The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-19
SEABOARD ID BE ALL SOUTHERN LINE.
New Policy Inaugurated by
 New Management
DIRECTORS TO MEET
Meeting Place Is Changed From New York to Baltimore and Will Take Place There on
 November 26
By CLYDE ". ENNIS.

A meeting of the new directors of the Seaboard Air Line railway will be held November 26, in Baltimore, where the all-southern policies of that line will be agreed upon.
 In all the history of the south and 1t has been an undisputed variety, there has never been so complete a departure in policy as in the announced ideas of the new managers of the Seaboard. The men in charge now are determined to make the Seab oard a southern line, with southerners as managers, for the south and by the south. The Seaboard penetrates the heart of the south. It operates Into the capital city of every state 1t passes through and has pub lie good will equal to any line in this country. With the new men, the new ideas and the whole hearted determine ton to make the line essentially south ern the owners have given expression to something entirely different.
 Twelve Southern Directors
 The board as now constituted in- cludes 12 southern directors. viz.: Messrs. Allies. Capps. Harahan, Lane, nhduOOAf Riludtlidoiit IeCANt koSSN'g ferro, Warfield, Watts and Woodward
 This large representation of southern men marks the inauguration. of the policy announced last June at the time the large block of Seaboard stock was purchased by s. Davies Warfield and his associates.
 Of the southern directors Milton D. Allies of Washington, D. C., is vice president of the Riggs National bank. He was formerly assistant secretary of the treasury.
 Charles K. Capps of Norfolk, Va, is vice president of the Seaboard and head of it's traffic department. He is recog- nized by railroad men as one of the ablest traffic officials in the south. MT. Capps entered the employment of the Seaboard as boy, and his career has been one of steady promotion.
 w. J. Harahan of Norfolk. Va, the new president of the Seaboard Is a southern man. and came to the Sea board from the vice presidency of the Erie railroad. with a fine record of railroad achievement. Three quarters of MT. Harahan's railroad career has been spent in the south.
 Mills B. Lane of Savannah, Ga, Is president of the Citizens and Southern bank of Savannah, and is one of the in- fluential bankers of the south Re- gently MT. Lane and his associates have acquired control of the National bank of Augusta. MT. Lane Is an active fac tor in the commercial development of his state.
 MT. Maddox of Atlanta
 Robert F. Maddox of Atlanta, Ga. Is a leading factor in the financial and industrial life of Georgia, is vice presi- dent of the American National bank of Atlanta, has been mayor of the city, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and president of the Georgia Bankers association.
 J. William Middendorf of Baltimore, Md, is. the senior member of the well known banking house of Middendorf Williams & Co.,. was one of the founders of the Seaboard system, and has been long connected with the property.
 Fergus Reid of Norfolk, Va. Is one of the best known cotton exporters in the south, having large interests in Norfolk, Memphis and Augusta. and is connected with a number of important commercial enterprises. He is recog- nized as one of the representative citi- zens of his state.
 Townsend Scott of Baltimore is the head of the banking house of Townsend Scott & Son, one of the oldest private banking houses in the south, and has been identified with the Seaboard sys- tenn since it's creation.
 J.P. Taliaferro of Jacksonville. Fla, is one of the leading citizens of his state, and is actively identified with the financial, agricultural and industrial de- velopments which are rapidly trans forming Florida. He represented his state in the United States Senate sev- eral terms.
 S. Davies Warfield of Baltimore is president of the Continental Trust com many. and is connected with number of financial and industrial enterprises, and was one of the founders of the seaboard system. and was chairman of the receivers who successfully rehabill- tated the, property. He formed and headed the Warfield syndicate which last June made the large purchase of the Seaboard stock. and has become an important factor in the property
 George W, Watts of Durham. x. C.. is one of the best known and most substantial citizens of North Carolina boo t.aau leader in the dcvaior,-