Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-11
UNLUCKY THIRTEEN.
Just a Bakers Dozen Companies in
the Tableware Trust.
MEETINGS HELD UNDER COVER.
The Organization Complete and a Board Of
Directors Selected.
EXPENSES TO BE GREATLY CURTAILED

With great secrecy the United States
Tableware Company has about completed
its organization with the selection of a
board of directors. The syndicate is COM
posed of 13 companies, and they have been
holding meetings under cover in this city
for some time. The officers have not yet
been elected. The headquarters will be in
Pittsburg. The concerns which have Joined
the company are as follows: From Pitts
burg, Adams & Co., Bryce Brothers, George
Duncan & Sons, Gillinder & Sons, King
Glass Company, O'Hara Glass Company,
Ripley & Co.; Nickel Plate Company, Eos
toria, Richards & Hartley Glass Company and
Challinor, Taylor & Co., Tarentum; Colum-
bia Glass Company, Bellaire Goblet Com
pany and Hobbs Glass Company, Wheeling.
When the gentleman who furnished the
above information was asked why the other
| tableware companies had not Joined, he
smiled and requested to be asked something
easier.
The Capital About Two Millions.
AS nearly as could be learned the capital
stock is about 50, 900, 900, and is issued to
the members in proportion to the value of
their plants, which are turned over to the
new company and will be operated in
the future under one management
The tableware men expect through the syn
dicate to lower the cost of manufacture
about 10 per cent. They propose to reduce
the number of molds and save money in this
department. The force of travelling agents,
each company at present employing one,
will be cut down from one-third to one-half
and in other ways expenses will be cur
tailed.
The agents selling tableware and lamp
chimneys at the Monongahela House expect
to do a good business. One of them said
yesterday that in his experience the
prospects for fall trade never looked
brighter For several years dealers
have been buying from hand to
mouth, and the buyers coming IN now all
predict that the business will be first class
this winter. For this reason in many lines
they are doubling their orders over last
year. Most of the buyers also go to East
Liverpool and lay in supply Of pottery
before returning home.
Stocks Reported Very Low.
The jobbers report their stocks as very
low and they must have new goods. This
week there were IL buyers from the West
at the Monongahela House who left large
orders. The Eastern men have not COM
menced to come in. Some of the heaviest
Western glass dealers are now in the city.
These are the companies and their repre-
sentatives now stationed at the Mononga-
hela house: Buckeye Glass Company, L.
E. Smith; Cooperative Flint Glass Com
pany, William A. Ranney; Cumberland
Glass Company, L. A. Fletcher; Columbia
Glass Company, William j. Patterson; Dal-
zell, Gilmore & Leighton Company, James
Dalzell; Fostoria Shade and Lamp Com
pany, G. G. Magee; Fostoria Glass Com
pany, Winfield s. Murdoch; Greensburg
Glass Company, Ed G. King; Model Flint
Glass Company, N. o. Strassburger; North
wood Glass Company, John G. Anderson;
Riverside Glass Company, J. E. Radcliffe;
Valley Glass Company, G. T. Muslin; Zihl-
mann Glass Company, William H. Sloan;
Edwin Bennett Pottery Company, L.
Roden.
In a neat pamphlet are given the names
of glass manufacturers in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Maryland, Indiana and West Vir-
ginia. They say they are not represented
at the Monongahela House, but they are
Gin the swim just the same"