PRESIDENT-DR. FRED B. JOHNSTON.
I ANTONIO.'
MANAGING DIRECTOR"H. B. AYRES. SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
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5. SAN ANTON 10.TEXAS
Telephone Crockett 2268
D. E. COLP-MANAGER.
BOND ELECTION DEPARTMENT VICE PRESIDENTS:
FLORIDA-F. W MARSH. PENSACOLA. FLORIDA ALABAMA-JOHN CRAFT. MOBILC. ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI-H. S. WESTON. LOGTOWN. MISS. LOUISIAN A-MARTIN BEHRMAN. NEW ORLEANS LA EAST TEXAS-W. E. LEA. ORANGE. TEXAS WEST TEXAS-WALTER SCHREINER.KERRVILLE.TEX WESTERN-A. H GARDNER. TOMBSTONE. ARIZONA
SAN ANTONIO-BROWNSVILLE DIVISION
W. A. HUEY.
SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT
SECRETARY-HERBERT BAYLISS LAKE CHARLES. LA. TREASURER-M. G. MCNAIR. GULFPORT. MISS.
FIELD ENGINEER-HARRY LOCKE. LOS ANGELES.CAL.
DIRECTORS-S. H. PECK. MOBILE ALABAMA
R. H. FLEMING. NEW ORLEANS. LA.
H. A. MCDONALD. BEAUMONT. TEXAS
J. C. BAUMGARTEN. SCHULCNBURG. TEXAS
MRS. JULIE RIEGLER. SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
W. R. PERKINS. ALICE. TEXAS.
March	ItiZ'd
Mx. H. E. Ayres,
Baxtle Mouse,
Mobile, Alabama.
Dear Mr. Ayres:-
I have been intending %o write you. for several days but have been just a little too busy and possibly like yourself slightly peeved, and have not really had the time to think the matter over of which you ■wrote me regarding your salary.
I have discussed this matter with a number of the members of the Advisory Committee and we have decided we will give you a salary of $250 a month to handle the publicity matters in regard to the Old Spanish Trail. Insofar as you manging men who are out on the road, personally and as President of the Old Spanish Trail, I am pretty well convinced that you would possibly be much better as publicity man than you would be to handle men out on the road. As President of the organization I assume I have the authority to take the managment of the Old Spanish Trail in my own x.unds, and so long as I am personally responsible for the organization I think it is nothing more than right that I should manage the affairs instead of you.
In your childish manner in regard to Mir. Colp and Miss Huey you have convinced me thoroly also that you are not the man to place at the head of an organization from the standpoint of managment.
I have wanted to meet you in Hew Orleans Sunday and discuss this matter with you at length, but when the managing director of an organization sends as insulting a telegram as you sent to me on the 23rd I am convinced it is time for one or the other of us to get out of the way.
Should the directors or the advisory board decide you are the proper man to handle this matter then my resignation as President of the Old Spanish Trail will be handed them immediately. On the other hand if you are not willing to accept the salary of $250 per month, limiting your activates to"publicity man, then I shall expect your resignation to bo handed in immediately. You have about exhausted my patience in this matter of the way I am handling things, hence this letter.
Should you decide to come in to San Ahtonio I shall expect a full report from you financially as to your activities in Alabama, or anything in which I am in any way responsible.