The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-28
EPLURIBUS UNUM
The Motto Will Be Appropriate
to the BreWeries
If Efforts Now Being Made
Prove Successful.
SYNDICATE FORM E ID
To Unite All the Brewing In
terests Into One.
1t Is Capitalized at S2OO,OOO,-
900.
British Investors Said to Be
Behind the Scheme.
SYNDICATE MEI

New York, July 28.-The Journal and
Advertiser today says:
A consolidation of American brewers,
malsters and hop growers interested in
the English group of properties is now
going through the prelininaries of or
ganization in Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Detroit, Milwaukee, ST. Louis, Roches-
ter, Baltimore and other large cities of
the country. The capitalization will
be. it is said, not less lhan $200,000,-
900.
The projectors of the new scheme are
organizing by states and making their
propositions to all brewers and NAL
sters having well stabIished business
in the main centers of population.
These brewers are invited to join state
combinations in their trade with a pur-
pose afterward of becoming members
of a national brewing company. Up
to this time the work has been done
mainly in Pennsylvania, western New
York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Mis-
souri,. Propositions have been submit
ted to more than a hundred brewing
concerns in the states, chiefly in the
cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Rochester, Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis. Some of the largest as well as
some of the smallest concerns in the
business are included in these options.
In nearly every city where control is
thus sought the English brewing syn
O1CdIS OWLS large properties Illloa-
delphia is said to be the headquarters
of the new company and Pennsylvania
is the commonwealth in which the first
state organization was formed.
The Journal and Advertiser says that
81 Philadelphia brewers have been APP
preached and a number of them have
already Joined in the scheme. Options
have also been secured in Allegheny
City, while several Rochester firms are
named as likely to go into the new com
pany. The consummatiOn of the entire
4. Il Tf1C 1E
cision of the two largest properties out
side OF the English syndicate. They
are held necessary to- the success of any
project to unite the American breweries
into a single concern.
1t was learned yesterday that sealed
options for the sale of malt house plants
here next Tuesday. The plants are To-
Gated in Buffalo, Chicago, Milwaukee
and other western points.
Secretary Scott of Lyons, N. Y, is
conducting the deal. Mr.. Scott denies
that there is any connection between
his enterprise and the projected con-
SolidatiOn of breweries. An entirely
new corporation composed of New York
and Boston capitalists, he declares, will
take over the plants for cash, and wher-
ever practica BILE contracts will be drawn
to retain present owners as managers
at annual salaries of $4,000.
Concerning the breweries' consolida-
ton Mr.. Scott is quoted as saying:
The enterprise with which l am con-
it. know however that movement
for the consolidation of leading brew
cries is going forward. In Philadelphia
j T. Pearch has brought several prop
critics into the Pennsylvania Brewing
company and it is negotiating with
Pittsburg plants.
In the west" said Mr. Scott great
interest is felt in the rumOrs of the
consolidation of all the American brew
cries outside of those held by the Eng
lsh syndicate. These rumors are rife in
brewing clrCuleS eV6ryW here
In Philadelphia, Pittsburg and De
troit the Journal and Advertiser says,
the promoters of the new scheme We're
suspected of acting for the English syn
dicate- No one connected with the
English syndicate will however, admit
that the BritOnS have any interest in it
At the office of the Brewers association
it was said yesterday: THE English
brewing concerns are not behind the eff
fort to consolidate the brewing in Penn
sylvania and elsewhere. They do not
want any more properties in the Uni
ted States. When it is considered that
they have lost heavily on their Amer
lean investments the supposition that
tbs V are after more is mere foolishness.
Still there is much talk of consolidation
In various parts of the country
we have written letters to Detroit |
Philadelphia and other cities asking
who was behind the movement but
have learned nothing except that there
is considerable talk about 1.-THE Penn
sylvania concerns are probably actua-
ted by the effect of a new state law
lIldI Is DuTueHSOT1e TO the small brew
ers. The law puts graded state tax
on the product which runs from $3.50 for
1000 barrels to $4,000 per 100000 barrels
The small brewers get the worst of it
and the effect would naturally be to
improve the chance of any effort at
consolidation at this time
Mr. Untemeyer, of Guggenheimer.
Untemeyer & Marshall. attorneys for
the English brewing syndicate said
The English investors in American
breweries are not interested in the
movement for brewery consolidation or
the malt house enterprise, of this am
sure. L have heard the rumors of an
attempt to consolidate the breweries of
the country but 1 do not believe it will
succeed. 1t would require greater cap
1ta1 than seems to be engaged in it,