New-York tribune., 1906-05-26

ton concerning the oil shipments of rivals was
brought into the Office by draymen and that she
made careful record Of them and gave them to
her superior.
John O'Brien. general superintendent Of the
Lima division of the Buckeye Pipe Line Com
pany, Standard concern, was asked partic-
ularly about the Standards telegraph system
especially that part connected with the pipe
line company. The inquiries succeeded in estab-
fishing the general fact that The Standard has
an immense telegraph system OF its own eX-
tending TO nearly every part OF the country anu
that in carrying on its great volume OF trado
Il does not often require the use OF the regular
lines of the two big telegraph companies
The company has its own wires. operators, OF
ficers, blanks and other stationery ana soiie
times sends messages for persons not connected
with the company. The witness denied that the
company exchanged business with the Western
Union Telegraph Company at points Whefe one
had Office and the other had not
u. L. Byles, secretary and treasurer OF the IN
dependent Refining Company Limited or On
City, Penn. offered testimony concerning IT. IS -
road rate discrimination against his company
and said that TO hurt their business IN inal'til t
the Standard agents circulated reports thaI Ihe
OIL City company was in reality STANDARD oI'
concern.
The railroads. Mr. ByIes declared. had be-
gun increasing the rates to New England IN
the early SOS and had been gradually cutting
out the through rate 70 nearly all points ana
substituting arbitrary rate which was al
most prohibitive. These excessive ana unjust
rates which levied principally by the Lake
practically driven his company out OF the en-
tire New England field. In trying to reach
Southern territory far as New Orleans a
similar situation met
All kinds of other difficulties the witness said
We're continually thrown in their way by the
railroads, particularly the Pennsylvania COM
pany, which, illustration. compelled his
company TO build tank specifications
much more stringent than those required Tor
their own cars. This. the witness believed, was
done by the Pennsylvania company TO give the
independent companies as much trouble as pos
sible and because Il wanted to drive them out
Of business.
Frank B. Fretter, secretary of the National
Refining Company. of Cleveland, and president
of the National Pipe Line Company OF ONO
said that at the present time the price OF his
Iubricating oil was much lower than that or
the Standard company. but, nevertheless. II was
impossible to sell to any railroad company. In
the matter of black, or low grade, lubIlcalllS
ain for which the Standard company obtained
l. cents gallon, his company would Dc gild
to sell at = cents in bulk
Frank J. Heimerich, of Bellevue, Ohio, told
how his independent oil business was all nut
ruined bv the methods of the Standard. W }.
Cram of Marietta, Ohio testified that the stand
ard for years bounded his company and That the
colnuanv was finally compelled to sell its prop
erty at a low figure W. +. Wall, president or
the Fred T. Clark Company oil dealers Of Cleve-
land pointed out or rate sheets the irregularities
in rates to different points in the country
E NJ Gibbs, merchant or klpton, ONO. said
he was comUeIled 10 handle the Standards OIL
because the Standards agents threatened TO
start another store close by and sell every ar
tlcIe he sold in competition.