The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-26
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STANDARD

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ITO the STANDARD Oil Company of
New jersey answered Mr.. Payne.
DO you deliver to anyone else?"
NO."
NO n else has asked for a de-
livery of oil there?"
mo. not that I know Of" said Mr..
Payne.
Mr.. Kellogg asked Mr.. Payne who
advised the building of the delivery
tanks at Centre Bridge.
1T did, interposed Mr.. Milburn, the
Standards counsel, for 1 thought. UNI
der the law, there should be a delivery
point there. I thought it excellent legal
advice"
81 DON'T said Mr.. Kellogg.
Now, is 1t not the Southern Pipe
Line Company that delivers oil at Cen
tire Bridge instead of the National
Transit Company"
eI do not think So" said Mr.. Payne.
"where is Fond Grover"
at Is on the State line between Penn
s~ylvania and Maryland" said Mr..
Payne.
What pipe line companies connect at
Fond Grover"
1.-THE National Transit Company line
connects with the pipe line of the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey" an
swered the witness.
rs there anything but a tank and
pumping station at Fond Grover"
II do not think So" said Mr.. Payne.
Mr.. Kellogg spread upon the record that
several pipe lines of subsidiary companies
of the STANDARD made a shipping point at
Marcus Hook. Pennsylvania, and that the
=, H. -t~aa nm from (NxFonnt
Ohio. "Do you know If the Standard has
a pipe line New York and Brook
lyn?"
~ do not know" answered Mr.. Payne
81 have heard of 1t and read that there
was a pipe line under the Hudson and
East Rivers"
"And as vice-president of the trunk
pipes YOU don't know If there is a pipe line
between New York and BROOKLYN
~ have heard that there was. but don't
know of 1t of my own knowledge" said
Mr.. Payne.
Now, let us see what your duties are as
yice-president of the National Transit Com
pany," said Mr.. Kellogg.
well, principally to sign my name to
papers,, answered Mr.. Payne.
Mr.. Payne testified that he be
lleved that previous to 1905, the National
Transit Company operated the pipe line
between Unionville and Bayonne, N. j.,
which Is now operated by the Standard
Oil Company, of New Jersey. He said
that he received monthly reports from the
pipe line companies concerning the cost of
operations.
Mr.. kellogg developed from the witness
that the STANDARD MED no tariffs for the
delivery of oil at C~oraopolis, o.; Warren,
o., and Bradford, Pa, where there were
Independent re1nerles and where the
Standard had pipe lines.
"Can you name a single Independent re-
fnery in the United States to which n
single barrel of oil can be shipped under
these tariffs?" asked Mr.. Kellogg.
Mr.. Payne said that he could not say,
as he. was not familiar with all the tariffs
filed. w%hereupon Mr.. Kellogg handed him
the tariffs submitted to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and asked him TO
look them over.
Mr. Payne looked over the schedule and
returned 1t to the governments counsei
without observation. Mr.. Kellogg did not
pursue the inquiry further along this line,
but showed the witness a map giving the
location of the oil field, rehner1es and pipe
lines of the STANDARD. Mr.. Payne mace
some corrections on the map, which was
placed in evidence.
Mr.. Payne was cross-examlned by MT.
Milburn, who developed from the witness
an outline of the pipe line system with
respect to its physical characteristics. MI.
PAYNE testified that there We're private as
well as public pipe lines. The pipe line
of the Standard Oil Company, OF New Jer-
sey, running from Unionville. to Bayonne,
n J., is a private line, the delivering
point of which for years had been al
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