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k PROFITS FROM HARD COAL MINING AND FALL INTO SAME POCKETS Reading Company Has to Sue Itself to Divide Some Scrambled Millions. \HAS MINES AND ROADS, Also Took Canal With “Heavy Obligations” to Prevent Competition. By Sophie Irene Loeb. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. WASHINGTON, Dec, 2.—The most interesting testimony developed be- fore the Senate Committee investi- gating the coal situation shows how the largest coal railroad company manages to be friendly with itself, in erder to adjust its many millions of dollars with itself. In the examination of W. J. Rich- ards, president of the largest coal railroad company (which mines about 46 per cent. of all the anthracite coal in the United States) and the counsel for this company, Charles Hieber, late Saturday it developed that: The Reading Company is a holding company, cap more than $200, It holds all the stock of the Philadelphia Coal and Iron Com~ Philadel ph \d Company, which carries the eoal. In other words, the money obtained from mining coal and the money ob- tained from carrying coal goes into the game pocket, in accordance with the above ownership, namely the Reading Holding Company. Yet it does happen sometimes that the Reading Holding Company isn’t quite sure how It stands with Itself in the arrangement of its miflions, | railroad company acquired the canal HAULING ALL paid by the consumer at high as $14 per ton. A long discussion of coal acreage | was entered into. Counsel for t! coal companies, Mr. Hiebener, con- tended that there was no way of de- termining the amount of coal per acre, He also ‘ht to show that th Schuylkill C did not cease operi tions because of any policy of the monopoly, but because canal trans; tation had Become obsolete every-| where in the United States. Hl Senator Reed wanted to know if the "pooause it was obsolete or because it was a competitor.” Counsel for the companies ‘stated that the transaction was partly a lease and partly a deed. * Senator Reed read from Poor's} Man: a list of obligations of the| canal company at the time it was ac-! quired by Reading Company, and thought it remarkable that the canal properties have been acquired along with obligations running into millions if it was an unsuccessful business and was about to be closed down. After considerable cross-question- ing by Senator Reed, in which he asked the counsel for the corporations if he was trying to “put something over” on the Senate committee, the counsel practically agreed the canal was acquired for the purpose of elim- inating competition, Mr. Richards wi the committee RS ENR Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright and his bride, who was Mrs. Jean Patterson Smith of Caldwell, N. J, are spending their honeymoon in Atlantic City. They were married in rinor, and ‘Naviga 1 Company, t pany, and Mr Olek. | St: Augustine's Church, Brooklyn, last Wednesday, the yonly guests be- ing Mayor and Mrs. Hylan. Com- | missioner Bnright and his bride may | they cha t' of anthracite for the Fuel Adminis- tration. He said that the expe: ting the o ‘commit in which some twenty people are ployed, have been borne by anthra- cite “interests.” Mr. Warrinor and Mr. Dickson will appear before the committee to-day. Also the committee requested that an itemized statement be ,forthcom- ing from Mr. Richards as to these expenditures for conducting the of- fice and how they were paid. Senator Kenyon questioned Mr. Richards regarding the work of the take a trip to Bermuda before return to New York. BAKSA GIRL'S CASE AIDED WHEN COURT 8 for con- 80 it asks the court to decide. For example, just now nendln court, the lawyer for these corpora- tions told the Rommittee that the um of $70,000,000 was somewhat in dispute as to whetuer it should be regarded as an asset or a debt, be- tween the Reading Holding Company and itself—the Philadelphia Coal and Iron Company. A hearty laugh was elicited from the Senators when thé lawyer admit- ted that he was attorney for both sides of this controversy. Now