Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-24
NEW HAVEN SUIT
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the governments bill and merely try
| to test the legal points involved Such
decision probably would expedite
] the case and bring it before the su-
preme court within a comparatively
| short time.
| The bill filed today goes much fur
Their than the government expected to
go in its agreement with the New Ha-
ven, now void, for its peaceful dissolu-
ton. The New England Railroad was
acquired by the New Haven years ago
and practically parallels the New Ha-
ven Shore line much of the way from
Boston to New York. If the court
| grants the governments petition the
New Haven from its place of DONNA
ton of New England transportation
will be reduced to little more than a
line from Boston to New York. hug
ging the Connecticut and Rhode Is
land coast, with branch lines running
short distances into the interior.
/ Defendants Named
| Defendants named in the brief are:
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Co., the New England Nav
| igation Co., the New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad Co, New Eng
| land Railroad Co., Norwich & Wor-
cester Railroad CO., Boston Terminal
Co., Boston Railroad Holding Co., Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad, Rutland Rail
road Co., Merchants & Miners Trans
portation Co., Eastern Steamship Cor
poration, New York, Westchester q
Boston Railway Co., New England In
vestment Security Co, Providence d
Danielson Railway Co, the Union &
New Haven Trust Co., Old Colony
Trust Co., Bankers Trust Co., and
William Rockefeller, Charles F. Brook
er, Morton w. Plant, John T. Pratt,
George E. Baker. William F. Skinner,
D. Newton Barney, Robert w. Taft,
James S. Elton, James S. Hemingway,
A. Heaton Robertson, Frederick F.
Brewster, Samuel Rea Henry X. Nc
Harg. T. Dewitt Cuyler, James L.
Richards, John l.. Billiard, Edward
Milligan, Francis T. Maxwell, Howard
Elliott, w. Murray Crane, Arthur 1.
Hadley, James N. Hustis, Edwin N
Sanderson, Francis Blossom, seton
Porter, H. Hobart Porter, Richmond
Talbot, and Wynn Meredith.
Controls New England
The brief declares that the New
Haven has in 20 years spread its hand
over all New England so that 1t has
an illegal monopoly of practically all
the steam. trolley and steamship
transportation avenues that penetrate
that section.
Results of Monopoly
According to the bill, from this con-
troll by one system there has resulted:
| Unreasonable delay in delivering
freight, the use of inferior and unsafe
rolling stock, the lack of proper sig
nal systems and safety devices, the
destruction of the autonomy in rate
making of the units now combined, the
suppression of competition among
these units, the diversion of freight
traffic 20 the New Haven Co., an eff
| fort to increase freight rates and di-
| latory and arbitrary methods in deal
| ing with patrons.
In perfecting its hold on New Eng
land, the bill says. the New Haven
has made use Of complicated and elus-
! i've methods to conceal the real nature
of its efforts to create a monopoly, has
| acquired control and purchased COM
petitors. has restored to illegal prac-
| tees to impoverish rival lines and
| thus acquire them itself.
Plans for Sale
The bill asks for specific relief from
| this condition and prays the court to
| order the sale to persons not Stock
! holders, agents or otherwise not con-
nected with the New Haven of all its
| interests in the Boston & Maine Rail
| road Co., in the Rutland Railroad Co.,
| in the New England Railroad Co., and
| in all the wherves nd water terminals
| acquired by 1t and asks for perma-
nent injunction to prevent their re-
| turn to New Haven control. 1t also
asks for an order directing the can
| collation. of joint lease between the
New Haven and the New York Central
Railroad by which the profits of oper-
ating the Boston & Albany road are
| shared. This lease, the New Haven
declared months ago it had cancelled,
and II the court finds this action to
have been taken it will not be neces-
sary to press for this order The bill
| includes also the customary prayer for
general relief by which the court
| is requested to take any steps it deems
necessary to restore competition to
New England.
Bill Long Preparing
| The bill has been under preparation by
the department of justice for nearly a
year. 1t is an exhaustive analysis OF the
rise of the New Haven system. covering
more than 100 printed pages, 1t is accom-
panied by a series OF maps designed to
show the competition which existed in
New England in 1893 and the lack Of
competition now. According to these
| maps In 1898 there were scores of towns
| In New England served by more than one
| transportation system where now there
are hardly more than a dozen such
| towns, many of which are small and
practically all of them on the list Of the
Grand Trunk and the Vermont Central,
which the New Haven, the brief says,
often has tried to acquire.
A feature or the bill is its history of
the development of transportation in New
England up to and beyond the point