The evening times., 1900-02-24
TRUSTS MOVED BY TRAIN
The Tin Plate and Steel Companies
Arrive in New York.
Omce Employees and Furniture
Transferred From Chicago in Spe-
cial COaches-FIeeing From Hos
tile State-Ordinary business Al
fairs Transacted While En- Route.

| NEW YORK. Feb 24.-Two giant trusts
arrived in this city yesterday bag and bag
I gage, with battalion OF employees They
! are the American Tin Plate Company and
! the National Steel Company. Their head
quarters hereafter, and those Of the
American Steel Hoop Company, another
trust. will be in New York.
Up to Thursday last the home Offices
OF these corporations had been in Chi a
go. The antitrust sentiment has become
so strongly developed in the State of Illi-
nos that the American Tin Plate Company
and the National Steel Company decided
TO move to a State where their operations
would not be so seriously hampered. Other
companies threaten to follow them from
Illinois 10 New York
A special train of three express baggage
cars. four sleepers and a day coach ar
rived from Chicago at the Pennsylvania
Railroad Station in Jersey City at 2:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t contained
the entire working Office forces-clerks
bookkeepers, stenographers and Office boys
of the American Tin Plate Company and
the National Steel Company.
With all their Office furniture and
fixtures, the stats Of the two companies
boarded their special train in Chicago on
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock The Ordi-
nary business OF the two trusts was not
impeded by this move. During the trip
the daily labors of the clerical force were
conducted as though they were ensconced
in their -scraper Offices in Chicago
Mail was received at various points and
answered. Letters were dictated TO stem
ographers. books were posted. checks
drawn and orders filled Not moment
was lost from the time the train left Chi
cago until it arrived in Jersey City Only
then did the typewriJers cease clicking
and the bookkeepers close heir ledgers.
There is nothing of a vacation about
this moving" said one of the stenograph-
ers. yesterday. Il typewrote as many let
ters on the train as ! ever do on any one
day"
There we're seventy-fve employees OF the
American Tin Plate Company. with the
families of those who are married. Twen
ty-nne clerks was the total of the Ma
tional Steel Company. Some Of these had
their families with them. Not only did
the companies pay all expenses for the
transportation of the clerks wives and
families but their household furniture was
brought to New York free of charge The
whole party was in charge Of 4. G. Young,
of the National Steel Company.
tall man connected with one Of the
companies met the party al the Jersey
City station. He was armed with list Of
hotels and bOaTdinghOuses. He ascertain
ed from each arrival his or her require
ments in the way of a home. and prompt
ly recommended a stopping place. He gave
full instructions as to how each place
could be reached. and the arrivals dis
persed by different ferries.
Most of the men clerks went directly to
the new Battery Park Building The three
companies will occupy the entire eighth,
ninth and tenth floors of the building.
Wagons were drawn up there laden with
safes, desks, and other parapheTnalia for
office work. The Office stats of the three
companies expect TO be settled in their
new home and ready TO begin active op-
eTatons on Monday
Z. w Bray. chief engineer of the Amer
lean Tin Plate Company. left the train at
Pittsburg with his staff of assistants to es-
tablish a plant there. The company already
has two in that city.
The National Steel American Tin Plate
and American Steel Hoop Companies arr
the three largest monopolies in their line
in the country. They represent a capital
of $40 COO coo. They control all the tin
plate companies and barrel and bucket
steel hoop factories in North America
They are all closely allied with each other
having practically the same boards Of di-
rectors Their interests are identical one
monopoly helping the other. D. G. Reid is
the president of the American Tin Plate
Company. J. V. Guthrie Of the American
Steel Hoop Company, and W. E. Refs Of
the National Steel Company.
There has never been such movement
of big corporations in trust history. All
three companies were Incorporated in New
Jersey.