The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-03
MAY REORGANIzE
 SEABOARD AIR LINE
Receiver Warfeld Discusses
 Affairs of the Road
VISITS BIG INDUSTRIES
Sends Telegram to Maryland Senators Pointing Out Injury to Be Done to Birmingham By Senate
 Investigation.

While no date has been set for the re- organization of the Seaboard Air Line, it was intimated yesterday by S. Davies Warfield, one of the receivers of that road, that such a move would occur in the near future, probably within four months.
 As is remembered, when John Skelton Williams was recently in Birmingham he stated that while the Seaboard was pros pering under the receivers, no date for reorganization had been arranged. MT. Warfield's intimation exceeded that state ment by carrying with 1t the indication that such a step would be taken very soon.
 MT. Warfield did not readily discuss the rumors to the effect that E. II. Hartman was endeavorng to acquire the Seaboard, although he did not enter a denial.
 From an informal discussion with MT. Warfield, however, it was gathered that MT. Hartman and MT. Williams, instead of fighting each other, were, in case there was any activity on their part, working hand in hand for the development of'the company.
 MT. Warfield was met at his car yes terday morning by President G. G. Craw- ford of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, President w. P, G. Harding of the First National bank and President w. W. Crawford of the Amer ican Trust and Savings bank After an inspection of the company property, these gentlemen, together with Chief Executive Officer W. A. Garrett, Messrs. Brown and Randolph, assistant counsel to the re- cevers, who accompanied MT. Warfield from Atlanta to Birmingham, with Super intendent Waite, visited the steel and iron and other industrial plants of the city. MT. Warfield met many of the leading men of Birmingham before leaving for Atlanta and expressed himself as great ly impressed with the development of the district, so much so in fact that he sent telegrams to Senators Rayner and Smith of Maryland calling on these gentlemen to assist in preventing further agitation of the question in the United States Senate, now going on in a commit tee of the Senate. which, MT. Warfield considered, is calculated to retard not only lne great QeNelOpIlSnl OI Birmingham but the entire south. MT. Warfield left for Atlanta in the after noon, where he will inspect the company's s property and from there will proceed to Baltimore.
 The telegram sent to the senators of Maryland by MT. Warfield follows
 Hon. Walter Smith and Hon. Isidore Rayner. United States Senate, Washing ton, D. C.:
 Birmingham, February 2, 1909.
 So impressed am I with the enormity and importance of the industrial develop ment here at Birmingham with its conse- Quent benefits to the entire south, that l take the liberty of calling on you as senator of my native state, vitally inter- ested as we are in the south's prosperity, to use your best offices in assisting in stopping further and what seems to me to be unnecessary agitation of past action in connection with questions in regard to the iron and steel industries here, which must retard development of the iron, steel and coal interests of the south l refer especially to the agitation now going on in one of your senate committees in regard to the Tennessee Coal and Iron company.
 s. DAVIES WAKEFIELD.