The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-07-25
Consolidated Aug. 3, 1881.
CHARLESTON Was BOTTLED,
DULANEY EXPLAINS AND AM.
PLIETES CHARGES AGAINST
ALLEGED "COAL TRUST.n
According to West Virginia Opera
tor. Pennsylvania Powers Combine
% Push Traffic to Norfolk & Wcs-
tcrn Ports and Shut ON Charleston.

term Forts and Shut On Charleston.
washington, July 20.-In his testi-
mony here today before the senate
naval affairs committee II. l.. Du-
ls' ~. one Of the best known coal op-
erctors In southwest Virginia. told the
committee considering the Tillman
resolution regarding shipments Of
coal to South Atlantic cities that the
Southern railroad had so manipulated
things that II Is now impossible\f for
that section to ship coal with a profit
to Atlantic cities. This fixing of high
rates. Dulaney said. was due to the
control Of the Southern by directors
who had comparatively little financial
interest In It. Their great interests
were In the coal trusts Of Pennsyl-
vania and they were also In the
Northern railroads and set the rate
from their mines to the seaboard In
the North so high that 1t was cheaper
to ship coal from Pennsy lvania mines
Go Philadelphia and then by sea to
Charleston than to ship direct to
Charleston from the Southern mines.
Those responsible for this condi-
tion. according to Dulaney. are George
+. Baker. George F. Baker. Jr. Elbcrt
n. Gray. Adrian 1selin, Adrian Ise-
lin. Jr.. Charles Steele of j. p. Nor
gan 4 Co, f.. j. Berwind. president
Of the Berwind-White Coal company,
Henry X. McHarg and Grant C..
Schley.
Were the rates on coal from tho
Southern fields to Southern ports
fixed on anything like the basis on
which the rates from the Pennsyl-
vsnia fields to Northern ports. or from
The Rocahontas fields to Norfolk and
Newport News. Dulaney said. about
l.00o, 600 tons year would be moved
t5sjkt southern railway ana ,otffer
lines IN that section. Putting 1t in
another way. Dulaney said. $2.50O. 900
was taken from the Southern sea-
hoard to pay for coal brought over
Northern railways and then by barges
or boats which ought to come direct
by rail from the Southern mines.
Dulaney declared that Pennsylvania
railroad companies entirely domi-
mated the rates on coal to the sea-
board. He cited reports of the inter-
state commerce commission. showing
the control by the Pennsylvania and
the New York Central Of the Balti-
more & Ohio. Chesapeake & Ohio.
Norfolk q Western and Other North
ern carriers. He then declared that
the directors Of the coai-trust. through
their control Of the Southern and
other carriers In that section. were
able to stifie competition from inde-
pendent coal miners In the South.
AZ an instance OF discrimination
against coal produced by indepen-
dents and against the Southern rail-
way as n handler of coal. Dulaney
said that on each ton of coal hauled
from Alexandria IL Washington over
tho bridge by the Pennsylvania. that
railroad made n charge OF 67 cents.
if the coal had been hauled to Alex
andria by the Southern: but only 20
cents II the coal had been hauled to
Alexandria via the Norfolk & West
ern.
Explaining his views Of now North
ern railways were able to exercise in
iuence over the rates of Southern
railways. Dulancy discussed the Tide
water Bituminous Steam Coal Traf-
nc association and the Associated
Railways OF Virginia and the Caro-
linas. Charles Lanior. George l.. Ba-
ker. Il. J. Berwin. Il. ". Gary, Charles
Steele and II. X. McIIarg were named
by the witness as the hen who actual
~ direct the affairs OF the Southern
railway and Its subsidiary lines.
The actual stock ownership Of all
these men In the Southern Railway
company is OF no consequence" said
Mr.. Dulaney. Hardly enough to buy
a good plantation 1. south Carolina
or n tO-acre orange grove In Florida"
OF siso.o00. 900 capital stock of the
Southern railway outstanding. the wit
ness said. that less than $4,000 was
actually owned by the men he men,
TONED. yet. he said. their positions as
members OF the intcrlocking directo-
rates gave them mastery OF the south
ern railway. The hearing will bc re-
sumed tomorrow.