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WILL IT PIPE MILK TO THE CITY,
A Queer Rumor About the Standard OIL
Company--The Story Denied.

4 A Queer Rumor About the Standard Oh
Company--The Story Denied.
/ The Milk Producers union, which was
organized two years ago with 1000 mem
7 bers for the purpose Of killing off the
milk exchange and controlling the re.
! tail price of milk in this city and Brook
lyn, apparently collapsed after the ex-
penditure of some money and a vast
| amount of talk. But the leaders in the
movement never lost their faith in the
scheme. They remained unreconciled
to the existing situation which forced
| them to accept two cents a quart for
milk which the dealers here sold at six
andeight cents quart, while the trans
portation charge did not exceed a cent a
quart. After the collapse of the union,
which was chiefly due to the inability to
agree on any one thing and all to live
mp to it, the leaders in the movement
formed stock company, with capital
of 81 100000.
II was at first proposed to require
S1OO. 900 of this to be paid up, but sub
sequently start was made on paid up
capital of S. 900. With this ''milk
depot" was opened at 81 Eighth avenue,
some wagons were bought ard the ac-
tual work of supplying milk 10 the city
consumers was begun. This was only a
few months ago, but the experiment is
said to be highly satisfactory to the
farmers in the concern, which is styled
the Union Milk company. They are
now handling about 100 forty quart cans
of milk day and running ten wagons.
Negotiations are in progress by whic
they hope to buy out large dealer in
Harlem and double the nun Der of their
delivery wagons.
This information was furnished by E.
G. Seeley, of Roxbury, Conn, who was
president of the Milk Producers union
while it lasted and is the director for
Connecticut in the Union Mix company.
Mr.. Seeley also said that he had heard
from one of the largest dealers in the
city that the Standard Oil company was
contemplating buying out some of the
heaviest milk dealers in the city and Sc
curing monopoly of the business of de-
livering milk here. 81 heard" said Mr..
Seeley, "and | consider my informant
entirely trustworthy, that the Standard
company proposed to expend $3,000,000
in purchasing established delivery routes
in this city and Brooklyn, such as those
controlled by the Bordens, T. w. Decker
and Slawson Bros, which are valuable.
"Then they propose, when they have
got control of the business, to district
the city and deliver milk in systematic
and economical way. AT present the
business of delivering milk in this city
and Brooklyn is the most wasteful and
unsatisfactory way of doing big bust
ness, amounting to $4,000 year, to be
found anywhere"
This city and Brooklyn consume daily
more than 10000 cans of milk Whether
the Standard intended to put in vast
pipe line system, with little branches
running into the milking pens of the
farmers, Mr.. Seeley could not say.
At Che Office of the Standard Oil COM
pany it was denied that that great con-
cern intended to get control of the milk
business of the city. "Milk and oil won t
mix" remarked an official of the conf
pany.-New York Tribune.