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Show uu GOULDS LOSE THEIRJONTROL Are Eliminated From Missouri-Pacific Missouri-Pacific and St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railways. B. F. BUSH PRESIDENT Principal Control of System Passes From New York to St. Louis Finley J. Sheppard Retained. SL Ixmis, Mo. March 9. B. V. Bush of St. Louis today was elected Chairman of the boards of directors of the Missouri Pacific and of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern mil-ways, mil-ways, and also chairman of the ex-ecutive ex-ecutive committees of both roads. In these officos he replaces George J Could, who was eliminated from official of-ficial relationship to the Missouri-Pa-ciilc-Iron Mountain system at the annual an-nual meeting of the roads todav Mr. Bush was re-elected ir .id-iu of the combined system. The i ban uesi made today were considered as definitely marking the transfer of control of the principal part or the .-..-(ailed c.ouhi system from New York to St. Jouls. Two vice preis- I idents, now in the New York office. were eliminated and the three vice ! presidents in St Louis in active management man-agement of the road were re-elected. The men re-elected vice presidents pre E J Pearson in charge of op- -ration; John G. Drew, accounts; J. M Johnson, traffic, and Finley J. j Sheppard. in charge of t.e Sew YorK office Klngdon Gould and Frank I Could were not re-electec vice pres- i idents H L. Utter was elected secretary-juifr secretary-juifr - ii.l will have h; headquarters headquar-ters In New York iv T. Jeffery. chairman of the board bl directors of the Denver A: Rio J Grande, vas not re-elected to the Iron Mountain directorate. O. B. Huntsman, one of the former j vice presidents, was elected assistant , treasurer and was appointed vice president to look after the validation of stock certificates in the New York office The balloting was completed before noon and the Coulds were eliminated from the directorate of the two roads as had been predicted. The new directors of the Missouri Pa, fic are Ed ard A Faust, William Will-iam II Lee and E J Pearson of St. Louis, and Nicholas K Brady. New-comb New-comb Carlton A J HetnpShtll Cor- nellua VanderblM and W. H Williams of New York The obi directors re-elected are: Benjamin (' Bush. Edgar i. Marston, Edwin C Merrill. Finley J. Sheppard and R, I ancaster Williams The o'd directors vho re not on the new board are: George J. Gould, Edwin Could. Klngdon Gould, James Speyer, E. O. Adams. J. G. Metcaire. IE. T Jeffers and S F. Pryor ! The new directors of the St. Ixuls. I Iron Mountain Southern are Xlch-loias Xlch-loias F Brady Newcomb Carlton, a. I Hi mnshilj, Cornelius Vanderbilt. W ) W'illhims and Festus J Wade a banker, Qf 3t Louis Iron Mountain Eltminat'ons The directors of the Iron Mountain re-ee. ted are Benjamin F. Bush, Kd-uar Kd-uar U Miirston. Edwin G. Merrill, Fin-ey Fin-ey I Sheppard, .lheri Wiggin and also E. C. Simmons of SL Louis, and C. A. Pnitt of Utt.le Rock, Ark. i he old directors of the rron Mountain, Moun-tain, who were eliminated In the organization or-ganization of the new board, are: George J Gould, lames Speyer, E. t Jeffery, Jacob Metcalfe, Jay Could and S F Pryor. Control Of the Missouri Pacific car-I car-I rles with it control of the St. Louis. I Iron Mountain & Southern, for the Missouri Pacific holds most of the stock of the latter New York, March 9. Among the business matters to come up at the St. Louis meeting of the Missouri Pa-Cific Pa-Cific K'uhn. Loeb A Co. have an-DOUnced, an-DOUnced, is making provision for the ext DSlon of the $25,000,000 note, maturing ma-turing June 1 |