Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-09-07
THE BEEF BUTCHERS
Want to Purchase Kansas City
Packing Plant.
PACKERS DO NOT WANT TO SELL.
owners OF tho mig Packing Plants Say
the Schenie Or die Butcher" Will
NOS succeed President
Wagner Talks.

Kansas City, September 5.-ItumorS
of the intended Investment OF S@,oOO,-
OOO, 900 In KANSAS City packing plant
by the Retail butchers Protective AS
sociation, of New York, continue TO
reach this city. In an interview In New
York Monday night Louis j. Wagner,
president ol the association, snid that
committee would leave New YORK
for Kansas City next week TO examine
the various plants and negotiate Tor
one.
Mr.. Wagner says; "We are arrang-
ing for u national movement on the
part OF the retail butchers TO fight the
trust. This will be effected through
the National Retail Butchers Mutual
Protective Association, which has
members in every city in the United
States, and which has, therefore, much
influence and can command large capl-
tai. IL is splendidly organized ana
will mot be afraid TO try issues with
the beef trust when the proper time
comes.
1--WE are now considering the ques-
tion of buying n large slaughter
house plant in Kansas City, one of tho
largest and most successful estGS-
lishments OF the kind in the WeB'A
how much IL will cost TO acquire the
property2 In round figures, about
S2,5OO,0O0. A committee from the
Greater New York Butchers Associa-
ton will leave here next week for
Kansas City to examine ,ne plant.
The committee will be accompanied
by one or two experienced cattle men
and will seek to obtain an option on
the property running until about
january L. As to the financial part of
our enterprise, certain changes have
been suggested within the past week,
although they have not yet been acted
upon by the association. The present
suggestion Is TO raise ten millions cap
ital, this to be divided into shares of
800 each. Only butchers would be
allowed to become stockholders and
holdings would not be limiled to TWEEN
ty shares, as was Mt first suggested.
Large blocks of stock may be held
by one person, but before he would BIO
allowed to subscribe for any large
amount his application would be fully
oonsideped by the financial commit
tee.
4Ihrtchers in large cities have COM
municnted with the association on the
matter of acquiring stock. One man
in Philadelphia has expressed himself
as ready to take 100000 worth OF
stock If he can get that amount. In
the matter of supplying beef to stock
holders, we would expect to ship beef
from the Kansas City establishment
direct to other cities in the West, mid
die West, Southwest and Northwest.
The slaughter house which it Is i'm
tended to start In Jersey City, Ho-
boken or somewhere else near New
York, win supply the cities in this
part of the country.
-AS to what progress we are making
I'm the matter of obtaining slaughter
house plant near New York, l prefer
to say nothing at present"
Asked concerning the rumor that
the association was contemplating the
purchase of the Dold plant in Kansas
City, A. w. Dold discaimed any
knowledge of any such move. He said
that the talk of selling the Dold plant
in Kansas City was ridiculous and that
there was not the least foundation
for the report. He said he had no idea
of any other packing plant in Kansas
City that would be likely to sell out
to the new organization and that
packers were not worried about the
talk of movement for an independ-
ent plant
]. G. Dold, the vice president Of tho
Jacob bold Packing Company, said
last night: "The Retail Butchers AS
ISOLATION Of New York made some
overtures, I believe, to Kansas City
packers, but they would not consider
them. believe they have also seen
some of the packers of st. Joseph, but
none of them would sell. / do not be-
heve that anything will come of the
matter, despite the statements of
President Wagner"
Fred bold said:
Hh AuVW dDOub ~ IN Uudb hOI0t
negotiations were being made. OF
what nature l do not know. j. G.
bold would know about 1T. 1 did not
talk to him I'm relation to selling this
plant. / had mot seen him before DUR
ing the past six months. feel certain
there 10 nothing in it at all"
A. #. Nathan, manager of the
Gchwarzschild & Sulzberger's Packing
Co, ridiculed the idea Of the New
Work Retail Butchers Association get
ting possession of their plant. ut is
PreposterouS," said he last night. II
am positive that the butchers cannot
get eCptrol Of our plant, and do not
believe any of the other concerns in
Kansas City will sell 10 them"
u. 8. Epperson, manager of the
Fowler plant, is away from the city.
The other packers said they did not
believe Fowler would sell,
The Fowler plant would be the most
desirable one for them, for the rea-
son that the Fowler plant IL PRACTICAL
ly beef killing one. The FoWleTS do
not kill many hogs or sheen.