Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

B. F. Bush,

New President

of Missouri Pacific.

The election of Benjamin Franklin Bush, president of the Western Maryland railroad, to the presidency of the Missouri Pacific railroad indicates that the control of the management of the system is to remain in the hands of the Goulds. Commenting on the selection of Mr. Bush, George Gould said: “I was much influenced in my advocacy of his election by the results he has attained in his administration of the Western Maryland property and by the esteem In which I knew he was held by Mr. Rockefeller, who is so largely interested in the Western Maryland and who, next to our family, is the largest stockholder in Missouri Pacific.” Mr. Bush, head of Missouri Pacific, began his railroad career in 1882 as a rodman with the Northern Pacific. He soon rose to be a division engineer. The Oregon Improvement company next employed him as chief engineer and general superintendent. He went with the Northwestern Improvement company as general manager and with the Western Coal and Mining company as vice president. In 1907 he was sent to Baltimore as fuel agent for tho Missouri Pacific. The Goulds put him into the Western Maryland. At the same time he served as president of the Davis Coal and Coke company and as president of the Pittsburg Terminal Railroad and Coal company, since leased by the Pittsburg Coal company. He is fifty-one and a native of Weilsburg, Pa. New Senator From Montana. Henry L. Myers of Montana, who succeeded Thomas H. Carter as United States senator, is little known outside his state, but has been prominent in Montana politics for the past fifteen years. Senator Myers is known as an experienced warrior. Together with

State Senators Whiteside and Clark, he made a long and arduous struggle against the seating of former Senator William A. Clark, the copper magnate, at the time of the latter’s first election to the United States senate in 1899. That contest resulted in the unanimous finding of the senate committee on elections against the seating of Mr. Clark, who resigned his seat Senator Myers is a native of Mjssouri and Will he forty-nine years old next October. As a boy he worked on his father’s farm, later taught school, became a newspaper man and finally studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Montana in 1893 and opened a law office at Hamilton. He served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Ravalli county and in 1898 was elected state senator. The new senator Is described by bis friends aa an old school Democrat

HENRY L. MYERS.