Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-28
TO FORCE CASSATT OUT
RUMORED REVOLUTION IN
"PENNSY" AFFAIRS.

complete reorganization of the admin
lstrative force of the Pennsylvania railroad.
win George +. Baer, now president of the
Philadelphia and Reading railway. at tho
mead of the corporation. is to take place
al no distant date, If the prediction of 4
prominent stockholder at Philadelphia of
the Pennsylvania is true. According to his
forecast. Alexander j. CaSsatt will resign.
the custom of promotion through place
will be overturned. and the present force
of the Pennsylvania will be decimated.
Theodore Voorhees,, now first vice presI-
dent of the Reading. is expected to take
George T. Baers place at the head OF
that road. This change will mean that the
two systems will be brought into closer re-
latiopship and be operated practically as
ore.
Great dissatisfaction with the adminis-
ira ton 0. Cassatt has been evidenced since
the Western Union pole-cutting episode.
and the startling revelations before the in
terstate commerce commission brought the
situation to a climax.
To Gust Cassatt Dynasty.
New York interests in the Pennsylvania
are united with the Philadelphia stockhold-
ers In this revolutionary movement. and
they have the support of large financial
interests hoiLing the greater portion Of tho
immense loans fioated by President Cassatt-
If the prediction is to be verified, Cassatts
administrations win be largely destroyed by
the very powers he created.
1t was information of this great and Sc
cret movement aimed at his dynasty and
sent him by his lieutenents and not the
unwilling of the Pennsylvania skeleton
in itself that caused Mr.. Cassatt so bur
redy to change his plans and sail for his
threatened domain. 1t this. too. In AZ
caused by the railroad directorate TO set 10
work SO frantically to Investigate itself
w1thia committee picked by those To be-
Investigated, trying to ward OFF the big
fire by a little blaze of their own.
5.It-is asserted that Mr. Baer's remark
s If5fes. address at the dinner given last Tues
dag night to S. w. Taylor, secretary OF
the Reading, in which he declared that the
Reading is the only honest railroad IN the
country. and which was palpably brought
out by the reVela tons Of graft in the Penn
sylvania and just palpably aimed at
that corporation. was really a declaration
or Independence from the dictation of the
Cassatt rule, and was intended as an open
declaration of war and an avoWal OF his
position upon the move against IT.
Cassatt Regime Criticised.
Furthermore IT presaged his policy re-
garding the present beaurocracy clearly in
the following open threat:
"Our system of promotion is the best OF
the railroads anywhere The honest the
deserving. secure 1t. No favoritsm> rules
in the Reading. I often compare our men
with those of other companies, and feeI
exultation in the knowledge that our STAN
of officers is the truest and best IN the
land today"
His declaration or independence he
couched in the following terms:
THAT American business ideals have been
lowered IS evident by the facts that con-.
front us every day, regarding the grant ana
unprincipled conduct of the officers OF great
cGrporations Just now the public atten-
ton is being called to railroads
I'm the midst of the disclosures regarding
tho faint that affects the officers of other
railroads, the Reading is free from cIiu-
cism. $500.
There has long been friction between
Cassatt and Baer and the last named hds
chafed under the yoke. Ine latest MOS
rt1,Se differences between the two roads
has arisen over the Reading short line 10
New York. which would lop or from m
teen 10 twenty minutes In the time be-
twaan philadelphia and New York and pu6
the pennsylvania out of the running