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Charles S. Mellen has asked President Roosevelt to expedite an investigation into his railroad company’s planned merger. The article notes this request comes the day after the defeat of Henry Melville Whitney, who had been in favor of the merger, in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
President of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company Charles S. Mellen has met with President Roosevelt to expedite an investigation into his railroad’s merger with another New England Line. Mellen argues that such investigations are embarrassing to businesses, hinder railroad development, and ought to be completed as quickly as possible once begun. Roosevelt has agreed to finish this investigation, but any companies that violate the Sherman Act will still be prosecuted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
The Department of Justice will not prosecute the merger of two New England railroad lines due largely to the intervention of Charles S. Mellen, president of one of the lines in question. Mellen, whom the article calls a “close personal friend” of President Roosevelt’s, met with the president privately to assure him the merger does not violate the Sherman Act and to push for expediting the investigation in the interest of allowing business to continue as necessary. Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission Charles A. Prouty has already come out in favor of the merger as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
Charles S. Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, has met with President Roosevelt hoping to expedite a government investigation into his railroads. Mellen asserts that his company has not broken the law and argues that the government has no right to stymie the proceedings of private businesses in any case.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
An article in the Evening Post reports on a purportedly unsolicited visit by Charles S. Mellen to the White House to discuss his railroad’s planned merger with the Boston and Maine Railroads, offering his services to expedite any investigation the federal government might make into the merger. Several handwritten annotations comment on the article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-06
A man, probably Charles S. Mellen, stands amid a crowd of angry investors who have lost their savings and investments due to mismanagement of the New Haven Railroad. Caption: This cartoon appeared in PUCK at the time of the life-insurance scandal. Still more applicable is it to the former “High-Finance” Looter of the New Haven Railway system.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-12-31
Howard Elliott, nearly doubled-over under a heavy burden labeled “New Haven Rail Road,” walks through the “Slough of Despond” amid an atmosphere labeled “Demoralization.” Wedged under the burden on his back is a book labeled “Gospel of Efficiency.” He is making his way past a broken ticker tape machine toward a distant light labeled “Rehabilitation.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-24