| Show COMPETITORS OF THE GIGANTIC STANDARD OIL COMPANY almost simultaneous an nn announcement announcement of oC the formation rilE of oC a great grent company with a n capital stock of 0 for forthe forthe forthe the exploitation of ot the newly newl dl dr do Jr rell oilfields of or Texas and an the completion of or nn an Independent I pe from the Pennsylvania oil region glon to the seaboard prefigures a corn com i by bg g struggle of oC momentous Import to 10 the tte topIc people of oC the United States That t I rut aggregation of oC Interests known as aslie asIt asIle lie Ile It Standard Oil company which hith hitherto Wo erto like a modern Hercules has been bully engaged ed In decapitating hydra t headed a c competitors c would seem to have i atilt tl contract on Its hands at al the pros pres tnt tat time tame It Jt has made mado strenuous cf ef efforts forts MIS It Is s claimed to secure control of oC oftie tie the Texas Tous field fi and line hM applied ex U methods toward chok ciok off the Independent pipe line which f Ear at last RI an nn outlet on the At AL until seaboard aboard The Standards field fiell fields u it s Its Us f under and aud promoter Mr Mrs J D 0 Is reported to lo have said salol Is the l world and Its mission Is U to th the world That being the case ml sad other i having been form Corm fd td with th the hf same Intention a n clashing c et C Inter ta is has hils occurred which has enly Dlf been lord by a n continued proc m tas of oC assimilation on the tart fart of oC th Standard Oil all which has hils hass caused s d Us its enemies to lo style It the gl sl ranU of oC the century r or not nel the thc octopus will ul y f U In gathering within Is Ir ail an embracing bracing tentacles the compa nice t s recently re formed Conned for Cor the exploiting of oC the crude product which nature has peered f C rth so abundantly and In n ab abs absorbing s the refineries and pipe lines that ra ha o cropped up regularly In the ther TP recent nt r ft t Is still n a matter for Cor kilen it is III g encouraging however to tou thole thoa who 11 u with wish U ti maintain their rode Inde Indea I a n a o to nole t the Standard Oil Oily bat as cr n y acquired I Its Us preeminence pre by 11 treat liar Of oC treasure and lind more morer over or r that hat It jt still has hns millions In Its treasur with which lt it might salve sale the thc of or defeated competitors That fh t mn min n and nna corporations have hn 0 fn foUght v the fhe gigantic trust for Or years earl and Still fUn S lve Is la proved by the history of oC the rr Ind r tl states Slates Pipe Line company i 1111 hi t my 11 the other day succeeded In Ins matt Its te s goal Seven years ago soy sev sal ral oil producers and re til It fin t ted toil for Cor the purpose of oC t r n and others products to the tho theA IFa Par A short line Wits was vie laid 1 and hers fog ag Was Progressing gayly gaI when sun n r n y they IM y encountered a n permanent b n when they the und undertook took to pass passa r a bridge belonging to the Erie railroad A new route was selected nod ond many miles of oC pipe were laid but only to run against another similar ob obstruction obstruction obstruction Interposed this time by b the Pennsylvania railroad A fight light In the courts followed In which the pipe line company was defeated but only tempo temporarily rarity for tor It Il again Its Us lines via Ia and Fre Pa to the coast and the promoters ers ere of oC the project had the satisfaction the last week of oC last month of o loading their first ship with oil all for tor transportation tion to Europe Including Its itA auxiliary lines this Independent company con controls controls trots 1250 miles of pipe and receives the output of oC nine great with a II total capacity ot of O barrels and pushed It through to a 11 successful Issue Is lion Hon Lewis Lewla Emery Jr of oC Brad Bradford Bradford ford Cord Pa Ill Mr Ir Emery was horn born In Chautauqua county count N Y In 1839 In 1812 1842 his parents went to lIch Mich and later lator to where their son s n acquired his education At 21 ho Ito married and In elected to the lower branch of oC the thc Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania legislature and In la 1850 to the thc senate In 1881 being reelected and anI cho Chosen ECU sen delegate at al large largo to the Republican convention at Chicago ills His political ca car career carreer reer has not riot been free ree from Crom storm and for he carried Into tIe tle tl e arena the same came methods that secured him halm success 1 i iI Y I r 11 i l r I s sI f fI I I r 6 r ra u r n George Rice and aDd finally reached tide water waler at al Marcus Mar Marcus cus Hook look near Philadelphia After Arter seven years of oC arduous labor and litigation an nn Independent pipe line was wasat wasAt at nt last laid from Crom the oil all region legion of oC Penn Ienn per month The Thc terminal agents of oC the company have their headquarters headquarter In New York where the president and ex executive Mr Hugh King has his once office but the man who originated the scheme F M Lewis Ev T I v N 1185 made his first venture In oil at PI I county count Pa thence go going goIng ing rag to In n 1815 he made mad his home hom at Bradford Pa Ia after having lost last losta lasta a fortune through the Jay Cooke tall fail failure ure Near Bradford Brad Cord he drilled his hll fires fint well which proved to be the Initiative of oC his return to wealth and the acquiring acquirIng ing of oC fame tame ni ae a the champion of oC oil all pro producers hirers dicers In general genera In Uil he was wu It la the field of or commerce and finance Ills