The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-24
HUNDREDS Of TOBACCO BUYERS
PRESENT AT THE hurley SALE
Warehouse Is Crowded Executive Committee Busy Bidders To Get
Proportion Of The Amount Asked Some Who Are Present.

Fully 500 independent buyers and
manufacturers and representatives
of the American Tobacco Company
were present at the opening of the
sales of tobacco at the sample rooms
of the Burley Tobacco Society in thi.
city on Monday morning.
The crowds began to 90 to the
sample rooms as early as z o'clock
and at o'clock when. the samples
were opened for inspection, the house
was literally packed with buyers and
other interested parties.
There was no buying done Tues
day morning and will not be until
Tuesday afternoon after 2 o'clock
There was a meeting of the Exec
utive Committee of the Burley To-
bacco Society Monday night for the
purpose Of deciding definitely who
3would be the first served the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company or the indie
nendents but nothing was given out
and it was announced Tuesday morn
ing that the Independents would have
to look over the samples and pick out
what thew wanted and file their or
ders before two O'Clock and at that
time the Executive Committee will
take charge of the orders and the
distribution will begin.
Each buyer will be required to take
the same amount Of one grade that
he takes. of another and the SUPPOSE
ton is now that there will be more
subscribed for than the Society can
furnish. In this event, the buyers
who have orders filed for some time
will of course be served first.
\ 1t has not been definitely decided
on yet who viii get theirs first but
it is understood that the trust will,
and as a result, the independent buy
ers are very much worked up over
it but say that they will be governed
by whatever decision the Executive
Committee arrives at in the matter
Work in the Society office for the
day has been suspended so that all
the clerks might attend the sales.
There was photograph taken Of the
crowds at the sample rooms. Mrs.
G. A. Brooks and Miss Alice Lloyd
2 were among the prominent figures
In the picture. They were on a box
In front of large bulk of tobacco
and on top of the tobacco was Pres
ident LeBus and secretary Brooks,
and they were surrounded by the
buyers, growers, members of the Elk
ecutive Committee, and nearly all the
Office force and possibly a night
rider.
The following buyers and hurley
leaders arrived Monday night and
Tuesday morning:
R. K. Smith, vice president Of the
American Tobacco Company, and its
buyers, John Middleton, H. A. Wal
ker, j. w. O'Bannon and F.. W.
O'Brien; J. Wallace Vaughan, buyer
: for Strader Brothers of Louisville;
G. H. Estes, of Louisville; j. B.
Spillman, Cincinnati broker and spec
ulator; R. E. Hennessy, Cincinnati
broker; H. L. Hite, Cincinnati brok-
er; l.. w. Brown, of the Brown To-
bacco Company, Of Utica, n. Y; j.
B. Heller, Cincinnati dealer; j. L.
Walker, manager of the leaf depart
ment of the American Tobacco Com
pany, at Louisville; Harry Ketchum,
dealer of Carrollton, KY; w. L.
Petty, of the United States Tobacco
Company; John A. Hutchinson, of
the r. j.. Reynolds Tobacco Com
pany, Of North Carolina; 7. H. Kirk,
Cincinnati broker; E. ]. OBrien, W.
f. Axton and III. ID. Oswald, of the
Axton- Fisher Company, of Louis
vile; c. C. Patrick, member of the
District Board of the Burley Tobacco
Society Of Fayette county; F. w.
O'Brien, of Warnock Brothers, New
York, and Byrefeld Snuff Company,
Byrefeld, Mass; W. j. Boone, of the
Boone Tobacco Company, of Cow
ington; j. Owery, of the Peoples To-
bacco Company, of New Orleans; E.
j. Blakemore, Of the R. ]. Rey-
nolds Tobacco Company, of North
Carolina
Burnley Leaders on Scene.
Ex-Congressman Kehoe and Presi-
dent Clarence LeBus arrived last