The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
STEEL OFFICIALS
 REMAIN SILENT StetsOn Refuses to Discuss
 the Situation STATEMENT IS FORGED If Dickinson Had Not Spoken so Freely Gary Would Hardly Have
 Said Anything - Rocke- feIlcr Served Easily
STATEMENT IS FORGED

New York. october 2S.-(speciaD.-steel trust magnates of all degrees maintained today the rigid silence that has charac- terized all of them since the govern uaent filed it's dissolution suit at TreR- ton Thus far the Gary statement, lS- sued late Friday afternoon, Is the only ut erance that has come from any steel
 trust source That statement was de-
 cided upon only after lengthy confer-
 ence at the banking house of J. r.
 Morgan & CO. between MT. Morgan,
 Chairman Gary and George r. Baker, a
 leader Of the dominant Morgan faction
 in the board of directors.
 Not until today. however, did 1t be-
 come known that this pronounciamento
 of the giant trust sounding as 1t did, q
 stern note of defiance to the goverr-
 rnent, was formulated in the offices ot
 Chairman Gary only after he had held
 q conversation by long distance tele-
 phone with Francis Lynde Stetson,
 chief counsel of the corporation and
 who framed it's charter and its by
 laws. Mir. Stetson left New York a
 short time after news of the filing of
 the suit became known Thursday aft
 ernoon for his country place at Ster-
 ngton, N. Y, from there today he
 said to the international News Serv-
 ice in response to request by telc-
 phone for an expression as to the fur
 ther course of the Steel corporation.
 There is nothing for me to say at present. The chief officer of the cor poration spoke very plainly in the statement he issued Friday. l sup pose shall return to my office Mon day, but if l feel then as l do now
 shall remain silent"
 Heretofore MT. Stetson has seldom refused to talk freely about the cor lporation's affairs, character, achieve ments and purposes. On more than one occasion he has frankly proclaimed the pride he feels over having assisted iii the organization of the company anu of its great success.
 Statement Forced
 It was intimated today by a prom lnent attache of the Morgan bank that had not Judge J. NJ. Dickinson, who will prosecute the suit for the govern taent at the request of President Tatt, spoken so freely at Chicago the day the suit was filed about certain recent acts of the corporation, Chairman Gary lwould not feel impelled, under the ad- vice of Messrs. Stetson and Morgan to speak at all, let alone in the defiant tone that chara cteri2ed his statement of Friday.
 John D. Rockefeller was the only one of 50 big financiers named as defen- dants in the governments suit who was served with q summons today. The process was served in the morning by United states Marshal Henliel and Deputy Croffit They were met at the Tarrytown station by handsome double seated carriage from the Rocke- feller estate and were driven to the great mansion of the oil king atop the loftiest hill of the Picantico range. This was by arrangement made the day be- fore through I. D. Rockefeller, Jr., when the latter was served with q summons at his new office in the suit occupied by the Texas company, sup posed to be the Standard Oil company $ chief rival in the Whitehall building. The officers encountered no trouble in finding Mir. Rockefeller. They were immediately ushered into the mansion bv a uniformed butler, who conducted them half way down tho splendid hall way of the first floor. Then suddenly turning to the right the butler tapped gently on a great oak door, which was softly opened by the oil king himself, .Step in, gentlemen" said the rich est man in the world in welcome to the mershals. T had been looking for you,r he went on, "and had my break | fast a little earlier than usual in order to be ready to meet you"
 | The summons was handed to Mr.
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