Show RAil PRESIDENT mI DIES IN GOTHAM I Newman Erb Interested in inMany Many Lines I NEW YORK March 25 By U. U i P. P Newman P.-Newman Newman Erb 76 75 president of of I Ithe the Ann Arbor railroad former I vice president of the Pere Marq Mar- Mar I q qt ette tte railroad and Identified with nearly a dozen other lines died I today at Roosevelt hospital following fol fol- lowing an operation I For more than forty years Erb Elb had taken a prominent part in the I I nations nation's railroad activities He was chairman of the Middletown I Unionville railroad vice president I of ot the New Dominion Copper company company company com com- pany and a director of the Hall hail Switch and Signal company I I Erb was born in Breslau Germany Germany Ger- Ger I many but came to this country countr I Ger-I I with his parents at the age of 3 3 I I As a young man he practiced law lawIn in Little Rock Ark but gave this I I up In 1881 to devote his time to I railroad activities I II Five years later without relinquishing relinquishing relin relin- his railroad Interests Erb i organized the tho Western Telegraph I company later merged with the Western Vestern Union I II |