Show CASE AGAINST RAILROAD Government Inquiry Into the Ice Business at Toledo Brings Out Damaging Facts Toledo Aug 14 The government in inquiry Inquiry inquiry into the relations between the railroads entering Toledo and the ice companies shipping over these lines began today Joseph A Miller mart man manager ager of the Toledo Ice Coal company and nd one of the men sentenced ed to the workhouse work ouse for conspiracy in restraint of trade testified that previous to five years ago when he became manager of the Ice company he was purchasing agent for tor the Ann Arbor railroad But while agent of the road he sold ice for forthe forthe forthe the ice company compan and andi was paid by the road and that Wellington R H Burt president of the Ann Arbor road and Harry Ashley general manager were directors of the ice company compan and that practically all the stock in the com corn company company pany was owned by the railroad people No Rent and Free Rides The office of the ice company he said is located on Ann Arbor railroad property and that no rent was paid The or men sent each year by bythe bythe bythe the ice company to cut ice were car carried carrIed ried ned free by the Ann n Arbor road until 1904 when a flat fiat rate was charged Miller testified that as manager of the ice company co pany he traveled over the road on an annual pass W A Bradley superintendent of the theAnn theAnn theAnn Ann Arbor railroad and a stockholder in the Toledo Ice Coal company when asked by Commissioner Clements how he could justify the acts of his road in giving favors to one ice com corn company company pany and withholding them from an another another other othar frankly answered that such acts could not be justified but that he had nothing to do with the arrangements Luther Walton attorney of the com commission commission commission mission stated that those who testified for the government would be immune from punishment but if convictions followed the corporations they represented seated would be punished Justifies His Conduct The most important witness of the aft session was Wellington R H Burt once receiver and president of the Ann Arbor railroad Mr Burt Bur said he knew the Toledo Ice Commercial company was nas using the railroad real estate as a basis of operations but this was done by other companies which produce pr duce freight In regard to free or reduced freight rates for the ice company Mr Burt said It Is la the custom to haul freight at half rates for building up industries When rhen asked by Clem Clemments Clemments Clemments ments if he did not think it bad policy for an official of a railroad to be inter interested interested interested ested in Industries along the line and thus be in position to discriminate in rates Mr Burt replied that if it he had It to do doover doover doover over again he would do exactly as he did didin didin didIn in order to build up the business of his road of the Ann Arbor testified that supplies and men were carried over the road free of charge for the Toledo Ice Coal company |