Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-20
ARCHBOLD TO
TELL HISTORY
OF STANDARD
SECRETS OF OCTOPUS TO BE
LAID BARE
VICE PRESIDENT KNOWS ALL
ABOUT COMBINATION
Rockefeller Concludes His Direct Tes-
timony and viii Be Subjected
to cross-Examination
Today

NEW YORK. Nov. 19.-With the
y story of the first years of the
~ Industrial development of the
Standard Oil company the testimony
of John ID. Rockefeller, president of
the company, defendant in the suit to
dissolve the Standard Oil company
was brought to an unexpected close
this afternoon.
The head of the Standard Oil COM
pany told today of the processes and
causes of the company's growth up to
the trust agreement of 1882, and, after
identifying the parties to the agree
ment, counsel for the defendant an
nounced that Mr.. Rockefeller had con-
cluded his direct testimony and re-
quested an adjournment until tomor-
row.
Friday will find Mr.. Rockefeller on
the witness stand under the sharp fire
of cross examination by Frank B. Kel-
logg, special assistant attorney general,
prosecuting the case for the govern
ment This will be generally confined
to the period from 1862 to 1882, ex-
cept when the testimony has direct
bearing on developments in the COM
pany's affairs in its later period.
ArchboId to Tell
Counsel for the Standard let it be
known today that the history of the
company from the trust agreement OF
1882 would be told on the witness stand
by John d. Archbold, vice president,
who is conversant with the combines
developments.
MIR. Rockefeller's testimony today
had to do principally with the acquisi-
tions of other refining companies, to-
gether with the transportation con-
Germs and pipe lines which he declared
were necessitated by the natural
growth of the Standards business.
In his testimony Mr.. Rockefeller said
that when the Empire Transportation
company was organized Our interests
presented the matter to the railroads
and protested to the Pennsylvania. We
stopped our shipments over the Penn
sylvania and used other lines" he con-
tinued. 1--WE objected to the Pennsyl-
vania railroad engaging in the ret1n-
ing business. We did not know where
we stood 3They Werg shipping their
own oil over their own lines and dis
eliminating against u.s. Other rail-
roads agreed to stand by us, but there
was much bitterness between the rail-
roads. We made our shipments over
the Lake Shore, New York Central,
and we purchased the Empire Transs
portation company and pipe lines to
which 1 have referred. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad ac 1uired the cars of the
Empire Transportation company and
issued car trust certificates, which We
purchased
Railroad War Stops
Mr.. Rockefeller said that when the
transaction was completed and the
Pennsylvania railroad stopped refin-
ing the railroad war stopped and an
agreement was entered into between
the roads whereby they received a per
centage of the oil carrying trade. The
STANDARD Oil interests were called upon
to make those arrangements effective.
The witness said that the war between
the railroads to obtain the oil trade
had been demoralizing to the oil busi-
ness. Mr.. Rockefeller's attention was
then called to an agreement between
William Rockefeller and Thomas 5.
Scott, president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, which had been approved by
the oil carrying roads.
Sometimes in seeing that the exact
division of the traffic was being car
ried out we shipped our oil to our own
disadvantage when we could have
shipped 1t more profitably by other
lines" said Mr.. Rockefeller. I'VE had
nothing to do with the division of
traffic which the railroads determined
upon"
Mr.. Rockefeller said that the COM
pany guaranteed the Pennsylvania rail-
road a certain number of barrels of oil
a year and In consideration their COM
pany guaranteed to pay back 10 per
cent of the rate on the oil shipped.
He then told of the purchase of the
j. N Camden company of Parkersburg
w. Va, and the Hooling Refining COM
pany, also of that city. The Camden
Consolidated Oil company was organ
lied to take over both properties.
Mr.. Rockefeller said that the Stan
dard began acquiring pipe line inter-
ests in 1873 and increased its owne+
ship from time to time until 1877, when
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