The Detroit times., 1910-12-07
BATHTUB TRUST IS
INDICTED BY LOcl[
GRAND jury
Alleged BY Government To BE Com
bination in Restraint of Trade
Fifteen Firms and 80 0ficials
Involved.
Michigan Court Has Jurisdiction Be-
cause Merger Plan Is Said To Have
Been Hatohed in Mt. Clemens.

The federal grand jury, now In ses-
sion In Detroit. returned indictments.
Tuesday afternoon, against Is firms
constituting what is known as the
"bathtub trust" and 80 officials OF
those concerns. All the companies
are located outside of this city, bur
the government claims Jurisdiction
here for the reason, as is alleged,
that the most important conferences
In connection with the organization
OF the combine, was held In Mt. Glenn
ems last April.
The governments charge. In q nu,-
she'll, is that the defendants, controi-
ling an annual output of $4,000, 900.
or about So per cent of the total out
put OF sanitary enameled iron ware.
such as bath tubs, lavatories. sinks,
ETC., combined TO restrain their trade,
and the trade of jobber sin plumb
Ing supplies in the United States.
/ For the past two days witnesses
have been examined by the grand
jury in connection with the case. The
evidence was presented By Edwin r.
Grosvenor, special assistant TO the
attorney general District Attorney
Frank II. Watson and Joseph Dar-
ling. special agent of the department
OF justice.
In statement given out by Mr..
Darling late Tuesday afternoon, some
or the trust methods are ennumerted
as follows;
Refusing TO sell to jobbers who
handle the goods of independents, the
liking OF resale prices, thed vision OF
the United States into eleven zones.
rnfn ms RI call lob .lx@
they would maintain the re ?sale prices
established by agreement of defend
ants. The effect OF these resale prices
Is to make the price of the articles
manufactured by the combination the
same throughout the United States.
and to eliminate the competition OF
jobbers as well as of manufacturers.
1.-THE indictments charge, also, that
the defendants compelled the jobbers
TO enter into uniform contrasts, and
that all the defendants refused to sell
:, tn any jobber unless he. WOULD atgn
such a contract.
The defendants are: Thee. Ahrens.
Francis J Torrance, Il. l.. Dawes ana
; w. A. Myier. president, first vice-pres-
ident, second vice-pre3ident and treas
urer OF the Standard Sanitary Manu-
iaeNui us W. ~ NOt6CiC anu
Barnes, president and secretary OF the
Barnes Manufacturing Co.; Frank II.
Caldwell and j. j. Mahoney. o. Tildea.
president and secretary OF Colwell
Lead Co.. w. G. Winfield and A. e..
Ward, president and vlce-president or
the Hayward Co; s. NJ. Ford and
Reid Carpenter, president and secre-
tary OF the IIumphSses Manufacturing
Co.; j. a. Frauenheim, president and
. treasurer ot the Kerner Manufacture
ing Co.; Jordan l.. Mott and Max Goes
bel, president and secretary OF the J.
, l.. Mott Iron Works; Thomas Walker
, and Alex G.. Walker, president and
director of McVay & Walker; Llyod
c.? Mccrum- Howell Co.: Frank g..
, Borden and n. w. Davis, president
|, and secretary OF the National Sani-
tary Manufacturing Co; l.. G.. Hues-
man and Il. Y. Brigham, president and
secretary OF Union Sanitary Manufac-
, turing Co; Charles f. Arrott and a.
III. Cline. Jr, president and secretary
OF the United States Sanitary Mana-
featuring Co.. Anton WeisAittel. pres
; ident of i. Wciskittel IL Sons Co !:
Ludwig Wolf and Herman NJ. Hoel-
Gcher. president end secretary of L..
Wolff Manufacturing Co: J. +. Wright
and George w. Franzheim. president
ana secretary OF Wheeling Enameled
Iron Co.; Standard Sanitary Manufac-
turing Co. Pittsburg, Pa; \. Weis-
kittel q Son CO., baltimore. Md:
the Barnes Manufacturing Co. Mans
field. o i; the Cahill Iron Works. Chat
tanooga. Tenn; Colwell Lead Co. New
York Cit! the Hayward Co.. Warren.
o.; the humphreys Manufacturing
Co, Mansfield. o.; l<erner Manufnc-
turing Co.. Plttsburg, Pa; The j. l..
Mott lro nWorks, New York City: Nc.
Way K Walker Braddock, Pa; the Nc
Crum-Howell Co. New York city? The
National Sanitary Manufacturing Co.
Noblesvil!e, Ind; l.. Woiff Manufac
turing Co, Chicago, H.; WheelIns
EEemeled Iron Co. Wheeling. West
Va.
The statement adds
The criminal proceeding is the re-
suit of the evidence taken In the civil
suit against the same defendants in
: stituted I'm Baltimore, which evidence
established to the satisfaction of the
department that the violation OF law
is OF characer requiring criminal
proceeding.