Missouri Valley times

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claim that they are being ground down

by the commission.

'Nothing more clearly shows, in the

view of the commission, the condition

of the railroads, due to their own finan

cial skyrocketing than the results of

the investigation of the New York, New

Haven At Hartford railroad and the ex

amination of the affairs of the Haiti

more Ohio.

President Willard, of the Baltimore

Ohio, has been the principal spokes

man for the railroads. It appears from

the facts elicited by the commission

that his road has an interest-hearing

debt of $79,000,000 and an annual deficit

of 3-,000,000, which is not surprising in

view of what has been done to the road

It is pointed out that some years agi

J. I'icrpont Morgan Co. endeavored

to rid themselves of the Cincinnati.

Hamilton Dayton and the Pere .Mar

)iiette, v.-ith obligations aggregating

$23,000,000. They sought to 4ia,ve it

bought by the Erie. Hut K. H. Harri

man was alive at the time and he re

fused to permit anything of.the kind.

Then Mort an Co. gave instructions

to the Baltimore Ohio to take the

property. They did so end paid the

Morgans a commission of more than

$2,000,000.

Tins "high finance." it is asserted

accounts in part for the inability of the

Haf.imoro it Ohio to pay expenses even

upon the rates allowed.

There are two opera houses in Ant

•werp. Belgium, subsidized by the

municipality. One produces opera in

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Missouri Valley times. (1914). Missouri Valley, Iowa, 1914-06-18. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84038335/1914-06-18/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Missouri Valley times, 1914-06-18.