The age-herald., 1900-07-18
MR. GUMPF RETURNS
 TO BIRMINGHAM He Claims an Injustice Has Been
 Done Him IN REGARD TO HIS DEALINGS He Says That Such a Firm as Gumpf & Gunter Was Organized Before
 Before He Went on His
 European Trip
IN REGARD TO HIS DEALINGS

H. Gumpf has returned to Birmingham to arrange for filling orders for coal re- gently placed with German manufacturers
 MT Gumpf claims that an injustice was done him by the publication that appeared in The Age-Herald yesterday respecting the firm of Gumpf & Gunter.
 The firm of Gumpf & Gunter is composed of H. Gumpf and W. A. Gunter, a Mont gomery lawyer. MT. Gumpf claims that the firm was formed shortly prior to his departure for Europe, and that the agree ment was that he was to look after the firms interests in Europe, and that MT. Gunter should come to Birmingham and open an office and look after its business interests in this district. MT Gumpf went to Germany, Holland and other countries in pursuance of this agreement, but had been in the former country but a short time when he ascertained that inquiries about him had been made by the Bank of Germany, and that the latter institution had received reports to the effect that no such company, corporation or firm as Gumpf & Gunter existed in Birmingham. He says he made a showing that convinced the bank and the concerns he had been neSOlldllHS Wllu Ol HIS IeiliDllilS etid iS- sponsibility and that he then succeeded in placing an order for 10000 tons of Alabama coal at $2.50 per ton f. O. b. Pensacola. From Germany he went to Holland and there encountered the same troubles, which he overcame with the same showings.
 Cabied to MT. Gunter
 MT. Gumpf says that he cabled MT. Gun ter to come to Birmingham and open an of flee at once and that MT. Gunter replied by cable that he had written. This decided MT. Gumpf to return to Birmingham and personally arrange for filling the orders he had taken He arrived in Birmingham yesterday morning from the North on the Louisville and Nashville train at S22
 Speaking of the new process of making iron which he had tested at the Birming- ham rolling mill last January he said that the tests proved that the new process was entirely successful but that the expense of making 1t was too great and therefore it was not practicable at that time to go into the manufacture of iron under that process.
 Referring to the 10000 tons of coal he sold in Germany, MT Gumpf said that the con- tract figures would give him a nice profit. The price he was to receive was $2.50 a ton for coal delivered at Pensacola. He claims that he can buy coal at the mines for about $1 and that the freight from Birmingham to Pensacola is $1, thus making it cost him $2 at the latter point. He says that he has chartered two vessels to carry the coal to Europe, and that they will arrive at Pensa- cola about the middle of August He says he did not represent himself in Europe as manufacturer of iron nor producer of coal, but that some of the newspapers there reported him as being the senior member of one of the wealthiest corporations in the State.
 Mir Gumpf said that he had advertised the Alabama coal and had on all occasions boosted up the State and it's industries to the best of his abilities, and that he would try to get Alabama coal with which to fill the order above referred to, but if he could not get the Alabama product at prices that would enable him to make some profit he would go to West Virginia, he having re- ceived an offer from one concern in that State to fill his order