The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-15
THE BAKERS
COMBINE PAU
Bread Makers Not
To Join Their
Forces.
WAS FORMED FOR
PRIVATE ENDS
Originator's Cake is Dough and
Housewives Can Still Get
Favorite Brands.

The rumor that bakers combine is
about to be formed has not been con-
firmed by interviews had with the heads
of the four firms concerned
Mr.. Singer of the Singer bakery, when
seen yesterday afternoon, said that as
far as he was concerned there would be
no combine. There have been several
attempts to bring us together 20 con-
slider the subject" said the portly bak-
fail to see what possible good can come
of it. At present there are four diner
ent styles of bread on the market eac-.
of which has it's consumers who swear
by it. If we adopt the idea of lar. Lut-
ted and bake all our bread in one COM
mon bakery, only one style will De turned
out, and there will be.a splendid open
| ing for a new competitor. bread-mak-
| ing mas many difficulties to confront il
here. / am the only proprietor of
bakery that can get in upon occasion and
| make my own batch. and while / have
never had any trouble with my men,
still, if our bakers went back on us,
there would be some delay before we
could replace them.
Il think the idea is good only in the
eyes of the originator, who desires the
combination for his own purposes. no
ticed an item in the Bulletin stating that
! the American Cracker Company was
| thinking of establishing a branch here.
That, l think, was inserted for pur-
pose. 1t is ridiculous to think that such
| a move Is contemplated by the cracker
company, when you can buy crackers
here cheaper than they could afford to
make them. I am out of the combine"
| Mr.. Morgan, the manager of Loves
bakery. is at home nursing an attack o,
| mumps and could not seen, but he is
not considered as being favorable to the
trust.
| Mr.. Schne.uer of the German bakery
said that they could notify him all they
pleased but he was not looking for a
! combine.
| 1.-The idea said Mr.. Schneider, las
| told to me two weeks ago, was for the
| four bakeries to combine and cut down
the cost of baking by forming a stock
company, each of us taking so much
L
delivery and baking was to come out of
one depot. None of US have a large
enough bake-house TO handle all the
bread consumed here, and / don't know
where the money would be coming from
the build the new ovens. l am willing
to sell my bakery to the combine il
get my own price, but Schneider can
start up again If he feels like it l think
the scheme lies with one man who is
DESTROYS of selling out his own business
at good round price. 1 know that
neither Morgan, Singer nor myself want
anything to do with it,
NO; combine would not raise the
price of bread. The only way in wnlch
it would affect the public would be that
only one style of bread would be baked.
We would have a hard time deciding
just which make to adopt and whose is
the favorite, and meanwhile another man
could step in and divide the trade. No;
/ don't want it. The bakery business is
a hard enough one, anyway We can
| practically use only white flour. If we
want to bake whole meal or graham
bread we have no facilities for getting
| material. Whole meal kept in stock
would be more of live menagerie than
| -four in few weeks. The price of butter
/ is prohibitive and when I told a San
| Francisco baker what 1 paid for eggs, Ia
| per cent of which I had to throw away,
he showed me eggs at a third less in
price, all of which We're good. You can
count me out of the combine
| J. Oswald Lutted of the sew England
| Bakery, who is looked upon as the head
center of the proposed combines is sell
dom at his bakery. Mr.. Lutted has sue
cessfulIy leased good deal of property
at satisfactory rentals and spends most
of his time driving and otherwise TAX
| ing life easl.y. He could not seen
yesterday.
| Little information was CLEANED at the
New England bakery beyond the 4act
! that a meeting had been arranged or,
but postponed, and that nothing definite
could be said as to the success OIL the
combination.
Under the circumstances the four bak-
cries will probably continue to raise their
| own bread and handle their own dough
| At any rate, the market price of buns
and cookies is not Likely to be affected
at present.