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Show IK FORMER B. & 0. fif.,i; t OFFICIAL IN CITY 1 ' President King, Who Had..: a Suc- , , cessful Administration on j ' " r Great Road. . ''UJ J f 1 . TTACHED to Rio Grnndc No. 1 'ji"' "f yesterday was a private car of 1 XTL the Baltimore & Ohio, which AVlll . j , go out on No. 5 today for Soda-, Soda-, , vllle, Nev., its occupants being en route ! ' j to Tonopah. Thomas M. King of New York was in tho car and his guests j I J were TL H. Rushton, president of the j h' ' Fourth Street National bank of Phlla-i Phlla-i dclphia and ono of ,the strongest finan-1 "rfi , '-in I institutions In the country. The ' v party went to .the Knutsford and was Keen at the lake last evening. Mr. King Is one of the prominent men in the financial world of the East. Thirty years ago he was superlntcnd-, superlntcnd-, ent of the Allegheny Valley road at j ; Pittsburg, then superintendent of the" t , Pittsburg division of fthe B. & O., then ' ' general superintendent, then general manager, and finally vice-president i during the regime of Robert Garrett. Eventually he was made president of 1 ' the road. , i The light being mado by Gould to , I gain an entrance to Pittsburg must be ' ) interesting to Mr. King, as for a long time ho was at the head of a corps making, a slmllnr fight and that was r long ago, when he was general manager mana-ger of the old B. & O. An entrance to ,' ' ( , Pittsburg was very much desired, but the Pennsylvania, being so atrongly en-7 en-7 j trenched In the city, mado It almost M , i impossible at that time for any other ll road to sccuro a foothold. But Mr. j King kept at it until he gained tho , , desired entranoe, and then began the ii ' work of a lino through tho city to con-11 con-11 J ncct tho west and east llnee of the B. II & O, ! Tie accomplished this by building tho Pittsburg Junction road, which, with a long tunnel, out right through tho town I and made tho through route of tho B. f & O. Then ho handlod the road's uf- fairs In tho labor troubles of 1S77 In t the most creditable manner. I Tho two gentlemen are not here on ' i . railroad business, however', but' are go-' j ing over to Tonopah to look Into lnvcst-r lnvcst-r ments at that promising camp, a matter , of congratulation for the new bonanza, 1 1 as they represent a largo amount of j ' Eastern capital. ,. .Bock Island-S. P. Deal Off. j' The Rock Island conipuny of Now ' j i Jersey has notified the Now York atock ' - '-xchange of the cancellation of tho -I' I .52,500.000 preferred etock Issued for tho , , proposed purchabo of tlia Houston & I ' Texas Contral, the Houston East & I 5 1 1 West Texas and Houston &. Shrevc-' Shrevc-' , . ' j.ort all companies controlled bv tho .1 1 JJouthern Pacific company. This'atock i. 1 never dlnposed of. as tho deal was ) . , not copGuminatod (compare V. 76 tv I ' ' H03). V. 78. p. S44, 223. ' ... j |