because of this little dispute between the vested interest and itself, the sum of $12,000,000 surplus is being held up, before a dividend will be de- elared in the Philadelphia Coal and iron Company. . This concern, by the way, has de- clared no dividends but spent its money “developing,” which Includes acquiring millions of tons of unmined coal. The next most interesting feature was the query by Senator Reed, B: “We would have information fur-! introduced as evidence in the trial nished as to local requirements and leky, after hearing aha would go over matter with the State ‘ ‘eee Adminidtrator,” “replied the witness. nony of Dr, Otto H, Sehultae, ex The witness said New England had already received two-thirds of its al-}4@mining physician the’ District | Jotment of anthracite for the winter| attérney, and D: Sush, n den-| Pett nad“ been-stured Attérney, and Di a W. Cushy a den-| tist, of No: 265 Sixth Avenue, sus i tained the objection of Samuel a8 | Coal Committee's office at Philadel- phia, The witness explained that the ‘Committee's statisticians kept record ‘of the'amount of coal being produced daily, the demand and where. the anthracite is distributed. About twelve statisticians are employed. The committee furnished to the Fuel Administration @ lst showing the coal supplied to the various communities of the State. Communittes or States that are short report this condition to the commit- tee. “Did your committee have anything to do with where the coal went after it was shipped to New York?” was asked. BARS TEETH MARKS Dismissal of Defendant Murder Trial Now Likely to Be Asked. in The plaster cast of the tcoth of Flizabeth Baksa, on tria der of Mrs. for {he mur Helen Hamel, will not be Dr. Schultze practically admitted on the stand that he never had any ex in making suchh a compari | perience | son, but insisted he was correct in his | | | CITY IN ROLE OF RETAILER Dehydrated Product Said to Be Just HE EVENING WORLD, Police Commissioner Enright and Bride ‘Snapped’ at Seasho MONDAY, © | ability to pin Williams down to defi- | Cum LEN RIGHT ENEMY NOT BRUTAL TO U. 5. PRISONERS, DECLARES PERSHING No _ Discrimination Against - Americans, Says General— Food Scarce and Housing Bad WASHINC TON, Dec, 2 returning American | from German | Prison ca | bad Pershing ps complain of scanty fvod and housing conditions, has informed the War Gen, | De- | partment, but there ts no evidence of ; discrimination against Americans nor! any authenticated report of vrutality toward them The War Department to-day issued the following statement based on a cable from Gen. Pershing, dated Noy, 29 and sent in reply to an inquiry cabled to Gen, March | ve MILLIAMS EVADES 5), LEWIS'S QUESTIONS N WRECK INQUIRY Admits He Had Goer Super vision of Lines but Says He Knew Little of Details. Col. Timothy 8. Williams, President | ‘ of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com- pany and head of the subsidiary New York Municipal Ratiway was the chie¢ witness at to-day's ses- | sion of the inquiry into the Malbone | Street tunnel wreck in which ninety | were lost. District Attorney | Lewis was frankly nettled by his in- Company, lives | It was a verbal fe nite answers. ing match The only witness besides Williams was Miss Edna Carroll, a stenogra- | pher, who identified orders sent to | train despatchers and said they had been dictated to her by Division Su- perintenent Blewitt. DECEM ER 2 “1918, ° FIRST NEW YORK FIREMAN TO BE KILLED WAS PROUD SAW HIS BROTHER, TO BE MEMBER OF 77 “GAME 10 CORE, ” POPE EEE EOOE LESH EEE D OOwE KLLEDIN BATTLE Brooklyn Corporal Writes He Buried Body Later-—OlMd Men and Women Slain. rer erry Corpl. William J. Porter, aged twenty-five, of No, 898 Brooklyn ave- nue, Brooklyn, killed in action Sept, 27, fell during an advance while his brother, Corpl. A. EB, Porter, was took- jing at him. “He was game to the wrote the brother to their par- Mr. and Mra. A. W. Porter, “Tle as a Porter should die. Tho |brother said he “saw red” a “thought he would go cragy” when Bc ‘orpl. William went dow He was jcomforted, he sald, by the