The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22
NEW HAVEN TO GET NEW BLOOD Segregation Of Subsidiarie s Would Not Mean Their Pass ing Into UnfriendIy
 Hands
70 REMODEL DIRECTORATE
Though Banking Element Will Stay, Practical Railroad Men :
 Will Surely Be Added

The Hartford Times of last night -ln an interesting article on the New Haven road had the following to say:
 t<Boston may not like it, out the
 New Haven road has no intention
 whatever of parting with any of it's < properties which pay or will pay in ' the near future There is unlikely to zsbe any material change in this regard ' when Howard Elliott succeeds to the first place in the systems affairs un- der the new title of chairman of the board A comprehensive plan of seg- ~regatfon will be carried out and un- douhtedly result in increase efficiency 5 in many ways. but for the dfvestiture which critics of the Mellen regime i'm sisf on to take place is out of the question:; the dividend rate would drop below 6 per cent. if it should. HO4 course, much depends on the X McReynolds report and MT. Elliott must make such terms with Washing 2 ton authorities who have been egged on by the Massachusetts enemies of the New Haven as he may, but in Tany event the force of the attorney generals findings must of necessity expend itself on the interstate hold tngs of the system and if the New < Haven has to part with those they twill go to interests certain to remain friendly, as the so-called western Mas sachusetts trolleys have already
 esvery many matters hang on the decisions of Chairman Elliott and pre- dictions are not altogether safe just now. but the facts speak for them selves One which is proclaiming it. self loudly is that there will come a remodeline of the New Haven's direc- Storate to accompany the rernodeling Of its operative organiza ton; not that there is likely to be any such divorce from the banker management of MT. Brandeis, as he suggests. but. the board needs men who know something of railroading on the practical side and perhaps an infusion of young blood
 During the Hull in the roads affairs news is not plentiful and one reason for this is the general order which has gone out closing the mouths of everybody on the system. Another is ,thef death of Clarence Deming. MT. Demng'ss knol1led dges of railroad saf- fairs had made him one of the edi- tors Of the Railroad Age Gazette, and he was one of the few close friends of President Mellen.
 = ..In the days. when the latter was
 making the numerous and rapid moves sfor. expansion of the New Haven sys- -tem. which have since been the subject -of 50 much comment he would return gto New Haven late in the evening of "a day filed with aceomplishmentsF zor, at least, with stre nuous ae1Ivffy- gand get MT. Denim out of bed by Telephone to come over and talk with him about what had happened.
 De1ning is Missed.
 MT. DemiAg was a considerable holder of New Haven road securities, sbut se utterly indf pendent in that, as ln all else, and so tsneitfge abouf any things savoring of Requisite fha4sit lay heavy on his conscience that he had once accepted an invitation Into the private car of President Mellen when he happened to be a passenger on the train to which it was attached and ac- cepted some refreshment of an inno- cent character. By no means all Of the Mellen moves met his approval and he never hesitated to stride up and down The private office of the railroad presi- dent and say SO
 So thoroughly in touch swas the