The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-04
Letters of Company Show Concerted Plan to Kill Off Joy Line In Rival for Business on Long Island Sound.
 Officials Hides Should Be Laid on Shore to Dry As Warning to Others, " Wrote Traffic Manager Regarding Competitors.

New Haven, Nov. 4-Another wrang1e as to whether the govern -ment should be required to caH~Per- cy R. Todd, former vice-president of the New York. New Haven & Hart ford railroad, marked the resumption today. of the trial of the eleven for mer directors of the road under the Sherman antitrust law. The govern ment announced yesterday that it would not call MT. Todd to identify letters he had written as it did not care to 1tunderwrite'' him as a wit ness.
 Counsel said they desired to prove only the authenticity of. the letters, which would be done by another wit ness. Attorneys for the defense pro- tested today that MT. Todd should be required to appear as the identifying witness so that they might crossAex- anime him on the contents of the letters.
 I've do not care to prove our case by a co-conspirator,'' said R. L. Bats. of counsel for the governind0t.
 Judge Hunt ruled in favor of the government James w. Osborne, an- other government attorney, then re- stunned the reading of letters from the files of the New Haven, through which it hopes to prove that the road crushed Nout the competition of the Joy Steamship line
 A letter from R. T. Hasl<ins, general traffic manager of the Metropolitan Steamship Co., to MT. Todd, in June. 1901, said he had informed a friend of his in reference to the Joy line in terests, that their hides will be taken off and laid out on the Long Island shore tor dry to be a warning that further Enterprises of this kind might beSavoided- It looks to me as though they were getting pretty tired. They are tired of losing, you hitting them hard on this Es1avidence business
 Attorneys for the defense protested that the letter was no relevant as the Metropolitan Steamship Co., was then an independent line. Judge Hunt de- clined ito entertain the objection, the ground that the letter was an answer to a request from Todd for informa- ton. The letter further spoke of the Joy lines poor f1nanci condition at this time.
 In July, Haskins wrote to Todd, suggesting that he issue an annual pass on the New Haven to Captain Horatio Hall. of the Dominion line for refusing to charter steamboat of that line to the Joy line. This, according to another letter, was done
 Another letter from Haskins to Todd informed him that the Joy line had chartered the steamer Cocoa in Florida from the Florida East Coast Railway Go. for three months
 
 president of the New Haven, suggest ing that he might drop a note to MT. Rockefeller CWiIiam) and have him explain the Joy line situation to MT. Flagler, who owned the Florida East Coast and try not to have the charter renewed at the end of three months ''
 The latter also said that the Joy line was trying to charter the steamship Martinique from the same interest. Every other avenue against them is blocked,' he added
 Hans accordingly, wrote to William heve MT. F1ag1er would care to have boats to the Joy line in opposition to us."
 Hes suggested that Rockefeller refer the matter to F1agler.
 'tI know sof no other way to defeat secure these steamboats in their op- erations against us,'' Halls letter add ed.
 Hall stating that Rockefeller had for he had officially retired from the Flor ida East Coast and that J. R. Parott had succeeded him as president Per sonaIIy,' F1agler wrote, '.I would be very glad to do what I can if you'll tell me what can be done.''
 Hall then wrote to Parott who re- piled: You may rest assured that we will do nothing to interfere with the interests Of the New York, New Ha- ven SE Hartford