Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-14
|oUR. NEWEST TRUSTS.
F acts About Industries Grown
Into Great Corporations.
FORTUNE IN A MENIAL SERVICE.


Its Organi.er - Scissors Grinder
Trust the Most Recent Entry In the
Combine Field-Pins, Peanuts and
Manure Now Subjects of Trusts.
The growth Of trusts and great cor
porations in the United States during
the past few years has been so re-
markable that the average man OF to-
day is never surprised to hear that
corporate organization has EXTENDED
its field Of usefulness and embraced
some sphere of business that has here
tofore been deemed immune to the at
tacks of organized capital.
When therefore a pin trust and
needle trust and peanut trust each
came into being, the public was pre-
pared for the blow, says the New YORK
Times. But when manure trust ana
q bootblack trust and a scissors grind
er trust put in their respective appear
ances there was the nearest approach
to a smile on the face of Uncle Sam
that he has evinced since he first saw
one of the modern corporations popu-
larly called trusts.
One enterprise that has recently come
under the control Of trust Is the
"clean towel supply" business. AS al
most all New Workers know, the bust
ness that was done for years in sup
plying clean towels, soap and other
| toilet articles for the offices through
! out the business sections was until re-
Gently done by the wives or the sweet
hearts or the friends of the various
1anitors Of the office buildings. This
has all been done away with, and now
along comes the trust and monOpolizes
the industry.
1t would seem at first glance that
this was too "picayune' an industry
to engage the attention of capital But
when you stop to consider that the
company receives Is cents per month
for each cabinet it rents, with sup
DIV of soap and towels, and when you
find out that there are out on rental
more than 10000 cabinets In New
York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Ho'
boken you can readily recognize that
the gross income of the company ex
ceeds $4,000 per month, which at the
end of the year has amounted to over
$1SO.0OO.
For centuries bootblacking was ONE
of the most mental Of all the services
that one could name, and surely 1T die
not seem that it could ever be elevated
to the realm Of finance and become {
fortune making enterprise until Ton!
Aste, by his organization Of the boot
black trust" demonstrated that III
service was too low too mental or to-
looked down upon to be made proil
maker if organized on the same plal
that had made the Standard OIL com
pany success.
That the bootblack trust Is paying
, institution cannot he doubted when
is seen that Mr.. Aste maintains
l string Of race horses that was so goo
as to contain the great colt Nastur
tium for which Mr.. William c. Whit
new paid Mr. Aste $4,000
The most recent entry in the trus
\ field is the so called scissors grinde
J trust. This trust is one formed to cor
troll the business of saw filing for tn
butchers in and about New York.
The New York Saw Filing compan
is the dignified name which goes
cover the business Of the trust. III
plan of operation Of the company is t
furnish butcher shop with complet
set of meat saws, for which it make
no charge, as the saws remain I'll
property of the company. After sho
e has been equipped with set of saw
the company sends each week to I'll
shop and substitutes for the saws thu
have been doing service for the pr
ceding week another set that are fires
ly filed and as sharp as possible III
ones taken away are filed and s.
again.
For the service fee is charged tn;
is about what it used to cost to hay
y the filing done by the scissors grinder
who did all of this kind of business b
fore the advent Of the new cCmpan
AS this system avoids the necessity
having any other saws in the sho
the butchers are very glad to ava
: themselves of the opportunity offered
j! Whether This trust is going to be
1 profitable as any of the other pic
= WINE trusts is a problem which tin
alone can solve, as the company h.
), launched out within the too recent pa
= to be able to say what the outcome w
be. From the complaint of the scisso
grinders that their business has be-
- ruined it may be judged that this Iu
3 ness will probably ''pan out go
dividend.
Novelty In Matchboxes.
= In Europe new KIND or matchp
is ranidlY Incoming pOpular. Saws I