The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-12

MCKAY AppfOpTAdCAOA OA S36, ,OOO Was to Be Charged to Repairs on Steamers" New Story Told of MeIIen's Visit to Roosevelt, and Lat ter's Assurances That New ,f Haven Road Would Not Be Molested for Steamship Hold ings.
 New york Nov. 12.-John Hall Mo Rays activities in behalf of the Unit ed States Transportation eonPany-s one Of the secretly owned lighting lines with which the New Haven dls- posed of steamboat competition in the , Sound trade-seem no nearer explan-. alton now than they did when the In terstate Commerce Commission tr1eo to plumb them IS menths ago.
 These activities came under inquiry at yesterday's sessions of the trial be- fore Judge Hunt in the United States District Court of Il former directors 5ssAnopolize the commerce of New Eng land.
 ne day after his name was brought into the inquiry Of 1914 Mckay, a law yer on the staff or the United Stases < Fidelity and Guaranty company, de- parted for a prOtracted visit to Paris At his office and his home it was said yesterday that he had been away for some months past" Government pro- cess servers report they cannot find him.
 Mckay became a director of the United states Transportation company upon it's incorporation Oct. 3, 1906. One week later he was commissioned to secure a North river pier for 1t. On Dec. IS Stevenson Taylor. president of the company, wrote to Mir Mellen: ssMcKay says it is necessary for him to show the responsibility of this Go. to onset the attacks made upon the same by McGowans Pres. of the Bd. of Part of the plan evolved by the Co.'S executive committee was:
 Have deposited in our bank (NGe7 ehanics Nat1-) $2oo,o0o 6one-half make payments dGl piers N. r. and F. R (New York and Fall Rfver) and on contracts for boilers, wheels. etc. for steamers). This will enable us to get from McGarrah. President Of the bank, a certificate to the effect of the Go. and we can also then have him say that he knows the gentlemen behind the, U. S. T. Co., and that they are responsible (Our MT N. F. Pal rner is a.v. P. of the Abank)'s
 The pier sought was at West Forty
 
 pending at this time, an application for it. and real row developed at the meeting of the Sinking Fund Comnnis- sion held Dec .26-
 John J. Delany, then former Corr poration Counsel and later Justice the Fabre line He complained that Dock Commissfoner John A. Bensen was favoring the Transportation Com pany so pointedIy that he had not even got an acknowledgment of his s6ffer of $33, 900 a year for the pier, an advance of s10.000 over his opponent MT. Delany further enIivened the meeting by a declaration that Senator Pat McCarren was acting as an attor- ney for the Transportation Company. Mir. MelIen on Jan- 1907. Like the other it was in his own hand.
 These are quotations from it:
 q. hNcK. suggests that his ex- penses toward getting a pier in New York (about $36,0O0) be charged by Qufntard Works as repairs on steam CTS. Is this advisable and permissa- blea
 As soon as the NewA Y ork pier matter is definitely settled in our fa- vor, and this is expected on Wednes- day, eth inst. we wish to commence looking for business As understand your Instructions it is to be our policy to get business matter whom we hftss
 What.e asked R. L. Bats. for the government, ..was the refer te when Nick. .ss expensea. were spoker
 .-rhe expenses of getting the pier T suppose
 Mr. MeIlenss recollection was nag, ana MT. Belts gave up then and seem ed to throw back to sthe mood h. had been in earlier in the day whe1 1 in reply to objections to his rnannel cf questioning Mr. Mellen, he sad t the court:
 T have this attitude tewArd tn witness-I don't intend to reflect o1 him--but he has shown himself per fectly willing to answer with refer ezce to every fact we have etherwis proved but he has shown some dis positi ion to answer questions othe own conduct is Involved. He is nam ed as co-conspirator with these de 1endants and I have to, ask of th court some latitude in questionini him, as if, in a measure he were a adverse witness
 Mir. Batts read Resolution of tn directors adopted Oct. 80, 1907 ,au tllorizing MT MelIen, since "tZls own Idne is being questioned by the Fed erai authorities" to arrange for it sale 'sas he may deem best to !efi1ai nate control of the Joy Line >oy thi
 o How did you eliminate eontrc of the Joy Line? A. By transferril it to the United States Transpor.a ton Company. and by transferrin that company to the Hartford am New York Transportation Company and by continuing to own every sticl and stone of it. We owned it all tn S<nIe, just exactly as had before ex cept under another name, ana Com missioner Herbert Knox Smith kne1 asa about it.
 Mir MelIen talked none freely whel he came to recounting his already ia nous visit to President Roosevelt il 1907. Charles W. Morse had proposed carly h January to buy the steamshil