Show GOULD WINS VTORYr He and Osgood Control Fuel 3 Iron Co JOHN W GATES OUSTED I EarrlmanHawloy Crowd Have Only Four Directors but No Representation Representa-tion on tho Executive Committee or Among Officers Herbert a Director I Gould and Osgood Paired and I t Outvoted tho OthersGould Names I 1 the Second VicePresident Many 1 Train Changes on Short Line I 1 1 I The following dispatch on the Colorado t Colo-rado Fuel Iron company meeting And election will be read with deep Interest here for notwithstanding tho < reports that all was harmonious it can he seen that the Gouldpooplc held their own quite forcibly The HawleyHurrl man crowd get four directors while I the GouldOsgood contingent get eight Gould has two representatives on the executive committee and Osgood has three and everyone knows that t the executive committee Is what counts I I nowadays The Harriman people nre I not represented on the executive committee com-mittee Then In the olficers Mr Goulds man J 1 Jl McClcment becomes second vicepresident and the other olllces are iJ held by the Osgood men with none given to the harriman people As It has been said all along that Osgood was willing to 50 with Gould It looks as If that syndicate has harmoniously gotten the control Mr John W Gates evidently got lost somewhere out on the prairies These facts arc evident as the Gould S proxies amounted to only 05311 shares hut voting them Folld with the Osgood Ehares the Ilarrlman proxies were pos fclbly snowed under J II Hyde Is a wealthy New Yorker In 1 various concerns and a director of the Union Pacific Hawley < and HuntIngton Hunt-Ington ure former Southern Puclilc frlendK J M Herbert Js the popular manager of the Rio Grande Frank Trumbull Is the president of the Colorado Colo-rado Southern McClement is the expert who examined the Rio Grande Western prior to UK Hale to Mr Gould Mr Butler But-ler IK I not known locally but the others are too well known to need mention Denver Dec 10 Harmony characterized character-ized all the proceedings at the deferred de-ferred annual meeting of tho Colorado Colo-rado Fuel and Iron company which was held today Aa the result of the compromise reached by the contending factions John T Osgood remains at the head of the management as chairman of the board of directors Only four changes were made In the list of ofllceifi J IT McClcment succeeds Dennis Sullivan as second vicepresi dent and George Gould J H Mc Clem nt and A C Cass succeed John W pates J A Blair and J A Mitchell as members of the executive committee In accordance with the agreement received late last night between the proxy committees of three factions who have been contending for control of tho Colorado Fuel it Iron company com-pany the following directors wcie unanimously elected at the stockholders stock-holders meeting today NAMES OF DIRECTORS James H Hyde H E Huntington E H Harriman J A Keblcr J M Herbert A C Cntfs George J Gould J 3 L Jerome E Hawley John H Mc Clement Frank Trumbull Charles Henry Butler and J C Osgood Messrs Gould Herbert McClcmcnt 1 and Butler were named by the Gould committee Mcbsra Huntington Hawley Haw-ley Harriman and Trumbull by the HawleyIIarrlman committee and Icfears Kcbler Cass Jerome and Os good by the Osgood committee and James II Hyde was named ay the thirteenth member of the board by mutual agreement The meeting was an hour late In starting the delay being caused by the signing up of the proxies and getting everything In shape to conduct business busi-ness without the presence of Judge Seymour Sey-mour D Thompson the master Inch In-ch ncer GOULD AND OSGOOD At 1104 Chairman John C Osgood called the meeting to order and the secretary sec-retary read the official 1 call It was announced that the case In the United States court had been dismissed and consequently the meeting was held under the direction of the board and not under the courts control A roll call developed the strength of the sev eraI actions J ll l McClement representing repre-senting Mr Gould and friends held proxies for 65314 shares Edwin Huw ley representing E II HarrIman and others hold proxies for 04403 shares and J I Jerome representing Os good and friends held proxies for 90257 pharos The nomination and election of directors was then procecded with There being no oth r business before the meeting an adjournment was taken after a session of Just thirteen minutes A 1 meeting of the new board of dl rectors was held this afternoon at which officers and members of the executive committee for the ensuing year were unanimously elected as fol lows Chairman J C Osgood president J A Kebler first vicepresident A Cass C-ass second vicepresident J H Mc Clement third vicepresident J L Jerome Je-rome secretary D C Beaman treasurer treas-urer J L Jerome GOULD ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COMMIT-TEE Executive committee George J Gould J II McClcment J C Osgood J A Kcbler A C Cass Rio Grande Gross Earnings Gross earnings of the Denver Rio Grande syytem I for the fourth week In November were 5428100 a decrease oC 19600 The whole month of November Novem-ber allowed gross 147S100 an Inrrcase of 26500 The period from July 1st lo November Oth five months 7SOO35S an Increas0 of 5138021 |