The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-05

'ohIroi OF all the pipe lines and of T
transportation, of every thing. in fa
as a witness said before the New Yo
railroad investigating Committee q
cept the bodies of the producers. II
arderoilt began, as did the Erie n,
pennsylvania railroad kings. with pavi,
JACK to the Standard. but to no 9th,
upper ten per cent. OF its freight bill
lie continued making one concessio
liter another. till when lie was ,,,inp q,
Tor other shippers at 81. 40 al,
i'so barrel. he charged the Staud,r
my eighty and eighty-onc cents, an
lis was afterwards reduced to sixt,
'htS a barrel. During the war auains
IL pennsylvania road to make it sell on,
the Standard. the New York Centr,
lrrled Oil for less than notbino. Ra.
'es The other allowances, Mr.. Wander
IL paid the Standard through it's alias
c American Transfer Comnanv , 70
nc Oh thlrty-five cents a barrel on all
crude oil shipped by it or its com
''tors. When the oil producers whom
standard had cut off from all access
'he world except through it. souoht
N'' through an out-of the-wav rail
ana the Erie Canal, or down the
iIrl'er hundreds of miles to Hunt
Oh thence by the Chesapeake and
the a'lroad to Richmond, and SO to
to tklr. Vanderbilt lowered his ratas
one '''ard so 1t could uudersell any
Whenused these devious routes.
pleted producers. June, 1879 com.
104 mil, own tide-water pipe line
Readiny'g, to u Junction with the
Il direct 1ad, obtaining in this way
Mr.. Vandeition with the seai,oard
public fromeduced his rate to the
thirty-five a to s1.25 4 barrel tn
charged the twenty-five cents. and
finally but ten ard twenty, fifteen.
Vanderbilt hau For ten cents Mr.
barrel weighingr the Standard
miles, and hauleopounds over 400
at the same time the empty cars.
tive cents for hau charged forty :.
weighing ninety pnu can of milk
So closely had the'r sixty miles.
glipped itself about Mird octopus :,
even at the outside rattlerbiIt that :.
could not get transport2mpetitors -.
lie allowed the Standarcfom him. -
owner of all the oil cars ONE the -.
road, and of all his termver his
for oil. As the Standard ocilitics =,
200 of the oil cars run on Till but =,
leased all that roads terminal and
1t could charge its rivals anies. y,
pleased for the privileges of Nit -,
hlrbor. When Mr.. Vanderbilt wk 49,.
toned by Mr.. Simon Sterne, of til -.
York committee, about these and
:. c:,
things, his answers were. Il don't KIN
" forget Il don't remember to
questions out of 249 by actual cou
At time when the Standard Oil Col
pany through its other self, the Anne
can Transfer Company. was receivi
from the New York Central thirty ii
cents barrel on all oil shipped by itst
or its competitors, and was getting 81
rebates which cost the New 1orE.
trail over s2,0n0.000 from Octog% =.
1871, to March 81, 1879, Mr.. VS.;
testified positively before the ~. =
Investigating Committee thy. >'slsN
whatever about II 80.
Transfer Company, its 81 =. b.
payments to it. ~ -..s..t%%.
The Standards CONTRA:
not less complete tha - =
New York Central. =. ;.::';' -
,nly ten cars for our - ~
year. and those We. ;. -, - -
Although a pub.::SH.. ~ :. ~ !,
common carrier
'rd sink hun,i :, :, &.
BED. and stesH = - :.
wells. Ate, -. = =,
t had hun% 4. :, s'.,2,f.s:.<s* =.
'ers, the - Z. :, >.
alton of - =: =,
n ooo ga ,5,rFs-.s--S''. :. =