Show WADDELL GOULD COULD NOT Experience of P Powder P wd rS Sales les Agent Wh He Mill of Hi Own t 0 DUPONTS DUPO THE TH WHOLE HING ONLY A FEW BONDS NECESSARY TO BUY BU V OUT COMPETITORS C CO MP M RS New York Tork Oct 26 In the hearing to today today today day in the government suit against the powder trust Robert S Wadden Waddell Wad Waddell dell den formerly general saleS agent for forthe forthe forthe the Associated Powder company testified testified fied fled that he had a part In awarding many contracts and fixing many m ny prices to certain of ot their companies He told of ot once having talked withE I Dupont of or the Laflin Rand Co Coone Coone Coone one of the big competitors Mr Dupon Dupont saying that he would take up the sub subject jeet jec of ot the purchase of t f the tle Ja fUn Rand Co Ten d rhe lie re Te received d a telegram from Mr Mn Dup nl nt announcing that the Laflin Rand Co had been purchased When he n next met Dupont he asked what the pur par purchase purchase chase price had been and X Dupont re replied e plied piled Oh nothing much a few bonds all J Waddells Waddell said that when led the big powder that he h vas about to sever sever his hie company I C Dupont asked he was going to do He lie that he was going to build a mill and go into business for himself and ald Mr Ir Dupont Du ont said he would like to go In with hint There Thera was a period of at negotiations over terms VYa sard and ind it ft was finally agreed th t M he would hav have j 51 per cent cete of t the profits and the Duponts the remaining 49 per cent He said that up to ta Feb 2 when lie he left the big company he had reason to be believe believe lieve that t atthe the 1 tOS POO s were vere ere tp be his partners but then the negotiations were broken off Alone he organized the Buckeye Bucke Powder Poder company and ind indI Ji I erect a mill at Ill He experienced great difficulty difficult in get getting getting ting machinery for tor his mills finding that many of ot the manufacturers of ot the best machinery machine were under contract to furnish machinery only to companies In Inthe Inthe Inthe the big association Jn rn n September 1908 said the witness 1 I sold my mill to Altman Lint and F FW Fv Fsr W sr v Oler From the time I started bus iness incas until I sold out continuous war warfare warfare var fare tare was waked against me by the As Associated Associated Associated Powder companies Unfair Competition Waddell said that whereas the price of blasting powder in Illinois had been per keg immediately after the building of ot His mills was commenced all nil the Associated Powder companies reduced blasting powder to fiat flat price in the district that would be reached by his hi mills Spies and detectives sent in inside Inside inside side my mills to create dissension ilIf se slon among the said Waddell y I Iwas Iwas was Vas enabled to overhear a conversa conversation tion ti n which took place between en Harry Page of the toe Chicago Burlington Quincy railroad and a representative from Dupont At that conversation Page was offered 25 a month and 5 for every letter that he would write in which he was to give glye the details of ot every shipment from the Buckeye mills the name of the consignee and the date and number in each case Lost His Contracts In reply to a question by br Judge Scar Scarlett Scarlett Sc r lett if 1 he had lost any contracts from the actions of ot the Associated Powder companies the witness said that he ho ost lost losta osta a contract with the Deering Co of ot Chicago He said saidI I had supplied this company compan with ten or twelve thousand barrels when one day da I learned that a car car of f pow powder powder der had been refused I was told t ld that this was because the miners would riot not use Buckeye powder They had been spoken to by agents of ot the th Dupont DUP nt nd Rand companies and apparently had been Induced d to protest p o est against the use of my powder The hearing was adjourned until Wednesday next 1 |