The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-01-03

| At His Suggestion Counsel Agreed tn
| Apply to Judge Pritchard-JudSe
and Counsel i'll Conference at Dan
viilc-Decline to Give Out Any
thing for Publication Until Entire
Matter Is Settled.
Richmond Va, January 1.-Seaboard
| lawyers left here on special train
at $50 for Danville to meet Judge
Pritchard. Application for receiyership
| was made to Judge Waddell tonight
but he referred them to Judge Pritch-
ard. The lawyers will see Pritchard by
II p. N.
Baltimore, Md, january Is. David
Warfield returned to this city tonight
from New York, but when seen by a
reporter of the Associated Press said
that it would be inexpedient for him
to- make any statement relative to the
Seaboard Air Line situation, pending
the application for the appointment for
receivers
1t is known here that conferences
have been in progress, the outcome of
which might possibly be the staving off
of the receivership, but the Associated
Press dispatch from Richmond is talk
en- to indicate that the conferences
alluded to have not had a favorable
outcome.
Richmond, Va, January 1.-Counsal
for the Seaboard Air Line and credi-
tors of the company applied this af-
ternoOn to United States District judge
Waddell for appointment of receivers
and subsequently agreed to make ap-
plication to Judge Pritchard of the
United States circuit court and thereby
obVlate the necessity of securing ancil-
l1ary DEGREES in each of the court dis
tr1cts through which the lines of the
company operate. With this end in
view Judge Leigh r. Watts, general
counsel for the Seaboard, with other
attorneys, left for Danville at $50
O'Clock on a special train to meet
Judge Pritchard at that point. it hav-
ing been learned that he was on his
way to Richmond to consider the mat
ter tomorrow. Judge Waddell an
nounced that he would appoint the re-
celVers on certain conditions. but if
was thought best to go to a court with
larger jurisdiction.
line Tlmes-Dispatch has just learn
ed over the long distanced telepbone
that Judge Pritchard and the counsel
for the Seaboard are in a conference
at Southern railway station in Dam
Vile. They decline to give out any,
thing for publication until the entire
matter is settled.
Baltimore, Jan. In an advertise
ment which will appear in tomorrow
mornings papers, Blair and Company,
and Ladenburg, Thalman and Com
pany, of New York, offer to purchase
the coupons, maturing today, on
long list of securities of railroads
identified with the Seaboard Air Line
and also the equipment bonds of the
| SeabCard that mature on the same date
these purchases to be at face value
The offer holds as 70 all such coupons
and equipment bonds as may be pre-
scnted on or before February - a
the Morton Trust Company, New YORK
or the Continental Trust Company
IiAo CITY NJ duEtItlStHtnL states
that the offer is made ''in Oredr that
the integrity Of the Seaboard Air Line
railway system may be maiE Cained
pending an opportunity for the for
| mutation Of proper plans foT the re
| adjustment of it's affairs"
DanyiIle, Va, Jan. 1.-The private
car containing the Seaboard Air Line
/ Counsel Ansel, headed by Samuel
Jntermyer OF New York; Judge Lee
| r. Watts, of Portsmouth, genera;
| counsel for the Seahcard Aafr Line
railroad and Eppa Hunton. Jr.. q;
| Richmond, reached here at I1:3o
! o'clock
/ There We're aboard the car about i
or 20 men. mostly lawyers. but among
| the number were the clerk OF the
| United States circuit court Brady
ano Court Stenographer Raymond
! Brown.
| The names of the other gentlemen
could not be learned as they refused
to give them and would not talk
Mr. Untermyer was questioned by 81
Associated Press correspondent and
stated that no application had beer
made for a receivership. He would
Eot say whether an application woulc