The Sentinel=record., 1911-02-16
GEO. GOULD
 WILL RESIGN
BELIEVED HIS RETIREMENT MARKS END OF DOMINANT INTEREST OF THE GouLDS.
Standard Oil and kuhn-Loeb Inter- ests Bring Pressure to Bear to Replace Gould With a Man of
 Their Own.

New fork, Feb. 15.-1PresSed by the Rockefeller and KuhnI4oeb interests, George J. Gould is shortly to relin- Pacific Railway, position in whicl his father, Jay Gould, placed him IS years agco. He will be succeeded by a railroad man not yet publicly named who, to quote one of the new interests in MissouriJPacific, will "eat, drink and sleep on the job" Mir. Gould him self announced is forthcoming re- Itirement, which will take place just as soon as his successor Is chosen.
 The fact that Mir. Gould will be. come chairman of the board does not alter the opinion generally held in f. nancial circles that todays develop ments mark the passing of the Gould influence, not only in Missouri Pacific, but in the various railroads with which the name of Gould has for so many years been identified
 Several conferences were held to- day and with their conclusion at a time too late to have any effect on today's market, the Gould statement was issued. It tells not ony of George Gould's forthcoming resignation as president, but of the intended simul- taneous retirements of the other members of the Gould faction and family in the directorate.
 Messrs. Warburg, Marston and Adams will take the places in the di- rectorate now held by Howard Gould, IS. c, Clark and S. F. Pryor, the lat ter two of St. Louis.
 A great deal { of interest centers about the selection of Mir. Gould's successor and rqmors current In Wall Street this afternoon mentioned sev- eral well known railroad men con nected with some of the prominent southwestern systems. He will have practically unlimited powers and will be given every chance to build the Missouri Pacific up to the highest stage of efficiency. What is no less important, his headquarters will be at St Louis, the Strategic base of the system
 Missouri-Pacific was the feature of today's stock market and its feveris sh course at times unsettled the general list. It advanced to 63 on heavy sales in the first hour, but before the end of the day lost all but small frac- tion of it's early gain. Trading in the stock aggregated about 10000 shares. or one-fifth of the days total opera tions.
 The Missouri-Pacific system takes in 10.696 miles. including 3,SS3 miles of the Missouri Pacific proper, 3,28S miles of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern and it's leased lines. the Denver and Rio Grande, with 2,59S miles of owned or controlled lines and the Western Pacific, with 92i miles of road. Though George Gould has been president for nearly twenty years, he seldom visited the property.
 
 The stock owned and represented by the interest referred to will be voted at the annual election for the following directors:
 George j. Gould. Frederick T. Gates, Cornelius Vanderbilt, E. T. Jeffrey, Paul M. Warburg, of Kuhn, Loeb and Company; Edwin Gould. Edgar L. Marston, of Blair and Company; King don Gould. E. T. Adams, representa- tive in this country of the Deutsche Bank; J. J. Slucom. W. K Rixby. 0. L. Garrison, of St. Louis, and. va- cancy left for the president to be se- lected, who is to reside in St. Louis.
 Mir Gould will become chairman of the board of directors.