freight agent of the Florida Central & Peninsula Railroad, now the Seaboard 

 Air Line Railroad. In, 1890 he became freight and passenger agent of the 

 Ocean Steamship Company in Savannah, and after a period in this post he 

 returned to the Seaboard Air Line, but it was not long before he again 

 joined the Ocean Steamship Company as vice-president and general manr 

 ager, at that time taking up his residence in New York City, where he had 

 since resided. At a meeting of the directors in Savannah on April 14, 1915, 

 he was elected president of the Ocean Steamship Company. 



Mr. Pleasants was recognized as one of the leading steamship transpor- 

 tation men in the country, and he had a prominent part in the development of 

 the Ocean Steamship Company. In February, 1918, Secretary of the 

 Treasury W. G. McAdoo sent for Mr. Pleasants and asked him to become 

 manager of the Marine Section of the United States Railroad Administra- 

 tion, which Mr. Pleasants agreed to undertake, although his health was then 

 failing. After a few months he resigned on account of his continued ill- 

 health. 



Surviving Mr. Pleasants are his mother, Mrs. J. P. Pleasants of Rich- 

 mond, Va., and a brother, Charles M. Pleasants, also of Richmond. 



RICHARD C. VEIT 



ASSOCIATE 



Richard C. Veit was born in Manhattan, N. Y., November 17, 1855. 

 Early in life he entered the employ of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, sub- 

 sequently the Standard Oil Company, with which interests he was identified 

 for fifty-two years. 



In 1880 he was placed in charge of the Lighterage Department of the 

 Standard Oil Company of New York, and great advancement was made by 

 this department under his direction. 



For many years Mr. Veit was a director of the Standard Oil Company 

 of New York. In 1911 he became secretary. 



He was interested in many philanthropic movements and was identified 

 with the old J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital, the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York 

 Zoological Society. 



Mr. Veit had a summer home at Sea Gate, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he 



