The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-04-15
GLASS TRUST hit.
rHHEE COUNTS AGAINST 10 or.
FlciALs AND DIRECTORS or
IMPERIAL CO.
PROFITS SI5O.OOO YEAR
Federal Probers Find Plentiful Evi.
dence Of Alleged Violation Of
Of Sherman Anti-Trus
Law.

Pittsburg. April 2. - The Imperial
Window Glass company, a corporation
OF West Virginian birth. which lacks
but one week of being a year old. and
is officials and directors were indicted
by a special federal grand jury here
on three counts:
First. conspiracy in the restraint OF
the hand blown window glass trade In
the United States.
Second. engagement in Illegal com
petition.
Third. attempt to monopolize inter.
state trade.
A week ago the United States Dis.
trict Attorney John II. Jordan divulged
the information that federal officers
had completed a three months investi-
CATION OF the glass industry and would
present to the grand jury evidence to
show that the corporation acted in
violation Of the Sherman antitrust
law. After a four days hearing OF
many witnesses. the grand Jurors re.
turned IN indictment Of so long type
written pages.
Named in Indictment.
The indictment sets forth that the
Imperial Window Glass company. as
named in the indictment, are: Presi
dent. Myron l.. Case of Maumee. O.;
vice president, Nj. j. Healy, Bradford,
Pa. and treasurer, J. G. Sayre, Nor
%gantown, w. Va; observation-disclosures
Spillane. New Bethlehem. Pa; G. w
Morenus, Kan, Pa; Thomas Camp,
president Smithport Window Glass
company; William l.. Graham, Mason,
town. Pa; Felix Steinberger. Clarks.
burg. Va; j. G. Sayre, M~organtown,
w. Va; c. P. Cole. Lancaster. O.; O
G. league. Utica, N. Y; Frank Bias
tin, Vincennes. Ind; F.. r. Weare
Kansas City. Mo-: A. Hudson, Chanute
Kan. and u. G. Baker, Carey. Kan.
Bar to Competition.
The indictment sets roorth that the
company, Incorporated in West Vir
ginia April IA. 1909. has from that
day to this acted as a selling agency
and has prevented competition by
persuading and inducing corporations
partnerships and individuals in the
window glass trade to enter into con
tract with the agency to sell their en-
tire outputs of hand blown window
glass; and that 1.-The defendants were
able to establish, fix and maintain ar
bitrary, unreasonable and non-competi
tive prices for window glass. greatly
In excess of prices which wous0 pre-
vail IL said defendants had O en-
gagged in unlawful conspiracy"
1t is charged that when glass blow.
ing concerns declined to enter sucl
agreements the defendants proceeded
TO lease the factories with the pur
pose to monopolize the trade and re
strain interstate commerce.
The company Is said to control fac
tories in ten states, viz: Illinois. In
diana, Kansas. Massachusetts,. Michi
gan. North Carolina. New York, Ohio
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
United States Assistant Attorne,
General Grosvenor of Washington and
United States District Attorney John
II. Jordan Of PittsbIrg have conducted
the Investigation.
The Imperial Window Glass com
3any Is capitalized at $250,000. OF
which amount $4,000 is paid in
During the foul days inquisition testi
mony. II was officially learned. was te
the effect that the company had clear
ed $4,000 net over and above all ex
penses.
The companies which were allowed
by the alleged agreement to sell only
to the Imperial company number SIS
representing a capitalization OF be
tween 1000. 900 and 5000, 900. Ol
these Go companies 1t was testified
that IL were kept closed. the idleness
involving an expense OF $780,, 900 q
year.
District Attorney Jordan declared
that the price of window glass had
increased about so per cent since the
incorporation Of the Imperial Window
Glass company.
The case Is the FIRST here under the
Sherman law. The statute provides
that upon conviction on any one coun,
a fine OF $1,000 or imprisonment 70,
n year. or both may be q maximum
penalty.