Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-26
PLATE GLASS MAGNATES.
An Important Conference at the Anderson
at Which All the Manufacturers We're
Represented-A New Tin Plate Com
pany to Be Organized.

An Important Conference at the Anderson
at Which All the Manufacturers We're
Represented-A New Tin Plate Com
pany to Be Organized.
Many millions of dollars invested in the
manufacture of plate glass were represented
at the meeting of the magnates held at the
Anderson Hotel yesterday. The compan-
les represented in the conference were as
follows: The Pittsburg Plate Glass Com
pany, represented by the Fords; the Diamond
Plate Glass Company, of Chicago, represented
by Hon. A l.. Conger and Frank NJ. After
holt, of Akron, O.. the Charleroi Plate Glass
Company, represented by Hon. George W.
Grouse, of Akron; the Standard Plate Glass
De Pauw Plate Glass Company, of New AL
bany, Ind, by Mr.. Keys: the Howard
ard, and the Pennsylvania A. Plate Glass
all of the plate glass factories in America
except the Crystal Plate Glass Company, of
Crystal, Missouri. While no trust or combi-
nation i'll which there is a division of profits
has ever been formed by these concerns
they have been holding meetings three or
four times year for several years. Yester-
day they discussed prices and interchanged
ideas on disputed points in the process
of manufacture of plate glass. Nothing
of Importance was done at the meeting"
they said. yet it leaked out through little
the main object that most OF the delegates
had in coming here-and there were many
more Of them than those mentioned in the
above report-was the formation of a
gigantic company entirely foreign to the
making of glass. This was the formation of
u tin-piate company with millions behind it.
"Not all of the glass men present. said
one of them, "intend going into the proposed
tin plate company, but a sufficient number,
with several outside capitalists, have ex-
pressed their desire to do so to insure the
success OF the undertaking"
1t was also learned that the proposed tin
plate mill is to be located at Elwood, Ind.
The rapid development of the plate glass
business i'll this country and the activity in
the new tin industry suggested the Ohio
campaign and the subject of the tariff All
of the Ohio men predicted the election of
Mckinley, including one of the party who is
a Democrtt.
"The pate glass industry is the most
striking argument that can be offered in
favor of the Tariff said Mr.. Atterholt, who
is lawyer of prominence and q poll
tician, as well asa manufacturer. The tariff
a comparatively few years ago enabled us
to start the industry, when every. foot of
plate glass used in America was imported
from France. The price was then about 81
per square foot, and the tariff increased it
temporarily a trife more. To-day nine
try is made at home by American workmen.
and sold at a profit for about 20
cents per foot. The tariff has not only
established q great industry, but it has by
CD6apenlnS Iuc COSI lnCEodSeu Juo COuSu1np-
tion about f1ve-fold. Then it was luxury;
now everybody uses it. About the only
French plate that comes TO America is used
in mirrors, and we are gradually driving
that out"
The glass men all leave for their homes
this morning. A noticeable feature of the
meeting was the apparently harmonious re-
lations existing between ex-Congressman
Grouse and Hon. A. L. Conger whose pecul-
lar estrangement for several years has been
public matter in Ohio. Last evening they
sat together M and Gaatted apparently IN great
arose there was no hatchet in sight.