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a sara a es Saiieiaee are angngen , Ime the Public Wan to Kno able Restraint of Trade. CONTROLS THE SUPPLY. Stifles Competition, Fixes Prices to Consumers and Keeps All the Velvet. New York City for 1911-12 countants at will burn 1 per cent. of the the region of the black 4 ‘Two hundred and fitty ers expect to annex. $17,100,900 of sthis fhuge sum for their services in hand coal after tt reaches tde- water, Eight rafiroads wit! divide another 7,600,000 of the total for freight charges made upon the following hasis of “prea- ident's percentages.” Peroen Philadelphia and Reading Rall- Central Railroad of New Je Delaware, — Lackawanna ‘Western Rallroad. Delaware and Hudson Pennsylvania Rail Erle Raliroad... New York, Ontario and” Railway The remaining $ half of the total t will be called upon to pay in order to keep warm next winter repre: the real value of the coal plus th tual cost of mining it. city will consume within the year 8,000,000 tons of soft coal. The anthracite coal belt 1 from New York City, It hi of 484 square miles in adjoin! ties northeastern Pennsylvanta. Minable coal, either owned or con- trolled by the eight ratiroads constitut- tng the Coa! Trust, has been estimated ‘At 5,000,000,000 tons. This coal ts In the ground and experts say it can be shipped jo market. Coal ts now being Produced at the rate of 66,000,000 tons @ year, which means that at the present rate of production there if enough an- thracite to last for seventy-five yeurs more, Competition Was Stifled. Bingularly enough there ts no such thing as competition in the anthractte coal industry. Competition was atified effectively following & meeting of gen- tlemen held March 2%, 1886, at No. 219 Madison avenue, the home of J. Pler- pont Morgan. @emand no longer prevaile in anthra- cite. Even all of the future coal has been divided up among the so-called coal railroads. ‘The chief efforts of the ‘coal barons,” as the moving spirits of the Coal Trust were called during the great Anthracite strike, are now directed to- ward buttressing thelr monopoly so as to pass it along to their children and Grandchildren for thelr exclusive bene- fit in perpetuity. interest to @ community that faces a $70,000,000 coal bill for the coming twelve months, and whose fuel needs are grow- ing? The public is interested in knowing whether @ combination which bottles up the future supply of a necensity of life, after having seized both the present and the past, is a fam of trust that the ‘United States Supreme Court might de- ¢lare IN UNREASONABLE = RE- STRAINT OF TRADE Since 1002 tidewater coal In domestic sizes hus moved over a schedule of prices prepared by ¢ val Trust with the regularity dulum. Ea year these prices started « ebb of $4.50 a ton and then 1 knocks at the p With a standard prt f $ which lasts through the cold from Sep . A How It ts Diviced, For twenty-five elght from fitty cents off To iustra ages are, 1 n August e just what t A, Band C ton of tean in to declare t ts to Know Wheth- er Monopoly Is an Unreason- | 1 New York City |! In addition the | {) Has this attempt vital | f oy | ban} Jaa $70,000,000 YEARLY TOL OF eATY 10 THE COAL TRUS WL COURTS DSO Trac now famous | planatory 4 Le pod betwe a, 1s centage sh time, The p of the Sherm but a ripple business ai tinued ins in the pros In the fis phia and Te uted 41 per recelpts from freight, and M per cent. of its gross receipts from freight and pas- sengers taken an anni upor Its ba In the » constituted Bye awann, tributed $14,274,540, or stock, It pa 198, was $14, freight tonn ry per, cent, cent. an was $16, now 1 y How M Charles ne firr bination de aKeine freleht tonnage of Now Jers cent. of it The law of supply and |; “rs ‘om freight and pa earnings In that year w , 87 per cent. upon Its capital s n pays an annual dividend of 4 | and its surplus in 1908 won| During the fh cite constituted Railroad and im ¢ ed to number ¢ all a nt by which It an Anti-Teus up adn ng Ra 1 together, nal Aly tat stock, 2 pe per cent 4 per « 038, of tts Ors Cae ater MTT Me My $15.00 Summer I'm one, 5.09 terial « Suits not but Moe L Levy (My Only Store) knocking ME I?.. Huge Earnings of Raijroads. How poorly the mine own * » Philo . It contrite ‘of the raflroad's gross f the Contral Tea x. je calendar year of 198 anthr. e of the te of the Delaware, Lack+ tern Rallroad and an annual divider adel- This 2) per cent. and tts surplus on Dec. 31, | ‘ar of 1908, anthra- per cent. of the total Pine Latah v. DIDN'T CARE WHO GOT MONEY ntributed 0 per cent. of its gross rece!pts from freight and | alley 119-125 Walker St., New York | give the facts to 1 THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY | youn y.ADAMs, wo |: IS THREATENED ‘ WITH DISBARMEN [ WISE WILL PLEAD. I: “FOR DISBARMENT OF JOKN J. ADAMS Crim't ni Pieainilenit Former tative Not Yet Decided On TELLS THE INSIDE STORY ct-Attorney Declares Tha Adams Approached Mutual Friend With Offer. Mr rts con “ sel for the U | before their indi In the company consented ¢ Mr Wis Evening World. He sald: “My information {s that Butler is re- lated to Adams. It may be that Mrs. Butler ts related to the former repre wentatl 14 We of my own house at No. 15 W i ty-third street, It was through Adams, I believe, that former Representative W. Lourke ran was hired as trial law- Hutler in present heh I prosecuted. ing within a stone's throw of my | house Adams doubties# knew of the ex- istence of a close friend of mine who also lived in the neighbor an this | me or to clares he IF BUTLER WENT FREE, “don't - RUGS (9x12) $10.00 Velvets, n 1 et “$1259 Axminsters, heay 00 Roynl Wiltons, oxcl Body Brusvels, woven Sat Ou * “$11.50 teduced to ry Brussels, a c, A RPETS PARR ioole tie S72 cmos 71258" : 85 Wilton Velvet yard. An unusual $1.60 The Specia! Sale This Also ine! chil and Pe ATTINGS, INLAID LINOLEU DOBSONS’ Makers of Carpets for Fifty Years, 53-59 West 14th St. Between Sth and 6th Aves, : _ $1, 1911. shut and rushed ing the visitor upstaira without bait. along. ‘There is no the charg id, and the er, ono of the Tj and re Wise has m from the Solicitor-C im upon his eon “i A joint tele. | ey-General and | congratulating of the wire. ‘This additional) ~ ' IY vo in hand and next we " bmitted direct to the 1 of the Supreme | # that Adams has al- in the matter n the presence of sub+ e ‘ | up when the case} s at there had been cua Sir Eyesight Examinations Dea at | without charge by skea Registered Physicians pi that } , present | Glasses are prescribed only if ie Be od asy |needed. Then they are made SAYS ADAMS PLEADED with! |to order, AND THEY FIT.} lle diteg eld Prices as Low as $2.50 r this! 1 .™-| Ouroaly charge is for glasses. 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