Show LOSE CARS WHEN I OIL OL STOCK IS LW LOW LOVi I Independents Detail Difficulties of Competing W With th Standard KEEP TAB ON THEIR TRADE TRADEl l' l r Ii I TI Trust I t i Knous ii um S Y l hen l' l B BI i I gallon I of HI OH ill is l- l I. I When m II It I Goes 1 Kansas lIlS City l Mo Io Match Mat I 13 W. 3 W. W H. H I Hawkins of or mil Kansas Cl City for oh live IVl years Cas superintendent of tit tho time Standard 1 Oil 01 CO company 1 pan In Kansas City ln autO and K E. M. M 11 of or Springfield Mo lo formerly for for- nicely merly agent Jent of or th thy hut same mo n eO company al at Kas but butOW now OW an tn In Independent nl 01 oil dealer voi-o voi the alar witnesses cs e before be lie- fore the lie Interstate commerce commis commission sion slon to today ay Tint ugh these men and other witnesses wit wit- wl- wl nesses it was WS brought out among that thai the tIme Standard St t Oil al company learns of Ir every trade ma made e eb tate b by Independent concerns that that lint prices charged h by b Independent companies are ule always learned by bY the thc Standard which never fails to offer oil ul at al a Il Jower sometimes cutting the Lime price more than GO 51 11 per lIce cent that lint railroad en furnish Information to 10 time the 1 Standard the usual arrangement arrange arrange- c- c ment being to promise c a low hots' lo agent a good job with wilh the time St AutO and tnt then keep his hiM ram family oil 01 C cah can n well OIled filled and that railroads lose Iose lank aol oars ears lal'S sent out by Independent compa cOlpa- cOlpa I nies No 0 c I Instructions In lit iii Wilting tug It I also o alJo developed dc that thai when 1 Instructions of oC importance were communicated to Standard Oil al a agents by hy the lie parent pai company II it was wag done I by telephone ole lele- phone or 01 fn n person It I was never ne put In iii writing The rime testimony of Mr noan now no an aim independent dealer was vas 11 illustrative of oC how hard It Is to Ir try to tu compete compte w with Ih lit Standard arl 0 Other witnesses s 's es offered te Umon similar to that lint of Mr Mu II te After ACel giving ln f the commissioners a U history of or the thc holdings an and operations of oC the lie oil 11 trust In the thc he west vest so Caras far Car faras faras as it had come comae un under el his personal ob oh- io u i. i Mr j Ir m l I ii te C ml d detailed eta I I ed some sonic of IC the lie annoyances almost of or Jaily Jally occurrence hereby hut thi railroads hamper the lie business of tho those c who at- at tempt to lO conduct an independent oil 01 business Tank ali Cars U Out Omit Since 1 e ha been in lii busill business C tot for r 11 1 myself elf In iii Springfield nun and Joplin he heild ild 11 1 I have hUll hud much trouble In I jelling my tank lank cars cams trans shipped at al St St. Louis Liuis Louis 1 have ha had hind a mimi lank car ar which was shipped to lo me lime from Pittsburg Pitsburg Pitts- Pitts Pits Pits- burg J Pa PH held for Cor em cl eight ht Ila days s 's in iii hue tho railroad arts auls in iii ga East t SL St Louis Loul rim This is generally r happens when 1 am ani n low on oh oi oil Whenever cr my stock stoel of oC oil oi gets gels I very 1 low I 1 always alwa's know that lint my cars care carsi i MII i i II be delayed I II I t ai u al always happens cars I dl I Immure have no noa a tank car of uC oil 01 which stinted from Crom len tun elm lays days ago uto tn I and last Saturday it reached l la ast l S Si St Louis an and is there here yet t 1 am aumi low on ohm oil 01 now how Once I had hail a tank lank car carof Ca' Ca of oC oil oi drift from oni East Casl St. St St Louis Loul to lo Alabama A anti and anc all ni al I that thaI time t tm I was as out of oC oil 01 and 1 J lost a lot hot o of customers on out of oC I It Of OC course couise OUse th time Standard In iii ha had m my competitor Springfield feld plenty of oC oil an and amid got ot the lie customers I lost lost The Standard always knows within a barrel exactly how much oil oilI 01 I hn have on un ham hand ham How do you OU knok kimol the they do tb asked Commissioner Plout Prouty Competition Couii huh is I I. I Bl ll Because I was for Clr man many r years yeah's lall with wih the lit Standard and amid in ill e I Instance where an aim Independent lice sIt shipped Jell I ui ii I into my imm territory 1 I was vis notile of oC it il by 13 my mr superior officer and amid ant was sas notified lo to natch tot for the time of each ach Sit shipment I 1 IMIS MIS given time the number lumI num lum- lum I ber lar I of nC f the lit lw car cal and amid was was- instructed 1 to find nd out nul where every CIO l gallon of uC thoU thai oil II went and amid to tn report It I. I For Fil when I 1 was time the Standard a agent ell in iii il the lie a agent ent of oC tim the e StatiOn Standard id i'd in iii il Cleveland 1 to In Mr O 1 r. r m its x a agent in ium Kal Kansas s City CUy that a u car cal of oil oi hail hOll bout ben shipped b by time the Midland Oil al couii company an aum Independent t refiner to lo Topeka Mr i I. I i. i Mayer lacI sent me inc the lit tl number of this car CUI 1 lie called mo mime monn moon on nn th time the telephone The Time standard never h such Instructions on aIm apul paper He lit Il told toll me inc the Standard did nut hot 1 expect me lime le to tn allow alow a n competitor to In sell sel oil oilin 01 in jut m my territory He lie 10 to told old II in me mo I muM watch and ammO him hll where o lr overy- overy i gallon of or It I went I Accounts for fumi I Ico gHI co Gallon J The CHI cam came caine lo lit tl tonI and sl io t Iwo wo weeks upon a I side tl truck ck I vis Is thai can call regularly three tlC limes mm a aday day I n a n list of oC if o gallon alon of that thai oil nil went I J have that Ilia lint list now how no as asu u wel as us man ninny many Other testimony was along lines hues as that thai of if Mr 1 iho tc am served sel to simon show ho that tIme the watches ery e gallon alon of oil oi Its competitors com com- handle th time the time It Il leaves lea lie Iho refinery until It reaches the Cr con sumer su mit emrite em I rite hearing will wi tomorrow |