New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-26
no DEAL IN BUTTER, IOO.
NO CERTAINTY WHERE THE MILK TRUST
WILL STOP.
STRONG OPPOSITION EXPECTED FROM THE
GRocERs -sURRoUNDINGs OF J. D. GlLMoN'
THE MAN WHO DID 1T ALA
GREAT COMBINATION ORGAN
lied IN QUEER
QUARTERS.

QUARTERS.
The Farm and Dairy Product Company. which
was organized to control the milk trade OF greater
New-York Jersey City and Newark, ~ j.. VIII
elect officers this week While members or the
new company are ret!cent when asked TO discuss us
plans It is understood that in addition to handng
milk the company will 20 into the butter business
II will build creameries and make the surplus HIN
into butter placing this butter on sale on t"c
milk wagons This will be an additional cause ior
the grocers TO oppose the new company
The ouestion Of an increase in the price OF milk,
while disturbing many Of the consumers Is not
causing much worry 10 the new company i"
fact the leaders In the combine declare that they
Will not Increase the price to the Individual FROM
their view Of the situation the new concern VIII
really be a phianthrop!c institution It's OBJECTS so
they say are first TO increase the price now PAID 10
the farmers for the milk They point to the fact that
the farmer has been getting less and less each
year for the last twenty-five years for MS fhiIN
In the month of November. 1858. farmer received
eiS cents a quart. The Exchange price In NoVem-
Der. this year. 2S cents quart but whiie
this Is the wholesale price quoted on the Exchange
the farmer after the various commissions anu
freight charges were deducted, only received 2l0
10 225 cents a quart. The new company says tha'
the farmer under the new arrangement VIII re-
ceve about half cent more quart ior MS "i''h
The company also says that It's new move III
reducing the number Of wagons will be Of benefit
morning 10 forty or fifty milk wagons rolling past
their homes Under the companys management
its territory will be divided into districts with
one wagon for each district. The company a'So
promises that the milk supplied viii be OF oet'e'
ard more even grade under the new management
Paving more money TO the farmers ana dt the
same time promising to keep the price down TO the
consumers II would seem as II the company was
not in business for what It could make but
simply for the good Of the people
The members OF the new company. however
sav that they see considerable money in the deal.
They say that the cost OF handling milk is ABOUT
81 cents quart and that under the new plan OF
handling the milk the cost ought not to exceed
one cent. II the company only saves one cent on
the cost of handling the product 1t VIII make an
enormous profit. At present about sSO0N quarts OF
milk are sold in Greater New-York each day
This would mean s. 800 saving 10 the compnauoh'
and as the business will be conducted $50 Gays Il
year the members see bright prospects aIe"u io'
handsome profits
J. d Gilnor who was instrumental in forming
the new biscuit company with capital OF Soo'V'''-
CO., is tho FOUNDER and promoter OF the Hli'h com.
bnation. To Mr.. Gilmor at his ONCE ana 'd'A
with him one would not think that ne had been the
organizer Of two OF these large combinations Inc
office OVER the bakery at No. 2OS Greenwich-s' Is
not furnished with all the lu..uries person "ou'u
expect TO find in the office Of man contro"lhs
millions. No office boy gree;s the visitor as ne
enters To see Mr. Gilmor a person must enter Inc
bakery and send word upstairs. stating ms ouSi.
ness This uuty one of the women clerks IN tne
bakery performs If the visitor is fortunate ehQuSn
10 find Mr.. Gilmor at leisure, he goes up a n65nC
Of stars and finds himself in large wareIooin
filled with barrels Of -four. Looking around Ior te
office he will see one end a board partition sep
arating d small room from the main wareT9om
The Office is entered through narrow door. lheie
Is no array of stenoGraphers and type"rlters IN
Nj Gilrn )r's room. 1t would be TOO small me
desk which Mr. Gmor uses is an old deal taole
thar ist fills up one end Of the office: TWO WOODEN
chairs complete the furniture. and the other ornd-
ments are seven or eight barrels OF flour, Iarse
Kettle for boiling candy and numerous boxes. neie
the promoter receives the men VINO are mNestIhS
millions OF dollars in the new combination as wen
as the small retail milk dealers. VINO nav" each
small route with horse and wagon
Mr. Cilmors business is that OF a biscuit manu-
facturer Three years ago he got the loea tnat IL
would be good thing to centraze that business;
He worked on the scheme for long time. ana
finally succeeded in getting all the large hrms 70
combine Then at the request OF several large nlilK
dealers he started TO combine that business ror
two wears he has been quietly working al H. i ne
Farm and Dairy Product Company Is the result
What lis full scope will be no one can tell except
members OF the company, and they Will not tax;
Under It's articles OF incorporation II can handle all
the products of the farm and dairy. whether IL
will eventually try 10 control all these Things time
alone will show. The grocers do not Ike the com
pany and may fight 1t. especially when IL attempts
20 handle other things than milk.