Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-18
THE Bread TRUST.I.
What Next Will Combined Capital
Seek to Corner?
SCHEME OF CORNERING BREAD
A New and Marvellous Machine Which Does
A@aI With Hand NneadIng and Increases
Tho Weight EIghty-FYs Pounds in Two
Hundred With Water Better Bread Claimed
What the Washington Bakeries Sal

What promises to be a bread trust
of large proportions has had its begin.
ming by the Incorporation in Trenton,
n. D., of the National Bread Company.
The capital stock of the corporation,
fixed at S3,OOO,OO0, it is stated. has
been fully paid i'm. The immediate
ambition Of the company, II reports
| from source seemingly authentic are
| accurate, is to control the bread out.
| put Of New York City, Jersey City and
| Newark. Eventually the corporation
| expects through a beginning in Chi.
| cago and st. Louis, to acquire a sim.
| llar control over the bread industry
in all of the more important cities Of
the United states, including Washing
ton, Of course. If this be true, the
| company is aiming at control in it's
| line similar to that of the other great
| corporations regulating other products.
| Several Of the larger bakeries of New
| YORK already have been absorbed on q
/ division of stock basis by the new
I company and it is said that I'm the
/ resulting fight for control the other
bakeries will be forced into the new
concern or suffer from the usual meth
/ Ods of competition.
The certificate of incorporation for
| the company shows that ex-Judge Au-
| gustus Van Wyck acted as attorney for
/ the new company. The incorpOrators
/ who, it is believed, are acting in that
| capacity for prominent financial in
terests, are Joseph H. Strange, of
| Orange, n. j.; Paul II. Lorder and
| John Joseph Roach, of Jersey City
Those supposedly having direct con-
nection with the company were disin-
cnned to give much information about
its objects. A person known to be in
/ terested in and connected with the
scheme, when seen, refused to divulge
who was back Of the company or to
name any Of its probable directors
/ lie admitted, however, that the follow
ing facts divulged by another who is
acquainted with the deal are substan-
/ TALLY correct
The National Bread Company. ac-
| cOrdlng to this informant was organ
| ized for a double purpose, first. to con-
solidate all the large baking firms un-
| der a parent company, which should
divide territory among it's members
and so do away with inter-cOmpany
competition I'm all districts, and, sec
ondly to exploit a patent bread.mak-
| ing machine which, il is stated, kneads
bread without any handling and at
/ the same time increases the baked loaf
80 per cent in weight over the present
| one with a given quantity of -four.
The scheme of consolidation will be
for the various baking companies to
! give the National Company a portion
| Of their stock, said to be large, in re-
turn for which they will gain the use
| Of the patented machine, which. it Is
| asserted, does away with about so per
cent Of the labor, and will also be
given an exclusive territory for the
sale of their variety of bread by which
they VIII save the cost of competition
in other districts, both in handling and
delivering their product and I'm the
waste in the various shops The mem
Der companies will run under this plan
as subsidiary companies to the parent
concern, which will get the profits Of
It's portion of the stock This. how.
ever may be but q step to a system
Of absolute control of the baking com
panies by the general corporation,
which, with a start of a heavy percent.
lent position to acquire a majority
holding. "A question as to where the
bakeries would come in led to the ex
PLANTATION that If the baker could take
1875 pounds Of -four and with the ma
chine make $50 to $50 pounds Of bread
instead of only 215 pounds, his present
product, and could save half I'm men
and much in cost of delivery. his bal
ance Of stock would net him more than
the whole thing does now.
The idea Of pounding In so or So
extra pounds of bread into 1876 pounds
Of flour lead to the next question Just
how it was done the man with the
supposedly inside information didn't
know exactly. He thouhgt that the
new way Of making bread by pound
ing it instead of kneading the dough
by hand made the gluten absorb more
water, and that made the bread heav-
ier But he insisted IL was better
bread had been tested by eminent
chemists and the like, who had de-
clared it superior to the old kinds.
At any rate, he said It was better than
handmade bread, and he thought per
haps the days of hand-kneading were
over except for the small bakeries.
The price of bread would not be af-
fected he believed, the company would
be satisfied with that extra so pounds
Of weight by way Of profit. Water ap-
parently was cheap, from the com
panys point Of view. Oh, but he un-
derstood it would be more nutritious
bread because Of it. IL was suggested
that getting bread from fresh water
was better than getting gold from sea
water. Well, he didn't know; that
was what he had heard, and he had
been told that bread actually had been
made that way and was as represented
IL was called the Lee process, as far
as he could remember.
We're the small bakeries to be frozen
out by the usual trust methods? He
didn't believe so. He thought this was
for the big companies who employ
hundreds Of men, but it might aifect
some $4,000 men by reducing the num-
Der Of laborers required.
The Washington bakeries have not.
so far, been approached by any agent
Of the proposed trust, that Is, they say
so, and The Globe Is bound to believe
their statements I'm the absence of anv
proof TO the contrary. What trust will
be next formed it Is hard TO state. but
we should not be astonished TO hear
Of an attempt to corrall the air we
breathe.