New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-30
STILL TALK OIL PRICES.
illnesses Continue Testimony
about Talue of Gaiena Product.

Owing to the seeming difference in prices charged
by the Standard Oil Company TO railroads for its
uhricaing oils the counsel for the company Moritz
Rosentha. explained the Standards defence yes
terday in the suit before Franklin Ferris. ref
cree, brought by the government to dissolve the
company on the ground that it maintained a mo-
nopoly in violation Sherman antitrust law.
Mr.. Rosenthal said that the price of the lubricat
ing oils sold by the Galena Signal Oil Company
subsidiary company of the Standard did not count
in the computation of cost To the railroads He
called attention to the figures prepared under the
direction of Herbert Knox Smith the Commissioner
Corporations.
Mr. Smith," he said may fool the public with
his figures and claim that they show monopoly
and discrimination. but he can't fool the railroads.
We go a railroad and offer 10 Intricate its cars
and locomotives for 90 per Of what fabrication
has cost IT. Nothing is said about the cost gall
lon thousand miles Records are kept by US.
of course, determine what the cost by the guam
tity is This bulk price depends upon what the
railroad has been paying for its fabrication That
is where the seeming preferences come in We
have 81 per cent of the business in this country.
but it is based upon quality and ability 10 prove
that do better work at lower price IL
a legitimate business gain. due to better bust
ness methods and better goods.T
On June the Galena company will hold a meet
ing Of its experts Franklin. Penn. where the
main offices There are fifty experts in this
country and twenty abroad The hearing yester-
day was confined TO the testimony of experts Each
testified that of fabrication had been cut
down wherever Galena oil had been used. and Mr..
Kellogg able only to make technical differences
in the evidence on cross-examination- Alexander
Turner, the expert who is assigned TO duty with
the New York Central Lake Shore and Chicago
Alton. and E ". Hayes, expert assigned TO the
Boston & Albany, taken over the same ground
by Mr. Kellogg the others called earlier
In the week with the exception of giving individual
instances lowering the price Of the oil and ex-
planning the differences in cost
IF the Chicago Northwestern an engine sew
entv-nine miles on a pint valve oil and the Penn
sylvana thirty-three miles a pint, did not the
Chicago Northwestern get its oil cheaper Mr.
Kellogg asked Mr.. Turner.
Mr.. Turner admitted that it did. and Mr.. Rosen-
thai said that of oil by the quantity did
not count
Mr. Hayes was asked whether he had sold oil
while acting as an expert. He said he had not
Had he talked TO the expert sent by the Galena
company when ne was connected with the Union
Pacific? Mr. kellogg asked. Mr.. Hayes said that
the expert did ali the talking. The expert had i'm
proved the condition of the road Mr. Hayes as
serted A contract had been made by another road.
of which Mr. Hayes master mechanic. with an
independent company.
who made the contract" asked Mr. Kellogg.
land why2'
II don't know who made 1t. and God knows why
he made it, answered Mr.. Hayes