The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-08-01
ELLIOTT CHOSEN
BY DIRECTORS
Selection as President of New
Haven Officially Announced
HE WILL BE CHAIRMAN LATER
Reorganization Of System With Sepa-
ration of Steamboat and Trolley
Eioldngs.-MeIlen Asks Sup
port for Elliott.

New Yorl9-Howard Elliott, presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific. was
elected president and director OF the
New York, New Haven a. Hartford
railroad at a meeting Of its directors
last week and new plan was adopt
ed for the administration and oper-
alton of the entire New Haven sys-
tenn.
This provides that as soon as the
bylaws of the road can be changed
the new president shall become chair
man of the board of directors, and
that each division OF the system-the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
proper, the Boston q Maine, the New
England Navigation Company and
the network of trolley lines-shall
each have an operating executive,
president with defined duties" who
will be subordinate TO the chairman
MIR. Elliott is TO become chairman
also of the boards of directors Of each
of these divisions.
The plan provides further that the
Boards of directors of the New Haven
and the Boston & Maine shall in
clude a sufficient number of inhuen-
tial residents OF the several States in
which the properties are situated, ade-
quately to represent the interests OF
the communities served"
Mr.. Elliott will assume his new
duties on Sept. /, succeeding Charles
s. Mellen, and will be elected chair
man some time in October, when a
regular meeting OF the directors oc-
ours, at which IL Is proposed TO make
the necessary changes in the bylaws
II has not as yet been announced
who the subordinate operating execu-
tives for the four properties will be,
but IL Ia possible that James H.
Hustis, vice president Of the Boston
& Albany railroad, will succeed Mr..
Elliott when the latter becomes chair
man of the board.
II shall give the best that is in me
TO the work, but cannot do il alone,
and must ask the loyal support OF
ALL" Mr.. Elliott says. He declares
his motto will be that Of Edward
Everett Hale, to Look forward and
not back" and to Lend a hand" He
promises and calls for loyal work ito
help the advancement of a greater
New England and her interests of
which her railroads are most essen
Nal part"
Mr.. Elliott viii Make His Home In
Boston.
Home rule" OF New Haven subsid-
iaries is promised under the new re-
Rime. This will mean the putting Of
many mcn on New Haven boards 10
represent the communities the vari-
Gus companies serve.
AS the work of reorganization pro-
crosses, il is promised that the recon-
mendations Of the stockholders pro
tective committee, OF which former
Secretary of the Navy Meyer was the
head, will be followed In the main.
The reorganization plan. 1t is an.
nounced will take the folio wing lines:
From October, each div sion Of the
New Haven transportation service
will have n separate executive head.
responsible TO Elliott as chairman OF
the Board of Directors. an office TO be
created
Each division OF the service will
have n Board of Directors, drawn
in considerable part from the territory
which that branch serves: the Bos-
ton Il Maine Railroad will have Bos.
ton e. Maine directors, and the Con.
necticut trolley lines will be left 10
men particularly interested and par
ticularly qualified i'm this territory.
The company will join the New
England Governors conference in an
effort to secure uniformity of laws
affecting issues Of securities.
President Mellen broke the silence
he has maintained since his resigna-
tion by debating the following state
ment:
Mr. Mellen has. since he decided 10
send in his resignation. uniformly de.
clined TO give an interview TO the
press. and he has not done so in any
instance up 10 the present time. eN-
cept through the executive assistant
of the company. announcing the sim.
pie fact OF his resignation. Mr.. Mel
len has stated that he will pursue
this course hereafter. and. begs 10 be
excused from answering any Qucs.
lions affecting his connection with the
New Haven road or his own personal
movements after September l. 1913
when his term of Office will expire.
Mr.. Mellen has known Mr.. Elliot,
great many years. appreciates him
very highly. and hopes that all his
friends and acquaintances will give
him their undivided support and 10y
atty. He will himself do anything hC
can az all times TO contribute TO Mr.
Elliott or the company's success. Mr.
Mellen hopes for Mr.. Elliott sue
ressful administration. and will bC
greatly disappointed II any other 4:
I'm store for him"
At Close Range.
Howard Elliott has been in activ,
railroad work for more than 30 years