fact that he was able to find the body after |the fight and bury it, Near one town men of his company found the bodies of olf men and women who had been bayonetted by the Germans, “God core,” ents, | died PeeeBeeeEeoegEerEseeoenertete settee RARODEOE EDD ODED help the Germans when we catch u ft st Wiinies URGE = bbe Rane hy Sergt. Johnson Wrote Mother Day | with them,” he wrote. pany, which declare that the res Before ‘Death of Wonderfut ites atacce ae Gane Gaaaaia on dent exercises general supervision Work in Argonne. July 9 at the Marne, Is forty-eight over the B. R. T. system WIN} Sergt, Charles J. Johnson, who is} Years old. In a letter written on Nov. ‘ams admitted that was the fact. He ling oniy man from the New York|2 he sald he was just out of the hus- stated that he knew only in a general | |. ; pital, He suld he intends to open a way the terms of the contract under |!" Department reported killed iM} piping business in Paris instead of which the recent construction workgte war thus far, wrote a letter tol returning home, as there will be fn» was done on the Brighton line. his mother, Mrs, Anna Johnsen, No. | opportunities during reconstruction in ADVICE OF DEMPSEY SOUGHT | 690 Aldern Place, the day before he} France, Lieut. Hegeman, who Is a ON CONSTRUCTION WORK, met death in the Argonne forest,|teseendant of the early Dutch set, “Who has authority in the matter) 6 oiine with Company P,*206th In tlers, enlisted when war was de- of reconstruction work?" asked Mr. . , S06(H Tas) cared and won his commission, A Lewis. bistldad brother is in the naval aviation ser- The advice of Mr. J. J. Dempsey,! Johnson > wan twenty-five | vice the operating head, is sought in such x old, was ‘connected with Kn-} Corporal James TT. Langstaff, twen- natters,” Col. Williams replic gino Company Ne, 58 at No. 84 Weat| (¥-four, of No. 274 124 Baste Brook- Was his advice sought on the re- sits ‘ Sa ele lyn, who was kiled in actlon on Get. | construction at Malbone Street?" 115th Street and had been with the) 25 ‘nad escaped death barely a week “ft am not sure. fire de ent only one year When) jerore, according to @ letter he wrote “How much was spent on recon-|" Was drafted. | on Oct. 13, “I*was sitting on the edge struction on the Brighton line? “It looks like this drive is going to) of a shellhole when one of those ah “About a million and half dollars “Did you know the condition of the line before the reconstruction?” he wrote, “In a general way, I did.” spirits, Mr. Lewis brought out the fact that,| What the before the reconstruction, the north-| bound and southbound tracks went soing finish the war rain or cold Why they don't even know word As soon as I get back of the lines I am to we call a ‘whizz-bang” camo over,” he *| write, “I thought it was going to jand at least a milo away, but instead it bursted fifty feet away. 1 was thrown means.| down and completely eovered with dirt. They had to dig me out.” He | was a member of the 311th Infantry, for they can't stop any other conditions, he in are fine ‘backwards’ the Officers’ Training under Malbone Street in one tube. | © | Letters from comrades to relatives During reconstruction, a dividing wall I have just time to write you this] in Asbury Park, N. J. tell how Sergt. was put in. It was this wall that the|*Hort letter for we've been chasing! Uriah Matthewa and Private Ray- train hit the Germans for fourteen days. It] mond Heer, twe members of Com- “Didn't you know prior to the re-|“@% Some drive and just to think U/ pany H of the 114th Infantry, sacri- construction ‘that the tracks ran| Was with tho many thousands th tf ed thelr lives in the Argonne woods through the tunnel with only a slight |*t#tted the big push. Yes, mother,!to protect their comrades from death it sure Makes me feel very proud to er be a member of this layout. The| Col, Williams admitted he did “Did you know that the changes contemplated provided for an ‘S' or reverse curve’ “L knew only in a general way]. Such details were left to the con- tructing engineer “Didn't you know that the new Not so very