Index
Reading edition
Abel, Sir F., 159, 210, 220, 233
Acme Oil Company, 67
American Wick Company, 23
Ammonia in Scotch shales, 206
Andrews, Samuel, 15, 29, 193
Anglo-American Oil Company, Ltd., 11, 22, 111, 196, 241
” Caucasian Oil Company, Ltd., 163
” Saxon Petroleum Company, 148, 170
Archbold, John D., 18, 19, 67, 78, 94, 97, 110, 175, 196, 239
Asiatic Petroleum Company, 148, 170
Atlantic Refining Company (Standard), 102
Attfield, Professor, 208, 210, 224
Babcock, Paul, 149, 192, 223
Bailey, Senator, and the Trust in Texas, 140
Baku Refiners’ Union, 163
“Barbarous Mexico” (its inspiration), 144
Base, Geo. (on Standard agreements), 203
Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, 148, 170
Bayne, H. (and Security Oil Company), 113
Benzine, its influence on “the oil war,” 149
Bliss, Frank E., 195
Bostwick, J. A., 37, 52
Brady, A. N. (Manhattan Oil Company), 109
Bribery charges, 77, 181
Buffalo Refinery explosion, 97
Burma petroleum, 152, 233
Chandler, Professor C. F. (of New York), 222
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company (Vaseline), 21
Choate, Hon. Joseph, 154
Collings, Right Hon. Jesse, 226, 228, 232
Consolidated Petroleum Company, Ltd., 163
Cowdray, Lord (shadowed in New York), 145
Cuthbert, John H. (alleged Standard Oil agent), 118
Devereux, General J. H., on rebates, 31
Devoe Manufacturing Company, 23, 192
Diaz, President of Mexico, and the Trust, 144
Dupre, Dr. (the late), 229
Dutch Government excludes the Standard, 147
Eagle Oil Company (of Mexico), 14
Elkin, P. J. (Attorney-General of Pennsylvania), and the Archbold letters, 84
Erie Railroad rebates, &c., 37, 40, 50, 53, 55, 59
Everest, C. M., 94, 97, 175, 239
Flagler, Henry M., 18, 29, 74, 197
Flash-point scandal in Great Britain, 209
” in India, 233
Foraker, Senator, J. B., 78
Galena-Signal Oil Company and American railways, 21
Galicia, discriminations against the Standard, 166
Garfield, J. R. (United States Commissioner of Corporations), 28
General Industrials Development Syndicate (of London), 108 et seq.
German Vacuum Oil Company, 170 et seq.
Gould, Jay (the late), 37
Hamburg Court’s decision on “re-branding,” 177
Hanna, Senator M. (the late), 83
Hearst, W. R., and the Archbold letters, 18, 77
Hepburn Committee (U.S.A.), 35, 56, 72
Home Office and the flash-point, 229
Inventions, the Standard’s claims to them, 129
Kelvin, Lord (the late), 213
Lake Shore Railroad, 31, 46
Lawson, T. W., on H. H. Rogers, 17
Leonard, W. J. (Standard tactics in England), 200
Lethaby, Dr. (the late), 210
Libby, W. H. (Standard lobbyist), 151, 152, 232
Limanova Petroleum Company, 166
Lloyd, Henry D. (the late), 5, 97
Lockhart, Charles, 65, 193
Lockwood, F. W. (Standard Oil agent), on wicks, 194
London Commercial Trading and Investment Company, Ltd., 113 et seq.
Macdonald, Jas. H., 111, 199
Maikop field, the new, 164
Majendie, Sir V. (the late), 214, 219
Manhattan Oil Company, 108 et seq.
Mantascheffs of Baku, the, 164, 169
Mendeleef, the late Professor, 224
Merrill, Joshua (lubricating oil pioneer), 131
Missouri, proceedings against the Trust, 135
Moeara Enim Company and the Dutch Government, 147
Monnett, F. S. (Attorney-General of Ohio), 81, 134
Newspapers, Trust subscriptions to, 86
New York Central Railroad, 37, 40, 48, 52, 60
Nobels of Baku, the, 162
O’Day, Daniel, 19, 54, 198
“Oil War,” the, 147
“Orange Barrel,” the, 223
Oswego Manufacturing Company, 23
Parish, W. E. (of the Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd.), 243
Payne, Oliver H., 20, 193
Pearson firm (Mexico), 142
Pennsylvania Railroad and rebates, 31, 37, 56, 59
Petroleum Association (of London), 160, 210, 214
” Committee (recommendation on flash-point), 225
” Producers’ Union, the, 46, 133
” wax, 152, 206
Pierce, Henry Clay, 141
“Pittsburg Plan,” the, 57
Port of London Authority and Standard intrigues, 236
Pratt, Charles, 66
” Charles M., 20, 175, 239
“Protection,” the cry of, 226
Railways, English, and petrol agitation, 235
“Re-branding” lubricants in Germany, 176
Redwood, Sir Boverton, 160, 192, 220, 221, 229
Refiners’ Association, the, 57, 59
Rice, George, 71
Rigby, W. T. (Liverpool retailer’s experience), 202
Rockefeller, Frank, 39
” John D., 15, 29, 33, 47, 51, 58, 67, 71, 197
” John D., jun., 20
” William, 19, 29, 37, 193
Rogers, H. H., 17, 33, 94, 97, 172, 195
Romano-American Petroleum Company, 22, 169
Roscoe, Sir Henry, 225
Rothschilds, the Paris, 163, 170
Royal Dutch Petroleum Combine, 147, 170
“Rutter circular,” 60
Samuel, Sir Marcus, 147, 157, 170
Scottish oil refiners and the flash-point, 215
Security Oil Company of Texas, 20, 113
Shell Transport and Trading Company, 147, 151, 170
Solar Refining Company (Ohio), 20, 110
Sone & Fleming Company, New York, 224
South Improvement Company, 34, 36, 46, 48
Spectator, the, on “lobbying,” 227
Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, 19, 50, 135, 199
” ” of New York, 48
” ” of Indiana, 134
” ” of Ohio, 20, 29, 134
Star newspaper and the flash-point, 225
Steana Romana, the, 169
Stone, Hon. W. A. (Governor of Pennsylvania), 83
Suez Canal Company and the bulk oil agitation, 158
Swedish naval engineers and Trust lubricants, 185
Tank steamers and the Suez Canal, 158
” wagons and retailers, 127, 166, 202, 205
Tarbell, Miss Ida M., 5, 16
Thompson, Professor Silvanus P. (and Lord Kelvin), 213
Thomson, Captain J. H. (the late), 229
“Three chemists’ cup,” the, 210
Tidewater pipe lines, 91, 120
Tramway engineers and Standard lubricants, 248
Union Tank Line Company, New Jersey, 22, 110
United Pipe lines, 54, 60
” States Pipe Line, 92
Ure, Alexander, K.C., M.P., 210, 212
Vacuum Oil Company, of Rochester, 20, 21, 94
” ” Ltd., 239 et seq.
” ” of Vienna, 165
Van Buren (Mr. Archbold’s son-in-law), 142
Vanderbilt, William H., 37, 46
Vandergrift, J. J., 33
Van Syckel, Samuel (pipe line pioneer), 131
Warden, W. G. (South Improvement Company), 36, 65
” Frew & Co., 74, 193
Wardwell, William T. (the late), 18, 198
Waters-Pierce Oil Company (Mexico), 140
Watson, D. K., Attorney-General of Ohio, 82, 134
” P. H., President South Improvement Company, 37
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