The evening world., 1908-12-01

standard OIL organized the republican
oil Company or not and dld not remcm
her whether ownership of these com
panies had been disclalmed by the
standard OH at Il time when the stock
was really owned b, them.
DO you remember when the Tide
water Company built It's pipe line TO the
seaboard2"
n was partially construeted in the
mountains and reached the sea
sea then?'
They may have started first wouldn't
You owned 81 per ce,., OF the Tide
waters stuck2"
E. I'VE did"
Didn't It have a hard time getting
II do not remember"
Wasn't II about that time you
Yes, '' '''e ~ - .. .-
Wei. it is an opponent to. the ex-
tent of about 81 per cent OF its stock
We own only 81 per cent
Didn't YOU once try To buy the Tide
water properties from l.. NJ. LonbaTdf
we had one talk with him--Mr. John
u. Rockefeller and l: We made him
proposition which think hs refused
We're not lot OF small seaboard re.
fineries connected with the Tidewater?"
81 do not recall
I'll Dry UP
small retineries about the time, they
started their pipe line to the sea-
I'VE bought them to extend our bust
ness"
DO you mean by buying up all oppo-
sitiOnc"
Bought Many Concerns.
We bought up other plants at a fair
price whenever 1t seemed best in tho
interest if our business.
Did You dtsrnantle these small re
fneries?"
plants"
Besides you line and the t,dewater
two other lines We're built 80 the sea
hoard. ! believe,
Mr.. kellogg named long list Of pipe
line companies in which the Standard
oil purchased. Mr. Archhoid remen-
bered some Of the names. but not all. In
several instances he remarked: That
matter is very vague in my mind.
Mr.. Archhold talked at length about
pipe lines, but failed to remember any
reaching New York, which were not I'M
der the control of the Standard OIL. He
admitted that the Trusts pipe line
never had any trouble crossing railroad
rights OF way, adding: We always en-
amicable means.
go Parallel Railroads.
Don't your pipe lines IN many cases
parallel railroad rights OF way?
Ever pay for this pririleGe?,
"I'ndoubtedly. I know We did"
Ever hear OF any OF other pipe lpe lines II.
II could not say.
up to 1855 hadn't you dismsntied as
many as fifty retineries?'
Probably fifty"
More than fifty
Perhaps So
Didn't you Gont.naue buying and dis
I'VE certainly bought some plants
after 1885. How many could not say
Didn't you lease the Argand refinery
at Marietta o. -
Yes"
And pay the two owners salaries of
$1,000 a year,
Perhaps So
Didn't YOU soon shut it down and
ccGsinus TO pay them their sa'arie'?
Wasn't 1t making $4,000 year when
you leased it,
Il Imagine not. for surely no man
would surrender a S35.o00 income for a
ST., 900 salary.
'Didnt You invariably tear down
! every small refinery YOU bought
Not every one We utilized their
Didn't YOU buy three small retineries
| at Titusviile?''
Yes"
And dlsmantle them"
|
"Why?"
Because they were not of class Of
| construction TO satisfy the demands of
| the trade,
| To succeed to their volume of busi-
ness and enlarge our own market"
| Mr. Kellogg read off the names OF
scores OF small refineries that had been
| bought up and dismantled although Mr..
! Archpold preferred the word 'consoli-
| dated or the phrase equipment util-
lied" to saying "dismantied" or torn
| down"
bid you testify in 1879 that the Acme
! Oil Company OF New York was not g
! part of the Standard on"
The Acme or Company was organ
ICED in 1916 by Mr.. William Rockefeller
others as individuals, We were the lega
| owners
Wasn't it agreed that the stock wa.
being hed n f9r tls benefit OF the stand
1T is my recollection that there wal
an agreement that the stock was beinl
held together in connection with th'
STANDARD OIL"
Yet you testified IN 1879 that the Acm,
was an independent company and no
affiliated with Standard OIL IN an!
way
80 far as any legal ownership or lsga
domination was concerned.
Didn't you sell your holdings in tn
Acme TO the Standard OIL finally and ge
Standard Oh stock for it?'
Yes
Did you state under oath in S1i. Hhel
the State OF Pennsylvania was trying I
Gus, the PENNSYLVANIA road from IN
State for rebating. tlat the AGme wa
an active competitor OF the Standan
on"
III ! 30 stated l so believed at tn
time"
Were the two companies rivals 70
business
under advice and because i believed
To be the exact facts, 49,.
YET every stockholder In the Acm
was Interested in the first Standard o
Trust agreement
Possibly
morrow.