sharp, | understand.” Col. Williams admitted he inspected the curve after the wreck “I's much sharper than before, isn’t it?” asked Mr. Lewis. “Considerably, I should say.” | You knew that when you signed the contract?” ht up on Men Sent to Get Him— | I boys did wond twenty miles of the } and our general | n the world thanked the t ameosianhantifpincemnes | cage ma ey aa 'POLIGEMAN SLAIN, 4 SHOT BY HOBOKEN BOY BANDIT Youth Betrayed by ful work, drove rdest country, | of the proud | Why he oven walked| the front lines and| ys for their work.” | over Girl Opens Fire | Captured. | and in Corpl Ru Russel Johnson wrote that the two soldiers stepped in front ofa number of their comratesy ae * shell exploded bul fives (ome Matthews's legs wero shitttared rae Heer was paralyzed Chouy. th® wallet? down. Both died later. Sergt. Mat- thews was the son of Mr. and Mre- V. Matthews of No. 66 Corlles Ave- nue, Asbury Park, and Private Heer the son of Mrs. Myrtle Heer of No. * 18 Fourth Avenue, Bradley Beach, William C. Orr of No. 16 Kast 9% Street and No. 51 Chambers Street, who has three sons in the army, said- to-day that the aaa of William ©. casualty list was & mistake and that he had been oon founded with Lieut. William ©. Or of Philadelphia. Mr. Orr received a* cable, ‘Nov. 21, which read: “All three well. Lowi JUNIOR ORR” ‘ ‘This is the son's signature. Liew! Wiltiam ©. Orr jr. is im the aftillery. The second son, Phiibin, is in the 818th Engineers, and the third sony Sherwood, is a Corporal in the 165M Infantry. Private Patrick Mahoney, Compan. B, 135th Machine Gun Battalion, ry ported killed in action on Nov. 2. was thirty years old, and prior to bene drafted in May, 1917( was sexton of th@’ Church of Our Lady of Good Coune't 90th Street and d Avenue, wher he was known miling Pat.” lived at No. 308 East 70th Street. Pray- ers were offered for the repose of his soul at the morning service yesterday, TRYA Grapefruit Meringue Pie MADE FROM " Tropiko . apefruit ; Made just like’ a lemon met- ; ingue pie—it's oh, so good! Fs Every Tropiko Grapefruit has name“Tropiko” stamped onit, © Uf your dealer is unable te supply you, write: = Porte Rico Fruit Exchange New York City. 202 Franklin St. for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS — roe nenoeD tage AT nL ‘nice, SUITE 815, me sT ‘Open Monday and Tuestar Our Finest MEN’S CLOTHES Formerly 47.50 42.50 seen in the exclusive drap- pick of Ameri- of clothes, in ulsterette ritish type & Co. assertion that the teeth marks on the| “American prisoners released from| + ° ” A policeman was killed and four Chairman, as to the actual~cost of aes ay eertion that t ‘ mj “In'a general way en wounde day by Bueciccine. one tontat 66d as “oe as Wet a “ woman ars eh oi of the ae apne ‘ a id pode of| Mr, Lewis showed Col. Willia [Exarise ted 4 rd yo It was admitted by President Rich- ariety. aksa girl, He said the p r cast] poor and scanty food and bad housias| pictures of the curve taken for the| wy was wanted for rovbery and had| Inti W vant ards (and was quite evident) that] acu tor New Yorkers at 11 cents a} Moved! conditions, Only a small percentage | Public Service Commission after the | teen betrayed by a girl Hvana y Until Wednesday Evening Only when it happens that @ small margin) ouarty Dr. Cush said he had compared the | of soe sabe are sick are hospital] rian eiartt \ rrectly represent the |captured at nat. in Jersey ( and le vast and t fewh’ wounds on Friday \cases ne majority a ering See Mir veabdecpaes Cad “Mons i co loaded revolvers were found in err ere A aie ark The Department of Markets is scllir fae . OR 1 ne nt 4 a ai ci 1 | from slight oe ah ihe proape ee ia] situation queried: the. Distrier Abe Tats ae ‘a eye hia licsia thas some: the tom of woal,| Mk $n emulsified form at this price at| not helieve they were related that all will recover rapidly with|WiLLIAMS SAYS RICTURES EX. |, TH! Hit! Mie Marsares Wuiah, seven, Ulsters, Town Coats and Sack Suits h the mining| {he Health Station at No. 511 East] Attorney Koenig insisted that proper food and housing. There ‘s ( nen: