New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-05
10Y LINE SORROW
SWELLSN. H. TALE
Secrets of Railroads War
on Sound Rival Told
i'm Letters.
PENNSYLVANIA AID
IN FIGHT PLEDGED
Prospective Buyers of Steam
ship Company Warned They
Would Lose Their Hides.

The sorrows of the Joy Line in its re-
lations with the overpowering New Ha-
ven continued to swell the record In
the trial of the eleven former New
Haven directors Yesterday. The story
was told first in letters of New Haven
and Metropolitan Steamship Company
officials. which were put in evidence
Then Frank NJ. Dunbaugh, formerly
president of the Joy Line, told how il
was finally sold to the New Haven
The Joy Line has aspired to compete
with the New Haven for Sound passen-
ger and freight traffic.
Most of the letters dated 1900 and
1901 were written either by or u
Percy r. Todd, then second vice-presi-
dent of the New Haven. One of these,
from r. 7. Haskins. general traffic man.
ager of the Metropolitan Steamship
Company, telling OF friend who sd-
vsed the purchase of the Joy Line,
said:
IL told him that no one was buying
and that an example would be made OF
that crowd. that their hides would be
taken off and laid on the Long Island
shore to dry, to be warning that fut-
ure enterprises of this kind might be
avoided"
Mr.. Haskins also wrote he had con-
fdential information that the JOY Line,
hard hit by the New Haven rate-cutting
war. was getting into financial straits.
Another letter told how the Joy Line
tried to charter the steamer Manhattan
from the Maine Steamship Company, but
was turned down by Captain Horatio
Hall, general manager of the latter
company.
Annual Pass Captains Reward.
GAS Captain Hall has stood by US so
faithfully and persistently in this
thing" the letter said, 81 will be glad
if you will send me an annual pass for
him over the N. Y, n. H. e. H.. and /
will present it to him with your COM
pliments. It will be a nice little cour-
tesy to extend to him. This will please
him and will give us hold on him. and
he certainly deserves it for standing out
in the face of big charter money for
an idle boat that is earning nothing"
Other correspondence showed how
the Joy Line was made further joyless
by being bereft of the steamer Cocoa,
chartered from the Florida East Coast
Company, of which Henry Flagler, the
Standard Oil man, WAS owner. This
action resulted, the letter indicated.
from a communication to Flagier from
William Rockefeller, a defendant, set
ting forth the fight OF the New Haven
on the Joy Line.
Other letters showed how the JOY
Line, struggling to get boats to enlarge
its business, was blocked, one asserting
that Chauncey NJ. Depew promised to
look after New Haven interests in the
Long Islands board of directors when
the Joy Line wanted to get the steam
boat Shinnecock from that company.
Another told how the Pennsylvania was
approached for the purpose of aiding in
the blocking of an inside JOY Line
route to Philadelphia.
"Should they propose to do So" S.
VI. Provost. third ce-president Of the
Pennsylvania, wrote to Mr.. Todd, "you
can rest assured that we will do every
thing we consistently can to prevent it."
Contest Over Carrying Sugar.
In regard to competition between
the JOY Line and the New Haven for
American Sugar Refining Company