And now you tell me to keep on watering the stock when you know we haven't a dollar put towards the 'Rest' and the money is just pouring out for expenses and directors' fees.

There might be a dispute at the meeting; the directors' report would not be satisfactory.

In the meantime, a motion is before the meeting" "It is proposed and seconded that the directors' report and balance sheet be accepted," Gavin remarked.

There is a negative here that was made at the directors' meeting in January, a year ago, which shows Mr. Jones taking control of the Continental.

The principal features are the auditorium, seating 1,100 people and capable of holding 1,500; the "Mother's room," designed for the exclusive use of Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry.

From this are the entrances leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's room," and the directors' room.

The profits of a private business include, for instance, the remuneration of the work of management, which in the case of a Joint Stock Company is mostly paid for by salaries or directors' fees.

It is the profit of the shareholders that it is the directors' duty to promote with a single mind, and the whole capital of the concern, including its reserves both open and concealed, is the shareholders' exclusive property.

And we shall yet see the more intelligent of them taking the place, at the directors' board, of the retired merchants, physicians, and other respectable gentlemen, who now lend only the names of their respectability to perpetuate a system of folly that has reduced our railroad-management below contempt.

I know as little about the law of nations as the President himself, but I felt quite sure that whatever that exalted code might say (and it generally seems to justify the conduct of all parties alike), none of that money would ever find its way back to the directors' pockets.

" Colonel Preston attended the directors' meeting, and also collected his dividend, amounting to eight hundred dollars.

But Scott had died, in the mean time, and the Doddington, East Indiaman, bringing the Directors' instructions to the Bombay Council, had been wrecked near the Cape.

Good night again." XV THE JUNKETERS When Receiver Guilford took possession of the properties, appurtenances and appendages of the sequestered Trans-Western Railway, one of the luxuries to which he fell heir was private car "Naught-seven," a commodious hotel on wheels originally used as the directors' car of the Western Pacific, and later taken over by Loring to be put in commission as the general manager's special.

What is wanted, says the voluble young hustler in the firm, who alone seems to know anything of the business, is real actresses as distinguished from members of the directors' families, and above all a good vampire.

At eleven o'clock Fields wrote a note and sent it to the directors' room.

To bear this principle in mind, and at the same time to work in accordance with the directors' ideas of economy, in a country where the railroad was regarded very largely as an experiment, was by no means an easy task.

It is a local banker, who is thus admitted to the directors' consultation.

They are holding a council of war in the directors' room.

" "Yes, sir, sitting right here at the directors' table," he replied, taking a chair, "like this.

But no one out there heard it either, any more than, they did in the directors' room or the ladies' department.

I noted how carefully Kennedy looked into the directors' room through the open door from the ladies' department.

We were as conspicuously mal à propos as an outsider at a bank directors' meeting or in a football scrimmage.

As I was obliged to have a regular income for the support of my family, I acquiesced in the directors' decision, and soon, under the new incompetent management, the company failed; so another of my business enterprises, on the very verge of a grand success, became a defeat, and again the innocent were blamed for the acts of the guilty.

The Directors' report of January, 1897, was even more gloomy.

He is invited to leave his home, and come two hundred miles to the directors' home, and vote in person.