years BNO POE ney et , the prefs of bath she mining] iso, Gina fuatan, seat gettacat| attorney, Koen tna ak. (Se | nnaear Dope ae eng ro AGGERATE CURVE, Hee tae coh galas Tailored in Best & Co's own shops and carrying of coal go into the same} station to be opened in a few days at| ond that it hud been broken in places | the American prisonc pales’) "In a general way, but they exag- |sovoken 4 this mort and said geoket namely the Reading Holding| rirs; Avenue and 634 Strect at the}since it was inade TANERREASUDEETIbneRN oR ell “AAs |Pribe gate TRIG CRE Bris noha See ee eee ate whieh tite antilka mpany. game price. The Court is now resting, but s]tionalities who have been Jeased, | position of the camera?” edison Street his uw boarding Therefore a mere little worry about | Emulsited milk is dehydrated, and]expected Mv. Koenig will asi tor a FUE ASTAUber leaied eatanen Ob haoitAkeiie tt house ‘i where the above $70,000,000 shall be aber mined with water is as nourish-| dismissal this afternc emnbon tality gagainst the American “Did you know when the tracks! Patrolman Patr ¢ HE h f is a matter that the lawyer |ing as the wet product for which con- he majority of the were going to be used for the first |spended, driv t | gig corporations smilingly ad-|#mers are now forced to pay 17 cents! TEN WAITERS: ARRESTED. | ners tata that the German ny the New York Consolidated?" | When he entered th tired character of woolens snsly ae [a quart d also suffe ood ” privations, y not sure that I heard of it ja shot at vf usted between the cooking purposes, is being sold at 6 Front of Astor Hotel NE EIe arent ett On batons that Gt | wis Lea eeedlat ine ners drove around the block to head fivat tee als h Company and itself. cents a quart Ten of the striking waiters who here-|the German soldiers.” | “LT can't be sure ane af een Osey eRe wi ers § op—t € is not all enek ue mre Laura E. Cauble, Deputy Com-|tofore have been undemonsirative in | Colonel Williams said all officer of} aaa ilisels 3 d E li h h 1g Company holds, | missioner of Markets, announced to-day |their troubles with several ho were| the B. T ant Ra Jam Valent er I Readies She cwaletity’ /enat en soon ts poowie et the elty cree [arrested in sront ce tne actor thee te | FARRAR DIVORCE REPORT si. mesbaiidings | ay in thn Tor oC pi bg a» a ib iy bs te a demand {or this new form of milk i rs al Kennedy t ‘ock of the Jersey Centria and |® n of milk! morning. charged with disorderly cor ’ ; a o’helde al the steak of the [ewer stations willbe pened = [uc | DENOUNCED AS UNFOUNDED soo CALM IN “SCHOOL FIRE. '"%!cistt'Wi tion we sis character of design whose cus: ipouvill But sat '> DAVISON MAY QUIT POST | 2zusntelt a tein. sine at esa for tee semana, {rucment tater AIUFAY 9 tween tom simplicity particularly ap- Another story. ee examination to-morrow |Lawyer Says Rumor About Singer| "wut tante Selues Mothers th Kennedy's gun to { t th peals to New York men he other ved in front of th and Lou Tellegen Is Un About noon to 4 small boy in ame time hi eived c : = Pechrpnty t Richards wept intoge Jong, tec 3 IAIRMAN 53 Bel Wc tn pa fom nlatifisdtun Bates formed Prévciparcutiretine A> Cor ad ined ADs nn . - a . fa Neca ay ah! MB a jay ict) est quatifiedty "Fate don of Public School 103, at Madison [tally, nithoush | co nae character of tailoring which figure of the average cost of a ton of han io tal 4; see ae [One tae ter huteaeeud. 4 ae Jacobs, No, 9) Broad st at-|Avenue and 118th Street, that there |* rh ’ . . dal at $3.56 at the mine. Wishes to Return to Morgan & Co. | Wey interfered with, ofl wh torney for Lou Tellegen and Geraldine! was a “light” in room No. 40 Best & Co.'s shops, with their walt’ id that to arrive at this ail Is Report—Will See Presi- fused 10: leave "on Bi rs from pe olice=|Varrar, authorized The Even.ng World | rourth floor, Miss C i. foun: ‘ che | SYLVANIA A RR. RATIFIES iti ee ond maasariols Taralieg nn dent To-Night tvday te deny the truth ofa eavenem | eacnargdeak im that voceat oo - PENN rr forty-year-old tradition of qual- Vided by the entire tonnage to get