Evening journal., 1908-11-23
RAILWAYS in
STANDARD OIL
Their Connection Brought
Out at the Hearing in New
York This Morning
INDEPENDENTS PUT OUT
BY THE MONOPOLY

NEW YORK, Nov 23.-With renew
ed vigor, Federal Prosecutor Kellogg
to-day cracked the inquisltorial whip
about the ears of John ID. Rockefeller,
after a short conference among counsel
for both sides, which 'ushered in the
second week of the governments disso-
luton suit against the Standard oil
Company.
That interest In the famous witness
is tagging was indicated this moraing
when Mr.. Rockefeller walked across
Bowling Green to the Customs House
on the arm of his personal attorney,
John p. Milburn, without attracting un-
usual attention.
At the outset of his examination,
Prosecutor Kellogg diverted from the
general line of inquiry in an effort to
establish the personnel of the family Of
stockholders prior to 1874.
The witness was stubbornly resistant
and it became evident that the govern
ments trust ferret would have to en-
ploy supreme efforts to wiring this in
formation from the head of Standard
Oil
One by one Attorney Kellogg went
down the long list of capitalists whose
oil refining and producing business had
been swallowed up by the hungry trust
and endeavored to establish their iden-
tfication with the Standard Oil Com
pany.
Mr.. Rockefeller, evidently refreshed
by the two days vacation, answered
several Of the first questions with an
animated earnestness which astonished
even his counsel. but the persistence of
Attorney Kellogg frightened him into
retreat behind the breastworks Of a
failnG memory.
The purpose Of this tangent was soon
apparent. Attorney Kellogg was trying
to develop the blood relationship be-
tween the Standard Oil Company and
railroads tributary to its industry. His
success dismayed the witness, and was
in the main responsible for the subse-
quent fit of mental truancy.
Railways in Standard Oil
In less than fifteen minutes the pros
ecutor had forced the witness to admit
that the president OF the New Yorl
Central and Erie railroads. three di-
rectors of the Lake Shore railroad, ane
six of the directors OF the South I'm.
provemont Company were heavy stock
holders in Standard Oil previous e
1872. The manner OF the interrogation
indicated that there win be an attemp
10 find out the particular stockholderi
paid cash for their holdings.
Again depressing, Prosecutor Kellogl
took up the broken thread Of testimon.
regarding the early starving Of compe
tition and forced admissions that be
tween 1872 and 1876 the Standard Oi
Company absorbed between twenty ant
Twenty-Five independent plants.
AFTER you took over these plants die
YOU continue to operate them in
qured the prosecutor
my memory fails me on that point,
was the laconic answer.
Coached by Attorney Kellogg, MI
Rockefeller named four plants tina
were operated. The geographical stu
alton and improved physical condition
was the implied reason for their beinl
saved from demolition.
Moro admissions
Apparently content for the present
the governments attorney returned L
the subject Of interrogation at the tim
of adjournment Friday. which had t
do with the manner of buying competl
tors plants with the mystic stock Ger
tidcates of the STANDARD oil Company
Mr.. Rockefeller reluctantly admitte
that the Standard Oil Company wit
its stock purchased the business OF IN
Imperial Refining Company Devo
Manufacturing Company and The Jet
Carley and Co. taking a deed to tn
properties. In each case the witnes
admitted equivocally that the principa
stockholders of each company acquire
automatically handsome holdings j
Standard oil.