Show CATCH RAILROADS IN A TRAFFIC POOL J A Pennsylvania and New York Lines Combine and Split the Profits r. i DEAL IN COAL AND OIL tV T i Z Interstate Commerce Commission ion r Finds Facts Hidden II 1 In Iii B s. La JA Philadelphia April 1 10 StartlIng Startling revelations loped lc in the tho testimony f of railroad officials before tho the Inter Inter- y t tate state commerce commission In the opening hearing on the coal conI and oil 01 h here It shown that x c I re toca today I was f. f t the Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal field neld is controlled by traGic percentage per per- centa e agreements In every r. r detail to lo tile the anthracite coal pool pooi the thet thet t existence of which has already been if t ascertained in Invest Investigations tons by the g commission Three witnesses were bet be- be t fore fOlo the commis commission lon whose testimony bore on this phase of the r lion tion ton The Hea Reading has only recently f become a n member of the tho association The contract ct cont-ct and laws by-laws provide pro Ide that dally daily al reports should be bc made macic 1 by bythe bythe the railroads of shipments and arid monthly month month- ly lv reports returned b by the association In fn case of excess by one road over ovet Us its Is percentage the bureau was to order order or or- 01 der del an equalization the thi following month and anti in case of or failure b by 13 the tho delinquent road to consent the tho mattel matter mat mat- matter ter tel was to be reported to the executive executive tive committee Disagreements were to be bo arbitrated first by tho the joint n association and secondly b by bythe the trunk line lne commissioners rs Second Pool Located The second pool 1001 discovered eie was the Eastern New cw York and anti New England rail All rl Bituminous association tion ton the of which L. L W. W upon advice of counsel produced the original contract and by by- laws 8 This pool controls the upper New York New England and CanadIan Canadian Canad Canad- ian fields felds This agreement was similar simi simi- lar Jar to the tidewater pool except that the commissioner as Statistician I was formerly styled was wasl authorized to divert tonnage In order l to make the percentages required andIn andIn and andin in c caste case e of excess b by an any one road to restrict that roads road's later shipments to restore and even een the several sO eral tonnages m monthly I Other Fields Covered W. W G. G general freight traffic agent of th the Pennsylvania while under tinder unter un un- der ter examination admitted that there were statistical bureaus of similar nature nature nature na na- ture at and Buffalo Bufalo coverIng cover- cover lag Ing- InS the western fields felds rhe The details of ot the tho operations of these establishments were not developed although Mr White of the tho Tidewater Bituminous Iw j. association and asserted as as- aR- aR that th they y n no longer reported their t to respective constituent roads P ther I of fit i ih t i With excess and deficits i on tho scale the they said that monthly statements of or orthe the movements mO of or soft or coal tonnages were distributed I Private lh tu Car Evil H. J E The commissioners spent two hOUS hOU'S hours this afternoon with the tho assistance of oC their counsel W V G. G Glasgow quizzing quizzing quiz quiz- zing General Manager Atterbury of z the Pennsylvania on car distribution among the mines and anI the tho advantages enjoyed by big shippers shipper like the thc Keystone Key Key- I stone Htone Coal Coke com company pan and the t Berwind company company through o ownership of or private coal cars Mr 11 Atterbury said sid that while railroad Y men disliked the private car cr the they t I could not see sec tee how shippers shippen could fill 1111 ni j big contracts without big In ha having their own cars car to depend upon for certainty certain certain- ty of deJ co delivery I |