Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-11-28
HOW TRUSTS OPERATE.
Mild Arraignment of the Table Glasswar
Trust by the High Tariff Boston Com
merciaI Bulletin.

Mild Arraignment of the Table Glassware
Trust by the II Ugh Tariff Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
The following article on the glass
ware trust from the Commercial Bulle-
tin is interesting:
"When the United States Glass Co.
was formed in July it issued a circular
TO it's customers all over the country
stating its policy, and among other
things announcing that it did not in
tend to advance the price. OF course
the combination was formed for the ex-
press purpose of increasing the profit
on their goods, but this was to be done
by economically operating their facto-
ries. This was to be effected by having
each factory make a special or several
special lines; for instance, one could
make goblets aud stem ware and so on.
The sets of molds would also be lin.
tied, the saving amounting to consider
able, as each set cost from 3, 900 to S.
900. The number of high salaried Of
ficials could be reduced. Again there
would be no danger of accommodating
stock, as factory making a certain
line could shut down if there was
surplus on the market, and the manu-
facturers joined in one strong associa-
ton could be more independent of the
union of glass workers, with which
they have in the past been unable to
cope. Thus by gaining these advan-
tages the association proposed to make
greater profits than in the past
-Four months have not passed yet,
but prices have already been pushed
up on staple lines from five to ten per
cent, and on some specialties, such as
cologne bottles and similar goods, the
advance has been fully fifty per cent.
Jobbers look for greater advance
than this before the year is out. What
its limits will be is hard even to sur
mise, but Judging from the low basis
on which goods sold before the combi-
nation was effected the advance will
be considerable
1.-THE increase in the price of novel
ties and new patterns has not come yet
What are called new patterns have
been on the market now since last
January, and no newer ones are ex-
pected until the advent of the new
year. When they are put on the mar
ket the iobbers say they will most
likely be obliged to pay comparatively
more than in past years The advance
is very likely to be considerable also,
as the making of new patterns entails
the risk of not having the goods take
with the purchasing public, point
which competition in the past did not
admit being fully taken into account.
''By the way, prices have been ad-
vanced of late on table glassware, it is
natural to suppose the United States
Glass Co. has practical control
of the market. There are in
this country about twenty-six
factories in all that make table
glassware, and when the association
was first formed it included fourteen
of these. Most of the powerful con-
Germs were secured, yet several re-
mained outside Since July two or
three more companies have entered and
of the ten or so left but two or three
are large concerns that have the power
to harass the com bination.
"These two or three concerns, it un-
derstood, have agreed to be friendly
with the new United States Glass Co.
and follow the policy of the lat
ter in putting prices up or down.
There are some who expect to see
these outsiders yet immerged in the
combination, so friendly has been their
attitude in the past