The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-12-05
HARRISON HEADS
MOBILE AND OHIO
Former Vice President of Southern
Railway Company Succeeds
William H. Finley.

rison, former Vice President of the
Southern Railway Co. and for the
last three years President OF the
Chicago, Indianapolis e. Louisville
Ry Co., of which the Southern is
part owner, was today elected Presi-
dent of the Southern Railway Co.,
to succeed the late William w. Fin
ley. A special meeting of the
Board of Director was held for the
purpose of filling the vacancy
caused by Mr.. Finleys death.
MIR. Harrison is a Virginian. his
home being at Belvoir. Va, and he
is peculiarly Identified with the
South, as his father was Private
Secretary to Jefferson Davis, while
President of the Confederate States
and all his railroad experience has
been with the Southern and its as
ISOLATED lines. Mr.. Harrison was
born in 1859 and was graduated
from Yale with the ALB. degree in
1890 and from Columbia with the
AM degree in 1891. He was admit
ted to the Bar in New York in 1892
and continued the practice of law
in this city until 1895, when he en-
tered the service of the Southern
Railway in the Legal Department
as Solicitor in 1903. He was made
assistant to the President and in
1906 became Vice President. which
position he held until 1910, when
he resigned on being elected Presi-
dent of the Chicago, indianapolis e.
Louisville Ry. He, however, con-
tinued as a Director of the Southern
Ry., so that his services with the
parent company have been uninter-
rupted Mr.. Harrison was one OF
Mr.. Finley's clerks and most trusty
advisers and is thoroughly in SYM
pathy with the policies which made
Mr.. Finley's administration so sue
cessful, both for the Southern Rail-
way Co., and the territory served
by It's lines. Though Mr.. Harrison
entered the service or the Southern
in the Legal Department, his expert
ence has not been confined to that
branch of the service. He has given
much study to financial conditions
of the Southern Railway, and
throughout the section il traverses
AS President OF the Chicago, In.
dianapolis & Louisville Ry,, he was
actively in charge of the operation
IF the railways so that he comes to
the Southern Railway prepared by
practical experience as well as the
most detailed knowledge of its af-
fairs, to take up the duties of chief
| executor. Mr.. Harrison today was
also elected President of the Ala
bama & Great Southern Railway,
the Mobile G. Ohio Ry., and the Vir-
ginia a Southwestern"
Resolution dcploring the death
Of Mr., Finley and paying a high
tribute to his work for the railways
he headed and the territory thew
/ served, were adopted by the board
of directors of the Southern Rail-
way, the Mobile & Ohio Ry. and
the Alabama & Great Southern
Railroad and the Virginia & South
western Ry. These resolutions will
be printed throughout the South -
Immediately following his cleo
ton, President Harrison gave out
the following statement: 81 am in
entire accord and sympathy with
the policies of our lamented friend,
Mr.. Finley, under whom | have
worked for seventeen years, and |
hope to continue to build the South
ern as he built it by promoting and
enhancing it's usefulness to and its
cordial relations with the people oil
the south. | count on the support
of the entire present working or.
ganiation of the Southern rank anC
file, having grown up in the servic,
with most Of them know how t.
value them and / en- proud to be.
lieve that they are my friends"