as might be confded to him,
but now it appears he has decided to go
cunning for his old foe with all the proxies
he can get hold of. and prevent, If pos
sible. the election Of Mr.. Hartman and
three of his friends TO the four places in
the directorate to be filed of that meeting.
Mr.. Fish himself is one of the retiring di-
~reetors. and John Jacob Aston and Mr..
Hartman also go out. A successor to the
late John c. yelling is also to be elected.
Mr.. Fish asks the stockholders to make
out their proxies running to his two col
leagues in the board, Charles NJ. Beach
and James de Witt Cutting. and himself.
As he promised last August. when he and
Mr.. Hartman had the dispute as to who
owned the largest lumber of shares. Mr..
Fish reviews in his letter some recent
acts of the present management and tells
what happened to the resolution he tried
to read a recent meeting. He omits to
relate what happened to President Hara-
han. however. at this meeting, which was
the one at which Mr.. Harahan was
punched by Mr.. Fish.
Coming down to more recent events, Mr..
Fish says:
THE methods pursued by those Of your
board of directors who act in the interest
of the Union Pacific have been SO high
handed as to become the subject of wide
spread comment. At a recent meeting OF
the board I offered a resolution of In
uuiry into subject matters which hould
properly be disclosed to every stakeholder.
While in the act of reading my resolution
Mr.. Peabody, representing Union Pacific
interests, moved to adjourn, and j. T..
Harahan, who was presiding, summarily
closed the session. Later, through the
power given by the bylaws, the minority,
who truly represent the interests of the
Illinois Central shareholders. called a spe-
clal meeting, whereat l offered a resolution
of inquiry into the evident padding OF the
accounts. Such inquiry was necessary"
Mr.. Harahan. Mr.. Fish says, took over
the supervision of the accounting depart
ment when he was put In. and the report
of last June showed, as described BY Mr..
Fish. IAN extraordinary increase in the net
receipts of the corporation during the last
four months. which increase is wholly IN
e~xpiicable and obviously inconsistent with
the facts upon any proper accounting,
and clearly made for the purpose of pro-
ducing a favorable impression"
That Mr.. Hartman Is making extraor-
dir airy efforts to elect himself and his
friends to the four places In the board
Is one Of the charges made by Mr.. Fish,
the Union Pacific holdings virtually con-
shutting O balance of power. He a 1t
is for the stockholders to determine
whether these holdings of 80 per cent. are
to name directors without the consent and
to the detriment of the remaining 20 per
canf-