New-York tribune., 1906-06-07
GAVE CLERK $4,000.
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It was because OF the Interstate Commerce Com
missions investigation.
A w. Gibbs. general superintendent of motive
power Mr. Boyer's superior officer. testified that
he did not know that his chief clerk accepted
money from the coal companies.
Commissioner Clements. referring to Mr.. Boy
er,s statement that he believed that he was act
ing according to the custom of the department,
asked the witness II he had ever heard of any
other man in the department accepting money
as Boyer had.
Mr. Gibbs said he had heard that Rohrer,
former chief clerk, had received presents but
the talk and rumors We're not tangible and he
had no knowledge on the subject.
Mr. Gibbs declared Mr.. Boyer's testimony to
be revelation to him. Had he been OF
the conditions. he said. he would have taken
action.
HELPED NEW COAL COMPANIES.
Mr. Gibbs was asked If he had ever been in
structed 10 buy coal from the keystone Coal
and Coke Company. He replied that when
new company was organized 1t was customary
for the railroad to help it by purchasing coal
until such time as it should become well es-
tablished. This applied not only to the Keystone
company, but to other companies. Mr..
Glasgow asked the witness If he could give the
commission any information concerning the
agreement between the railroad and the II. c.
Frfck Coal and Coke Company concerning car
repairs. Mr.. Gibbs said he understood there
had been some sort of an agreement. but he was
not familiar with its terms. The coal COM
pany, he said, claimed that the railroad should
make all repairs, but the latter made an issue
Of it and rendered bills to the Frick company
for repairs to it's The Friek company paid
for repairs to wheels and axles but refused to
pay the full amount of the charges.
D. NJ. Maroney, of Pittsburg president OF the
West Virginia Connecting Railroad. formerly
in the classification and distribution de-
partment OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
was the first witness at the afternoon session
He testified that while he was in the employ of
the Baltimore & Ohio he received stock in the
Monongahela River Coal Company valued at
$1,000 in payment for services rendered. He
sold this stock
While he vice president OF the Pittsburg,
Shawmut & Northern Railroad which is now
being surveyed, he received stock valued at
$4,000, in the Weaver Coal Company. from
Henry F. Weaver, who has since died
Max Rebenack controller of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad said that ne IS interested In the
Crawley Land Company. of Virginia With him
are associated j. T. Richards. chief engineer of
maintenance of way of the Pennsylvania Rail
road; Stephen Green, a Philadelphia business
man, and others from New England. The COM
pany is a Boston corporation which has ae-
quired Southern coal lands
PAID RENT FOR THEIR OWN PIER
Mr.. Reibenack was questioned concerning the
Harsimus pier, for which the Berwind-White
company pays an annual rental of 81 800 to the
Pennsylvania Railroad. The witness said the
pier was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Of Of hoaI TV0
ago, he said, it was improved at cost Of $1,000
The total OF $4,000 was paid by the Berwind-
White company to the railroad.
Then the pier belongs to Berwind-White,
said Mr.. Glasgow.
"No. 1t belongs TO US"
How do you make that out?"
"At the expiration of Berwind-White's lease
we to return them the money Slof0o0 with
interest"
resented only a small percentage OF the eoal
expenses at the pier The witness
thought the railroad paid both insurance and
pier is assessed at $4,000. he said.
Asked if the H. c. Frick Coal and Coke Com
pany had ever paid the railroad company for
had recently made a payment OF SAL
00O to the railroad.
NJ X Reeves chief clerk to Vice-President
Pugh testified that Colonel Huff had given him
coal company stock valued at $4,000. He
said he had known Colonel Huff from ooyhoGd.
The stock in the Keystone Coal ana coke
COMPANY the Howard. the Greenwich and the
Car6in Coal companies. David e. Williams d
Co he said had also presented him with one
hundred shares in the Cymbria Coal Company.
MIR Reeves explained that Colonel HUFF gave
him stock in the Salem and Claridge coal com
panies for which he received six hundred shares
in the keystone Coal and Coke Company when
the two smaller companies were merged into
that company. Colonel HUFF purchased Mr.
Reeves's holding in the keystone company for
$4,000
colonel Huffs motives were pure" said Mr..
der him any service Mr. Pugh did not know
that I held the stock did not think IT neces-
sary that he should know it, and do not con-
slider that I was disloyal In not telling him OF
the transactions. You must understand that
Colonel Huff has a host Of friends and he is
generous man. The stock he has given away
has gone principally to the members of families
with whom he has been intimate since child
hood
r L. Franklin, claim agent Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, denied that he had instructions
TO settle at once and without Investigation all
claims presented by the Berwind-White COM
nv aod the Kavstone Coal and Coke COmpany