The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-28

cigars annually, and Roth, Bruner g.
Foist Company of Cincinnati. In order
To purchase thcse concerns and other
smaller ones. tho capital Of the Amer.
lean Cigar Company was Increased
frum s10ooo,ooo. III 1901, to $4,000.
coo III 1906 In this branch OF the
tobacco business tho trust has not
made the Roadway that It has made
IN other branches. for While II prac-
iital!Y controls tho entire cigarette
production. 10 per cent. Of the plug
manufactured production, and 90 per
cent OF the snuff production. 1t only
con,rch about ab per cent. OF the
ct.rnr PRODUCTION OF the United States.
most notable ones being the fact that
cigars are made by hand, and skilled
labor belongs to tho union which Is
antagonistic to the trust, ana that
machinery Is able to turn out only
the very lowest grade OF cigars. It
may BIO said IN this connection that
the trust has bought control OF the
International Machine Company, hav-
Ing patent rights on machinery which,
II Is snid, will revolutionze the cigar
industry.
III addition to these operations the
trust also organized the American
stogie Company. with a capital Of
s12,oo0,o0o. which controls the stogie
industry OF the country. 1t also or
ganized the McAndrews & Forbes
Company. which controls 95 per cent.
of the licorice business Of the United
States. ..........5
Tho courts have lately. declared this
company to be engaged in illegal COM
binations.
In 1902 the American Tobacco Com
pany acquired control Of the Manhat-
tim Briar Pipe Company, OF New
York, at q cost Of s46s,534. In August
i9o3.the American acquired control Of
the Thomas Cusack Company at cost
OF s25o,ooo, which engages in sign
painting and advertising. In 1908 the
trust organized the Amsterdam Supply
Company, with a capital OF s25o,ooo.
which supplies the various plants
controlled by the trust with practi-
cally all articles needed in the opera
ton Of business except leaf tobacco
Invade Lynchburs. e55
ms October. i 9o5 the American To-
| bacco Company acquired co ntroT OF
Carroll Bro Tiers, Of Lynchburg, Va.
A company was chartered In New Jer-
sey under the name Of ]. w. Carroll
| Tobacco Company with capital of
s425.000. OF which 100000 was trans
ferred without consideration to tho
American Tobacco Company, the ORR
ginal partners In Carroll Brothers
agreeing MOTTO engage in the manu-
facture or distribution Of tobacco for
q period OF ten years.
| PIX Among other comma Mas irt q
American Tobacco Company control
| are the American Machine & Foundry
| Company. The International Cigar Ma
chinery Company, The New Jersey Ma
chine Company, The Garsong Vending
Machine Company. The Crescent Cigar
& Tobacco Company, organized to do
| business In New Orleans. and Acker
Merrell & Condt Company, organized
to do a general grocery business and
to distribute cigars. + ii
Pattersons Deny Charge.
1 The most important acquisition Of
| subsidiary companies, charged in the
/ government petition, SO far al Rich.
4 mond Is concerned, was that Of the r
A. Patterson Tobacco Company. al:
j legged to have been acquired through
the Continental Tobacco Company II
1 August. 1908, for the confederation Of
i se2e,25o. oMcials CT tho Patterson
Company have several times denied
that the concern is owned on con
trolled by the trust.
!, Richmond is also the habitat OF tn,
A Cliff We'll Cigar Company, with
!, capital OF $4,000 controlled by tn
I American Cigar Company, brancl
of the trust.
Crushes Its Opponents.
In all OF Its dealings In the varlou
Z branches OF the tobacco trade which
1t controls. or is endeavoring to con
troll, the same plan which Mr.. Duk
Iinaugurated in the fight for cigarett
supremacy has been followed. TIL
trust brushes Its opponents and drive
them out OF business by selling a
or below cost the various goods 1t de
. sires to introduce and by means 0
its immense capital, continues thi
, sale at reduced price until Its ad
versaries are forced to the wall b
: financial ruin. More than once tn
! courts have been invoked to stop TIL
4 practice. and 1t has been shown ths
the same brand of tobacco or olga,
: cites have been sold by the trust 1
I much lower price than the same bran
\ was being sold In another part {
8 the country To such a degree ha
4 this practice been carried on that O
\ one occasion, when the trust was Ell
4 deavoring to destroy the independer
\ manufacturer, OF the South, 1t di'
4 posed OF its brands at SO much lowe
il prices in the South than In the Mort
y that New York jobbers purchase
a goods through Southern agents ar
u had them reshipped from the Sout
n to New York. II is also stated in tt
n petition that the trust In some II
n stances, failing to destroy its oppol
n ents by this means put upon u
NJ market brands of tobacco IN packag
and under names almost Identical vii
n those OF their competitors with
! view Of deceiving the public, and
! low price and inferior goods ruinir
n the brands of their conipetitors. Fu