Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15
NEW HAVEN TANGLE
NEARING SOLUTION
Understanding Reached Upon
One of the Most PerpIex-
ing Problems.
ROAD OFFICIALS MEET
GOVERNMENT ATTORNEYS
Company Agrees to Place It's Con.
necticut Trolley Lines in Hands
Of Trustees.

Although hnal settlement of the New
raven tangle was apparently far dis
tant last night. an all-day conference at
the Department of Justice between at
torneys representing the government and
the railroad resulted in an understand
! ing upon one of the most perplexing
| problems involved in the negotiations.
! After several days of outspoken oppo-
| sition to the demand of the department
that it give up It's Connecticut trolley
lines. the company agred that they
should be placed in the hands of trus-
| tees.
| With this understanding the conference
adjourned, and the lawyers will not meet
here again until Friday. In the mean
time I. W. Gregory and Jesse C. Ad-
kins, the government attorneys will be
furnished with additional information
which they desire, and Chairman Elliott
of the New Haven Will have an oppor-
tunity to consult again with the New
Haven directors
The New Haven board meets in New
FORK Thursday, and although it was
denied last night that the adjournment
was taken with this meeting for prin-
cipai reason, it was understood that the
attitude of the department toward many
of the questions involved will be taken
up at the time by the board.
Quest for Acceptable Trustees.
New Haven officials in the interim will
attempt to find five trustees who are ac-
ceptable to the Department of Justice
to take over the Connecticut trolleys and
five to take over the Rhode Island troll
leys. 1t was the belief here that if the
New Havens choice of trustees for the
Connecticut lines is favora bly, received
by Attorney General McReyno,ds there
VIII be little difficulty in deciding upon
the length of their service.
department officials We're pleased with
the New Haven s attitude in this matter.
FOR it has been well known here that
Mr.. McReynolds regarded the Connecti-
cut trolley lines phase of the situation
as most difficult to handle The New
Haven insisted that the Connecticut lines
We're merely feeders of the New Haven
system itself and that they did not con
tribute to the alleged monopoly the de-
partment says it has over New Eng
land S transportation
No other agreement was reached and
the other big point in debate the length
OF time the proposed trusteeship for
The Boston and Maine shall last, was not
brought up at all yesterday. Further
details with regard to the trolleys and
the problem of the disposition of the
New HavenS steamships will be arranged
before an attempt is made to get to-
Sether on the Boston and Maine trustee
ship.
Department Statement.
The department issued last night the
following statement:
Within the last twenty-four hours sew
eral newspapers have published state
ments to the effect that in the pending
negotiations between the Department of
Justice and the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad Company the
government is making new demands upon
the New Haven company not covered by
the general agreement reached January
~ last: that it is demanding that the
New Haven part with it's holdings in
dock and wharf properties at New Haven,
providence, Fall River and other sound
and river ports in New England, and
have intimated that the department is
attempting In the pending negotiations to
recede from the general understanding
that the interstate commerce commits
SION shall pass upon the right of the
New Haven to retain its sound lines.
There is no foundation for these state
ments and this intimation
Under the terms of the agreement of
January 10, synopsis of which was given
out by officials Of the New Haven com
pany at the time, it is provided that the
New Haven shall, within the time and in
the manner to be agreed upon dispose of
the stock and obligations held by it in
the sound steamship lines unless the in
terstate commerce commission permits it
to retain these lines. In case the inter
state commerce commission does not per-
NIT it to retain the sound lines the wharf
and dock facilities owned by those lines
will of course pass with them from the
control of the New Haven when ii dis
poses of It's stock in those lines The de-
partment has made no demand on the
New Haven to part with dock and wharf
holdings not covered by the terms of the
agreement Of January TO-
Mere Skeleton or Agreement.
With the issuance Of this statement it
became publicly known for the first time