The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-11
The Dogs That Bark Al Mir. MeIIen Are The Hounds Of JustICe--He Does
 We'll To Heed Them

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 Two reports from the Interstate Commerce Comnis- sion signal in Illuminating the results of high finance applied Haven railroad monopoly.
 First the report of the called New England in ves gation which inquiry into the matter of rates service of the New Haven and Boston Maine systems and second the report the Stamford
 In nine years the New Haven Company expended $136OOOOO0 it's steam road property and 100000 trolley nesand steamboats and called outside
 The expert accountants of the Interstate Commerce Commission found the accounting for the expenditure of this money many of the transactions could not be traced.
 Speaking of the requirement of certain properties known the Rhode Island Company, the commission concludes after reviewing the involved transaction with it's suspicious bookkeeping, by saying: New Haven gave $135OOOOo for NOTHING'
 Referring to certain transactions property known The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, the ~ s $ n s ! @ ' @ s 5 o
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 In 1904 other New Haven property turned over J. L. Billiard, individual upon his notes When the transaction concluded and the property back s3Oooooo.
 The report cites these typical instances of New
 There were transactions with MT. Melen the pres- dent of the company of most reprehenslble kind MT Melen took large profit but took it, he to contr bute to campaign funds GOO t~ the Republican campaign fund that Mr. Buckand gave $65O0 to the Republican state committee in
  unaccounted for
 There also appears the of $1OO,OOO to influence trolley legislation in Connecticut.
 The defense of the New Haven that all these actions innocent that the property is still here hardly tenable.
 The stockholders do not think them innocent They held property which cost them many instances $OO which worth but $1OO They received dividends at eight per cent which is savings bank interest $2OO get dividends of but six per cent
 Of the stockholders of the New Haven 3,666 were trustees guardians largely of widows and orphans whose income has been unjustably reduced and whose uroD has been wan
 Moreover, the commission shoWs millions of add1- tiona1 securities been inflicted upon the PUBLIC such fashion that it will be very long time before the necessity of paying dividends upon them be avoided.
 The effect of these methods upon the equipment of the Haven nes and the safety of the patrons who travel it's nes is another sad result exemped in the report the Stamford accident in which the operating officials unsparingy condemned for neglect of the grossest
 Recently there has been coming from New Haven flood of literature, of politely vituperative character partly defending Mr. Melen and partly tackng everything and everybody who has had the tenn methods
 One such pamphlet entitled stChares s. Melen ' and opens with this little verse:
 rsG5 G5aY baTa slaafhs af sfse and Sweetheart See
 The implication being that Mr. Melen is a great and good who being disparaged by all the souls in the universe It is common psychology, familiar enough to prosecuting officers.
 In addition to this flood of literature of inspired type the inspired editorials railroad newspapers which have contained bitter attacks upon State Attorney Coroner John J. Phelan the latter being tv of the operating officers of the New Haven Company It is notable that the Interstate Commission puts the responsibility to the operating officials in the strong terms, because they put untried fastl