pate } puerta wblaze from some unknown . fevuverege cost of producing a| WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—President| VOTES TO ‘BE REVIEWED, |protessions! news and gossip thut str. |" nknown cau withe averugy com of pragurig | WASHINGTON, Dee,” 2—Proudent E Ri refesoal new ant oan hai Mr. [vows gome’ eal bore dooce. wo | FEDERAE CONTROL GONTRAGT ity, would be expected to do. SP arged for “depletion of the coal! yey op. pay ee teeae ci ice |S On A De-|ated and that a divorce su in. {have a vacation OGG aE ‘ airman of the| Smit Men T ehata eareiatiy: boo! wari alee ae ‘on 1s $93,603,427" Per The character md insurance op coal crossing the |American fted Cross, relative to plans aa was author elpile In the building, al! Ah i ‘ aii Is figured in, of that organiaation for the future. Ab ak ot Charles ims ‘ Nas piq eos the Walldiag, all Heirs Suf Pay ¢ sho t th t He cieePstated"ibat one and four-|\it i anit that Sie Davieon wishes tothe In the Apel she eee, aan | und second Moors, | Miss Condon afte short, that once you come to tenths tons per man represents the 4V-| be relieved of his post as soon as pos: |” tte ee OF at bi pe FB Gobha ce ea tee tralian’ waepeite bid 5 erage production Mr. Rieh; ax 1d | sible in order to return to his associa ie Ang: A 0b ate. .a-B Far abd bye Moke, who nd the muplie marched Ai ri 1 eo Fed know ou will alwa Ss wear. Pee average prot 0 88 AYEIRG? WOR itoos with do % Morgan & Co. There is|ocuy,, “ o feviewod- by J FETA hah commeaniba; F enaiiatne rencantnd toe nirol ¢ ratl ee y : Of Senator Teed followed up the aurs-|"9, | Hention ‘that “there will be any hs ae ein oye eae ala indred women of the neixi the st t Pen of these Items of cost by say-] id }rn st reterred the rhood came running up in the u ania D 1 ike con ing f ey —- AS eats Fatesred the tngu | mo st panic. shricking the names ot {tra ‘ I uilroad Suits of worsted and cheviot, You you only mak: cents 4 holding pa * suegen is in their children and striving to bur meant 1 h ton proit and you do not-charge up| AIR MAIL RATES - REDUCED. ; our as the n "Blind | into the building, cor eR ; at many silk lined. Overcoats of the interest of your investment?’ » Was ew |" About half the desks in the room Neorg hips F yea meltons and rough answered the witness, The| Daily Rowte From Yo » eatre |were destroyed. ‘The school was in mpensa t nt 5 genis per ton depletion will amount cuusee Blase Fs " ener suid Mr. Tellegen sends | session as usual this afternoon act te $59,603,427.50 aeons fabrics of the 400,000 this year, according to the WASHINGTON, Dec a eR | > his wife every day, @ —- SOO aaay t «these at | margin Of prot, the inauguration of a daily airplane tina she appears ‘ai || MONEY APPEALS TO WILSON | Hh i cliarnsa and Charge on investment, Just how the|mail route between New York and| | wlitan Opera House @ bouquet tividend ave millions wre, accumulgtedy, in |Chicaz Houtmaster Gener 1) BEER UP $2 IN ALBANY, | dered by her nusband 14 handed over the | wants ¢ Wy What He Me ing neg ie the ated cost pei “day ¢ 6 aero: A i | t intlos Sentene | timted un h ficoal, and the aver miliing par|to six cents per ounce or fraction| \inANY, Ine foAaloon men were} , 102 Tellesen. once leading : i " n ure owned ap “ee set forth, Is yet to be o> | the cof; instead of sixteen. ce ‘ reste arial Bernhardt and a Broad A , A x I ania Ra Bialn oat ‘pet is for’ this year. |Saaitionul ounces she previ #2 4 barrel ive! | hy eta Hive sate _— Men's Ghop-~Fitth Vinee vt eeredited | 4} int {ra baie . : Entrance 1—West 35th St. hest of any in the | riage gr . ai ‘ i Yo Core a Cold in One Day. stg Tt G n, Seerclary of the Brew. | gan in California. in 1815, wien atas| Oe" wan vant as LAR ATIVE WKOMO QUININE. (Tabiets) 9 average $3.56 per ton cost re Clty t crs’ Association here, says he knows of Farmar and Mr. Trllegen were posing | Thomen tate 8 a ei tasdion tak kt aches New Karl @t prices Best, 20.40 centnmchavt.’” 1S | 10 inmenme 1b euian in New Fen Gilgy éey moving pictures, | zhgine Late os sq ae | "EWGuOVe o"Siatiue vm Sa gaa, : a $ ( ane