The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-13
SAME OLD STORY
Startling Graft Among Employ.
ees Of Pennsylvania Road.
NO BUSINESS FXsMPT

W. NON AAsA~toh' = ~ AZ u
From the Peculations of the Modern
CRATER. Many OF the Officials
of the Big Railroad Company
We're Brjbed by the Big
Coal Companies.
The Interstate Commerce CommiS-
sion, which has been investigating
the employees OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Philadelphia for some
time has unearthed many cases OF
graft among the ctf1cers OF that gigan-
tic corporation. Some OF the highest
cficers were brihed By the big coal
companies. Some Of the highest Off
cials Of ths road are involved. II seems
tnat the modern CRATER is everywhere.
He is not only in the South Carolina
dispensary, cut in the government
service, railroad service and every.
where else Many officials OF TIE Penn
syivanis Road brszsnly admitted that
they accepted ali the graft thai come
their way. One fellow said when mon
ey was to be given away be would try
to be Uhere to receiVe it. as soeci
men case we present that OF joseph
Boyer. Of Altoona, Chief clsrk in Ghe
.fics CT 4. ". Gi.b', superintendent
of the motive power, who testified be-
fore the commission on Thursday.
In It's entirety MI. B :yer's testi
nony vas 2 startling character. His
stock holding we're only small por-
tiou Of the gifts he admitted receiving
from the coal mining mpanies. In
his capacity as a purcha, sr OF fuel coal
hs testified that be had received from
i've companies an allowance OF from 3
to 5 cents a ton On coal used 5y the
railroad for fuel purposes. During a
period from the latter part OF 1903 20
iase be has received a total Of more
than s46, O0O Tna companies wnic
made him this allowance we're the
Graf Goa: Company, the Clearfeld and
Granton Coal Company, Doukirk Coal
Company and Thomas Blythe Com
papy.
Graf Coal Company allowed him
i've cents a ton and tine Clsarfsld and
G1anton Com 2any gave him a share
in the prof5s which amounted to not
Less thao four c5ntS ton. Blythe and
Company savS him three cents a ton.
Ee 9as asked why be Disseminated In
favor OF Blythe and Co. he replied he
did not discriminate as the money
came to him without solicitation o.
any effort en- bis part. he helieVed that
the money had been paid IN the same
manner to his predecessors in c1ic:
AID he believed he Was only TO- lowing
she custom OF the department..
What &C you do with the money?
asked attorney Glasgow. I kept 1t
all" ''How do you account for gett-
ing it?" I imagine somebody had been
getting it before me-" Answering the
question by Mr.. Glasgow, Mr.. Boyer
said that for the money he received
from the coal companies he Did
what be could for them." Asked to
explain this, he said he distributed
the orders for fuel coal among the
companies to the best advantage.
Did you ever refuse any mone5?'
Yes" WHY Well didn't know
the people who offered it," Mr.. Gas
gov said understood that these pay
nents had ceased last March. he
wanted to know shy Mr. Boyer said
ne had not irq Tired the reason, but
judged 1t was because Of the Interstate
Commerce Commissions Is Investigation.
There were other interesting deVsl-
opments during Thursdays hearing,
which was proTracted until 6 O'Clock
Thursday night. Joseph Z. Aiken,
who hss been chief Clerk in the super
intendent's Office Ct the Monongahela
division Of the Pennsylvania railroad,
revealed almost as srsltl.Gg. evidence
ss that given by Joseph P. Boyer be
fore the commission Wednesday. o.
salary which he said varied from
$50 to 1926 per mouth Aiken had pur.
chased stock in diff =rsnt coal compsn
les amounting &c rs.rly s75, 900. 81.
admitted having received gifts 0;
cash from coal operators on the P ,nD-
sylvan1a lines AID had also received
$50 month for several months from
a company store.
S. T. Potter, president OF the Dono
hoe Cool and Coke cympany, whose
operations are located in Westmore
lard county, charged that the Penn
sylvania railroad had practicsd gross
Discrimination in the distribution OF
CARS to his company. One car day
vas bis allG tmsat Tor ssven months,
ae declared. Mr.. Glasgow asked the
witness il bis company was able to
learn TIE rating OF the neighboring
mines. We sent detective to the
Loyal Hanna nine" the witness said,
TO see how many cars were sent
there. They shot at him and he was
afraid to &c back"
The last witness OF the day was W.
". Patterson, hard al operator,
wao charged tGat he Was driven out
Of the soft coal business in Meridian,
". Va, because discrimination on the
part OF the Baltimore and O ..ios rail
road in the distribution OF CARS. He
declared that the operations CT the
Phillippi Cosly company, Of which he
vas president, had capacity equal to
that Of tie Southern G al and Trans
portation company, and the Century
combined, but that while |
Doth O. these com panies were plenti.
July supplied with cars his company
bad never been able to fill any one
contract. Toe plant was worth more
than 81 600 ,0O0 be sai1, but was sold