The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-06-15
SAME OLD STORY.
Startling Graft Among Employ
ees OF Pennsylvania Road.
NO BUSINESS FXTMPT
From the Populations of The Modern
CRATER. Many of the Officials
of the Big Railroad Company
We're Bribed by the Big

IN III
We're Bribed by the Big
Coal Companies.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, which has been investigating
the employees Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Philadelphia for some
time has uneartted many cases O,
graft among the officers OF that giRan
tic corporation. Some Of the highest
officers were bribed by the big Goa
companies, Some OF tho highest III
Gals OF the road are involved. Il seem,
tnat The modern CRATER is every where
He Is not only in the South Carolina
~dispensary, but in the government
service, railroad service and every.
where else. Many officials of the Penn.
sylvania Road braz only admitted that
they accepted all the graft that co1ne
their way. Ono fellow said when mon
ely was to be given away he would try
TO DO there to receive 1t. AS a speoi
men case We present that of Joseph
Boyer, Of Altoona, chief clerk in the
'tlioe Of A. w. Gibbs. superintendent
of the motive power, who testified be
fore the commission on Thursday.
In Its entirety Mr.. B)yer's testi
mony was a startling character. His
stock holding were only a small Dor.
ton OF tho gifts he admitted receiving
from Ghe a mining companies. In
MS Capacity as a purchaser OF fuel coal
90 testified that he had received from
V companies an allo Wauoe OF from 3
TO 3 cents a ton on coal usad by the
railroad for fuel purposes. During q
period from the latter part OF 1903 to
date he has received a total of more
than S46 900 The companies which
made him this allowance were the
Gran Coal Com pauy, the Clearfeld and
Gfanton Coal Company, Dunkirk Coal
Company and Thomas Blythe Com
paDy.
Graf Coal Company allowed him
live conts q ton and the OlearReld and
Gfanton Company gave him a share
In the prct6s which amounted to not
less than four cents a ton. Blythe ano
company gavo him three cents 8 ton
lie vas asked why he Disseminated In
favor Of Blythe and Co. He replied he
did not discriminate as the money
came to him without solicitation or
any effort on his part. He believed that
inc money bad been paid in'tne same
manner 10 his predecessors in ofic
and he believed he was only following
che custom Of the department..
What did you do With thu money p
asked attorney Glasgow. II kept it
all" How do you ac1ou for gett-
ing it?" / imagine someboc , had been
getting 1t before NO." Ans ering the
question by Mr.. Glasgow, +. Boyer
said that for the money received
from the coal companies I'D
what he could for +hsm-
explain this, he~ said he distributed
the orders for fuel coal among the
companies to the best advantage.
DID you ever refuse any money ?,
Yes" Why " L dtin't know
the people who offered it," Mr.. Gas
gov said understood that these pay
ments had ceased last March. He
wanted TO know why Mr.. Boyer said
ne had not irq Tired the reason, but
ioged III was because Of the Interstate
Commerce Commissions Investigation.
There were other interesting deyol-
opments during Thursdays hearing,
which was p~fotracted until 9 O'Clock
Thursday night. Joseph X. Aiken,
who has been chief clerk In the super.
ln~tendont'S otice Of the Mononpahela
OF the Pennsylvania railroad.
revealed almost az startling evidence
IS tnat given by Joseph p. Boyer be.
orc the commission Wednesday. o.
salary Which he said varied from
To SIG per month Aiken had pur.
stock in diff rent coal compan
IS amounting to nekrly 875, 900. Ha
'Ami1LGd having received gifts OF
iash from coal operators 0u the p mn
yIVania lines aud had also received
90 Il month for several months from
company store.
D. 4. Potter, president Of the Dono
Cool aud Coke Company, whose
lperaiions are located in Westmorc {
ana county, charged that the Penn J
ylVania railroad had practlced gross
REHABILITATION In The distribution OF (
a!s TO his company. One car a day =
vas ma allotment FOR seven months,
10 declared. Mr.. Glasgow asked the !
JUICES IT DIS company was able to
tue rating Of the neighborlng .
ICES. We sent q detective to the {
'oyai Hanna mine," the witness said, I
10 see now many cars were sent f.
Iefe. They Snot at him and he was G
fraid to go back" y
Ihe last witness Of the day was w. {
'. Patterson, a hard cal operator, |
no charged that he was drj ven cut .
{ the soft coal business In Meridian, !
7. va, becau &c discrimination on the '
OF the Baltimore and O llos rail l
'ad In the distribution OF clrs. He n
eciared that the operations OF the q
hillippi Coaly company, Of which he b
as president, bad q capacity eulal to lf
1a6 CT the Southern Olal and Trans a
company, and the Century t.
combined, but that while t
}th OF these companies were plenti 81
supplied with cars his company Z
ID never been able to fill any one p
'nttaGt. Inc plant was worth more
IAN 81 600 600 he sali, but was sold n
r 1850 600. NJ
Boyer Is only q typo Of hundreds Of a.
hers IN the employ Of the Pennsyl. 10
ME RI!!road VINO have testified be. :"
re the commission to the fact that he
ey took all the graft than como their Jl
~. SJmo Of these ofliolals recei we'd IN
or three hundred thousand dollars NJ
rem the favored G al compan. W
!, VINO In turn we're always furnish To
cars 10 ship their coal, while those OF
chat did hot bride the ON. Bt