The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1918, Page 6

THE EVENING That LIBERTY Shall Not Perish—Buy BONDS ! 0), 1P| 29 West 34th Street THURSDAY AT 9.45—A SURPRISING EVENT '|Sale of 348 Dresses Unquestionably the Supreme Dress Offering of the Year! A Superior Collection of Street & Afternoon Models Additional Salesforce to Facilitate Selection All Sales Final None Cc. O. D. For Dresses Made to Sell Up to $32.50 For Women & Misses Who Wear Dresses of the Highest Type! DECIDEDLY large quantity of the frocks involved are the product of a leading dressmaker, and were purchased by us at an astonishing conces- sion. The remainder are taken from our own better grade lines and reduced to less than actual cost! The Styles and Materials in Greatest Demand— Charmeuse Jersey Combinations of Serge Satin Serge and Satin ‘unic, draped and straight-line effects, beautifully trimmed and embroidered, "ANY women will take full advantage of ~ ' this opportunity to secure their entire *\ season's supply. Remember, two dresses can be bought for the everyday price of ONE! Early Buyers Will Secure Best Choice—None Reserved! There are just 348 Dresses in the lot and all styles cannot be guaranteed to last the entire day. RAILROADS’ RATES al aM WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Hi "1918. BARONS AN EXTRA GRIP UPON |Extortionate Shipping Rates Fixed Years Ago Basis for Pres- ent-Day Charges. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Every day letters come to The Eve- | ning World from miners, coai dealers jand experts on the coal question There is scarcely a dissenting note from those who have studied the question, They agree with the result ot The Evening World Investigation that high prices of coal are wholly unwarranted and shortage unneces- | eary. It ts astonishing the number of civie and judicial bodies that have endeavored to break up the grip of the coal barons and the volumes of testimony that have been taken. For years the close corporations which control both the coal and the ratl- roads that enrry the coal have been the subject of investigation, ‘These include the Interstate Com- Commission, a Pennsylvania logislative mittee, a Federal Ben- ate investigation, the Public Service | Commission of Philadelphia and the Attorney General of the United States, | The case j and Reading Coal and 1 | is before the Supreme Cc United States in an appeat merce Company rt of the “brought by the United States to dissolve alt combination of competitive producers, | shippers, sellers and carriers of an-| s thracite coal held together by and through the defendant, the Reading Company, a holding corporation.” According to the Attorney General: “And also te ¢ combination between two of such competitive producers, shippers, sell- ers and carriers. A further object of the sult is to enjoin certain of the de- fendants thus combined from trans- porting in interstate commerce an- thracite coal in which they have an interest in violation of the commodity clause of the Act to Regulate Com- merce, 34 Btat. 684, ¢. one of the means wh ination of the alle ve a contribs y the dom: combination x PEN Nothing Acts a ANA LAX FQ CChe'Fruity Laxative pP* nat the Philadelphia » this being] ® POCKETS OF FUEL CONSUMER over the anthracite trade is main- tained.” HOLOING COMPANY OPENED WAY FOR EVASION OF LAW, Attorney General sets forth: ling Company, hereafter Reading Holding Company, is th figure of the whole combi: t rporated under the bxcelsior Enterprise Company by @ special act of Pennsylvania, approved May 24, 1871, with an authorized capi- tal stock of $100,000 and with wide powers, among other powers to build uilroads and to acquire thi und bonds of other corporations. its surplus, $25,000, “It owns neither railroads nor coal mines. It produces no coal, purchases none, sells none. It is a holding company pure and sim- ple. It holds the entire capital stock of Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and the Phila- delphia and Reading Iron Company, that of the pany of New which in turh it cont high and Wilkes-Barre was stated ds yesterday, built up bs Coal in The Evening the high freight these corporations med the basis fur reight rates fn was gone into thor- Public Service Com- nsylvania a couple of years ago. They succeeded in re- iucing the rate from $1.70 per ton to $1.40 per ton; but the Reading Com- pany did not acquiesce in the new for two years. In the mean » Fuel Administration took the rates were not loweret nt item# ag found by this on in this connection were n The Evening World yes- Others follow: jas been found, and the finding has been sustai by the Supreme court of the United Staten in a re- cent case, that the Reading Com- fany, from which the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company jeases its equipment, owns or controls forty- four per cent, the Lehigh Valiey Kailroad Company sixteen and elghty- seven hundredths per cent, the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western P.all- road Company six and fifty-eight hundredths per cent., and the Cen- tral Ratlroad Company of New Jer- y nineteen per cent., or altogether y-six and forty-five hundredths nt. of all the unmined anthra- Company.” As RAILROADS IN OF COAL AND RATES. addition to this large per- e, it appesrs from the testi- of Morris Wiiliama in the pi the Presi¢ cette coal, FULL CONTROL Coul Compu the manageme nies for the Pennsylvania Rall of some importance for the pro determination of the matters fore the commission that the ra road companies which are the respondents furnish practically the only means by which’anthra- cite coal y be transported to Including the ty of Philadelphia, which as a municipality used in 1911 140,900 tons of anthracite coal, that the rates are unusually high, and diserim. inate against the city and the resi- dents within its boundaries, “Thereupon the commission en- #aged a competent firm of expert ac- countants of long standing and re- pute in their profession ‘to make 1a examination of the books, records, letters, contracts, pa and opera- tions of the Pennayiv Company and the Ph Reading Railway Company ascertain therefrom and from any and all other sources of pertinent infor mation what is the cost to each of these companies of the transporta- tion of anthracite coal from the re- ,| spective mining sections of the Kast- of Pennsylvania to Phil- accountants after careful and thorough coal was so transported by the hia and Readin, 123 miles per gross ton Im Gents .....0seseeseee 44.696 “They further reported that by the route from the Schurykil! district over the Shamokin, Susquehanna and Philadelphia divisions of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, by way of Sun- bury and Rockville, the distance was 187 miles, and the oat Per Kross ton in cents was. “That by Schuylkill ratrict, by way of Mill- ersburg and the Susquehanna div- isons of the Pennsylvanta Rallroad | the distance was 153 miles, and th cost per gross ton in cents..... 54.378 “That by the route from the Lehigh Alstrict to Pottsville and over the Schuylkill division of the Pennsyl- nd the distance was 1% cost Dll rons ton in 60.419" by these experts by any route was less than 40 cents per ton, The people of Philadelphia were paying $1.70 per ton. 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