Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-09-11

I courage impoITations. And, finally.
wholesale grocers and agents declared
that agents OF the trust were canvass
ing the country inducing grocers to
sign yearly contracts to take 100 per
cent OF their supplies from>the trust.
giving rebate Of one per cent. which
placed the handling of sugar distribute
ed to these concerns beyond a margin
of profit for the middemen.
The feeling of resentment caused a
party OF merchants in Philadelphia and
another party in New York and tho
West to contemplate active opposition.
Adolph Segal proposed to erect model
refinery Of 1000 barrels a day capacity
in Philadelphia. and met with encour
agement.
The refinery is now completed stand
ing on the Delaware at the foot of
Shackamaxon street. Some persons af-
feet to believe that Mr.. Segal built tho
factory for the purpose of forcing the
trust to buy II, but that Is another
story. The present owners declare
that 1t is to be started up at once.
NS" WIGS VI we" Jersey.
Meanwhile the other crowd of dis.
gruntled merchants in New York ana
Cleveland got together capital and he
gan the construction OF the Knicker-
booker Refinery of 1000 barrels capac>
ity at Edgewater, n. j., on the Hud
son. opposite Grants tomb The build
ing was interrupted for some time, but
Is now being prosecuted energetically
and the company is backed by some
OF the heaviest capitalists in the coun-
try.
At the same time the KnickerboCkcr
Refinery was begun II. l.. Hobart & Co.
of New York, large sugar brokers. con-
verted their syrup factory in jersey
City into sugar factory of 1900 bar
rels capacity, and Incorporated In New
Jersey under the name OF the indie
pendent Sugar Refinery. The factory
stands ready to operate but has nevs-
yet turned cut any sugar.
While these insurgents were getting
ready to tackle the trust a coterie Of
California and Canada capitalists,
under the leadership of G. A. Sprecl-
els and Clarence II. Mackay, was he
ginning to sell to the trade the output
OF 500-barrel-a-day plant at Yonkers,
known as the Federal Refinery. This
company, organized under the laws OF
New Jersey, has a capital of $50, 00O, 900
and has behind II such strong men az
Dumont Clarke, w. w. Cook, John O.
| Stevens, Edwin Hawley and Sir Will
liam Van Horne, Of Canada. in addl-
ton to c. A. Spreckels and Clarence
II. Mackay, all of whom are directors
, the last two being president and vice.
president, respectively. The Federal
| Refinery operates under an entirely
new process. clarifying its sugar
through the medium of electricity and
without the use OF bOneblack. A new
wing now building will give the factory
a capacity Of $500 barrels per day.
A Formidable Opposition.
1t will thus be seen thai the resent
ment OF the wholesalers has resulted
in the robust menace of independent
factories with a daily capacity of 10.
900 barrels of sugar. This, added 10
the 6OOO-barrel capacity Of the inds
pendent New York refinery of the Ar,
buckles, which has for some years
maintained an armed peace attitude to
ward the trust, with occasional price,
cutting skirmishes, brings the possible
grand total of daily output of the con,
Germs outside the trust up To 10000
barrels, which is 40 per cent OF tho
total consumption Of sugar in the mar
kets reached by the trust, IL being e.
timated that 10000 barrels day is tho
maximum average.
Built to Fight the Trust.
| President Ross made this assertion
of the intentions OF his company:
| THE KniCkerbocker Refinery is be-
ing built as a protest against theop.
pressiye policy of the trust. The groc-
cry trade is tired of the treatment i
has received. Our refinery is being
pushed rs rapidly as possible and by
January next will be completed and
ready to operate Sugar Is a CommOd
ity which offers fair profit to the
manufacturer The cost of refining
ranges between u and 5s of a cent =
pound.