Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-09
TO HEAR
FROM ESSEX MAN
IN BOGOTA JAIL
Miles R. Martin AnxiOusly
Awaits Further News of
Arrest of Son.

Although Miles r. Martin, ST., and
members of his family, awaited anX-
iously all night at their home, S. Ridge
wood avenue, Glen Ridge, for word
from Bogota. Colombia, where Mr.. Mar
tins son, Mahlon c. Martin, j., is
under arrest, nothing has been heard
up to noon. Johnson Martin, another
son, is with his brother in the Colon
bian capital, but the dispatches refer
ring to the arrest made no mention of
him,
The elder Martin, who is vice-presi-
dent and treasurer of the Bogota City
Railway Company, of which his son
to be alarmed at the turn events have
taken in the South American republic.
He knows the mercurial temperament
of the people, and realizes that events
which led up to the arrest of his son
may have little or no significance.
There have been similar occurrences
during the residence of my son in
Bogota," said Mr.. Martin, IAN because
of our knowledge of conditions there
Mrs. Martin and myself do not feel
much anxiety over the matter"
Mr.. Martin has cabled Bogota and
t~elegraphed the authorities at Washing
ton.
Mahlon C. Martins arrest came as
the result of rioting, during which the
American legation was stormed. The
outbreak is believed to have been due
to labor troubles. Recently work was
begun to electrify a portion of the rail-
way. The motive power has heretofore
been mules. Mahlon Martin, jr., had
charge Of the work of electrifying the
road, and it is believed that troubles
with the native %laborers led to his ar
rest.
Mahlon C. Martin. jr., attended the
public schools of Newark and went to
South America soon after leaving
school. His brother Johnson was gradu-
ated from the Newark High School and
Princeton University. Another brother.
Miles r. Martin, jr, has been in Colom-
bia, but is now at home. Mahlon vas
expected home on a visit in q short
time.
The Bogota City Railway Company
was chartered in 1883 to the original
promoters. 1t is the only street rail-
way in the city. Control of it was
later secured by Ives & Stayner. the
famous brokerage firm, the senior
member eff which was known as the
Napoleon of Finance" The company
was capitalized at $500 900, divided into
5000 shares of a par value of 800 each.
Nearly all of this stock was purchased
from Ives & Stayner by Mahlon G.,
Martin, ST., now dead, and Mr.. Bergen.
At the death of Mahlon Martin, sr.,
in 1900, nearly 2,700 shares of the stock
were inherited by his three sisters,
Maria r. and Serena Martin and Mrs.
Eliza NJ. Able, of New Brunswick, Be-
tween 1000 and LOO shares of the
stock We're left to Miles X. Martin, sr.
Bergen holds 700 shares, and the
balance of the stock is scattered among
small stockholders, ten shares being
owned by Christine Nilsson, the ia
nous singer, known as the Swedish
Nightingale"
Mr.. Barrett, director of the Bureau Of
American Republics at Washington. is
a personal friend of Mahlon Martin, jr.,
having travelled all through South Ann
erica and Panama with him when
United States Senator Elihu Root, Of
New York, was touring that country a.
secretary of state under Roosevelt
This trip was made just after Mr.. Mar
tin had succeeded, with the aid Of Mr..
Barrett, in getting the signature of
President Rafael Reyes, of Colombia, to
a sixty-year franchise for his company
Miles r. Martin. sr. has been a citl-
ger of Glen Ridge eleven years. pre-
vious to which time he lived In this