The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 9

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PAIN ewes denies ____ HE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916. _ RAILROADS’ GRIP ON COAL FIELDS, BASE OF EXTORTION, MAYBE SMASHED BY COUR | Reading Company Charged With Being the “Fixer” of Anthracite Prices. ‘RING’ ROBS THE PEOPLE Attorney General Gregory De- nounces Illegal Acts of Rail Coal Barons. By Samuel M, Williams. Under its (the Reading Com- pany) leadership the price of anthracite coal to the public has been increased out of all propor- tion to the increased cost of pre- duction, ‘This statement {s the final charge | | held by @ small group of railroads over the anthracite region, The steadily increased price to con- gumers in recent years and tho ex- tortionate boosts of speculators dur- ing the past few weeks can be traced back to one source, namely, that of railroad monopoly over the mines, the mining, the sale and the trans- portation of this vitally necessary commodity. The United States Supreme Court has before it two sults brought by the Attorney General In the name of the United States to break the monopoly. One action ts directed against the Reading Company, the holding concern for all the Reading Railrond interests, The other lies agains the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and Ita allied interests, Decision of the court fs expected any day now, and ts anxtously await- ed because it will determine the le- gality of subterfuges and evasions made by the Federal Government tn devised by clever corporation lawyers Its attempt to break the strangle hold Most Suitable and Acceptable Christmas Gifts Furriers 384 Fifth Avenue Telephone, Greeley—2044. STANDARD OI New York TCA NY. Say SOCONY to the Grocer’s Boy. Between 35th and 36th Sts. BURN to dodge the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the commodity clause of the In- terstate Commerce Act forbidding railroads to transport thelr own min- ing product. But above all it will determine whether the public ls ever to have a chance to escape from the clutches of the anthracite monopoly. This is the climax of various long pending actions by the Government against the coal roads. In the lower courts a partial victory was secured againat the Reading and a defeat sustained in the Lehigh case, Appeals were taken to the court of last re- sort. All arguments have been made, all briefs submitted and on each de- cision day in Washington the verdict is awaited. The suits are not the outcome of the | public's recent outery against $12 coal, for they ante-date present day condi- tions, But the extortions from which the public Is now suffering are largely the outcome of conditions that have long prevailed in the anthrac.te region. The Government is endeavor- ing to strike at the source of monop ol is and to dissolve the com- binations that hold both producer and consumer in tight grasp, The dominant concern in this monopoly is the Reading Company, not only because it mines and trans- ports more coal than any of the others, but because since the days of aoManey and Koop Warm SOCONY KEROSENE For cooking — For light— Principal Offices Buffalo Albany STANDARD OIL CO, of NEW YORK Boston | ite tate President, George F. Baer, | “Divine Right Baer” he was called, tt | has dictated and led in polfey and in | councils, Back of It, manipulating the finances, is the House of Morgan | dealing through its Philadelphi« | partner, B. T. Stotesbury, who site | director In controlling boards of dis | rectors. | | Tho Reading Company, which ts purely a holding concern, was a suc- cessful dovice to gct around the law of Pennsylvania regulating railroad companies and mining companies, but Its right to continue is now being | challenged by the Federal Govern- ment. Reading Comphny owns ail the stock of the Philadelphia and) Reading Rallway, tho ee a and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and numerous other mining com- panies. It has a majority stock hold- ing in the Central Railroad of Now Jersey and through this owns the| sreat Lehigh and Wilnxes-Barre Coal Company with numerous other sub-) sidiaries, mining coal, operating little railroads and even owning canals. | ATTORNEY GENERAL GREGORY) ARRAIGNS THE READING, | This combination controls 63 per cent. of the total supply of anthra- cite, most of it in the Schuylkill re~ gion, which has not been mined out 80 much as the Wyoming region. Its monopoly in the future is even more menacing than at present, Attorney General Gregory, in his presentation of the case to the Supreme Court, maid: | “At the current rate of mining, the coul areas of the companies thus leagued and combined together, a cording to the gencrally accepted calculations of geologisis and mining Jengineors, will outlast by many years those of any competitor, In ‘tine, | therefore, this combination, if not dis- solved, will own or control every ton of