The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-14
NEW DAIRY COMPANY
AN ASSURED FACT
Has Been Organized With a Capitol
Stock Of s450,000.
nFFILERs HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
e. l.. Fuller is President and Il. w.
willard Treasurer of the Company.
Board of Directors Includes Some
of the Most Representative Men of
the City--w hat II is Proposed to DO
in the Way of Distributing Milk.

Within a few days practically the
entire city of Scranton will receive it's
milk supply from the Scranton Dairy
company, an organization formed yes
terdly with capital stock of $45O,O0O,
con- bining the interests of all of the
large milk concerns in the city and a
greater number of the small retailers.
The meeting was held in Judge F.. N.
Wizards office. Directors were elect
ed and officers chosen, as follows: E.
l.. Fuller, president; e. n. Willard,
treasurer; directors, William Connell.
William Hallstead, T.. N. Willard, e.
l.. Fuller, Henry Belin, jr., William II.
Smith, G. NJ. Carpenter A. J. Stone
and f. e. Stone. G.. M. Carpenter will
probably be manager for the CONSOLE
dated concern.
The combine at present includes the
interests of the Scranton Dairy COM
pany, William Conrad, Charles Shedd,
Joseph Schreiber, Stone Bros, and the
Sorth End Milk company. Besides
these nearly every individual milk
peddler in the city has sold his route
to the combine.
Several of the firms named are al
ready under working contract with
the new company and, it is said, today
will see the end of nearly all of the
remaining firms doing business for
themselves. In speaking of the COM
bine yesterday one of the directors
said:
The purpose of the consolidation is
not, as has been insnuated, to con-
troll the milk market with the idea of
advancing the retail price of milk. If
anything milk will be reduced in price.
The real meaning Of the combine is
this;
THE REAL MEANING.
Under old conditions the small re-
tail firms We're in open competition.
The fight assumed such PROPORTIONS
that disaster seemed inevitable. The
time was ripe for unity-not to ad-
vance the price of the commodity but
to maintain a set scale of as equal ben
eft to the consumer as to the dealer.
By the consolidation a great deal of ex-
pense in distributing the supply can
be saved
Where before the city was interwov-
en- with milk routes, under the new
regime the supply can be regularly
distributed from a common centre to
certain blocks or parts of the city,
Il
wagons and workmen and decreasing
| the expense.
1t is proposed that whatever bene-
| ct is derived by the company by this
| saving will be given to the consumer
| as far as is possible Another improve
| ment which will result from the new
| condition is that by distributing the
supply directly to a limited part of
| hn oif ftr
| served at an earlier hour than under
| the old method where the milllman
| travelled miles and miles in disposing
| of small quantity of milk. As many
as seven milk wagons of different own
| ership could some times be seen in a
single block, This will be done away
| with.
| by the new arrangement also a de-
mand can be made for purer supply
of milk The supply will be drawn as
in the past from the farmers round
| about Scranton. Contracts have al
ready been formed with a greater num-
Der of these wholesale sellers.
| The idea that the arrangement is
| detrimental to the public is all bosh.
If anything, milk now selling at s
cents per quart may be reduced to Z
| cents before many days"
| DISTRIBUTING CENTRE.
| Conrads milk depot, located at the
| corner of Larch street and Monsey
| avenue, has been decided upon as the
| main distributing centre. A new barn
to stable forty to sixty horses will be
built at this place and all wagons will
be started there. Several of the depots
now in use will be abandoned, with a
view of decreasing the running ex-
| penses. The company has taken the
charter of the Scranton Dairy COM
pany, only increasing the capital stock
to the figure mentioned
Mr. Carpenter, the probable manager
for the company, has been in charge
| of the Scranton Dairy company in this
city for five years. Previous to that
time Mr., Carpenter was manager OF
the Farmers Dairy at Wilkes Barre
which position he still holds.
|