The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-23
mot TRUST
ORGANIZER
JOHN D.
Says Flagler Was Chief
Figure in Making
OF Combine.
TELLS OF VANDERBILT
In STANDARD OIL.
Was Interested with a Number
of Other Leading Rail-
road Officials.
SAYS FLAGER AND DODD
ORIGINATORS OF TRUST
Trust Buster" Kellogg Gets No
Direct Replies to Broadside of
Pointed Questions.
SAYS FLAGER AND DODD
ORIGINATORS OF TRUST
Especial to the Evening star. ]

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.--LoolSing rested
and smiling. John D. Rockefeller again
took the stand this morning. Govern
ment Prosecutor Frank Fl. Kellogg be-
gan his cross-exaniination where 1t was
left off Saturday afternoon.
MIR. Rockefeller testified that he did
not conceive the plnn of the formation
Of the original Standard Oil trust In
1882.
"rm sorry to say that didn't" said
Mr.. RockefeIIer. 81 cannot claim any
credit for that MIR. FIaglcr and $. c.
Il. Dodd conceived It,"
Mr.. Kellogg's first inquiry was
whether all the stockholders of the
South Improvement Company after
wards became holders of stock in tho
Standard Oil Company of Ohio, but Mr..
Rockefeller said he did not think SO. and
when Mr.. Kellogg read list of the
South Improvement Company's stock
holders Mr.. isocL sfeller med several
of them. who. he said, did not hold
stock in the Standard.
Replying to further questions, Mr..
Rockefeller said that he thought there
was an increase in the stock of the
Standard Oil Company of Ohio from
$2,500.000 to $3,500,00O in 1875.
''In making the increase did you not
submit a paper on which appeared the
names of all the stockholders of the
South Improvement Company?" asked
Mr.. Kellogg.
still Evadins.
"The paper would be the best evil
dence," replied Mr. Rockefeller.
Mr.. Kellogg then read several names
from the papers, and Mr. Rockefeller
said 1t was possible several of those
mentioned might have been stockhold-
ers of the Standard If they had the
money to purchase the stock.
How many railroad men did you
take into the Standard after 1907"
'I could not say"
WAS w. H. Vanderbilt a stock
holder?"
st can't say definitely. He might
have been a stockholder for a trifing
amount"
"Did you not sign paper on March
10, 1876, requesting an increase of capi-
tai stock as follows: w. H. Wander
bilt by J. d. Rockefeller his attor-
ney2'"
THAT may be; the paper would be
the best evidence"
Mr.. Kellogg brought out the fact that
Amasa Stone, then president of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad; Stillman Witt, a director of
the Lake Shore and Big Four roads,
and ]. P. Handy, also director of the
Big Four, were taken into the Standard
Oil Company in the early days.
vanderbiits Connection.
Mr.. Rockefeller said P. II. Watson
seemed to have access to w. H. Van
derbilt, and the witness thought he
afterward became president of the Erie
railroad
And he was president while he was
a stockholder in your company" asked
Mr.. Kellogg.
''If so, he was not a stockholder for
any length of time"
"Then in tie early days you had a
president Of the New York Central. a
president Of the Erie, three directors
of the Lake Shore and all the stock
holders of the South Improvement
Company. except three, as stockholders
of the Standard"
"My testimony will show"
bought Twenty-Five Concerns.
From a list read by Mr.. Kellogg the
witness identified fifteen small COM
panies which Mr.. Rockefeller said were
purchased by the Standard, and he
said he believed 20 to 25 concerns were
bought in Cleveland.
How many did you keep in opera
tion?"
Il could not say"
"Any of them?"
Il should have to think that over"
''Were not most of them dismantled:"
1.-THE smaller ones we used in con-
struction and the larger ones we con-
nected with cur plants. We ran the
Clark, Schurrner & Company. the Clark.
Payne & Company. and Hanna, Bash
ington & Company"
John d. Rockefeller spent Saturday
and yesterday resting preparatory 20
returning to New York today to resume
his testimony. He was up early yes-
terday and attended the First Baptist
Church at Tarrytown with Mrs. Rocke-
feller.
Replying to Mr. Kelloggs question