The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
Witnesses Detail the
 Methods of Standard.
RAILROAD MEN IN ITS PAY
Lake Shore Employees Got Salaries
 from Tank Line.
Editor of The Columbus, O., Dispatch Has No POsitive Knowledge As To Payments Received For Pub
 fishing Standard Matter.


 Evan, former chief clerk in tho car | department of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad general of fees in Cleveland. was the first wit ness today in the Standard oil investi- Cation by the interstate commerce com missioner.
 He testified that he had charge of the compiling of the mileage of the cars of the Union Tank Line. He said day at noon to the Cleveland office of the Standard oil Company The Lake Shore Company, he declared, gave the Standard a big advantage in tabulating records of tank cars in that the mile- age oe the Standard tank cars were figured on a different basis than the cars of competing companies. The ad- vantage amounted all the way from Sc to 54 cents per car, according to the distances between different points on the road.
 MacEwen, who Is now employed by tho Peerless Transit Company. also tes- tified that the Lake Shore and Pennsyl- vania companies had recently been re- jecting Peerless Transit Company's tank cars, built two or three years ago in accordance with specification furnish ed by the railroad companies. At the same time. the witness aid, he knew of his own personal knowledge that Union tank cars not complying with specifi- cations, were accepted by the railroads,
 Paid Fly the Standard.
 The witness made the further charge that certain freight employees of the Lake Shore road received monthly sal aries from the Union Tank Line Com pany, Standard concern, and In return for such compensation the freight offi- cfais made special efforts to facilitate the movement of Standard oil ship ments.
 This he pointed out. gave the Stan dard an additional advantage over the independents.
 W. J. Brickell, for twenty-nine years editor of The Columbus, Ohio. Even ing Dispatch, was called to tell what. if anything, he knew about that paper accepting articles alleged to have been furnished by the Standard oil Compa- ny and paid for at so much per line. Mir Rrickell denied that he had any positive knowledge on the subject and said that if any such contract exist ed it was known only to the business rnana@&s of the paper.
 D. D. ElIs, an independent oil deal CT of Cincinnati. gave evidence show ing that the names of his customers were systematically obtained by the Standard by bribing employees.
 Samuel B. Kaufman, for the last four years manager of the telegraph department of the Buckeye Pipe Line. a Standard adjunct at Lima, Ohio, ad- raitted that the wires under his con- trol carried the business of several other concerns, such as the Northwes- tern Ohio Natural Zas Company. the Ohio oil Company. the Vacuum Refin- ing Company. the Solar Oil Company, and the Manhattan Pipe Line Compa- nv The blanks of the Standards tel egram system were used for this bus mess He did not know on what ba- sis charges were made for carrying this business.
 Examination of Longacre.
 Rudolph Longacre, traffic manager of the Atlantic Refining Company of Cleveland. and previously connected with various departments of the Erie and New York. Chicago and St. Louis Railroads, was examined concerning freight rates between a large number of different points in the country and covering a long period of years The facts and figures given by him were in detail and showed that rates in many directions had been greatly increased. and that many gross inequalities eX- isted In fixing rates, also in estimating tonnage and bulk and classihcations
 C. B. Chamberlain. secretary and treasurer of the Globe Oil Company of Cleveland and secretary of the National Petroleum Association, with headquar- ters in Cleveland said he had endeavor- ed to obtain from the Hooking Valley Railroad Company contract for fur nishing lubricating oil. c. B. Duffy. purchasing agent of the road, he testi- fled, half promised him some small contracts for other oils, but said he could not take lubricating oil because if he did. the road would lose from S175.OoO to S2O0.000 in freightage from the Standard oil Company.
 The witness read letters from GUS toners at Marion, Ind, saying that Standard agents had found out that he was buying oil from the Globe Com panv in Cleveland and that he was be- ing annoyed to death and his business interferred with. Even the wives of employees, the letter stated. were be- ing visited at their homes by Standard agents who demanded to be informed about certain things concerning ship ments which had been observed.