Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-22

>'' i'''H W yOfnlnR NhT. NHTTeHy 10 Co'
rect when he says that the packers are
not going into the hide business.
Let me say to you I arm a hide dealer;
I am not q tanner I commenced as
boy handling hides. know whereof
speak from whit I have seen; and, as
the Good Book says. "a part Of which
I was"
THE RENDERING COMPANIES.
A few years ago In the city Of lowell.
Mass. one night in passing up tho
street have noticed a new sign reading
"The lowell Rendering company" Step
ping inside he would. on inquiry, have
ascertained that they there bought hides.
sheep pelts. calfskns. tnllow, bones. and
market waste. presume nobody knew
or cared whom this rendering company
represented but there was the sign. and
the concern was doing business.
little later-1 DO not know but the
junior senator from New 1Inmpshire (Mr
Rurnham) may remember the circurn-
etance-on old hide concern In Man
chester. n. H., that had been there for
many years retired from business. AS
they were friends Of mine, and men with
whom had trade. their retirement sur
when noted that their successor wos
the Manchester Rendering company.
A little later. had one Travelled 70 Port
land. Ne. he would have seen there an
other new slen-that OF the Portland
rendering company. Up In Vermont. at
Burlington, n latter. there wae erect
ed very nice hide house. and over the
door appeared the words Burlington
Rendering company"
To cut II short, Mr. President. to-day
there IS rot a city 81 arg size In New
England where you Will not find one OF
these rendering companies" and II you
will 20 with me to Boston, will show
YOU modest little room upstairs, at ~
North Market street. where you Will find
corporation bea rtnG the somewhat COM
preh-nsve name Of "Consol!deted Pend
erne COMPANY" II Is there that the
hides Of these different rendering com
paues sre sold. Tho manager Is good
brtRht Vermont boy. Mr.. II. ". Heath
l know him. md knew his father. Let
NE say that In all these criticisms II they
may he called such. am casting no re-
Election upon tho men who are doing this
business, nor upon my Vermont friend
the manager Mr.. Heath. He is good.
clean business man. and he makes no con-
cealnent Of the fact that the Consolidated
Rendering cu,npanv and all those other
rento-,ng cornpanies arc controlled by
Swift & CO The senator from wyoming
tolls ne that the av,r,s ore not interest
tod IN N. h,Ae md tanning business He
will a, lenst confess. think. from what
ho,-e sho1xn that they arc interested
IN fbe hide h,,s,uess
1s> mo rr,v IN hack 70 the ttrno "
Tho ,,s.,y, ~ tho ,rpse,t tariff law
About that TINA one OF the big tnnno-ic-
q. p,,bodv cossed IN 10 the hands of the
q Ya1rencs 1<,,her conoanv That
,,,,,rr h,. heen enlarged and the hue,-
roe. extended until to-day the A. c.
1,urenco yea>her comoarv and the Ma
ronai Calf Shin con,ponv. both under the
r,,,aensnt or Mr. lawrence are the
,,-,,.t ,,rodvcors ~ Icatber IN No1- Eng
Ind :, !. a Fac, vol, known IN New Err
,,,d th,t eu.f, A 60 co,;tro,-and Il ,s
ha,,pved that thov nracticallv own-ooth
NJ those tanning commands
cou,d On further and SHOW Won frcr,,
na,er, which 7 have hero III. there a.,
scvers, other largo +annrr,es which. as the
+,rninr 1yor,d understands are co-troll-
"a hv tho Swift.
put ,et mo en- a little further. Fifteen
or twenty wears ago New England hides
vere A leading commodity in the Boston
rn,rket NV friends from the South would
be surprieed n 7 should ten them that you
ni.tt Inv down here side nv side two
h,te. one from Georgia and one from
New England. both Of the same eize, tho
same weight, the Same color, and IN every
arrearance alike and We. ,hs New Eng
land htSe would bring from TO 4 cent.
pound mor~ than the southern hide.
Nrw Engiand hides make splendid upper
leather They were popular. and twenty
vears ago there were tarnerios IN New.
England that used them almost exclusive
w. You could then n into any one Of
half Dozen hide etrres In Boston any
buy hoo New England hides In ten min
utes They could he furnished on call ~
sry hour Of the day
Now. NJ the risk of being dramatic I
wn1t 70 Draw another picture. When
used TO 70 TO Boston 70 study the hide
market II wa, my practice to call upon
my brother h,dc dealers and talk over
the hid" situation with them One Of nv
honored friend. there. an old gentlemen
BY the name Of Charles Buck. commenced
in hides about the time ! .,d He has
eune to his long home now. I was nccu.-
toned to go to his warehouse or ONCE "a
get his op,r,on \. 70 IRE future Of The
hide mnrkct Not long since called TN
Mr.. Buck nv .elrpNore 20 sec nhou, call
Ing uoon him rs WI. nv cus,o-n. and
they said his frrn had deDnrtch from, Their
old place Of business; .hnt .,oY vrre nov
handling h,re, IN swt'rs wn-ehou-, Over