The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1912, Page 10

POOR INIGRANTS BPAY HEAD TAX T i 7 NEM RAVEN ROAD . Mellen Monopoly Collects 25 Cents From Those Brought by Fabre Line. . (Special to The F orld.) PROVIDENCE, D Patience is fe badge of all Now England with Feapéct to the New Haven monopoly, bet Providence patience has a superi- ority that makes Job, under all his botts, feem, by comparison, a peevish neurotic. A seaport in name only, for the New Slaven monopoly controls its entire wharfage, Providence submits % what ts probably the most amazing piece of check ever shown by @ corpor- ation—a B-cent per capita tax upon arriving and departing patron of New Haven's rival, the Fabre line, dity’s sole means of communication water with foreign lands. Bighteen months ago, responding to invitation of the merchants and of this city, the Fabre Line Providence a port of cail for four shipe sailing between New York Naples. The advent of this foreign line stirred Providence to its centre, and particular joy In ite Italian colony of between §,000 population, The total population of Providence is about « quarter of @ million. Throughout New England there are epward of 75,000 Portuguese, many former residents of the Azore Islands. Provi- bis | iF Hy mes in these two as steerage passengers, and in the and convenience of these poor People decided to touch New England fm and out of New York. Providence came honestly enough by ite selection as the port of call for the entered into with the city Objected to this summary treatment of the city’s only foreign ateamship line, and who feared its withdrawal as a re- sult, were informed by the New Haven crowd that J. Pierpont Mors nd William Rockefeller needed the money. Well, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Rocke- feller are getting it—twenty-five cen’ @ quarter of a dollar, out of the pock: of the poorest of the poor. While money levied by the New Haven mon- | opoly is collected by the Fabre Line the steamship ticket, passenger who bears HOPED TO DRIVE THE LINE OUT, BUT FAILED. The Fabi ine boats average about 400 passengers in and 300 out of this port. If the foreign steamship com- pany would only get discouraged and withdraw from idence altogether the New Haven monopoly would col- lect as formerly the fares up from New York to points in New Engiand. Provi- dence is $3.85 by rail and $1.60 by boat from New York over the New Haven lines. Unfortnately for Mr. Mellen, the Fal Line did not take the hint. It had ad- vertised Providence as a port of call in America throughout southern Italy and Portugese possessions, Besides, as much 8 developed in Providence prepaid character—colonists sending passage to relatives in the Old World—the Fabre decided to let its the extortion and stick for the arrival of city would contro! some Of ite own front. Under the stimulus of this confidence feposed in the municipality plus the then expectation of an extension of the Grand ‘Trunk Railway to Providence, municipal pliers across the river from Fox Point were begun, Those new plers are mod- lied after wharves in Booklyn. They were to be shared by the Fabre Line and the Grand Trunk, but now that the latter ratiroad has been driven back into Canada by Mellen, there is @ growing fear that the New Haven whale will Jonah the new muniolpal wharfage. The Fabre Live is owned by « ayndicate of French bankers, who, Rhode Islanders sincerely hope, will not fall under the municipal wharf a year. They pledge its use to the Fabre Line, and with the completion of the Pier will be lifted the embargo againat freight held by the New Haven mon- opoly. Rosy promises made when the New Haven monopoly entered Providence years ago have long since vanished in ir, Gixteen years ago many lines of amboats threaded Long Island Sound between this place and New York. One after another the New Haven reached out and gathered them in—the Fall River Line, the Providence Line, Nor- Stonington Line, New Bed- New Haven Line, Bridgeport fom Line, Block Island Line, amship Company, Eastern Moree a @ommon partner, the New iy, for the free use of ITS EXTRA TRIBUTE. ‘Thus it came that the good people of Providence lifted their heads once again from the shame of being bottled up by land and eee. From Mayor Wietcher Gown they became accustomed to the glorious sight of an arriving steamship from foreign lands poking up the inner harbor. The city ii? fi! off the monopoly pier #0 ne boats could nestle up the only bit of wharf i triction wae made by the ven monopoly, Not a pound ht was to be delivered or re- ovidence by the Fabre Line. freight there was in Providence be the New Haven's as before. ulation was not objectionable People who port of call a f E t 3s Ul 000 and 12,000 pagsengers either arrifed or embarked from Providence during the first year. -Then the New Haven monopoly ite usual greed and reached @ut for more, the inevitable more a monopoly always seeks, “You must pay us twenty-five cents 5 Mew Haven.’ Providence officials who Al, New England for the New Haven— tral trolley, boats, hotels and electric Dlante—and the New Haven for Wall street. It is trying even the patience of | aad - | Providence. ——— USES RAILROAD CASH company has purchased during the yea: the entire capital stock of the Ric! Hotel Company, which owns the valu: |‘ able hotel property at Rockland, Me. n of the New The recent FAMOUS EUROPEAN - CONSUMPTION REMEDY BROUGHT TO AMERICA Another Step Forward in the Fight Against Dreaded Disease in This Country. ater Importance to it thi jon'ot the femous Swiss Kemedy indorsemer 5 long at from any ‘chronic trouble should not fail to by writ. Ret fant {nformation ab et ful rf fon ‘the Miroiint Gos, Sak ews York City, “Ril Ro a ieaaine’ aru olin with consid iy Broadway, an nat TO BUY UP HOTBLS. |! FR rantrona | sete? THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, mystery, and was particularly objec: | tionable to some of the New Havon | directors, including Theodore N. Vail, | who prefer to sed investments mado in improved rolling stock and other actual | betterments for the railroad. } “The railroad hap sold to the Ricker | Hotel Company,” continued Mr. Mellen, “the hotel property, real estate and tores at Moosehead Lake, acquired hrough merger of the Somerset Raii- way Company with the Maine Central July 1, 1911, and formerly owned by the Kineo Company. “Thia places the management of the company’s hotels under the control of & separate corporation.” Other hosteiries have been acquired by “executive order” of the New Haven head. These inctude the $9,000 Hotel Rockwood at Kineo, and sites for new hotels at Mount Washington and Bar Harbor. ‘Tho New Haven puts the ansets of the Ricker Hotel Company ct $1,479,300.20. ‘The expansion of the railroad into the hotel business was made possible by an increase of $5,000,000 in the capital of the Maine Central, which is a New Haven subsidiary. No dividends have been ylelded to the ratiroad from its hotel investment. —_——— GRAND JURY WITNESS CRITICISES MELLEN’S LATEST METHODS. John . Benton, clerk of the New Hampshire Pubite Service Commission, was chiet witness to-day before the Federal Grand Jury engaged in investi- fating the withdrawal of the Grand Trunk from New England under induce- menta of the New Haven monopoly. Mr. Benton came down from Concord to en- lighten the grand jurors upon matters in connection with the Grand Trunk’s aub- sidiary, the Southern New England Ratl- road Company, In order to get Mr. Benton's testimony in #0 he could return to New Hampshire, where his commission is ‘holding hear- ings upon New Haven matters, Vice- President E. H. Fitzhugh of the Grand Trunk was asked to walt outeide the Grand Jury Room while the New Hamp- shire man testified. Mr. Fits Hugh has ‘been before the «rand jury for two days, land his examination is not yet concluded Mr. Benton was somewhat irritated to observe that President Mellen had ‘used. matter from the leet Saturday's report of the New Hampshire Commis- ston to Gov. Bans in an extensive cam- paign of newspaper advertising. He said that as a whole the report war condemnatory of the New Haven and that Mellen had used for his purposes about the only paragraphs in the report favorable to the railroad monopoly. A Little Knowledge Isa Dangerous Thing re so sick that the world body feels heavy, the head 1s out of order, it is ‘Oh, well, I'll be better by —or ty something which will do more hagm ¢ ood. Buch a condition shows ‘er Disorder ts the Stoma: jane. Ri treated at once, It becumes only @ Incident. But—remember—it mi rightly treated. Not just drug which bowels. 1 Your Liver In important of . 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