Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
TIRED OF GOING 1T ALONE.
The New Trust Will Not Fight the
United States Company.
DIFFERENCES TO BE RARMONIZED.
Glass and CrOckery JObbers Will Make a
Scale of Prices,
AND TRY TO SQUEEZE MANUFACTURERS

The success of the United States elias,
Company has been so gratifying that a sec.
ond combination among the tableware men
not in the syndicate is to be formed All
present about II firms are members of the
United States Company, andfully that mum.
ber are on the outside in the cold The
managers of the Uni&ed States Company
have decided to admit no more firms until
their business is ,svstematized and the fac
tories are put oman easy running basis. So
far as could We learned, it is not the inten-
tion of the new combination TO fight its
rival, and it is possible that in time they
may be united.j
Several days ago secret circulars were
issued by co tnmittee of manufacturers in
terested in thS scheme calling a meeting at
the WindsoE Hotel in Wheeling for 4
O'Clock this afternoon. Favorable replies
have beerf received from a number of the
cOmpanieR
Fir5ns That win BE Represented.
At leaE st Il firms will be represented at
the NEE fling. These are the Buckeye Glass
Company, Cooperative Flint Glass Com
pany, cumberland Glass Company, Canton
Glass Company, Dalzell, Gilmore &
Leighton, Elson Glass Company,
Fost oria Glass Company, Fostoria
Shs de and Lamp Company, Greensburg
g Ass Company, Gillinder & Sons, Model
u lint Glass Company, Northwood Glass
COMPANY, Pittsburg Glass Company, River
Gide Glass Company, Westmoreland Spe-
! cialty Glass Company, Zimmerman Glass
Company, Bryce, Higbee s. Co., and the
Rochester Tumbler Company.
Some doubt is expressed about the
latter company, as so far they have
steadily refused to join any kind
of a combination, preferring to paddle
their own canoe. People familiar with the
glass business will see at glance, however,
that most of the concerns not in the United
States Company are mentioned in the above
list, and intend to Join the combination, if
one can be formed amicablv. Wheeling was
selected as the meeting place to avoid as
much publicity as possible.
One of the gentlemen interested said YES
terday that they had no intention of fight
ing the United States Company. On the
contrary, their object was to harmonic ex-
listing differences. In the past prices of
tableware have been cut to a ruinous ex-
tent At times agents were ashamed to
visit iobbers, and when asked for the rates
on certain lines invariably replied that they
hadn't heard the latest quotation. The
capital invested in the new combination
will be large. The business this season has
been good and the United States Company
has gobbled its share, if not more.
None of the Men Are Cut Of.
When this company was organized the
hue and cry was raised that expenses were
to be greatly curtailed and number of the
agents would be dropped. The fact is that
with the exception of two men who resigned
the same force is employed. One of the
men quit on account of sickness. The
hustlers are not so fearful of combinations
now and they don't care how many are
tormed.
The glass and crockery jobbers will meet
in convention at the Monorgahela House
tomorrow. A few merchants have been on
hand for several davs, and George B. Jones,
George B. Bullard and A. T. Johnston,
three Boston crockery dealers, registered at
the hotel last evening. The makers and
agents are a little anxious to find out what
the jobbers intend to do. 1t is
anticipated that they will make
their own scale of prices on
glass and crockery, and then trv to force
the manufacturers TO accede to their terms
Such q combination is now working against
the plate glass men. but so far they have
had no success. The plate glass iobbers
have bought very little glass for the last
six months, but the makers are determined
TO hold out. The glass and crockery iobbers
are very reticent about their meeting, and
not much information can be gathered.