St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-24
REFUSED THEIR INSURANCE
Efforts Of the Whisky Trust Directed
Against Competitor.
DISTILLING IN FULL BLAST.
Stockholders of the South st. Paul Com.
pany Mean Business, and Will N
crease Their Daily Output.

A directors meeting of the st. Paul
Distilling company was held yesterday
afternoon at the Office in Gilfillan block.
Among the matters before the meeting
was a letter from a prominent fire in
surance company, as follows:
Referring to risk under No. 1914, O0?-the
st. Paul Disti1ing company. Report has
reached US that this concern has had trouble
with the whisky trust, and as there is an adj
ditional hazard on establishments of this
kind. we do not care to write them. We
have hao eXperiencewith distilleries of this
kind, and must ask Won to cancel our policy
at once. Please advise us Of your action by
return mail
Arrangements were proposed for
other insurance. and the policy was
ordered returned. But the letter
brought up the subject of the trust, and
every director was asked whether any
agent of the trust had attempted nego-
tiationS, and whether overtures had
been made to the trust. All present
emphatically denied ever
HAVING BEEN APPRO ACHED
upon the subject by any representative of
the trusto or having undertaken any negO-
tiationS whatever with the trust or any
of It's representatives. They expressed
their determination to go OIL with pro-
duction and to increase the volume of
output which has been growing stead
lily since the distillery was opened
June 8.
FL. d. Mathews, secretary of the COM
pany said: "This distillery was not
built to be bought up by the trust, as
has been claimed Ivy trust representa-
tives. 1t has had no quarrel with them.
1t was built for the benefit Of the city
and for the reason that there was
proper opening for such an enterprise
in Its location. Every one of the stock
holders went in for the purpose of pro-
duetion. We have had no negotiations
with the trust at any time. Three rep
resentativeS of large Philadelphia
houses are in the city at present and
desire to make contracts with us and
the outlook is very favorable"
Vice President Hicks was busy with
the Philadelphians, but found time to
exhibit several samples of st. Paul dis
tlIling. 'Here are goods that are being
produced continually at South st. Paul,
and that are causing the handling of
from fifteen to sixteen carloads of grain
| and other material daily at that point"
At the distilery buildings yesterday
morning a GLOBE reporter
GAVE THE COUNTERsIGN
| to one of the force of special policemen
and saw within all the activity of a
lively business. Quantities of grain
were being prepared for the mash. The
great tubs were full of material and
high wines were flowing rapidly from
the stills. The work of making alcohol
and cologne spirits was also in progress,
and many barrels of goods were being
rolled out for storage and shipment.
The work is kept up night and day, and
night force of police is kept on duty.
| These precautions were increased with
| the mountaineering experience at Schu-
feldt's distillery at Chicago.
! AT night the distillery is the most
brilliant feature Of South st. Paul, and
its, electric lightSmake vivid impress
| sion upon travellers by rail.
Secretary Mathews declared that
! operations NUT goo on. 1.-The st. Paul
members of the company" he said,
''are men of nerve and determination,
who are abundantly able to extend the
business. Their interests in the dis
tillery and in the city intensity, their
efforts and make them all the more i'll
teresting to the leading business men of
| st. Paul. One of the officers of the
company said last evening: "There is
much more probability of the st. Paul
| .Distillng company doubling its eapac-
ity than being closed by any movement
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