Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-27
sI4o,000 Spent
 in Advertising
ONE OF THE EXPENSES OF NEW HAVEN ROAD.
C. w. BARRON A WITNESS
Manager of Boston News Bureau
 Cleared About s5o,ooo in Placing It. Clashes at Railroad Probe at Boston.

Boston, Jan. 26-The public service commission today resumed its investi- gation of the go-called other ex- penses'' incurred by the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad during the session of the legislature last year
 It was stated that Chairman Elliott of the New Haven road would be asked to call a meeting of the directors of the road for the purpose of acting on the suggestion of the commission that the officials be released from the obligation of treating as confidential their relations ss counsel to clients in order that the commission might ob tain additional information.
 RIanes Bird for Investigation.
 Clarence w Barron closed his evil dence by stating that the Boston News Bureau. of which he Is manager, and allied concerns had received approxL, mately s50,00O profit in placing adver tising for the New Haven and that $40, GOO had been paid the newspapers for publishing this advertising.
 The witness charged that Charles s. Bird the progressive candidate for governor, was financially backing the investigation. This was denied by A. P. Hill, counsel for the Boston Journal, who was examining the witness.
 Birds Connection With Boston Journal
 As nal, denied that Bird had any stock in the paper or that he was dictating it's policy or influencing the present in vestigation. All that Mir. Bird had done in connection with the Journal, witness said was to lend S66,000 to Matthew Hale. publisher of the paper on MT Hale's personal notes This sum was about one-siXth of the money that went into the paper Many of MT. Greens answ CTS were developed by n
 On the stand again later MT. Barron had verbal clash With Commissioner George w Anderson. The commits sioner said that an article printed in the Boston News Bureau regarding the financial condition of the New Haven was wilfully false. In declaring the truth of the article, the publisher ad- dressed himself to Commissioner An derson, saying:
 You have done nearly as much as Louis D. Brandeis to cripple the New England railroad system.
 MT Barron demanded subsequently, that Brandeis be summoned as a wit ness at the hearing, but the commits sion refused to call him.
 Newspaper and Magazine Writer Un-
 der Pay.
 Sylvester Baxter, writer, testified that he had written editorials and news articles while in the employ of the 4N6W I1dN ell IOdu- f1e GGCe1N GU $500 a month frem the road he said, and was paid also by the magazines. The editorials were printed in Boston papers and in magazine issued by the Springfield board Of trade. He supposed but did not know that the editors were aware of his New Haven connections.
 The hearing will be resumed next Friday morning.
 Payments to Wyman Family. Further payments by the New Haven road to members of tue family of Bruce Wyman, who recently resigned his pro fessorship in the Harvard Law school because of his connection with the rail- road. were brought out by the testi- mony of Frederick A. Wyman, Jr., a brother He said he received S20 a week for arranging lectures on railroad subjects to be delivered by his father. Frederick Wyman, who also was paid by the New Haven road. Witness tes- titled that A. l.. Richards,a brother-in- law, who was formerly an instructor in the department of government at liar ward, was paid $50 a day by the New Haven for work done by him. Rich ards received $2,123 in all, he said.