business bu Interests In Bradford are large and diversified Including a rein refinery cry ery er with a capacity of about barrels a month requiring the ownership of oC U 58 tank tan cars and a n home e capacity of oC barrels a wax war 81 plant costing coating turning out about pounds of oC crude a day a n lumber com corn company pony Pithy employing hundreds of oC workmen the thu Emery I mery Oil company compan and the Emery Pipe company n firm dealing In all nil kinds of or all well supplies a large narge wheat farm and elevators In North Dakota lumber lands ant and mills In n Kentucky and flouring lourIng mills In Michigan The fhe Emery gmery company and militated con conn concerns concerns cerns cents own or control acres of oC land landIn landIn In McKenn county and nearly 1000 oil wells well In the various arlou Pennsylvania fields hells besides royalty Interests In more than other wells seella In producing districts It was largely through tho the Instrumentality of oC M Emery It H Is U uni universally admitted that the United States Pipe Line Lino company was Vas project projected ed cd organized and anti constructed front from the oilfields to tide water This Thus line lino has line parallel for tor this conveyance of oC crude crute and the thc other for Cor refined relined oil anti and It Is acknowledged even een by liy those op opposed opposed posed to 10 the project to bo be the thc most suc suo successful line ever er operated In competition competition tion lion with the Standard Oil company Tills This Is the career In fn outline of oC a n man mun manof munot manof of ot countless resources great grent powers of oC organization In matters motter of oC business and finance courageous and resolute to toa ton a n marked degree This Tile Is the career of n II man moan who was as at one time ruined by hy the Standard Oil who 14 If years ago sold out his hit refinery nt at Greenwich point Philadelphia to the great Ireat monopoly on Indirect compulsion being unable to carry carr It on through the Inability In to se lie secure cure transportation for Cor his products Mr Ir Emery I mery was at al that time regarded as na the most stubborn of or I Standard Oil In his state but there has Inn also survived another competitor who has hns felt the pressure of ot the octo Otto octopus octopus pus tentacles for more than 20 JO years yeats and who apparently has not been so tor for This man Is la Mr SIr Ir George Ulce or of Marietta 0 an oil refiner renner who vho ascribed his hll failure In business to the direr direct t Intervention of or the Standard Oil OIt and moreover said as ns much to lo Mr Ir John n p Rockefeller In a memorable In town w In New York His Ills story In n brief Is II this I J went Into the oil all pro during business bUln 8 In West Virginia In InI I a and four Cour years later Into oil ing IlIg Immediately I 1 did dill that my m fight with the Standard Oil people began I 1 established what was wall known as the Ohio Oil works which had a n capacity of about barren barrels of at crude oil per annum I found to my may 10 surprise nt at first fiut though I afterward understood It per perfectly fecal that the standard Oil WAS offer ing In the same quality cf ot oil all at al much low lower lower er prices than I could do or cr tram prom 1 I to 3 edits cents per gallon lest less than I could paul bly Wy Mil cell It for Cor I 1 sought for tor the reason reagon and found Cound that the railroads were In league with the Standard Oil concern lit at t every point giving It Il discriminating rates ratel and privileges lu of ot all kinds as QI against myself and all outside competitors tors lIou My M h refinery his has been be n shut hut down for Cor years If f I had had a 1 fair Calr and equal show with the railroads It would have been easily worth n a million dollars and would have hae be bun been n growing all nil the theline t I I time line As AI It 1111 Is 1 I am tan out of oC the business I I f my plant llant In ii worthless and the thc men St II linin it Il have employed are el ei elI elIle r rt I t I Ile blie He or finding other work IM hither thor the men who claim that the tho Oil company has hns ruined them would have hae distributed more inane of oC their surplus earnings among their employees or have more greatly benefited the pub lic at nl large Is a n matter to an answer slyer but Jul judging from their own statements they would have done no so They rhoy use usa tho the term ruined relatively however howeler ns nR when n a roan man Is accustomed to speaking of oC millions mere mero thousands or hundreds are equivalent to poverty Be this as It may Mr nice has hns been fighting lighting the great trust for Cor nearly a II quarter century ho he has appeared Ih lb the courts In pursuance of oC his ex expose expose pose the methods of oC the Standard Oil again and again always with unabated enthusiasm and with a n grim determine tion to 10 accomplish his end The two to principals In the contest conlest met mel once face to face far and Mr lr Rockefeller graciously said to his opponent How Howare are arc you OU George Goorge We lire ate getting to be gray hatred haired men arent we ewe Dont you wish you ou had taken my nI advice years ngo ago V The Indomitable nice Rice retorted Per haps hops It would have havo been heln better for tor me If IC 1 J kind had You 1011 intro have certainly ruined my business as ns you OU said you would Hut But when asked by 11 a n friend If Ir he regretted his hi action he pluckily answered Not Nol a bit of oC It I J have mado made a fight for Cor a u principle and I am neither sorry for It II nor ashamed of oC It TRUMAN L ELTON |
