Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-28
Malaria Fever cured by Jarvis Brandy
NO COAL TRUST.
The Brokerage Business D~escounten-
anced=lealers, Statements.

1he brOkeraRe DuSIueSS DeSCOunJen.
anced-Dealers' Statements.
There came to THE BEE Office yesterday a
vague rumor of a continuation among the
larger coal dealers to boycott smaller fry.
A new firm on Burdette street near Eight
teenth was mentioned as. one of the victims
aud was found to consist of two young men
from the country near Council Bluffs. The
name was Carse g. Snapp. They are occupy
ing a small frame structure, partly filled with
hay, grain and other feed. Mr.. Carse ex-
planned their trouble with the coal men:
1--WE are running a feed store but we
thought we'd handle coal too. We went to
g. b. Ravens Il Co. before we started and
they agreed to sell US coal, but after we
had no trackage. Then we went to Il. Nc
Clelland & Co. and they also refused to sell
to us. We're young fellows right from the
farm, and we're sort o. going to
school in business. We don't want
to go into the coal business too deep
before we learn more about it. We tried to
get trackage of the railroads. They would
sell, but wouldn't lease it. We're going to
handle coal even though the Omaha dealers
won't sell it to US. We've got the stuff to
buy it with and have ordered a lot from the
mines, although 1t will cost more than the
prices made by Mr.. Ravens"
"Mr. Carse's statement is partly true and
partly not" said Mr.. Ravens when called on.
' Z Uc CdllS " VI nc Sdlu Lc was BollS
to open a regular coal yard on the Belt line,
and we agreed to sell him coal. l even told
him of two yards he could rent, and sug-
gested that he might in that way try the
business without making a very big invest
ment. One of the yards was near his pro-
posed location. He learned that he could
lease the place until next spring for $40 a
month, and l advised him to take it. When
he opened a feed store in an out-of-the-way
place without a trackage or a coal bin
did not consider him n rpOnlar
dealer and refused to sell him. The iobbers
have had an agreement for ten years-as
long ago as we were in businessmen to sell
to a middleman unless he is a regular coal
dealer within a reasonable construction of
the term. 1t is not fair to regular dealers
with big investments to encourage a broker
age business among men who may not have
a dollar invested. If Joe Barker should
open a coal Office over there in his block"
pointing across F'arnam street, II would not
sell him a pound of coal unless he had track
age and a yard. 1t is the policy of dealers to
discourage the corner grocery business, be-
cause it is subject to abuses that reflect upon
the legitimate. Look at st. Louis and Kan
sas City! The grocery stores buy by the
ton and sell by the bushel at eXorbitant
rates, often twice the Dealers price. Two
or three years ago a man bought
and sold it for half a ton. The complaint
fell upon us. though we knew nothing about
the third party to transaction. AS to a trust
among the coal dealers, the only one l know
of is up there" and he pointed to n card on
the wall bearing the no pay-no-coal announce
ment of Omaha dealers.
"The coal dealers of Omaha are a whole
souled lot, ~ said Mr.. McClelland, land are
accommodating to each other. They have no
organization, but it is an understood policy
among them To discourage the handling of
coal by persons who are not regular dealers.
We nave dozens of applications every
year from corner grocers and others to
take orders for coal ON commission, but we
put them off with the statement that there
is not enough in the business and we can't
afford to- | don't see why this particular
case should have been magnified. We will
sell direct to the consumer or to regular deal
ers, but not to brokers. There is no trust
among the dealers. About the only agree
ments we have are when the price of coal at
the mine or the rate Of transportation
changes. We then agree on a scale of prices
that makes it uniform throughout the city,"
Auction at Residence
OF J. w. Marshall, N II cor 3lst and