New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-09

Standard OIL Companys domestic trades COM
nittee, at No. 26 Broadway called him from
Albany, the witness said. advised him to accept
the transfer and introduced him to w H. TIL
ford, the thirteenth floor of the building
Mr.. Tilford told me they had just absorbed
the Schofeld, Schurmer & Teagle Company and
reorganized it as the Republic Oil COMPANY"
said Mr.. Hardcastle. II was also told that
was not to be known as a Standard Oil man.
and that must never let it be known there that
] had at any time been employed by the Stand
ard Oil"
WAS NOT TO REVEAL EMPLOYMENT.
The witness told of making trips to many
offices of the Republic OIL Company in the
territory in Western States where the company
sold oil. He said he was under instructions not
to let it be known that he had been in the
ploy of the Standard OIL Company The Re
public Oil Company, he said while it was a
subsidiary company of the Standard Oil posed
as independent company for trade purposes
He sent reports to No. % Broadway.
In the course of his travels in the West he
acquired a large correspondence with various
officers of the Standard OIL Company. After
four months he returned TO his position at AL
bany, and later went to the Atlantic Refining
Company, in Philadelphia, where he was under
pledge Of secrecy regarding his previous en-
ployment. His transfer was arranged by Mr.
Jennings Later he came to this city and re-
signed his position with the Standard Oil Com
pany, but after a lapse of fifteen months he
again went to work in the Albany office, but
later was asked to resign.
Mr. Hardcastle said he had declined to sur
render the correspondence collected in his trip
in the West Mr.. Van Duzen. the Albany man
ager, told him ne might remain with the Stand
ard Oil for ten years and not get better po-
sition If he did not surrender the letters
Il thought it over and gave up the letters"
he said.
9@T9 whom and where did you send those let
n.HoJ so,' water Tier Jennings No e Broadway
You asked to resign? A.-Probably six or eight
q o.When you resigned, die the Standard Oil pay
YOU any advance salary? Ayes.
the other side? Ayes
GOOD go dfr but Eoq not r %n if 40
Q.Did you ask for the equivalent in cash for the
Odd you get it? Al did not
AT the morning session Mrs Ida N Butts
stepdaughter OF the late George Rice, who
fought the Standard Oil Company in Ohio, pro-
duced her stepfathers shares in the original
Standard Oil Company known then as the
STANDARD Oh Trust which was forced out of
existence by the courts of Ohio The shares are
the only ones of the original Standard Oil Trust
now in existence. all others having been ex-
Standard OIL. The six shares which Mrs. Butts
produced are valued at about $4,000 to-day.
The face value of each share is 800.
Mrs. Butts added little to her testimony of
Saturday in explanation of the transfers of
stock between the original Standard OIL Trust
and the Standard OIL Company. Asked to de-
scribe the process of exchange, Mrs. Butts said
the Standard Oil OF Ohio forced out of ex-
stence through quo warranto proceedings in
SIT rJTod NV
on the ground that it was member of the
Standard Oil Trust: This in 1892. Then
fiquidating trustees in lieu of the companys
stock
How long did this pretended dissolution con-
tnue? asked Attorney General Hadley.
Until contempt proceedings were brought in
Ohio to force the trust out of existence. This
was about 1898. Then more certificates of
Standard Oil Trust were turned in in assign
ments of title. and the latter papers exchanged
into shares of stock in the various companies
composing the existing Standard OIL eX-
planned Mrs. Butts.
What this woman doesn't know about the
Standard Oil fight in Ohio wouldn't fill postal
card, whispered one of the companys lawyers
to another. She must have been a gold mine
TO that other Ida M in the way of informa-
ton
The company's lawyers spent the greater part
of the afternoon session in a cross-examination
of Mrs Butts endeavoring to have her answers
fo direct questions stricken from the record or
the ground that they were based on documents
not produced, or on hearsay- Commissioner
Sanford declined to have any of her testimony
stricken from the record.
Between the morning and afternoon sessions
Attorney General Hadley had talk with Dis
trict Attorney Jerome who went to No. 81 Wall
Street to meet him. Mr.. Hadley said later that
Mr. Jerome not interested In the nearing
Int had called merely for social reasons
Il know Mr. Jerome he said, but DO not
see how he can help me in obtaining an answer
~ the Questions from Mr. Rogers. Certainly he
cannot under the law by which he took action
in the insurance matter. If 1 need his help
shall certainly ask for It L expect the Ques-
tions Mr. Rogers refused to answer will be certl-
fed to the Supreme Court as soon as the papers
can be prepared"
1TTJTU4L GAS ON STAND.