The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-20
PROCESS SERVERS
CATCH DIRECTORS
Invade Room Where Meeting OF
Stockholders of Illinois
Central Is Held.
EXITS S CLOSELY GUARDED
Escape Impossible, Papers in
Suit for S1o, Dam
ages Are Served.

Chicago ILL.,. October 19.-Stockhold-
ers of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company had lively hour and half
at their annual meeting to-day, owing
to the presence OF Attorney Maxwell
Edgar. who held sixty shares of the
| 7S4,S66 shares of stock represented.
Mr. Edgar was accompanied by two
deputy sheriffs, who added to the con-
fusion by serving subpoenas during
every lull in the meeting on the var,-
Gus directors. The subpoenas were in
| suit for slo,000,0Ob damages, which
Mr.. Edgar. constituting himself an at
torney for the road, started in the Cir
cult Court to-day The defendants to
| the suit are the directors Of the road
whom Mr.. Edgar seeks to hold respon-
sfble for alleged financial loss through
| alleged car repair graft, general mis-
management and alleged rebatng,
While the two deputies were making
| things Interesting I'M the meeting half
dozen others guarded exits from the
building, Mr.. Edgar fearing that some
| of the directors might attempt to evade
service This precarttion proved to bu
| superfuous.
| Three resolutions We're introduced
! by the militant attorney. All were lost
| by an Overwhelming vote. He de-
nounced the present management of
| the road, made the charge that Its
| directors were incompetent; that its
| financial statements were juggled and
misleading, and that It's officials We're
| dishonest and were violating the in
! terstate commerce lsvw. His first res
olution was in support Of these charges,
and called for an Independent inves-
| tigation of the ROAD by a committee
| OF prominent stockholders. He was
voted down. 7S4,16O Shares to 641
I A second resolution demanded that
all directors who are not residents of
Illinois be ousted on the grounds that
! the Cons titution of fthe State prohibits
the present proportion Of outsiders on
the board This resolution was voted
down without the formality of roll
call.
on his third andl last attempt, Mr..
Edgar proposed resolution asking
| that suit be brought against 8. T. Har-
ahan. president Of the road, and the
! estate Of Ira G.. Rawn, formerly vice.
president, on chargi,s of gross neg
| lect, criminal laxity and culpable neg
| ligence."
This resolution was buried under an
| onther avalanche of contrary votes.
The actual business of the meeting
was to re-elect as directors for four
/ years, v. !. IldIoAulA', ~ SAAtSASSf SSA
nellus Vanderbilt and Henry w. De-
forest. Of New York. This reelection
| took little time.
With the exception of Mr.. DeForest,
\ Robert S. Lovett and Robert W. Goelet,
all the Eastern directors We're present.
and were served with subpoenas.
| The directors were dumbfounued
when the deputies began serving them
with summonses. Those who accepted
Service included John Jacob Astor. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. President Harahan.
Charles A Peabody and others.
Mr. Edgar has been prominent IN va
| lrious reform movements.
During the meeting to-day. Mr.. Ed
4 gar charged that the directors of the
lnlinois Central were dummy" officials.
who, he aaid, were elected by Charles
A. Peabody, director of the Union
\ Pacific He asked that suit be brought
against Mr. Peabody and a, 9, Hack
star to recover bonds for $4,000 and
100000, which he alleged belonged to
1.-THE road.