Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-01
ELLIOTT CHOSEN
BY DIRECTORS
Selection as President of New
Haven Officially Announced
HE WILL BE CHAIRMAN LATER
ration of Steamboat and Trolley
hoIdings.-MeIlen Asks Sup
port for Elliott.

New Yorb-Howard Elliott, presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific, was
elected president and director of the
New York, New Haven & 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-
TEN.
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 systematic
New York, New Haven & Hartford
proper, the Boston & 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.
Mr.. 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 ill.,
clude a sufficient number of intiuen-
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. l, succeeding Charles
S. Mellen, and will be elected chair
man some time in October, when
regular meeting of the directors oc-
ours, at which it is proposed to make
the necessary changes in the bylaws.
1t has not as yet been announced
who the subordinate operating execu-
tives for the four properties will be,
but 1t Is 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 it 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
which her railroads are most essen
tial part"
MIR. Elliott Will Make His Home in
Boston.
Home rule" of New Haven subsid-
iaries is promised under the new re-
gime. This will mean the putting of
many men on New Haven boards to
represent the communities the vari-
Gus companies serve.
AS the work of reorganization pro-
crosses, it 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, it is an
nounced will take the following lines:
From October, each division of the
New Haven transportation service
will have a 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 a Board of Directors, drawn
in considerable part from the territory
which that branch serves; the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad will have Bos-
ton & Maine directors, and the Con-
necticut trolley lines will be left to
men particularly interested and par,
ticularly qualified in 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.
ton by debating the following state.
ment:
"Mr. Mellen has, since he decided to
send in his resignation, uniformly de-
clined to give an interview to the
press, and he has not done so in any
instance up to the present time, ex
cept through the executive assistant
I 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 to be
excused from answering any ques
tions affecting his connection with the
New Haven road or his own persona
movements after September l, 1913
when his term of Office will expire.
"Mr. Mellen has known Mr.. Elliott
great many years, appreciates hin
very highly, and hopes that all his
friends and acquaintance will give
him their undivided support and 10y
atty. He will himself do anything HI
can at all times to contribute to Mr.
Elliott or the company's success. Mr.
Mellen hopes for Mr. Elliott a sue
cessful administration, and will b,
greatly disappointed if any other II
in store for him.
At Close Range.
Howard Elliott has been in activ,
railroad work for more than 80 years
He spent two-thirds of that time witt
he pIt mt, o.