New-York tribune., 1910-11-29

Company, Joseph T. Smith, Thomas H.
! Cutler. ATnalgaInated Sugar Company,
ravid Eccles Lewiston Sugar Company
Great Western Sugar Company. Chester
: Moray. Sterling Sugar Company, Nor
gan County Construction Company,
Billings Sugar Company, Scott's Blufr
Sugar Company. Michigan Sugar COM
usny. Charles b Warren, Iowa Sugar
| Company. Carver County Sugar Com
pany. Continental Sugar Company, Me
! nominee River Sugar Company anu
/ Horace Havemeyer, Louisine X. Have
never. Adaline II. Frelinghuysen ana
Electra H Webb. individually and as
| executors Of the Will Of Henry O have
meyer.
haveneysr Control Alleged
! While the total capitalization OF ali /
/ the companies amounts to S-3o.ooo.o"'
the American Sugar Refining Company.
with q capital Of Seo00o0o0. and the
/ Fsremever family. with their associates,
( II is alleged. control. either through
! stock purchases or trade agreements, the
] operations OF all the companies men
toned in the bill.
! The governments bill contains short
treatise on the cultivation Of the sugar
cane and beets ft for conversion into
sugar. with a recital Of the conditions
requisite for the growth and refining
nf the product together with the figures
showing that the consumption Of sugar
Per capita in the United States amounts
to approxi7nateIv eighty pounds per indi-
vjtiual
Before tho year 1887. II is set forth.
rnany plants we're established in the
United States for the refining of sugar.
Twenty-thrae companies we're IN opera
ton competing fo- the trade Of the coun-
try In that year. however. II Is alleged.
Il O. Haveneyer and the defendants.
Donner Atkins, Thomas and others,
agreed TO form the first trust. which
WAS known as The Sugar Refneries
Company and embraced seventeen of
the twenty three companies, with twenty
i factories
The capital stock Of the combination
was placed 81 S5+0n0o nl0 end eleven
trustees were appointed "a control the
whole business of the component COM
panieS- As = result Of this first com
biuaton the North River Sugar Refining
COMPANY. the Dick & Meyer Company.
Moller, siercl & &C.. the Oxn8rd Broth
ers Companv- the Bay State Sugar Re
. finery Company. the Boston Sugar Re
fning Company. tho Forest City Sugar
Refining Company and the ST Louis
Sugar Refining Company refneries were
disrnsnTIed and those corporations elm
mated from business.
In 1899 the factories OF De Castro &
! Donner and the Havemeye- sugar re-
fnery in Brooklyn we're also dismsntIed
Various other factories were amalga-
mated and in 1Sqs the American Sugar
Refining Company. with q factory at san
Francisco came fnto the com binatior
The State of California attacked the
combination as Illegal. and its busf-
ness was transferred TO II. O. Have
meyer Theodore A. Havemeyer and
Charles H Senff. who carried on the
business under the name of IIsvemevers
& Elder. hut always in cooperation with
the Sugar Refineries Company. which
controlled 90 per cent Of the output Of
sugar throughout the country.
Declares Corporation Illegal
When IN 1890 the courts Of New York
State declared the Sugar Refineries Com
pany an illegal corporation the Aneri-
cHn Sugar Refining Company was or
gantzed in New Jersey, and the members
Of the old combination became members
. Of the new company. which had q capi-
tai stock OF S500nO,o00.
In 1891 Havemeyers & Elder, who op-
Grated the sugar refinery in san Fran
cisco and the California Sugar Refinery.
in which Claus, John .. and Adolph E
Spreckels had 3 controlling interest
combined 70 form the Western Sugar Re
fning Company, with a capital Of So
Oo0 COO Half Of The stock was issued
TO Havemey.ars & Elder and half to the
Spreckelses. and the new company took
the business of the two former concerns
The Hsverfevers & Elder factory was
closed. and that partnership transferred
its stock TO the American Sugar Re
fining Company, which has since vot-
60 il.
The next step in the formation of the
great trust, as recited by the bin IN
equity. vas the acquisition IL 1892 of
the Philadelphia refineries OF the Frank
lin Sugar Refining Company. the Della
ware Sugar House, the Spreckfes Sugar
Refining Company and the T. c. Knight
Company. The exhibits in the case con-
tain extracts from the minutes of the
American Sugar Refining Company for
March 10, 1892, showing the method Of
procedure in the purchase of the Frank
lin and Spreckels companies.
The first motion at that meeting was
for an increase Of the capital stock to
secure the acquisition of these four COM
I5anies and the Revere Sugar Refinery
Company, of Boston The last named
company. however, refused 10 sell, and
still continues TO operate independently
OF the trust. John L. Searles, jr secre-
tary OF the company, and John L. Par
sons. counsel were authorized to act for
the American IN acquiring the stock Of
The four Philadelphia companies
Il. o. 4avemeyer submitted 4 state