The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-03

udEAci COfpotatIohS- "a
partnerships engaged in the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes. smoking tobacco
and other forms OF manufactured tobacco.
doing business in the several states
and selling their products in the
United States and In foreign countries.
to-wit: G.. ". Gail & Axe Co. OF Balti-
more. Maryland: F. w Pelsner Son &
Co.. OF Baltimore. Md: Marburg Bros, OF
Baltimore. Md: +. Whitlock Company.
of Richmond. Va: Hernsheim Cut Tobae-
co Works. IL New Orleans. La: d. Scot
ten. OF Detroit. Mich: /. J. Bagley. OF
Detroit, Mich. The Spirit Cure Company.
of Louisville. Ky: DeHofer. OF Louis
willie, KY: Brown Tobacco Co. OF St
Louis. Mo-; p. ]. Scrg Co.. of Middletown.
Ohio; p. H. Mayo & Co. of Richmond,
Va; Liggett * Myers. of St Louis. Mo;
Cigarette Company. of New York city. y.
Y: ". r. Irhy Cigar and Tobacco Co.
OF New Orleans. La: August Beck & Co.
OF Chicago. Ills: Cradle & S,rotz. OF Cal
cago. Ills; Eagle Tobacco Co. OF De-
troit. Mich: H. ". Mayer. of Brooklyn.
y. Y: Thomas H. Hall, of New York
city: Fl. Mandelbaum, of New York city
National Tobacco Company. OF Louisville.
Ky: Tobacco Co, or 81.
Louis. Mo. p. Lorillard Co. OF Jersey
City. y. j.: J. G. Butler Tobacco Works.
Of ST. Louis. Mo; Consolidated Cigarette
Company. OF New York: r. J. Reynolds.
of Winston. y. c.. and II. Ellis & Co, OF
Baltimore, Md. and perhaps others.
That sometime in the year 1898, on or
| about December 10th. 1898. the complain
ants and their other associates, man
| ayers, officers and directors of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. in order 10 furth-
er secure and aid the unlawful monopoly
in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes,
smoking tobacco. cheroots and plug to-
bacco as aforesaid. organized and secured
the incorporation under the laws of the
State of New Jersey of the continental
Tobacco Company. and transferred and
conveyed TO this company all the prop
erty. real. personal and mixed. machin-
cry and trademarks. acquired from the
corporations. individuals and co-partner-
ships aforesaid, and used in the manu-
~facture of plug tobacco; that the said j.
B.. Duke. one of the compliments, was.
and is the President of the Continental
Tobacco Company. and the managers.
officers and directors of the American To
bacco Company, own and control % per
cent. of the capital stock of the Continen-
tai Tobacco Company in trust Tor the
American Tobacco Company; hat the
capital stock of the Continental COMPANY
is now the enormous sum of $500, 000, 0eo,
and the capital stock of the American
Tobacco Company exceeds the enormous
sum of $40, 600, 900. That for many years
prior to the year 1890, and since then,
and up to December. 1898, the Blackwell
Company was an Independent North Caro-
lima corporation, not in any way under
the control or management OF tne
American Tobacco Company, or any other
t--- vim n innovation ami
was engaged in the manufacture at Dur
ham of smoking tobacco, and selling the
same in the State of North Carolina, and
in the other States and in foreign coun-
tries, and by sagacious and energetic
management, and by liberal and extern
siye advertising, had built up and estab-
lished a large, extensive and prohtaDle
!, business, and had acquired valuable rea
: estate in the town Of Durham. and bull
, thereon a large and commodious bricl
+ factory. and other buildings used with iii
business and necessary for go large ant
j., extensive q business; that it had peer
for several years the only large ana IN
}, huential competitor of the American To
bacco Company in the manufacture o
smoking tobacco, and in the purchase Q
: such quantities of leaf tobacco as wa
I. necessary to supply it's demands for man
i ufacture of smoking tobacco; and it's IL
Z dependent existence was the only SUB
s~tantial menace to a complete monopoi
of the manufacture Of smoking tobacc
y in the State of North Carolina. and l
the United States at the time when IN
American Tobacco Company, or the com
d: n1ainants for the use and benefit of tn
u American Tobacco Company, purchased
majority Of the stock of the Black
n wells Durham Tobacco Company; there
fore this defendant humbly m tina
upon the matters and things above an
Y hereinbefore stated, the complainant
If ought not to be permitted to receive tn
e aid of your Honorable court as is Sc
n forth and prayed for in complainant
l. hill OF complaint, and thereby accom-
d plish and carry out their unlawful pul
e pose.
Fifth: And this defendant says, thu
le the American Tobacco Company acquire
and purchased the stock of the BlacR
= we'll Company with the unlawful purpos
20 and intent to combine it with the pus
o, ness affairs of the American 1oDace
IS Company. and not with the purpose an
t. object to continue the business under u
ID charter of Blackwell's Durham Tobacf
lie Company as it had been therefore COZ
Of Quoted: and that the American Iobact
le Company had at the time OF the purcnas
Of the stock full knowledge OF the cha1
le ter and bylaws of Blackwells Durhal
lie Tobacco Company; and that it's stock VIZ
l. not listed upon the Stock Exchanges az
,e was not sold and exchanged therein, b'
compliments knew that notwithstandlI
of this the business of Blackwell's Du1
i'll ham Tobacco Comapny had been for mar
70 wears. and still is very profitable. al
t. had paid large dividends to the holoe'
nj of it's stock at regular periods, thoue
10 since the American Tobacco Conlpai
dc have become the holders of so large
y percentage Of the stock, and though II
g business of the company has been ana
- conducted under their control ana MAJ
!. aeement. no dividends have been declare
or paid on its capital stock since the
- purchase OF the stock and no dividend III
~ been paid to or received by this defen'
- ant upon his share of stock therein; al
" this defendant verify believes that Il
failure to declare and pay dividends up
~ the capital stock of Blackwells Burma
I rTob,.co Cor,nany is a mart and paFCel