The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-19
AGAINST THE READING.
Grounds on Which the At
torneY General Based
His Latest Appli-
cation.
.DISoBEYED THE COURT.
President Maxwell. However, Says
the Jersey Central Obeyed
the %Chancellor's Orders.
Special to the Jerseu Citu Neaus.

TRENTON, Oct. 10, 1S92.-The informa-
ton upon which Attorney General Stock
ton obtained the order to snow cause why
a receiver should not be appointed to
take charge of the New Jersey railroads
leased and enforce the injunction recently
issued by the Court preventing them
from operating the roads within the
State until the price of coal shall have
been reduced, has been filed in the Office
of the County Clerk of Chancery.
The information covers ninety-eight
printed pages, and is a voluminous docu-
ment. 1t sets forth, in brief, thai The
lease of the Easton aud Amboy Railroad
is illegal; that its operation by the Lenigh
Valley Terminal Railroad Company is
illegal: that its lease to the Philadelphia
aud Reading is illegal; bat the lease of
the Bound Brook to the Reading is il
legal. and recite5 the proceedings in the
original case against the Central. aud
charges that the Lehigh Valley. Easton
aud Amboy. the Lehigh Terminal and
Bound Brook Railroads are being opei a.
ted for the purposes OF increasing the
price of coal and are being used to violate
the order Of the Chancellor made In the
recent suit against the Reading Combine.
RAILROAD PUT UP COAL
1t further sets forth that between the
31st day of May and the goth day of Aug
ust. 1892, the preliminary order made by
this court was dlsobeyed by the Pniladel-
phia aud Reading, which, notwilh-
standing the terms of said order, in COM
bination and CONFORMITY with the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company aud with each
other, did operate their railroads in the
State of New Jersey In such manner as to
diminish competition among them in the
trade in anthracite coal. and did arbitrar-
lily increase the price thereof to the people
of this State, as we'll as that owped Or
controlled by the Central Railroad COM
pany, as that owned or controlled by the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany. in the tollowing:-
That is to say, on the 1st day of July,
1892, the said companies to effectuate the
said object Of said combination, raised the
price OF egg coal at least ten cents per ton
and the price of stove coal at least Is cents
per ton, and they did in other respects
combine with each other to prevent COM
petition in the production. transportation
and sale Of such coal and to create q mo-
nopoly thereof.
DIsoBEYED H CHANCELLOR.
That on or about the lst day OF Septeni-
Der, 1892, the said Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company and the Central
Railroad Company, acting in combina-
tion and CONFORMITY with the LeAigh VAL
ley Railroad Company aud with each
other, and in disObedience of the said Or
der made on tine 31st day of May, 1892, and
of the said order made on the 29tn day OF
August, 1892, aud of the injunction issu-
ing thereon, operated, and have sIuce con-
.tinued TO operate Their respective rail
roads in the State of New Jersey in
such manner as to diminish competition
in the trade in anthracite coal anu aga n
arbitrarily raised the price Of anthracite
coal owned or controlled by the Philadel-
phta and Reading Railroad Company and
the Central Railroad Company, of the
sizes known as egg and stove, not less
hal twenty-five cents per ton, and have
arbitrarily maintained such increased
prices eYer since. TO the people of this
State.
And about the same time the said Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad Company
and the Central Railroad Company, act
Ing in combination and ~conjointiy with
the L.ehigh Valley Railroad COMPANY
and with each other, arbitrarily raised
tbs price of anthracite coal to the people
of this State by raising The rate of freight
charged by them, and each of them, for
the transportation thereof from the mines
to points on tide water in this State ad-
jacent to New York, not less than ten
cents, and have maintained such in
creased rate of TRANSFORMATION ever since.
COAL PRICES FIXED AT A MEETING.
That the several advances made in the
price of coal. as h~ereinbefore set forth,
were made in concert bv the said Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad Company,
the Central Railroad Company and the
Lehigh Valley Company at meetings held
In The city of New York by the represen-
tarives or agents Of said roads or the
aforesaid coal companies controlled by
them as aforesaid. and by resolutions
passed at sAid meetings for that purpose,
and the prices fixed by said Representa-
lives or agents were adopted and de-
munded by all said respective companies,
who thereafter charged the prices Us thus
advanced to the people of this State.
That the advance so made in The rate of
freight on coal was made in concert by
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, the Central Railroad Company
of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company against the protests of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
neither it nor the said advances made in
the price of coal wers justified by any iu-
crease III the cost Of LABOR or material.
he information then goes on TO say
that one of re instrumeutalities by whose
means the Philadelphia aud Reading is
euahld to carry into effect the unlawful
cnsnbfna ion is the Delaware and Bound
Brook Railroad, a history of which Is
then given,
The Courts Orders Obeyed.
NEW YORK. Oct. 10. 1885,. I'm reference
to The application for q receiver for the
New jersey Central and other coal COM
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