The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-20
FISH NOW $4,000 VOTES AHEAD
PROXY COUNT REACHES THE ms
WIN THE WIS INCLUDED.

Hartman Leaves for New ork -ttsh
Notifies All Chicage Judges mat Dutch
Proxies Ne Holds Arc valid = wsnss %
Be Heard they Are Attacked.
CHICAGO. Oct is.--To-day q meeting Of
the Illinois Central stockholders was adj
journed again within five minutes after IL
was called TO order to meet o. Monday
morning at II o'clock. Tho count OF votes
has now gone through the List Of stock
holders including h letter r. II has also
included the letter W. to which the tellers
skipped on motion Of the Hartman side
early this morning.
To whatever the intention OF this picking
out Of the w list may a been due. the
result was that MIR. Fish won the w by
more than 5000 votes The European
proxies have also been counted and tabu-
lated.
The result. roughly stated. of all the votes
now counted is that, excluding the 2ss. 73l
enjoined shares OF the Hartman side.
Mr.. Fish leads by about $1,000 shares. And
this does not count the New England
proxies made out in the name OF Charles
NJ. Beach of Hartford. who has 10000 or Sd
proxies which will be voted for Mr.. Fish
and his candidates. But both sides. il LIS be-
lieved, nave held back proxies to be sprung
at the last minute
There was a great falling Oh to-day in
the number of shareholders who attended
the meeting. Last Wednesday there were
100 persons in the room: to-day there were
scarcely 100 MIR. Hartman. Charles A..
Peabody and one or two others OF the Harri-
mar forces went back to New York to-day
before the meeting. Mr. Harahan and
william Nelson Cromwell. m other Harri-
man lawyers. az we'll as all OF the Fish
crowd. remained very much on their jobs.
There was considerable amusement over
Mr.. Harahan's method Of calling q meeting
to order. He leaned over to Mr.. Cromwell
and in a hoarse whisper asked:
what do you want me to say2'
MIR. Cromwell. who at that ONE was
yery busy and almost irritable. said briskly:
you just lay upon the table with that gavel.
| will do whatever talking Is necessary"
MIR. Hartman was a shade less Affection
ate toward the newspaper men when he
ieft this afternoon than he had been through
out the week. They met him as he was
coming down the stairs to catch his train
and he called out to them:
Il never was so glad to cave Chicago
before in my life. l don't 10 that AZ q
reflection on Chicago, but 1 am tired
One Of the reporters asked him IL there
was anything in the story that the Mutual
Life Insurance Company Of New York. Of
which Charles A. Peabody Is president. had
lent. a few days before the Illinois Central
transfer books.cloeed. 81 800, 900 otheS cuth-
ern Pacific. Illinois Central and other rail-
road companies and corporations In which
Mr.. Hartman is deeply interested. Fur
thermore Mr.. Hartman was asked what
the purpose Of these loans was. IL they
had been made.
Il don't know anything about them.
he said, -and l am too busy TO carry all
snas s soa. Il n a ns'e OF these he @y oorp S; SSs mem %%
toned needed money they, had q perfect
right to borrow. Presumably the Mutual
Life Insurance Company has money to lend,
therefore I assume IL there Q been any
transaction a. that yoH dsscr,os 1t - un-
But" Mr.. Hartman was told, some
people say that loan was ~ TO anect
this election
sOh, boshI" said Mr.. Hartman.
It came out this morning that the cause
OF yesterdays nervous tension over the
-Dutch stock" was something like this:
About 81 900 shares OF Illinois Central stock
held In Holland have been deposited In two
Holland private banks. This stock has
DCCh ubtCOb ~ sAs0e ONoAy o 49,
as all the shares 60, as far A proxies are
concerned. These proxies for fifty years
ave been voted unanimously. S~tuyvesant
Fish now holds them.
Against these shares deposited In the
Dutch banks there have been issued by the
banks certificates OF deposit which are
freely traded in on the European exchanges.
These certificates ave no power to issue
proxies and no purchaser Of them unless
he purchases every last ne' car Affect
the validity Of the proxies given BY tho
two banks.
The rumor Of the trouble last night re-
garding these 81 900 Dutch proxies was
due to belief on the Fish side that Mr..
Harriman's lawyers were seeking TO enjoin
these 81 900 votes on the same ground
that Mr.. Fish has caused Mr.. Harrfman's
2se, 7sl shares to be set aside, namely, that
they were held by foreign corporations
which had no right to interfere " it'll tho
management Of an Illinois corpo ration.
Mr.. Fish mado an afadAvit last night and
caused IL TO be presented to every Judge in
Chicago this morning. II asserted that he
personally knew that this stock was not
owned by the corporations with which Il
has been deposited, but that IL was owned
by individuals who had the Nyeliest possible
interest q tho conduct Of tho oompsny's
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