The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-06
GLASS TRUST BREAKS
COMBINE SENDS OUT NOTICES
 OF ITS DISSOLUTION.
National Company Factories to Operate Separately-Failure to
 Crush Independents Cut
 Profits to Zero.

Chicago Chronicle.
 Local dealers in table glass have re- ceived q notification from the glass trust which practically amounts to a dissolu- ton of the combination in table glass and Chicago dealers declare they see in the announcement the commencement of the downfall of the trust idea. Decreased profits resulting from the failure of the trust to crush out competition by inde- pendent manufacturers is said to have brought about tho change of policy.
 Through a circular letter the National Glass Company, with headquarters in Pittsburg, which controls 75 per cent. of the table glass output of the country, has notified the trade that hereafter the factories in the trust will be operated in- dependently. The National company was capitalized at $5. 00O,OOO and when the com bination was first organized five years ago controlled twenty-one factories scat tered throughout the entire country.
 Factories Break Away.
 The factories absorbed by the trust gradually began to break away as inde- pendent companies came into existence, until at the beginning of this year the trust was operating but six different plants. The others were leased or sold outright. iic IldiIl COHIptlitOl OI tiiS trust has been the United States Glass Company. which is also operated under the combination plan having ab9ut ten factories under it's control.
 The latter concern was organized twelve years ago and experienced many difficult ties in attempting to combine various plants under one management.
 According to official reports of the financial condition of the two trusts neither was able to make any money last year. This is in the face of the fact that the Table Glass Association of Pittsburg is supposed to regulate prices. The as sociatiOn is composed of manufacturers throughout the country, who are banded together, it is asserted. for mutual bene- fit in controlling the prices of the output of their various factories.
 Before the formation of the National Glass Company many of the companies absorbed by the trust were rated in the millions and none of them was listed be- low $75O00. The trust was considered a power by the trade. but dealers now say 1t has sunk of its own weight. It operated through branch offices in all the impor- tant cities in the United States includ- ing Chicago. New York. Philadelphia Baltimore, Boston. Denver. San Francis co, St. Louis and Los AngelcsM
 Trust Quits Business.
 The change of policy from combination to the independent plan was decided on at a meeting of the board of directors of the National Glass Company in Pitts burg. The announcement which has just reached local dealers states that the com pany has concluded to retire from the manufacturing business and to lease it's properties" It is stated the different properties have been leased and will be operated hereafter as follows:
 Beatty Brady Glass works. Dunkirk, Ind. by the Indiana Glass Company
 Cumberland Glass works, Cumberland. Md, by the Cumberland Glass Company, Cumberland. Md.
 Mckee & Brothers Glass works, Jean nettc, Pa. by the Mckee, Jcannetto Glass works, Jeannette. Pa.
 Ohio Flint Glass works Lancaster O., by tue Ohio Flint Glass Company, Lam caster. o.
 Riverside Glass works. Wellsburg. w. Va. by the Riverside Glass Company, Wellsburg. W. Va.
 Rochester Tumbler works. Rochester, Pa. by the Rochester Tumbler Works. Rochester, Pa.
 Before the formation of the trust the Mckee Jeannette works, the Riverside Glass Company and the Rochester Yum bier works were rated with the $1,0OO GOO concerns of the country.
 It is announced that the Crystal Glass Company of Bridgeport. O.. which had leased some time ago the properties known as the Crystal Glass works and the West Virginia Glass works would continue to operate these properties
 Each Plant Independent.
 The notification to the trade contains instructions making the operation of each plant separate. For instance. 1t is stated:
 Invoices for goods shipped you on and after January 1. 1904. will be charged to you on the books of the new company operating the plant from which the goods have been shipped, and you will make settlement with the new company for the same. The new companies will look after all matters pertaining to their respective works. and to whom you will send orders and address communications relating to all business arising after January l.
 Travelling salesmen representing the different companies will travel direct and he under the charge of the local compa- n,cs. Tho local branch offices and show rooms now established will represent the new companies.
 The official notification of the diss0lu-