The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1914, Page 6

AFTER T. R.7 eae 9 ELTON ON STAND =| ADMITS MORGAN ade voring res WAS WHOLE BOARD i] New Hele be Directors Too Timid to Oppose Financier at the Meetings. WASHINGTON, June 3.—James 6, Elton, New Haven director, a plotur- eeque Connecticut banker with a slow drawl, to-day corroboratéd in practi- cally every instance the story told by former President Mellen last week in the Interstate Commerce Commission probe of the New Haven Railroad “wrecking.” Eton Mustiaied bow compicteiy J. P, Morgan had dominated the New 4 | Haven directorate by telling that no ye] {director dared object to Morgan's plan er- | 10 matter how strongly he might have thea | disapproved of them. Some of them, I8 Ihe told the Commission, scolded be- hind Morgan's back when the Weat- chester road was purchased, but none had the courage to protest In Morgan's Presence. It will be finally decided by the com- oa eT r ry uNING. Worn, WEDNESDAY, send 5, 1914... sc |HURLED ACROSS TRACK mission this afternoon whether Will- fam Rockefeller will testify. Francis McAdams, special ex: the commission to see dition was a physician's certificatd that Rockefeller would be injured eerlously by being compelled to tes- tify. He was unable to see Rocke- feller. , Folk opened to-day by producing tel- egrams sent from Boston to President ‘Wilson and Attorney-General McReyn- olds and others charging Folk with “covering up” evidence of money given papers. Folk, with some heat, de Clared that attempts had been made within the last few days to run down the authors uf the telegrams, but with- out avail. He asked that they be turned over to the proper authorities | ;,, ‘for investigation, so that proceedings ‘might be brought against the senders. One of the telegrams, from a man named Atwater, said that W. R. Hearst had “hushed” Mellen with the promise of support. J, 8. Elton of Waterbury, Conn., [aaid he was “very, much surprised” et the purchase by? the New Haven of the Westchester road. la “What is your opinion of that pur-| 4 ch Volk asked. “Well,et will not say it was un- necessary, but it was extravagant,” he replied. “Were you surprised when Mr. Morgan recommended ite purchase?” but I did nothing because I uch confidence in Mr. Morgan.” i} ha ib ae Manage Ratt alo boards. LJ confused, I am hard of hearing and -| they went eo far I could not keep wl connected with Lind acquisition or con, solidation of t: were | fee ? Me Saiotte 4 a ed mere deliberate ‘| an than Mr. Mell ‘He doesn't the “oomnpa: pany, © Robb! William Skinner, Elt the only director courageous saough to wae his opinion against Mor; ask old Bim I ned lived seventy-six only to learn that I belonged ja ed The witness said when he attended directors’ meetings of the New Eng- land Navigation Company they were just the same, except “ name, as tnd iaven meetin, that “tl so fast I coul n't keep Up.” Ae — were they going?” “a. What do you know of egg made by Mr. 7 rei t at one nesting expressed that thore ore of that sort of was family,’” Elton ad- | o ren’ in. Mr. ition ran away with him. BY A TRAIN IN SUBWA LJ A. | Accident Severely Injures Railroad Employee and ‘Causes Tie-Up in Traffic. A subway trackwalker named wl ta Ario, living at No, 341 East One Hun- | day Ld rry | dred and Fourteenth street, stepped y out of the way of a northbound ex- \d | street station pares je meet- Q. Were oom, |ing at which Me, Mel Mellen. ‘at ihe time these Va retired from the Vor fi of the Ha laven was for “ave ears? ‘The motion all by whom, iy believe thir Aven, t rec: rectors regretted the Pp taken, and at ad next meeting the vote was rescin: eich Mechan Supt. of Bronx Tenements. James F. Meehan of No. 815 Hunts avenue, the Brons, recetved a from Mayor Mitchel to-day in- forming him of his appointment as superintendent of tengment houses in ts a builder, at ted with Henry an. independent fF held pubite jc office, press just bag‘ the Eighty-sixth jo-day and flattened himself against a pillar between the express tracks. When the train had passed, Ario, in some unexplained ® year| manner, got in the way of # south- bound express tran and was struck & glancing blow by @ corner of the re- | platform of the first car. He was thrown ciear across the q)Uptown express track and against a pillar alongside the uptown local track. Another trackwalker named Johnson, who had seen the accident, notified the station force at Eighty- sixth street and Ario, with many broken bones and unconsciour, wae picked up and placed aboard a local train, which carried him to the Ninety-sixth street station. There ; * he was transferred to a Kaicker- | bocker Hospital ampbulance. The accident happened during the | out meraing rush heer. eg wan regent | Bh ar Ninety-sixth street for a period banked long to disarrange the train anal vice there was a slight delay fa north! 4 traffic, san Ore. a forty-three Sid. 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Mr. Elton said he did not recall at car save. mM &BRO anything about the 8,000 shares of stock the New Haven turned over to Mr, Mellen, with which to acquire 24,000 shares of Westchester stock, as testified by Mr. Mellen. He said he knew nothing of the transactions with Police Inspector Byrnes except as he had read the testimony of Mr. Mel- len. ‘The witness saié be had expressed disapproval of the expenditure of §20,- 000,000 for taking the Rhode Isl- {ana trolleys, but had not voted against it. “Why were you afraid to make ob- fections at the meetings?” “Natural timidity, 1 suppose. You {eee, 1 did not pretend to be a railroad men when Mr, Morgan or Mr. Mellen feel te @o « thing. 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