The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-27
A .SEwsY" DISPATCH
Received from the East About n Triple
JOIntsd TruGt-Funny BreRks.

Received from the East Apout tFlPI
JOIntsd Trust-Funny Brsaks.
The following dispatch was part
the Associated Press matter received las
nights
"NEw YoRK, August 26,-The manu-
factures Of window glass, table glass ant
croCkery, have formed trust To'da!
Mr., Fitzpatrick, Of the firm OF ], Fitz
patrick ( Co., manufacturers Of window
glass, said. "A trust has been formed
called the United Glass Company, They
have bought up ten of the prinCipa
plants in New York State and Ohio, bu
don't think the Western manufacturer
will Join the association. The object In
forming the trust is TO save expense
make profit and cheaper the price OF tht
goods,
at Is considered. that this new trust
will be the salvation OF many smal
plants that otherwise would have been
Obliged 10 close up, This new trust Il
really the beginning Of long fight be-
tween the old manufacturers who arr
known as the "potmen" and the new
men called the "tankmen" by reason oi
their introducing a new method of max
ing glass in tanks instead OF pots, This
new method has only one plant erected
in this country, that at Jeanette, Pa,
The men behind the new enterprise
have issued circulars that they will fur
nish glass at a reduction OF from 10 to ID
per cent below the price OF tho "rot-
men," This action would have resulted
IN the going under OF many small plants
II they had stood alone, So trust was
formed aud inaugurates the beginning
Of a long fight,
"Another thing the "tankmen" did was
to import thirty'fve foreign glass blow
ers under contract. Labor Assembly No.
800 at once brought action in the courts
to have them returned. The District
Attorney recommended their return,
and that the Tank Company be fined
81 900 for each laborer; but his decision
was revoked by the Immigration Com.
missioners at Washington,
"a trust is also contemplated by the
table glass men. A meeting Of the table
ware glass manufacturers was recently
held, at which committee was appoint
ed TO adopt some plan OF organization.
Later II Was determined to form trust
for the purpose Of strengthening prices
and limiting production. The Ohio towns
with their oil aud gas wells, offered free
buildings, sites, ETC., and tried to get the
members OF the trust to olocate their com.
bined factories In that State, but with
out success. lthas been decided to take
in all the manufacturers OF table glass II
possible. But little has been made pub.
lie regarding this trust, but 1t is now an
assured fact"
The artist who manufactured this dis.
patch and the able news dispenser who
sent it out over the wires under the
impression that 1t was important, may
have had some idea as TO what they
were about but such apresumption is a
violent one. The idea in the first place,
OF table ware, window glass and
crockGry men combining in 'Trust" is
funny, but when they start their trust
with but ten establishments it becomes
wildly ridiculous. In view OF what Pres.
ident Campbell, OF the window glass
workers, has said regarding the
jeanette workmen, the "news" con-
tanned in the above dispatch on
that score, together with some
other breaks which will be readily de.
teCted by the majority Of sreaders here,
about the onl conclusion to be arrived
at is, that the Associated Press hus, to
put 1t mildly, been badly imposed upon.