The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-04
NOW A WRAPPER rRusr2
Combination in Progress TO Control
the Business

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New York, Aug. 3.-The World
says: A trust known as the "Single
Service Packing Corporation OF Am
erica is being organized to buy and
control all the patents covering the
machinery used in the manufacture
of paper and "other" containers, in
Guiding a perfected paper milk bottle
and then to lease" instead of sell"
the machines constructed under such
patents to the consumer of packages.
/ In other words, the user of packag-
es In which butter, butterine, ice
cream, oysters, mince meat, molasses
all kinds of canned goods, cereals,
coffee, tea, cocoa, crackers, spaghetti,
baking soda, Photographic records,
dry batteries, tungsten lamps. gas
mantles, stove polish, etc, is deliver
ed to the consumer of these products
must pay for the use" of a machine
to make the container, and the rate
of payment is regulated according to
the number of packages made, re-
CARELESS Of the cost thereof.
That the profits Of the monopoly
are likely to be stupendOus is demon
strated by the class OF men who are
behind it. The list contains the
names of representatives of almost
every great trust in the United States
Like all other monopolies it purposes
to further its ends by the aid of poll
tics and politicians as is demonstra-
ted in letters written by the promoter
which i'm their frankness compare ia
vorably with the celebrated Standard
Oil communications to political ma
chine bosses, United States senators
and others. In one of the earliest
of the communications the promoter
writes:
Several cities stand ready as soon
as we can supply the demand, to pass
ordinances prohibiting the distribu-
ton of milk and cream for household
use in anything but single service
containers.
We will meet with delays and have
fights on this point, but if we hold
hard to our policy we no doubt within
few years will have complete con
troll of the field. The policy which
is being pursued is identical with that
0hOlAtu Wy Aut 1ulltu DllOt MdOllli
cry company.
Contracts now made show gross
yearly royalty income over cost Of
equipment and instalment of approx
imately 10 per cent. The deals
closed are small compared with ne
gotiations which we now have under
way and which should be consumma
ted this fall
An opportunity exists to secure con
troll of practically all automatic box
making machinery now in the fielC
and through subsidiary companies
control the package industry.
We are endeavoring to secure con
troll of all automatic devices neces
sary to the box making industry, in
) GLIDING filling, weighing and labelling
devices. So far we have been quit,
successful in this effort.
: Some idea may be formed of tn
[ amount of tribute to be exacted iron
the public by means of this scheme
when it is realized that fourteen con
Germs in the United States alone us
1855, 0000 900 of these containers ever,
= year and the Single Service Packag
Corporation expects to charge al
users of its patents one dollar royalt,
i on every thousand containers made.
incidentally It may be said that tn
machines built by the corporation ur
der the patents it owns cost onl
$4,000 each. The prospectus Of tn
corporation shows that each one G
these $4,000 machines that il has i
operation will bring it in an annua
revenue of $4,000 on a single unit o
one hundred machines will retur
more than one-third of its entire cal
ital stock annually.