Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
AFTER THE READING.
Attorney General Hensel Files His
Bill in Equity and Says
THE LAW HAS BEEN VIOLATED,
Ee Asks for an Annulment of the Leases
Made by Mcleod.
THE AGREEMENT GIVEN IN DETAIL
rsrEc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE prspA ArcH. !,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
HARRISBURG, March 15-The bill il
equity against the Reading deal was filed
by Attorney General Hensel to-day. 1t Ii
signed by w. U. Hensel, his deputy, jaime:
A. Stranahan and George Nauman, Esq
1t names as defendants the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, the Philadel
phia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
the Port Reading Railroad Company, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the
T.ehigh Valley Coal Company, the Central
Railroad Company of New Jersey, the LIE.
high Coal snd Navigation Company, and
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company.
1t specifies the incorporation and de.
scribes the lines and holdings of these
various companies, gives the region en-
braced in the anthracite coal belt, and sets
forth the following details of the contract
entered into between the various corpora
tions:
l6 That by a certain indenture. agreement,
lease or contract. made on February II, 1892,
between The Lehigh Valley Rairoad CON- ;snis
and Reading Railroad Company, OF the sec
ond part, it was agreed that the railroad of
the said Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
should be leased to The Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, and should be
run, used and operated by the said The
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany for period of 999 years. together with
all the railroads, canals, works and prop
erty, of whatever kind, leased or controlled
by the said Lehieh Valley Railroad Com
pany or subsidiary to it: and by a certain
other agreement made February l2, 1892, be-
tween The Central Railroad Company of
New Jersey and the Port Reading Railroad
Company, the railroad, canals, collieries,
coal lands. and all other property ana works
of the said Central Railroad Company of
New Jersey, together with The Lehigh
and Susquehanna Railroad, and all branches
and extensions of them, together with all
the railroads, property and
Works Leased or Controlled
by or subsidiary to the said The Lehigh and
Susquehanna Railroad in Pennsylvania, or
wherever situate, were leased to The Port
Reading Railroad Company for a period of
e93 years; and by q certain other agreement,
made the 1lth day of February, 1892, by and
between The Lehigh Valley Coal Company
and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company, it was agreed that the entire
product of the lands and collieries operated
by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, should
be sold and delivered to the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and
should be taken, received and paid for by
the said Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company, for and during the
period of Ss9 years; and by a GER
of February. 1892, by and between The
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey,
OF the first part The Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company of the second part.
of the third part, the said The Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company conven-
anted, engaged and contracted to guarantee
to the Central Railroad Company of New
Jersey the performance and fulfllment by
The Port Reading Railroad Company of all
the covenants, stipulatlonS and agreements
contained in the said lease, contract or
entered into between the said
The Central Railroad Company of New
Jersey and The Port Reading Rail
road Company hereinoefore referred
operation of these said leases and agree
ments the said The Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company has leased and has
acquired control, and has taken possession
canals, mines, collieries, rolling
stock, works, rights and franchises in the
State of Pennsylvania, heretofore owned,
leased or controlled by and subsidiary to
pany, the said The Lehish Valley Coal Com
pany, the said The Central Railroad Com
pany Of New Jersey. the said The Lehigh
and Susouehanna Railroad and the said The |
Lehigh and wilkesbarre Coal Company, and
in part the works, railroads, mines and col
lieries OF The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company.
The L,neA Are far.Ilu,.
II. That the lines Of railroad or the said
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and
Of the said The Lehigh and Susquenanna
Railroad are parallel for the entire, or SUBJ
the entire. length OF the Lehigh
and Susquehanna Railroad, distance of
about los miles, all in the State of Pennsyl-
vania, and the lines of railroads of the said
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, and |
the said The Philadelphia and Reading Rail- |
road Company are parallel between Taman- |
end Junction and Mount Carmel both in the |
state state OF OF Penn pennsyivaan,a, Ior distance OF
and for other distances in the State of Penn |
sylvania: and that at all points along their |
lines, where the said The Lehigh |
Valley Railroad Company ana the said The |
Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad have |
parallel lines, and at other points in the |
state of Pennsylvania, the said corporations |
lave heretofore competed generally for
freight and passenger traffic, and were
1t the time of the execution OF |
said contracts, parallel and compet-
ng lines; and that, at all points along their
ines where the said The Lehigh Valley Rail-
'oad Company and the said The Philadelphia
md Reading Railroad Company have par
tllel lines and at other points, and generally
hrous hout the anthracite coal regions of
heretofore competed generally for freight
md merchandise and passenger traffic and
1t the time of the execution of said con-
racts, were parallel and competing lines;
md the said The Phila delphia and Reading
railroad Company, and the said The Lehigh
COAL and Navigation Company, and the said
The Lchigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
nd the said The Philadelphia and
reading Coal and Iron Company
nd the said The Lehigh Valley Coal Com
'any, and the said The Lehigh Valley Rail-
No6 rxN,,a Ha.-
nd were, at the time of the execution of the
aid agreements, competing in the mining
nd production of anthracite coal and in the |
of the same to- and the sale
i've lines In the State of Pennsylvania, and
specially at what is known as Tidewater,
t the city of Philadelphia; and the said
ersey. and The Lehigh Coal and
Company, and The Lehigh ana
vilkesbarre Coal Company, and The Le-
lish Valley Railroad Company. and The Le-
elphia and Reading Railroad Company, and
he Philadelphia and Reading Coal ana
ron Company,
Have Heretofore Competed,
nd were, at the time of the execution OF
aid agreements, competing, in the mining
nd production of anthracite coal, and the
ansportatfon of the same to, and the sale
f the same at, many points on their re-
/
nd especially at what is known as Tide.
ater, in the harbor of New York, or the |
'aters Immediately tributary to said har-
or: and the said The Lehigh Coal and
avigation Company, and The Lehigh |
nd Wfkesbarre Coal Company, and
he philadelphia ana Reading Rail
BAD Company, and The Philadelphia |
nd Reading Coal and Iron Com
any, and The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
any, and The Lehigh Valley Coal Company,
ave heretofore competed, and were, at the
me of the execution of said agreements, |
netting ha a L