The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-28

which our MT. Clabaugn signed while in your office instruetng you to pay to MT J. A. yanHoose 50 cents per hundred pounds of the amount of rebate which you are to allow us off the list price of your Ariosa coffee, would say that we should be glad to know just what we may ex- peet from Mir. NanHoose in regard to turning the rebate sent to him oyer to us promptly. We await your reply in the matter and remain
 Arbuekle Bros ignored the real rist cf my letter and replied under date of Feb ruary 10, as follows:
 We have ues1 creditably trfarined' that you expect to represent a large wholesale grocery firm and to do some brokerage business throughout yJuf ter ritory. Under the circumstances We bes to withdraw odr letter of recent date quoting you jobbing terms on Ariosa eof- fee. and we herewith return to you tne order signed by your MT Clabaugh whea in our office recently
 I replied to this letter, under date of February r. as follows:
 Further Letter to Coffee Firm.
 'fn acknowledging your esteemed favor of the 10th inst, We wish to say that our MT. Clabaugh expressly stated that
 
 wholesale grocery business That is, we do not sell to consumers. We would ap- preciate very much indeed knowing where you got your information that we eX- pected to represent a large wholesale grocery firm and do a brokerage busi- ness throughout this territory. We might add that last fall when we were or , ganizing our business the matter of rep resenting a large wholesale grocery firm, as a kind of side issue, came up and was thoroughly discussed, but not acted upon. We have since discussed it, but up to the present writing we have made no arrangement with any wholesale grocery firm to represent them on a strictly brokerage basis, for that matter we might add that practically every wholesale grocer in the south handles goods on consignment in fact, some man ufacturers market their product in this manner, which enables them to legally" maintain fixed selling price. We again make the statement to you that we are conducting and propose to continue to con- duct an exclusive wholesale grocery bus mess We would again ask what is neces- sary for us to do in order to buy your goods on the same terms as sold other l jobbers in this section. We thank you l for the courtesy of reply and remain" Arbuckle replied to this letter under | date of February q, as follows: l I've have your inquiry of the 12th inst, | with further references to your request that we sell you Ariosa coffee on job | ping terms and after duly noting all you l say regret to advise we are unable to l amend the decision made known to you in | our last letter We do not think our bus 1 mess interest would be best subserved at this time by selling you on jobbing 1 terms"
 1 This ended the correspondence, but we
 a.FA airrlaf ] to ask what MT. NanIIoose would do l with tour money" if we cut the price. | Especially so, when we know that he | has held up rebates belonging to other l wholesale grocers, when they failed to maintain the price. Ask Mir. R. E. Col | lins, of Collins S O., if MT. Van9oose eyer held up any of his money. Write l the Burchfield Bros, of Tuscaloosa. Ala, | and ask them if they have ever had any trouble with Mir VanHoose in the same way. So much for Arbuckle's part in thi' matter now for another coffee concern. 1 prominent coffee company sent out
 some time ago letter which in sub- stance was as follows
 | After having conference with Mir. !! VanHoose, we have been listed by the as- 1 sociation and the salesmen could go ahead | and do business in this territory" Their salesman in Birmingham wrote us under date of February 15, as follows:
 .aThe coffee company has been listed
 by the Wholesale Grocers' association We make these prices to you- subject to you being members of the above associa- tion.''
 I asked this salesman when he. first called on me soliciting business whether the jobber had fixed that price on his
 goods and he stated in the presence of
 witnesses that they had not. but that he
 was going to see MT. VanHoose that l afternoon And I very quietly asked
 him to let me know when the prices were fixed and I would consider giving
 him an order. When he saw me again