Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
from the St. Louis Republic

The New York Evening Post having
asserted in its issue of April "a that a
trsa0e journal, Hardware, had been i'm
posed upon by somebody, and that the
statement made by Hardware that N.
& q Taylor & Co., of Philadelphia,
were manufacturing tin plate on an
extensive scale was misleading, the ed
itor of Hardware addressed the follow
ing lettes to the editor of the Evening
Post:
To THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POsT-Sir:
If Hardware has been imposed upon in regard
to the tin plate interest, as implied in the ed
itorial columns OF the Evening Post OF yeSter-
day, your help in setting it right will be greatly
appreciated The reference in Hardware to the
N. & G. Taylor Company of Philadelphia was
no more based upon their advertisement, which
you quote, than upon the geneaiogy OF Poca-
hontas, but it is substantiated by statement
from that firm and by information gained from
other tin plate makers who have no in
terest in the Taylor firm BY the way, the
Taylors, during eighty years of active bust
ness, have acquired such reputation for
trustworthiness that any editor might be par
doned for accepting one of their statements
without going further to get it confirmed
But to return to the Evening Posts correc-
Sons. II the Messrs. Taylor are misleading
0he trade, please state where the roofing tin is
made which they selling as their own also,
will be pleased to be corrected on any point
concerning which it may have printed any mis-
leading information in the course of Its investi-
CATION, during the past six months, OF the ef-
forts made to build up the American tin plate
industry II Somers Bros, OF Brooklyn, the
Brittoo Company, of Cleveland, Mr.. NIedring-
haus, of ST. Louis, MessrS. Norton, of Chicago,
Mr. Laufman, Of Apollo Pa, the United States
Yin Plate Company and other concerns which
have been mentioned as making progress in
this direction be proved to be erecting
works for amusement alone, while lying about
their intention to make tin plate, it is a duty
which Hardware owes to its readers to make
She facts known-provided the Evening Post
will kindly point out wherein the deception lies.
What you mean by the manufacture Of block
plates ION commercial scale" is not clear, but
1h0writer has been assured by one rolling mill
proprietor this morning of his ability to furnish
such plates at the rate OF twenty tons weekly,
and at the same time he made out a list of nine
neighboring rolling mills supplied with ma
chinery for making plates suitable for timing
on a large scale. Very respectfully,
THE EDITOR OF HARDWARE
NEW YORK, April 25
The Evening Post, to substantiate its
claims that tin plate was not being
made in America in such quantities and
at such prices as to warrant calling tin
plate making thriving industry, began
an investigation of the alleged factory
OF the n. & G. Taylor Company at
Philadelphia, intending to show if pos
sible that if tin plate was made there
at all it was turned out in such small
quantities and by such small plant as
to make the whole affair a farce of the
broadcast kind, pretty toy with which
the republican managers proposed to
trick and amuse the American public.
The Evening Post speaks as follows
of the results of its Investigations, con-
Quoted by agents of the highest integ-
rity:
The PHILADELPHIA SHAM.
s'Now, as to the result of inquiries
made in Philadelphia on our behalf by
persons of the highest competency,
moral and commercial. The first inves-
tigator says, April 20: up to the pres
ent time we can find nothing to sub
stantiate the assertion that N. & G.
Taylor q Co. have any tin plate works,
or any place whatever to dip their tin
plates, except the sOlder-pots which
we spoke about in a previous let
Ger. We have heard from one of
the parties we sent there to buy
a box and to get a sample sheet
or piece, but he was like un-
able to get any information, sample,
etc. Another whom we sent to inves-
@igate has come in a few moments ago
He returned with the money we gave
him to purchase a box, and was unable
to get one box, nor could they tell him
when they could give it to him, neither
was he able to get a sample piece. He
was informed in the office that they
could not furnish any American tin