The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-27
Round Up of Group of Steel
Magnates to Serve Papers
in Suit on Them Was Start
ed on Friday.
A SECRET MEETING>
OF MAGNATES HELD
Library of Morgan's Home
Scene of Another Famous
Gathering which Lasted
Until Early Morning.
(National News Associationy

NEW YORK, Oct. 27-A roundup
of the group of financial giants COM
posing the guiding forces OF tho Unit
ed States Steel corporation to servo
upon them copies of the bill in the dis
solution suit which the U. s. govern
ment fled against the billion dollar
trust" in the federal court at Tren-
ton. N. J., was started In this city to- ;,
day.
The task of serving the defenders,
which involved the task Of storming
the barriers that wealth has built up
around the Steel group" was In charge
Of U. 8. Marshal Woodbury. Snowden
of Trenton. He and his agents planned
first to serve J. Pierpont Morgan. An
drew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. Charles NJ.
Schwab. Henry Clay Frick and others
of their multi-millionaire associates,
with copies of the bill in the govern
ment's suit. Judge e. II. Gary, chair
man of the board Of directors and the
actual head of the trust, was the first
man served. He was handed 4 copy
of the bill in the Waldorf-Astoria ho-
tel last night and was the first man to
get official notice Of the suit through
the medium Of Z subpoena
Secret Meeting HsId.
Preliminary plans for the Giant cor
poration's fight for life were made at
a secret meeting held last night In
the famous library Of J. Pierpont Nor
gan where 90 many financial deals
have been put through. All those who
the house in closed carriages or. auto
mobiles and succeeded in concealing
their identity from the few outsiders
who saw them enter. The gathering
did not break up until an early hour
this morning.
Marshal Snowden was under in
structions to solicit the aid Of United
ing to the unfamiliarity Of the New
Jersey ohicial with the habits and per-
sonal appearance of the financiers.
The services of the entire star Of the.
United States Deputy marshal In this
city were placed at the disposal OF
Marshal snowden.
A second service will be made In tho
form Of subpoena requiring the defen-
dants to answer to the government's
complaint at Trenton on the first Mon
day in December.
oary's Statement.
Judge Gary, when asked for 4 state
ment today said:
Il shall issue no sort Of statement
today. was served with notice Of the
suit about o'clock last evening by Z
marshal from Trenton who came to
my apartments here In the Waldorf.
That is all l have to say"
This suit, which is tho most sweep
ing antitrust litigation ever attempt
ed by the department of Justice II tho
result of more than three years fnves-
tigation conducted by special agents
of the government. The department Of
justice stated that the evidence It gath
cred had been supplemented by tes-
timony given before the Stanley COM
mittee of the house Of represents
tives.
So vast are the ramincations Of the
Steel trust, through its great holdings
scattered throughout the United States
and because Of the tremendous scat
tering of its stock and bond-holders In
this country and abroad, the suit 10 Of
international importance.
Sweeping allegations, many OF them
strikingly Sensational, teem through
out the government instrument, which
takes the form OF an equity proceeding
praying for intunctions to stop. the n
legged monopoly and for such other
relief as the court may grant:
Another section OF the petition dealt
with the expenditures of earnings Of
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