executive committee before being submitted to the directors for their approval.

The executive committee elected consists of F. J. Hearne, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., George J. Gould, F. T. Gates and John C. Osgood. Officers elected were: F. J. Hearne, chairman of the board and president; J. F. Welborn, vice-president; D. C. Beaman, secretary.

Aside from the fact that he is a brother of Mrs. K. B. Armour, Mrs. George H. Nettleton and Mrs. E. W. Smith, the career of Frank J. Hearne, the newly elected president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., is of interest in Kansas City because he is the type of man that represents the Western idea of hustle.

The man who has been elected to represent the Gould-Rockefeller interests in the great iron and fuel concern, at their solicitation went to Colorado to examine the affairs of the Colorado Iron and Fuel Co., with the result, as already told in The Star, of his election as president of the concern. Soon after severing his connection with the Riverside Iron Works, Mr. Hearne built a palatial residence in Pittsburg, which he still owns.

Mr. Hearne is president and chairman of the board of managers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., in which John D. Rockefeller and George J. Gould have a controlling interest. The enterprise is said to be second in the extent of its steel properties to the United States Steel Co. The company employes about 17,000 men, and owns thirty-nine mines in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and California. When worked to their capacity they produce 15,000 tons of coal and from 3,000 to 4,000 tons of coke daily.

(From the Kansas City Star, 1903.)

Mrs. Frank J. Hearne is to represent Denver and, incidentally, Pittsburg, in the gallery of famous American beauties at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, for which space has been reserved in the woman's building. Mrs. Hearne has personal beauty, grace and marked individuality in style, and in every way fills the requirements demanded by the management of the portrait exhibit. Careful selection has been made in order that the subjects will be representative socially, as well as for personal qualities. Among the women who will stand for New York are Mrs. Astor, Miss Van

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