The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-23
Court Is Asked to Force
 Segregation of N. H. Road
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 Although this suit has no connec- tion with the criminal proceedings, MT. Gregory and F. M. Swacker, his New York to present to a federal grand jury evidence on which they will ask for crimipal Indictments of New Haven officers and directors con cerned in building up the alleged u- legal monopoly. in restraint of trade Failure of either is not expected to affect the proceeding of the other. Off, fcials of the department of justice have said that the New Haven may not make any determined fight to prevent Judgment in the civil suit ex- cept regarding the plea that It be separated from the Boston and Maine Railroad. There is little question however thatzff indictments are re-s turned by grand jury it will mark the beginning of one of the most inn portant criminal trials undertaken by the government in many years De- partment officials are said to feel that no case of more far-reachfng possi- bilities than this one has been started under the criminal section of the Sher- man law and that every effort should be made to press to a successful con clusion.
 Defendants named in the brief are: New York, New Haven & Hartford
  Navigation Company, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad 'Conpany,New England Railroad Com pany, Norwich & Worcester Railroad Company Boston Terminal Company, Boston Railroad Holding Company, Railroad Company, Merchants & Min CTS Transportation Company, Eastern Steamship Corporation, New York, Westchester Boston Railroad Conn pany, New England Investment & Se- curitfes Company, PFoyidence.&z Gran ston Railroad Company. the Union 6 New Haven Trust Company, Old Col only Trust Company, Bankers Trust Company, William Rockefeller, Char les F Broeker, Morton F.. Plant John T. Pratt George. Baker William Skinner, D. Newton Barney, R Robert W. Taft, James S. Elton, James S. Hem ingway, A. Heaton Robertson. Fred erick F. Brewster, Samuel Rea- Henry K McHarg,sT. Dewitt CuyIer, James L. Richards, John L. Billiard, Edward Nfi1ligan, Francis T. Maxwell, Howard Elliott, w. Murray Crane. Arthur T. Hadley, James H Hustis' Edwin M Sanderson, Francis Blossom, Seton Porter, H. Hobart Porter, Richmond Talbot, Wynn Meredith. E
 The brief declares that the New Ha- ven has in twenty years spread it's hand over all New England so that
 
 ca11y all the steam, trolley and steam ship transportation avenues that pene- trate that section. It charges that in this period the New Haven has ac- quired control of nine of it's ten rail- roads, twenty-two of the thirty boat lines and almost all of the trol1eys in New England.
 It ayers that the defendant controls 6,541 miles of main line railroad with passenger and freight earnings of $12I, ,O69,411 out of a, total steam rail
 mileage of 8,233 with earnings of $13O, ,389,195 and that Aof the 1,692 miles not under it's control only All. miles are in competition with the New Haven. The rail lines, 1t says, earn about gil per cent of the gross freight revenue and about 95 per cent. of the gross passenger revenue of all New England railroads
 Through its boat lines, the bill says the New Haven controls about 85 per cent. of the water transportation oi New England and the Hines it does not control are declared to be unimport- ant Of 1,6254 miles of trolleys in this section, the bill says, the New Haven controls about 1,5o0. miles, having 91 per cent. of the mileage and traffic. According to the bill, from this con . tro1 by one system there has resulted:
 Unreasonable delay in delivering freight; the use of inferior and unsafe rolling stock; the lack of proper signal systems and safety devices; the de- struction of the autonomy in rate making. of the units now conbined; 1; the suppression of. competition among these units; the diversion of freight traffic to the New Haven company; an effort to increase freight rates and I.liIatory and arbitrary methods in dealing with patrons
 In perfecting its hold on. New Eng land, the bill says, the New Haven has made use of complicated and elu- sive methods to conceal the real na- ture of it's efforts to create a monop- | oly, has acquired control and purchas- ed competitors has resorted to illegal practices to irnpoverish rival lines and thus acquire them itself
 The bill asks for specific relief from this condition and prays the court to order the sale to persons not stock holdefss agents or otherwise connect ed with the New Haven of all it's in road Co. and the Rutland Railro9d Co, in the New England Railroad Co. and in all the wharves and water ter nainaIs acquired by it and asks for permanent injunction to prevent their return to New Haven control
 It also asks for an order directing the cancellation of a, joint lease be-. tween the New Haven and the New York Central Railroad by which the profits of operating the Boston & Albany road are shared. This lease, the New Haven declared months ago it had cancelled and if the court finds this action to have been taken it will not be necessary to press for this order. The bill includes also the GUS which the court is requested to take any steps it deems necessary to