The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-22

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Other >ame~-i,s Representatives
Watched Al Shipments MAeir sy
the was~-krzmsr Cannpan. and
Scared Addresses OF All Its ia
irons.
The case OF the Ware Kramer Co.
against tae American Tobacco Co f.
still holding The boards In Federal
Court In Raleigh. and il promises 80
be continuous performance for
many days yet
Ar. Kramer was or the stand
Tuesday and yesterday Mr.. Kramer
admitted that his company had also
furnished free cigarettes 10 Jobbers
aud dealers and that he also gave
some other premiums In order 10
have the dealers push hts goods on
the market. In fact. the defense had
their first inning yesterday. but the
prosecution had presented some very
damaging evidence against the trust
Several depositions from Sew York
have been read TO the jury.
a deposition by A II. Hilman.
former tobacco iobber. of New York.
setting out the conditions OF the to-
domination of the American Tobacco
Company, occupied some time and
the oral testimony OF j. r. Hardie.
express agent and J. T.. Morton.
freight agent at Wilson. was heard
as TO episonage on the part of the
American Tobacco Company in its
fight against the Ware-Kramer peo-
pie.
Hilman testified that he had been
a tobacco jobber in New York forty
ropolitan Tobacco Company to New
York and that since the formation
of this company he and $50 other
jobbers had gone out Of business be
cause it was impossible TO maintain
a trade with the American Tobacco
Company's good concentrated in the
hands of the Metropolitan for COM
petition. He said he established large
trades with a number of independent
manufacturers goods, but each time
the manufacturer would be bought
up by the A. I. Co., and the trade
he had worked up would pass to the
Metropolitan Company. He testified
that at the beginning of the war be-
tween the Independents and the A. I.
Co.. the latter had about so per cent
of the Greater New York trade and
that now it has fully so per cent In
his judgment 1t is impossible for a
jobber to be successful in handling
independent goods in the tobacco
trade and that the concentration OF
the 4. T. Co., goods in the hands Of
Metropolitan Co., had driven practi-
cally all the Independent jobbers out
of business.
The cross examination Of Hilman
brought out the fact that he did busi-
ness as an Independent jobber, pre-
ferring to handle the Independent
goods and that he is now in the to-
bacco business as a small manufae-
turer and maker Of snuff; also that
he is now being sued by the American
Tobacco Company for infringement
of trademark.
J. r. Hardie, express agent at
Wilson, testified that when the
Ware-Kramer Co. shipped goods
through the Southern Express that
representatives of Wells-Whitehead
Company, then a part OF the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company, would come
with notebook and take the address
es of the Ware-Kramer goods: that
he took to packing the goods on the
trucks with the addresses turned in
so that they could not be seen and
thta then Wells-Whitehead employees
would go TO the trucks and turn the
packages about SO as to get the ad-
dresses. He testified that finally he
wrote a note to M. Carter, manager
of Wells Whitehead Company. and
gave him TO understand that IL this
were not stopped there would be Sc
rious trouble. Carter replied that he
would see that there was no further
trouble, and there was no more.
Freight Agent j. E. Morton, OF
Wilson. testified that the Ware Kra-
mer Company and the Wells-White-
head factories were both close by
the freight depot at Wilson and that
the Wells Whitehead Compnay's peo-
pie could see when Ware-Kramer
Company was making shipments and
that they would send men out to the
freight shed with notebooks to write
down the addresses OF the goods be-
ing shipped by the Ware-Kramer Co.