Show WESTERN MEN IN NEW YORK Brains of Mountain and Prairie In Demand De-mand In the Financial Center Ever since the early days when D 0 Mills J B Ilnggin and James It Keene emigrated ttom California to LoW York the metropolis has been drawing largely on the west and south tor Its supply of men who do things theodore PSliontj both a southerner and westerner who has undertaken to solve New Yorks great transit problem prob-lem Is the latest Importation In response re-sponse to tho call of the east Tho promptness with which Thos P Ryan of Virginia turned tho Equitable Equit-able Life Assurance Society over to its policyholders who now elect a majority ma-jority of Its Hoard of Directors and divested himself of the control of the stock which ho bought from Jas II Hyde and tho success of the new management of tho Society under the direction of President Paul Morton I have created a demand for the strongmen strong-men of tho south and west that Is greater than over before Under the Morton management the Equitable has made a better showing than any other Insurance company In the way of Improved Im-proved methods economies and Increased In-creased returns to pollcyhplders E II Gary head of tho greatest corporation cor-poration In the world tho U S Steel COJohn W Gates Henry C Frick Norman n Roam Win H Mooro and Daniel G Reid are other westerners who are among the biggest men In New York |