Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-10-23
Incoming Officers Of Grays
Harbor Railway & Light
Company Dined.
WESTERN MGR. TALKS
President Miller Of Chamber
of Commerce Gives A
Dinner in Honor.

f.. Z. Miller Commercial manager OF
the Grays Harbor Railway and Light
Co.. and president of the Chamber of
Commerce, very pleasantly entertain
ed party of city councilmen and
editors of the city Saturday evening
al dinner at Hotel Washington, in
honor of the new officials Of the elec
trio company and c. X. Durkin, West
ern manager of the Federal Traction
Co., of New York, the holding COM
pany of the Grays Harbor Railway &
Light Co. The new officials, II. b.
Zimmerman, general manager, and F.
II. Russ, treasurer, come from Buf
falo, New York and are experienced
men in the electrical business.
Besides the officials named, those
present were: Councilmen John
O'Hare, r. J. Hits, Warren Egerer,
John F. Myles, Chas. R. Sauers, H.
B. Elder and w. o. McCaw, and War.
rem A. Rupp, J. S. Thornton and John
j. Carney.
f. c. Miller presided as POSTMASTER
and with strict impartiality called on
each guest for short talk. Mr. Dur
bin, who had been in Aberdeen twice
before, gave an interesting outline
of the intention of his company in
this part of the country, starting
with the information that his con
Germ was interested in many electr-
cal propositions in the west and south
west, and was financed by the Ma
tional City bank, of New York, which
placed it in position to undertake al
most any feasible project that gave
evidence of yielding returns to the in
vestors. He said the stock of his COM
pany was held chiefly in the New
England states by over 100 persons;
that on Grays Harbor they were now
considering three extensions of their
trolley system, the B street extension.
that is now in course of construction.
the West Sixth street extension, and
another in Hoquam.
The company is also engaged in
building line on Willapa Harbor,
connecting South Bend and Raymond,
and was favorably considering a line
between Willapa Harbor and Aber-
deem.
Mr.. Durbin also stated that they
were in position to finance road
from Grays Harbor to Puget Sound
as soon as it could be shown that
such line would earn sufficient to
meet it's obligations. His company,
he said, would always endeavor to
treat the communities in which it had
interests with absolute fairness; it
had expended on Grays Harbor $40,-
600 in the past ten months for i'm
provements and the total would reach
$4,000 by the end of the year
Speaking of the talk of reduced car
fares, he said the trolley car system,
standing alone, was not meeting its
expenses now, and that reduction
would not only work injury to the
stockholders but would render it
more difficult to finance contemplat-
ed extensions in this locality. Ad-
dressing the councilmen, he said the
company would always be pleased to
show it's records whenever it was
felt that a reduction of rates should
be made, and requested them to con-
fer with the resident officials regard
ing any matter they might desire
changed or amended.
Mr. Zimmerman, in a brief talk, eX-
pressed his pleasure at the progress
i've spirit that appeared to dominate
in Aberdeen. and pledged himself to
become an active booster for Grays
Harbor. The councilmen assured the
officials that Aberdeen required moth
ing but fair deal, and that, while
in their official capacity they would
drive the best bargains they could for
the city. there would be no unjust or
unreasonable demands made upon the
electric company