Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — ASKS RCOSEVELT TO PAY. [ARTICLE]

ASKS RCOSEVELT TO PAY.

Railroad Stockholder Complains of SIOO,OOO Transportation Bill. John H. Devine, head of a large commercial printing house of Philadelphia, has sent the following letter to the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, says the New York World: 1 “Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1916. Mr.wfJames McCrea, Pres. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Philadelphia. “Dear Sir: As a stockholder of the Pennsylvania Railroad I have been greatly surprised to learn there is an account, long overdue, for transportation furnished by it to Theodore

RoosevelL It is a matter of quite' general knowledge, so I learn, that this account amounts to more than SIOO,000. “Whether the person owing such account be a President or a former President, or whoever he may be. the interests of the Pennsylvania Railroad. it seems to md, demand 1 that there be a settlemenL Will you advise me if I am correctly informed, and if so is there any reason why this debt should not be paid? Will you also kindly inform ’me what steps have been taken, if any, in behalf of the company to collect the amount due, and what prospect there is, if any, of its settlement? “Very truly yours,

“JOHN H. DEVINE.”

“Theodore Roosevelt’s extraordinary traveling at the expense of the stockholders of the railroads during the first four years of his Presidency,” says the World, “resulted in Congress appropriating $25,000 a year to meet the cost of necessary Presidential travel in the future. No provision was made, however, to reimburse the railroads for Mr. Roosevelt’s extravagant use of special trains, which were furnished for his bear hunts, his turkey hunts, his eat-’em-alive lion-killing expeditions, for his social engagements, his home goings and comings, and for the transportation of his friends, his servants, his horses and his goods.”