Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23
Not Broken UP BY Adverse
Decision
OF NEW JERSY COURT.
The Most Important Suit
Tried.

Its decision in the case Of the Della
ware, Lackawana and Western
Railroad company VS. the United
States Pipe Line company, which
is adverse to the latter. This was
the most important of series OF
suits which have at the instigation
of the Standard Oil company been
brought to hamper the United
States Pipe Line in its efforts to
cross the state of New Jersey.
The Standard has heen the real
plaintiffs in every instance, the
management of the suits have been
conducted by it and all costs paid
by it, the name of the railroad com
pany being merely cover for the
nefarious designs of the Standard
Oil company to oppose and DESTROY
all independent competition in the
transportation of petroleum to the
seaboard.
The United States Pipe Line was
completed and in use to point
within 60 miles of New York city,
and this last decision will compel
the REIMBURSEMENT of about thirty
miles of it's line and the resumption
of its shipping facilities at a point
further back on the New Jersey
Central railroad. The United States
Pipe Line company is not in any
sense knocked out" by the deci
sion, as might be Implied by read
ing the dispatches announcing 1t,
as it merely reverts to its former
course of shipping by railroad at a
point which means transporting
via rail distance OF 100 miles in
stead of 60. With this very slight
disadvantage the United States
Pipe Line company continues its
business dS USUAL
The decree in the case takes effect
December 5 next, and in the mean
time the pipes will he removed from
the property involved, a distance
of not more than 100 feet where il
crosses under the D. L. & w.
railroad, the balance of the line re.
naming intact until future date,
when court may be found not un-
der the blighting and damnable in.
fuence of the Standard oil aggre,
CATION and it's railroad allies.
In connection with the foregoing
the following from the Petroleum
Gazette as showing the vast i'm
portance of the United States Pipe
Line in competition with the Stan
dard, will be ofinterest:
ut is fitting to say at this time,
when field conditions are apt to be
emphasized as the prime cause OIL
improved conditions in the oil bust
ness, that the United States Pipe
Line company with its eastern sea-
board lines for the carrying of bott
crude and refined oils, has been one
of the most important factors ii
contributing to present conditions
When the Standard alone has sea
board lines and re6ners had re
course only to railroad shipments
the railroads could practice dis
examinations against the independ,
ent oil shipper, operating to the
advantage of the Standard. Nc
wonder that every foot in the pro
gress of the United States Pipe
Line towards its destination was
fought against all species of oppo
sition on the pant Of the allies in
discrimination, to whose interest II
was to keep the independent oil
shippers at the mercy of the rail-
roads.
"There has been a good deal
written on the subject of the multi
piled obstacles the United States
Pipe Line company had to deal
with but an adequate history Of
that fight. or a continuous series Of
fights, has not been written. The
man who could best write it is ex
Senator Lewis Emery, of Bradford
upon whom the brunt of the fight
ing work for the pipe line fell, and
i, is not probable that he will dc
SO. 1t is more probable that he
though having the qualification Of
having won, does not dare to reflect