Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-14
BIG ELECTRIC COMBiNE
To Fight Westinghouse Tn the
 Making of Motors.
YERKEs AT THE HEAD OITHE DEAL
Siemens & Halske Join Him, and He Has
 the Backing of the Widener-Elkins Syndi- cate-FOreigners Striving For Supremacy


 In the Manufacture of Railway Motors.
 NEW YORK, Aug 14.-A new and gil gantic electric combine has just been formed to fight the new Westinghouse Baldwin combination. It includes the Yerkes railroad people and the Siemens & Halske Electrical company. The combi- nation means the entry into the Ameri- can market of a big foreign electric sup ply manufacturing concern in utilization with the Widener- Elkins syndicate of the street car lines in New York, Philadel- phia, Pfttsburg and Chicago.
 Charles F. Yerkcs, the head of the new combine, is known as the Chicago cable king. He is a multimillionaire and is as- sociatcd in cable and electric street rail- roads in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York with the Whitney Elkins- Widener traction syndicate. His son, Charles k. Yerkcs, was recently elected vice presi- dent of the Siemens & Halske Electric company. This company is the largest and most powerful electric manufacturing company in Europe.
 The parent house is ill Berlin, with branches in all the principal European cities. Its founder, Dr. Siemens, was known as tho Edison of Europe. The company has done considerable work in this country. It has built about three- quarters of the private electric light plants in use in this city. Abroad it has built all sorts of electric motors and manufac- turcd every kind of electric machinery and supplies.
 A few weeks ago the Siemens & Halske company purchased the big plant of the Grant locomotive works in Cicero Ills The announcement was made that the works would bo expanded into the largest electric manufacturing plant in the coun- try.
 It Means stiT Fight.
 At the samo time tho capital of the Sicmcns &; Halske company was increased from S1, 900, 900 to $2, 900, 900, and it was said that Charles T. Yerkes had put in the extra million, and that he and his as sociates in street railroad enterprises con- trolled the American branch of the Der lin company.
 A prominent electrical engineer of this city said of this combine: It means the stiffest kind of fight for supremacy in the manufacture of electric railway mo- tors. The fight will be between the Gen. eral Electric company, the Westinghouse concern and the Siemens & Halske com pany.
 'When the Westinghouse Baldwin com binatiOn was formed, it was thought that it would have everything its own way, but with tho Ycrkcses taking an interest in this foreign corporation the outlook is changed. If Ycrkcs, with his interests in the different street. railway systems under the control of the Whitney ElIlins Widener syndicate, can throw to the Siemens & Halskc company all the work of building electric motors and trolley plants required by the syndicate, the concern will have an enormous business on it's hands. It will leave Q comparatively narrow field for other electric motor companies. The fact that young Ycrkcs has been made vice president of the rcorganizcd Siemcns & Halske company shows that the inter csts of the cable and trolley road people will be looked after. While nearly all the street railroads are now run either by trolley or cable the coming business for the new combine will be the building of electric motors for the trunk lines of the country"