The Evening World

HARRIMAN WITH SHRIMP PINK TIE MEETS MR. FISH

Harahan Also Attends Directors' Meeting at the Illinois Central A. C.

Edward H. Harriman, wearing a shrimp-colored necktie and a white derby hat, entered the Illinois Central Railroad directors' room and prize ring to-day a few minutes after Champion Heavyweight Stuyvesant Fish had walked in arm-in-arm with his second, John Auchincloss.

They were behind President J. T. Harahan, the "man who was licked in one blow" at a recent meeting of the two heavyweights, and as a result of the assembling of "Stuyy." Quince and Shrimp under one roof, there was a great outpouring of the sporting directorate.

The other men who arrived early - not to miss anything - were J. De Wolff, Luttgen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles A. Peabody, Charles M. Boach, Robert Goelet and Gov. Charles S. Deneen, of Illinois, who, by the original charter granted the road, is a director, as each Governor in his term has been.

Harriman Sporting Garb.

Mr. Harriman, jovially referred to by former President Fish - whom he deposed - as "Shrimp," was arrayed for the sporty nature of the meeting and wore his shrimp pink tie and white derby hat with the jauntiness of a member of the Longacre A. C.

When he reached the board room door Mr. Fish did not open it cautiously and then jump back as if to avoid a swift swing, but walked right in and didn't turn around to walk right out again.

The night writers gathered outside - for only "members of this club" are admitted to the I. C. fests - waited patiently for the sound of swats and uppercuts and breaking ulna bones, but there was nothing doing until a half hour later, when a member of the rac which claims Champion Joe Gans carried in a tuna can for the director.

The first meeting of Harriman, Fish, and Harahan around the festal directors' table board since the celebrated one-round go between Fish and Harahan was a very serious and quiet affair. No fisticuffs were exchanged to far as could be learned, but the meeting lasted nearly three hours, during which there were many earnest debates.

At the conclusion of the session Mr. Harriman came tearing out, his face downcast and his pace nervous. He was accompanied by Robert Goelet. In answer to all questions he cried, "Nothing to say."

Fish Is Silent, Too.

He had just gone down in the elevator when Mr. Fish came out, accompanied by Auchincloss. Both were smiling as though the meeting might have been a big victory for Fish. The deposed president said that he had nothing to say.

"Did you and Mr. Harahan adjust your differences to-day?" was asked.

Mr. Fish - "Oh, that's a closed incident," said Mr. Fish then referred his questioner to Mr. Hackstaff. When the latter was seen he said: "The meeting was void of any row, and was conducted in an orderly manner. We did a lot of business."

"How about the charges of Mr. Fish?" was asked.

"In regard to them," was the reply, "Mr. Harriman read his report, which was an answer to those charges. Mr. Harriman's report was a report also from all of the other officers of the company. After the report of Mr. Harriman was read it was ordered printed and a copy furnished to each of the directors."

"Was there no other action taken on it than that?"

"That was all."

"Was any apology offered by either Fish or Harahan?" he was asked.

"Oh, no. Nothing like that," assured Mr. Hackstaff.

As Harahan emerged looking righteously indignant, a young man who said he was Arthur S. Pullman, of No. 203 Broadway, served him with a subpoena to appear in the First District Municipal Court to answer a suit brought by Dr. H. Lo Strange.

Pullman said that the doctor sent in a bill for attending Mrs. Harahan. The I. C. President was indignant at the service of the paper and stormed around the lobby attempting to get away from Pullman. He had nothing to say about the meeting.