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...diminutive Isaac Burton Tigrett of Jackson, Tenn. took on the presidency of diminutive (48 miles) Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad as a sideline to his banking business. Eight years later he was a dyed-in-the-wool railroad man, head of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis...
...Mobile Federal Court ordered the properties of bankrupt Mobile & Ohio (St. Louis to Mobile) sold at foreclosure to G. M. & N., which already had ICC approval to absorb the larger road into a single, 2,007-mile system. First large railroad consolidation since 1934, it puts "Ike" Tigrett at the head of a new railroad named Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, which will start with a $31,870,000 funded debt and annual interest charges of $1,399,920 (about half the two roads' present fixed charges). An additional $6,025,800 of 5% bonds will pay interest only if earned...
This setup will give modest, canny, homespun Ike Tigrett a chance to step up the $427,388 net profit his road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other...
...absence of Briggs and of McCall, who has not yet sufficiently recovered from his injury to resume practice, the squad was tried out in the following order: c., Currier; 1b; Hall, Waters, Hamlen, Harding; 2b., Haydock, Aronson; s.s., Simons, Tigrett, Rowley; 3b, Leonard, Keefe; l.f., Dana, Ware; c.f., Harvey, Kemble; r.f., Pond, Pounds...
...Hamlen '09, F. A. Harding '09, C. W. Harvey '09, R. Haydock '10, J. E. Keefe '08, F. W. Kemble '08, C. R. Leonard '08, H. B. Palmer '10, S. Pond '10, J. D. Pounds '08, R. W. Rowley '09, J. W. Simons '09, A. K. Tigrett '08, J. F. Waters...