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Show PROMINENT RAILROAD CAPITALIST IS DEAD NEW YORK. March 3. Richard Homers Hom-ers Hayes, the railroad capitalist, is dead after a lingering illness at his home here. He was 69 years old and had been ill more than two years. For over thirty years Mr. Hayes ws prominent in the railroad affairs of this country. In the course of that time he was president of the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad company, vice-president of the Missouri Pacific, president of the New York & Northern and managing director of the Atchison, To pelt a & Santa Fe. For many years he wss prominently identified with railroads In Texas, to which State he went on leaving college. He was the engineer of construction of the Texas & Pacific, and was also the receiver of the Texas International, being made president presi-dent when the receivership was dissolved. dis-solved. Among the railroad companies of which he was a director are the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Santa Pe. Prescott & Phoenix. Gulf. Colorado A Santa Fe, Delaware & Hudson, California Eastern Sonora, Southern California and the Ing Island. |