The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-01-12

Company but the men who make apoIs
|o1ics for the Pennsylvania Railrcad
Company have. He said that II a man
were tfiedssfor murder on circumstan.
tial evidence and I'M evidence a.
duecd pointed as strongly to his gull:
OF The crime for which he wal being
tried as the eireumstantfal evidence
points that the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Company shapes and dominates the
Eolleles Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company the mar would
surely be hanged.
a reason that the %opolouists for.
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
s:.e for the purchase of the forty per
cent. Of stock In the Baltimore ann
Ohio Railroad Company is that the
baltimore and Obi, Railroad Company
WEE naughty and cut freight rates.
The stock was purchased to keep the
company from cutting rates.
10 show towGt,e Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company had let its
equipment run down Governor FIenl-
Eng read the following statistics:
Reports from operating companies
producing 81 per cent. of the tonnage
of the northern district served by tho
Baltimore and Ohio railroad show that
during the year 1906 the supply of
eruipnentawas 62.4 per cent. of the
requirements and during 1909 the sup
Fly was ABS ner cent. Of the require.
ments. ~
Governor Fleming then took up
Oscar G. ,Murray's letter In which he
reviewed the conditions Of the con
pany that he was president of. Ac.
co-ding to Murray's letter the CON-
plny has 1000 locomotives, rs per
cent. Of which arc, now out Of commits
sion. Is per cent. of 1900 Is 500 en-
g:nes that are out. The company has
ordered 1nO new engines to supply tho
needed Equipment for motor power.
The company has 81 1000 freight cara,
Is per cent. of wt1:-h are out Of COM
~tnision. Is per cent. Of $4,000 is 20,-
500. 10000 freight cars have been
added. The speaker showed that
when the company had all of its lew
equipment which up TO this time only
one locomotive had been delivered that
the company with all its new equip
mcnt ordered it would lack 400 en-
eancs and 10000 freight cars. Nc.
Murray says if the company had its
equipment that has been ordered
there would be ample equipment to
give the shippers tho service they de-
mand. Governor. Fleming said the
members of the Shippers Association
would not sleep soundIy until the
Pennsylvania, Railroad Company hed
d:vcsted itself Of every share Ct stock
It owned IN the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
President Thorn appointed John 3.
Fart. Of clarksburg: J. NJ. Jacobs, OF
F%a:rr1ont, and John O. Brooks, OF
Clarpsburg, a committee to escort
Governor W.. e. Glasscock to the as
sembly room Of the Waldo where the
meeting was being held.
Colonel jain T. McGraW was called
Upon to discuss the resolution. He
gracefully laid his burden on the
shoulders of Hon. O. S. Mckinney
whom he said was more ccnversant
with the details of the ratter at hard.
Mr.. Mckinney was then called rrcn.
The speaker characterized the agit1.
ton started by the West Virginia
Shippers as the greatest industrial
movement in West Virginia since the
Formation of the State. 1t is a move
n,ent that must be followed up by the
shippers until their grievances are
rignt=d and their wrongs have been
redressed. The movement demands
action along lines that are best caleu-
lated to bring about a complete change
liz the nanascmnt Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company SO that u
shippers have the rights they are en-.
titled to.
AS Mr.. Mckinney was closing his
address, the conmittee that had been
| appointed to meet Governor Glass
cock at the Fairnont and Ciarksbur1
| station and escort hin, to the meet
ing entered the room with the Chief
Executive Of the State.
Governor Glasscock was introduced
aru made a short address in which,
he said that he had taken a keen in
terest in the agitation started by tile
West Virginia Shippers at Fairnons
and was heartily Ia sympathy with
the movement. He VAS Interested In
the movement to the degree that he
had the newspaper articles relative to
the matter clipped and filed in nI-
office. Tic said that he was not pre-.