Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-29
RAILWAY MEN FIGHT.
Stuyvesant Fish Knocks J, T. aseaa. Harahan Down.
1T ILLINOIS CENTRAL MEETING.
President Called Ex-President Q Liar and Latter Landed on Former With His Fists-Other Direc-
 tors Rum Downstairs.

and Latter Landed on Former
 With His Fists--Other Direc-
 tors Run Downstairs.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-stuyvesant Fish and J. T. Harahan. the man who succeeded him last fall in the presiden- cy of the Illinois Central railroad came to blows at the meeting of the board of directors in the offices at II Broad way yesterday afternoon.
 Mir. Fish showed no marks of the encounter. later in the day, and the extent of the damage to MT. Harahan could not be definitely learned. Mir. Fish. who was probably best qualified to tell, next to President Harahan, said he had determined never to dis cuss anything that took place in an Illinois Central meeting, and President Harahan himself left for Chicago as soon after the meeting as he could get a train, not even going back to his ho- tel
 The encounter is the climax of the long fight between Stuyvesant Fish aud E. H. Hartman. dating back to tue investigations of the Armstrong committee into insurance affairs, and more bitter since MT. Fish was de- posed last fall from the presidency which he had held for twenty years Those who know Mir. Fish. who is a big man. with fighting jaw and chin, have often predicted just what hap pened yesterday
 None of the directors would discuss the affair, and there were several yer sions of what happened flying about in Wall street. All agree that blow was struck and that 1t didn't land on Mir. Fish. Stories agree also that the fsticuffs came after the lie had been passed by Mir. Harahan and that the provocation of the wordy prelude was the sudden adjournment of the meet ing to prevent the entering on the min utes of resolution introduced Mr. Fish which he had only just started to read.
 MT. Fish's resolution, 1t is said, re- fected on the management of the road since it had come under the complete control of MT. Hartman and contained some caustic reflections on the posi- tion of the stockholders since the Un- ion Pacific interests had become dom- inant When the tenor of the paper into which Mir. Fish was launching be- came evident there was a nasty whis- pered consultation between several of the out and out Hartman directors, and the motion was suddenly put to ad- journ. President Harahan, In the chair, recognized the mover, and, quickly putting through the formali- ties, MT. Fish found himself defeated in his purpose of getting his resolution on record
 The other members of the board ex- cept James De Wolf Cutting and the few stanch Fish partisans prepared to leave the room. Mir. Fish was furious and remonstrated with the president. It was the terms of this remonstrance which brought the fighting retort from Mir. Harahan.
 Just what happened then is not a matter of record. neither does the gos- sip on the fact agree. One version of the story is that when Mir Fish's blow landed on MT. Harahan he was knock ed down. Another is that he delivered several heavy blows on the presidents face and body before the others got between the fighters.
 Mir. Fish is over six feet tall and big proportionately. He Is 1.-the and mus cular and has deeply lined face and prominent chin. President Harahan, though not nearly so tall as Mir. Fish, | is a big man, too. and, though over sixty. has lots of fight left in him. He also has what physiognomists would call a fighting face.
 The meeting having been adjourned before the row started. there was noth- ing to hinder friends from pulling the combatants out of further temptations way, and Mir. Fish left the building for his office in the National Park bank.