commercially available anthracite known to exist. | “What is more, this combination was built ap and ts maintained by other than normal methods of indus- trial development and by means wrongful and unlawful in themselves, Its whole history is permeated with lilegality and characterized by a de- liberate purpose to drive others from the field and to exclude them from their right to trade and thus accom plish the mastery which was the eud in view. “Their own figures prove that the price of anthracite has increased out of all proportion to the increased cost of production, According to the fis- ures of the Reading Coal Company itself, the cost per ton of coal mined bas increased only 54.8 cents since 1898, whereas tho receipts per ton from sales at all points have increased 88 cents on all sizes, “This statement alone does nbt show the full advance in prico of anthracite since 1898, because the average receipts per ton is kept down by the increase in sales of very small, sizes which constitute a mere by-prod. | uct and which in former years went to the waste bank. | “The railroad companies have used | increases in miners’ wages as a pre- text for disproportionate increases in the price of coal, At the time of the | coal strike in 1912, the Commissioner | ot Labor found that whereas the in- crease in miners’ wages resulting from the agreement added only 9) cents per ton to the cost of produc. | tion, the average wholesale price of | anthracite was simultaneously in- creased 25.82 cents per ton upon all sizes together ~$1.23 conts per ton on prepared sizes considered together, “Indeed, the average receipts per ton at New York tidewater in the case of the Reading Coal Company increased from $3.037 in 1911, the year before the Increase in wages, to $4.475 in 1913, the year after, an increase of , 83.8 cents per ton in two yeurs | “It is a notorlous*fact that each of anthracite railroads has opolized the coal business Une and that through in- terlocking directorates all these rail- roads and thetr coal companies aro united {n a community of interest—It ual combination reptitious — co-ope extremely sy and practica possible to detect, “Under these circumstances {t ts not surprising that the prices of an- thracite coal have been substantial ly uniform among all large coal deal- ers continuously since 1902, shartly after the acquisition of Central Rail. | road of New Jersey by the Reading, this uniformity succeeding a perlod of active competition; and that the | Reading Coal Company by virtue of | its great size and dominant position | has become the price fixer In the an- | thracite trade.” The Government demands that th Supreme Court effectively separate | the Reading Ratlway from Central | Railroad of New Jersey and each railroad from {ts substdlary coal companies, and that no evaaive| scheme be permitted which would still continue Indirectly the monopoly. a The engagement is announce: | Miss Edith EB. Cook, daugh: Henry Francis Cook, of No, 32 Sixty-fourth Street, to James FB. Ed- wards, son of Mr, und Mrs. James M,| Edwards, of No. 155 West Fifty-| eighth Street, Miss Cook !* a well! | known member of the younger set at) Southampton. t The marriage of Miss Vera Mae | Kreger, daughter of Col. B. A, Kreger J. 8. Kreger of W Hunting A. and 17 noon tn the Chaplain Silver Mra. n Ht y afier Poin At @ dinner giver erick W. Moss | Park Avenue th t of her daughter, Miss Alice Bulkley Moss. to Melville Truesdale, youngest son of Mr, and Mrs. William H Truesdale of elghth Street, was Truesdale's father Lackawanna Rajlroa the wedding h. r Fred 470 East irty annound Mr President of the The date for | Mrs. Charles H, Guye of No. 44 West Sixty-ninth Street gave al dance last night at Sherry's to int duce her daughter, Mivs Charlotte A Guye, Mr. and Mrs, John Sanford of No 15 West Forty-soventh Street gave a dinner last night at the Biltmore for the Belgian Minister, E. Havenith J, Laurens Van Alen night at No, 40 Mr, and Mrs. gave a dinner last East Piftieth Streot -_ A ynenpate ik Berlin, Av THE TAFT AND DRAPER ENGAGEMENT TO WED INTERESTS NEW YORK PERFECT MIND AT HARVARD. CAMBRIDGB, Mass, Dee. 21.—Har- ‘d has a perfect man mentally, Thom- Me. oa J, Abernathy of Kennebunk, Abernathy, who ts « senior, tune iting himacit with 276 undergraduates to the test evolved by the [ate Prof, Hugo Muensterders, reached standing of 100 per cent. be Abernathy's record became known to- day when an article prepared by Prot. Muensterburg two weeks before his death, for the Harvard Illustrated, be-| came ‘public, in making his teste, the professor had his puptla pick five printed llnew of Let- ters hidden in @ series of letters jum- bied toxethor, Another test was that of selecting names of cities and animal with disarranged Jetters. Thon a serie of words were given from which t name of some prominent Arnerican wi to be taken. Five minutes was allotted for each teat. 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