The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-18
Board of Directors Glasses
Three Branches. Which Will
be Reopened in Name Of New
Concern.

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port that the American Tobacco com
pany. with branches all over the evil
lied and semi-oiyilized world is abouf
to dissolve, Is practically admitted by
officials of the company in this city.
who will not allow their names to be
mentioned. This step has been de-
cided on by the advice of attorneys
OF the company in Washington, who
are of the opinion that the company
will be liable under the terms of the
Sherman antitrust laws.
Two reasons are assigned for the
dissolution, which is possibly by mu-
tual agreement of the board OF d..
rectors of the company. The first Of
under the advice of counsel the
other being that the company has
grown TO such enormous size and its
business methods have become so
complicated that dissolution has been
resolved upon as a matter of bust
ness expediency.
Three Branches Close.
The Whitlock branch OF the Amer
lean Cigar company, which is a
branch of the American Tobacco com
pany closed It's doors for the pur-
pose of taking an inventory. The
plant will not open again until Mon
day, May 81. simultaneously with
the closing of the Whitlock branch.
the Jersey City, n. j.. branch and
also the branch at Lancaster, Pa.
closed for the same purpose.
Just what steps will be taken in
closing down the other branches in
this and other cities can not be
learned. The three big plants men
toned are known as the machine
made cigar branches.
The company has hundreds Of
handmade cigar branches located in
Petersburg, Norfolk, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, New York, Jacksonville.
Fla. Tampa. Fla, Key West, Charles.
\ ton. Chicago and other places in this
country. as well as Havana. Cuba and
many other cities in foreign conn
tries, including the Philippines and
the Hawaiian group and China.
Start Under New Name.
when the three machine7made
cigar plants start up again, il is said.
they will no longer be connected or
known as being connected with the
A .agfA Tsahn uV1NH \. az
will be known as the Federal Cigar
company. makers exclusively of ma
chine-made cigars.
W. S. Luekett, Of New York, pres
emf general manager for three
branches. is scheduled for the presi-
deney OF the Federal Cigar company.
A. G.. Woodford, at present assisu-
ant general manager, will be the vice
president. The general manager will
be J. Norman Dart, present manager
of the Whitlock branch. +. b. Smith,
superintendent for the Whitloell
branch. is to succeed Dart as general
manager of the local plant f. e.
Ramsey, assistant to the superintend-
ent, Is to be made superintendent
here.
Reorganizc All Plants.
Dart has been in New York sew
eral days in conference with officials
of the American Tobacco company
over the proposed dissolution. The
orders to close the Whitlock branch
We're received by telegraph.
II is believed that the whole Amer
lean or United States Cigar Stores
company the American Cigar Stands
company. the American SNUFF COM
pany, American Licorice company
Together with the many other under
lying and subsidiary companies com
posing the American Tobacco com
pany, will undergo the same process
as that of the three machine-made
cigar plants, and that a number OF
supposedly independent companies
controlling the tobacco and paper
cigarette. box and licorice Russian
and Turkish cigarette. leaf, export
and other companies, will all be re-