Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-27
Action Begun Against Period.
icaI Clearing House.
COMBINATION IS ALLEGED
Dissolution Asked for in Petition Of
District Attorney Wise.
SCORE OF DEFENDANTS NAMED
Contracts That Are Forced Upon
Agents Are Declared to
Be Unjust.

NEW YORK, June IA civil suit was
filed today in the United States court for
the dissolution OF the periodical clearing
house and about q score Of other maya
zine defendants The petition. filed by
District Attorney Wise, alleges unlawful
combination and conspiracy to restrain
interstate trade and foreign commerce in
magazine and other periodical publica-
lions.
The petition charges that the defend
ants. since July. 1900. have been engaged
in an illegal combination. a dissolution Of
which is asked for
The proceeding in equity Is against the
Periodical Clearing House. Doubleday.
Page & Co., Crowell Publishing COM
pany, s. S. Mcclure Company. Current
Literature Publishing Company. Phillips
Publishing Company. Harper & Bros.
Leslie-Judge Company. Review Of Re-
views Company, International Magazine
Company. New Publication Company.
Butterck Publishing Company. Standard
Fashion Company. New Idea Publishing
Company. Ridgeway Company American
Company. Limited hereinafter referred
to as defendant publishers. Frank n.
Doubleday, Herbert g. Houston. Freder-
ick l.. Collins. Charles ID. Lanier and
george Won OtdSSy.
The Periodical Clearing House. in the
petition, is described as q corporation
organized under the laws OF the state OF
New York. carrying on business through
out the United States and foreign ma
tons. with its offices and principal place
OF business In this city. It's authorized
capital stock is of the par value OF g. CO.,
consisting Of twenty shares OF the par
value of 500 each. of which fourteen are
issued and outstanding
Stockholders in Concern.
The Suburban Press. a New York cor
poration; Good Housekeeping, a Massa-
chusetts corporation, and Hampton s
Maya zine. a new York corporation. to-
gether with the defendants. are the
stockholders OF record Of the defendant
Periodical Clearing House; Doubleday.
Collins. Houston, Lanier and Won Utas-
sy constitute It's board OF directors, and
Houston. Won Utassy and Lanier are. re-
spectively, it's president, vice president
and secretary and treasurer.
These officers OF the Periodical Clearing
of the defendants corporations engaged In
the publication OF magazines
The petition recites that prior to July.
1909. there were and are now. In this
country, more than 10000 corporations.
copartnerships and individuals engaged
In producing, publishing and selling
periodicals In open and free competition;
that. following the organization of the
Periodical Clearing House in July. 1909.
notices were sent to all Of the principal
subscription agencies and agents in the
country notifying them that they would
have to sign the contract with the Period
ical Clearing House, IL such agencies in
tended to further business with the men,
bers Of said Periodical Clearing House. :
The petition then recites that the Period
ical Clearing House prepared a so-called
'.official price list" OF magazines and
periodicals containing rules governing
sales OF subscriptions. and the publish
ers, uhnlesale nrice list,