The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-09
THE TABLE WARS TRUST.
The Inside of tho New ComblnailOn--Fac
tories to bo sold-WhRt May Eventual!
Reault From II.

The inside of tho New Comblnatlon--Fac-
torios to be sold-WhRt May Eventually
Result From It.
The exclusive publication in the In.
TELLleBNcER yesterday Of the fact that
nineteen table ware glass factories which
were named had formed combine
after a good while spent in arranging
the detailq, was received with intense
interest, especially among the hundreds
Of people more or less directly interest
ed in the glass industry. It was known
that the Central Company, OF this city,
was one Of the original companies In the
project, and a good deal of curiosity was
expressed as to why 1t was not one Of
those finally In the combine. The In
TgLLIGENCER learned automatically yes
terdsy why it was compelled to drop
out.
The stockholders, at a meeting at
which all hut eight shares were repre-
scented, voted almost unanimously to 90
into the combine. The exception was
the block OF stock owned by the minor
heirs Of the late Albert Hall, which is
controlled by Judge ]. j. Jacob, appoint
ed by the Circuit Court trustee Of the
estate. He could not agree to the sale
OF this stock to the new company with
out an order Of the court, and he de-
cliued to apply for that order. This
made II impossible for the company to
join with the other nineteen, and hence,
it Is said, the projected removal to
Anderson, as the additional advantages
to the combined factories growing out
OF the trust will maks the competition
in the trade still keeper.
The inside of the new combine was
obtained from an entirely reliableaourc
yesterday, and In view OF very probable
denials OF the authenticity OF the inior.
nation, it may be well to say that no.
body can deny with higher authority
than the original informant asserts, The
combination or association or whatever
IL may be called, is q trust, pure and
simple. Nearly all, but not MI, Of the
present factories will be continued in
operation under the Same management
as heretofore. Two Pittsburgh faoto.
Eies at least, and perhaps Others, will be
disposed OF by the new company. Ag
they are eligibly located they will
doubtless be converted into other man
uiaetarihg establishments. The other
factories will be retained, but will
only be operated when trade is brisk
enough to warrant it, and eventually a
plan Is in view which Involves the aban-
IoDment Of ell the present factories.
The company urOposes In the future
to purchase somewhere in the natural
gas field, outside OF any city or town, as
large tract Of land as may bs required,
aud there sink Its own gas wells, erect
housea for its own employees, with
churches, sChooihouses and all the
requisites OF o community OF several
thousand souls, and there build com.
plete modern factory Of thirty or forty
| furnaces, or even more. This result Of
the combine is naturally matter to he
developed III the not very near future,
but it 10 one Of the steps contemplated
by the company.
1t is hoped By the organizers that
gradually every considerable factory Of
tableware will either unite with the new
concern or sell out TO it, and few OF
those not yet 10 are merely delayed by
the time consumed in certain legal
formalities.