New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

signed decree in the SO-caleu bat"'u"
Trust case OF the United States against the
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing COM
pany and others. The judgment held IN
part. that the defendants entered into ana
were engaging In combination in restraint
OF trade in sanitary enamelled ironware
and were attempting to monopoliEe unla~'
fully trade in the ware.
Federal incorporation and regulation OF
trusts was demanded by the National AS"
ISOLATION OF Manufacturers as a cure for
business depression.
IAN official Iowa trade mark was regis
tered with the Secretary of State. In the
future products OF factories OF the state
will be stamped with a design OF hawk
head within a cogwheel, bearing the words,
Made in Iowa
THE Public Service Commission directed
its counsel to draft an order restoring the
streetcar transfers at l5l points in Man
haitian which were abolished when the old
Metropolitan system ceased to be. Inc
order is to take effect the first of the year.
Gilbert II. Gary, head OF the United
States Steel Corporation, unfolded to the
Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce
his plan for the regulation OF large cor
poratio 1t resembled suggestions that
have already been made to the committee
I'm providing for federal incorporation and
the establishment of commission, from
which appeal may be taken to the proper
courts to supervise the activities or cor
porations as to ownership, management
and methods of business, even to the fixing
of prices when necessary.
THE Independent tobacco interests took
the first step to bring the reorganization
plan of the American Tobacco Company, as
approved by the United States Circuit
Court for review before the Supreme Court.
Felix II. Levy, on behalf of the Leaf To-
bacco Board OF Trade OF New York, served
notice on the attorneys in the tobacco case
that he would present a petition to the
Supreme Court in Washington, which IN
effect means an application for leave TO
appeal from the decree Of the lower court
The career of the Oil Trust officially
came to an end The Standard Oil Com
pany OF New Jersey. sometimes called the
/ father OF trusts, and perhaps the most cele-
/ brated corporation in the world, will no
/ longer control the affairs, as the holding
company. of more than thirty corporations
; i'm various branches Of the oil business.
The Oil Trust theoretically passed out of
existence on August 81, when the books
containing the records Of the company S
stockholders were closed for distribution of
the stock of the subsidiaries, but during
the intervening period Of readjustment 1t
was necessary to preserve the old form TO
a large extent. Now the work Of disinte-
grafton has been completed.
Leases in the name Of Thomas j. Ryan
and John Hays Hammond, Of New York,
were taken on more than five hundred thou
sand acres of oil lands in the Tampico
territory Well bore outfits are being in
stalled and oil developments on an eXten-
sive scale are to be carried on.
Startling increases in the smoking or
OPIUM in oleomargarine frauds and In the
production of distilled spirits were shown
I'm the report of Royal f. Cabell, Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue. The last year
witnessed the largest production Of distilled
spirits in the history of this country,
l75. .i02 395 gallons having been produced,
representing an increase Of 6s2s,f gallons
over the largest previous production. which
was in 1897, and an increase Of 1854 $50