The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-08
NEW DIRECTORS
 FOR N. H. ROAD
Two of Them We'll Known Citizens of the City of
 New Haven.
RICHARDOLNEY CHOSEN
A Brother-in-law of Presi- dent Hadley at the
 Round Table.

The announcement was made last night that the number of directors of the New York. New Haven and Hart. ford Railroad company had been in creased by six members, three of whom are residents of the state of Connects cut. two residents of the state of New York and one resident of the state of Massachusetts.
 The two New Haven members of the increased directorate are Judge A. Heaton Robertson and Frederick P. Brewster, one a native of the city and the other citizen by adoption. Judge Robertson has been active in the life of the city and state for many years. He has served in the old court of common council in both branches, been a member in both senate and house in the general assembly, judge of probate for the New Haven district and candi- date for governor. He is a graduate of Yale in the class of 1872.
 MT. Brewster is an officer in the firm of W. & E. T Fitch company, manu- lecturers of saddlery hardware, a di- rector of the New Haven Gas Light company, the Second National bank and several other corporations of na- ticnal repute. He Is a cousin of John Brewster Fitch, the president of the W. & B. T. FitcE company,
 Henry K. McHarg is the director and vice president of the Southern Railway company and a prominent capitalist, whose name was suggested for a di- rectorshi2 In the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad company scme months ago, when Vice President Todd retired, MT. McHarg is one of the prominent citizens of Stamford, though engaged in the banking busi- ness in New York. He is director In many important corporations and is re- garded as a man of strong Judgment, He Is prominent member of St. Johns Episcopal church of Stamford and has been one of it's heaviest benefactors. He is also q leading member of the New York Yacht club.
 Lewis Cass Ledyard is one of the leading financiers of the city of New York and was at one time commodore of the New York Yacht club. He Is a director of the Boston and Maine Rail- road company,
 Richard Olney Is one of the most dis-. tinguished lawyers in the state of Massachusetts and was secretary of state in the cabinet of President Grow CT Cleveland. It was Secretary Olney who gave Great Britain its warning in the boundary dispute with Venezuela.
 Charles M. Pratt of New York city is secretary of the Standard oil corfl- pany, and director of many other corporations, including the Boston and Maine, in the stock of which he Is a large holder His shares are, it Is un- derstood, to be exchanged for New Ha- ven stock. He and President Hadley of Yale university married sisters, both of them daughters of the late Governor Luzon B. Morris. who was chief exec utive of Connecticut in 1893 and 1894
 Tn railroad circles here the additions to the New Haven roads directorate are interpreted positively as the first open step in the coming merger of the New Haven corporation with the Bos- ton and Maine, the latter thus getting immediate representation in the pros- pectively consolidated companies. An- other significant feature is that the Connecticut majority in the corpora tio1s board of directors is preserved, three residents of Connecticut going in along with three non-residents. The strong representation of the Standard oil group of capitalists in the new di- rectorate is also regarded as extrene- ly significant and with an important bearing upon the future finances of the corporation prominent officer of the New Haven company can be quoted as saying yesterday that recent legisla- ton has not, as reported, made any change in the legal necessity that q majority of the directorate must be bina fde residents of this state.