Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1923, Page 42

RAIL HEADS WATCH U5 CONTROL MOVE Describe Progressives’ Meet-i Jing in Chicadp as Effort for - Federal Regulation. i h By the Associated Press. ‘CHICAGO, May 31.—Government ewnership was declared today Dby a committee of western railway presi- dents, composed of the hgads of six large systems. to be the real pur- pose behind the conference on valu- ation held here last week by the so- called progressive group. The statement. signed by S. M. Fel- ton, president of the Chicago Great Western; Hale Holden, president of| the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy;| C. H. Markham, president of the Illi- nois Central; H. E. Byram. president | g “hicago. Milwaukee and St. :’fiullr}s\\'( it “inley. president of the Chicago and Northwestern, and J. E. Gorman. president of the Chicago, Rock Isiand and Pacific, declared the | real purpose of the conference was to “malke successful private management impossible and government ownership unavoidable.” See Concerted Plan. The six rail executives declared this was but a part of a concerted plan to discourage capital from the rail -fleld, hamper privates ownership and operation and allow government ownership an inning. ““The call for the conference stated its purpose was to bring about more adequate representation of the public with respe~t to the work of valuation Interstate Commerce C the statement of the execu “It is a notable fact. how almost every invitation es explicitly advocated government ownership.” Challenge Statements. Statements made at the conferen were —challenged by the exect one of them being that the roa seeking and the Interstate Comm Commission is considering them. a vaiuat 000.000 excess of titled to clared, was without foundation. ad- ding that the roads and the commis- ding under the valu- hor chairman of th 2 sertion of radica!l of raiiroads does 3. 000,000 is based on calculations made by them: on market prices of railway stogks and bonds during a time when rail- | way_securities have bee the lowest prices to w. declined. due en eperation and un regulation.” the { executives statement read “Statements have been made th the railways are seeking a valua of $23.000,000.000. In the ra case of 1920 the railways 400,000,0 this figure ing on the a 1 book cost of road equipments. The tentative valuation made by the commission at that time was $1,500,000,000 less. s are seeking is that in making a 'valuation of their properties | th basec and Constitution as interpreted by courts. To gard these constitu- tional provis and the court de- cisions under them, as radical poli- ticians demand, would involve such conflscation of private property and investment made in good faith as has never ed in the history of this country —_ Joseph Haag. who has been appoint- | ed an official “understudy” to Mayor| Fearless Saver of 36 Lives ' Trembles at Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, May 31.— “Buck," known to his mother as Peter McNeil, 18 a red-headed battery boatman. Wherever shipping men congregate at any port on the seven seas he Is known—and sometimes feared. For | Buck can fight as well as he does other things. He has a trunk full of medals rang- | ing from the special life saving kold shield awarded under the special act | of Congress whereby meritorious res- | cues from drownings are honored, down through the trophy recognizing conspicuous bravery, which the state| of New York on rare occasions fur- | nishes to those who have risked their | lives to save others, to the big dia- | mond-bedecked monstrosity handed | him a year ago by a local political organization, which wanted to prove { | came home to drip salt water ail over THE EV Wife’s Scolding afrald of her when he walks In in his wet clothing. Expects Usual Scolding. Dragging himself completely ex- hausted from the water after he had effected his thirty-sixth rescue in ten years he gazed ruefully at his be- draggled and clinging spring suit, a new one just donned a few hours be- fore, and sald: “Well, I guess I am in for it again. My old woman sald to me the last time 1 jumped off the battery and i her new rugs and polished floor: | ‘what are ve always doin’ that for? Do you thing you are some sort of ‘neel, or a deep sea diver? Why don’t vou think of me and the kids once in a while? Wet, and certain of a warm recep- tion at home which would go a long | way toward staving off any il ef- fects from his bath, he took & taxicab | and started homeward. ! Buck’s latest rescue, like others| which have preceded it, nearly cost | him his life. There is no worse sy it appreciated the saving of one its leaders. All in all Buck is regarded every-| where as the bravest man in New | York. Today, however, while going about his work as dock master of the | battery docks he admitted rather ' quietly that there was a flaw in title. Frankly be said he was afraid | of his wife. And. here is the secret | or he and she are a wonderul- | ell matched couple—he is only W.& ].SLOANE 1508 H STREET, N. 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Saving lives is not Bigk's reguiar bueiness and he'refuses to discuss it. The official record sh thirty- six lives saved in ten ye there is a long list beyond is a nephew of Lawrence I litary remaining survivor ©f the heese box on a raft,” the Manitor, _You ' N NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, which battled the Merrimac many years ago and the statue of whose inventor, Errickson. raises itself in the park a short distance from the Battery proper; Refused Hero Medal. McNell's latest rescue revealed the fact that the Carnegie “hero com- mission” turned down a request that he be awarded the medal and pension set aside for such meritorious work. In a letter the commission termed his performances “commendable, but that was as far as it would go. MAY 31, 1923. nature, however, Buck said today that only one person of all he has rescued has ever thanked him. He doesn’t mind that, though. 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