The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-10-24
BpreckIes NFeana BuaIness

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Oct 21.-Claus
Spreckles, the sugar re6ner, arrived
here from San Francisco this evening,
He will at once set to work making
preparations for the opening of his big
refinery here. He is very sanguine
and thinks that as soon as his refinery
gets fairly started the sugar trust will
find that he is in earnest. Mr.. Spreck-
els said to night that many false re-
ports have been circulated TO the effect
that his new refinery here Will never
be operated by himself, and that for
the purpose OF denying these reports
he to-day sent communication to the
editor of the Commercial Bulletin of
Boston. Following is copy of the
| letter:
..PHILADELPHIA,P Pa, Oct. 10, 1885,
Editor Commercial Bulletin, Boston,
Mass: DEAR SIR-I have to-day re-
| turned here from San Francisco, and
4 have just seen in the New York Even
| ing Post the following paragraph,
which IS said to have been copied from
the Commercial Bulletin:, Though no
/ arrangements have been even proposed
between Mr.. SpreckleS and the outside
refiner in this city. there is small doubt
not only that the Philadelphia refinery
of the California manipulation was built
tered into negotiations with the trust
MIR. SpreckleS is known TO have been q
heavy purchaser of East India sugar
due in New York within ten days. II
is generally expected that the trust viii
pay the duties on That sugar, and that
by this act the cellusiOn between the
two parties will be made public. The
trust Inclined to pay Mr.. Spreckles
what he demanded for his California
1 nlo n1o 70 aXrnT
seems to have been most successful.
81 desire through your columns t.
contradict every statement made in TIT
; above paragraph. My refinery in Phil
adelphia was not built to be sold, and
have never had the least intention o
dispOsing of it, although numerou
: propositions have been made to me t.
do so. 1 have never entered into negO
tiations with the sugar ttrus
although it has approachet
me upon several occasions.
: have purchased raw sugar, it is tru
! and / intend to pay myself, every dol
lar of the duty upon such purchase.
have no knowledge that the trust in
tends to pay the duties and make me
present of the amount, but shall Gel
tainly refine the whole of the ray
: sugar that have purchased in my ow
/, refinery and for nv own benefit. A
far as am concerned, there has bee
no collision and no attempt at colt
sion between the trust and mysdlf.
never asked the trust to purchase m
Q California refinery, and never name
: a sum for which it could be bought
Q put I have been asked to joil
4 the trust, but have al
= soluteiy declined both propositions
y My California refinery is not and nevt
. was for sale. My Philadelphia refneT
has been built for the purpose that
originally stated, and from which
! have never once, even in thought, deY
ated. AS long as l am alive it is n
intention to engage in business entirt
J. ly upon my own account and withOI
!. the interference or cooperation of an
8 other individuals. l do not need an
9 never have needed assistance fro
others, and / certainly have no use fl
the sugar trust. The experience of tt
past two years has shown that tho:
i who refused to join the trust hay
o acted wisely and Jared very much be-
ter than those who were foolish enoug
to enter into such an illegal combin;
II tion. / shall be oblighed to you if yC
will kindly publish the foregoing, al
l, so contradict the Measurements thi
appeared in your columns and whiC
seem to have originated from an unr
liable correspondent in this city. a
p yours truly, CLAUS SPRECKELs' :"