Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
FELTON, SHOWS
MERGER GAINS
Points Out Bethlehem'S Worth
to Pennsylvania Steel in
Answer to Suit

of the two companies at length. He
also points out the diversified product
of the two plants. saying:
THE main result that will be ac-
complished by the acquisition of Beth
lehem Steel Company of the properties
of Pennsylvania Steel Company will
be the filling out of the present in
complete lines of the former. Compe-
ton in the products of these corpora
tions will not be affected to any ap-
preciable extent, because there is no
substantial competition between Beth
lehem Steel Corporation and Pennsyl-
Vania Steel Company.
"On the one hand, that Pennsylva-
MIA Steel Company does not manufac-
ture armor plate, ordnance or ammu-
milton, nor does it produce a long line
of specialties which constitute very
important part of the business of
Bethlehem Steel Corporation. on the
other hand, a very large part of the
product of Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany consists of Bessemer products,
bars, billets, frogs switches, crossings
and other railway appliances and
other products which are not manu-
factured by Bethlehem. Moreover, an
important department of Pennsylvania
Steel Company is it's bridge work for
the production of which Bethlehem
has no plant.
Both of the corporations produce
rails anu SiTuCIuTaI steer. DuI lHGl,C Is
very little competition between them
even of these two products. Pennsyl--
vania Steel Company produces girder
rails, guard rails and high tee rails
which are used mainly in street rail-
ways. Bethlehem does not produce
any rails of this character. Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company produces Besse-
mer rails, of which Bethlehem produces
none. The result is that the only kind
of rails purchased by both corpora
tions is the standard open hearth rails
The purchasers OF such rails are regu-
lated very largely by the geographical
location of the plants producing them
The Pennsylvania Steel open hearth
rails are supplied largely to export
and foreign business for which the
Bethlehem rails do not compete.
The Pennsylvania open-hearth
rails are made largely from Mayari
ore, which contains nickel and chron-
ium. 1t is a different rail from that
of the Bethlehem company, although
both are used for the same purpose.
The plants of Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany in the main serve territories diff
ferent from those served by the plant
of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and
the competition between them even
in this product is unimportant.
so, also, there is no substantial
competition between the two interests
in the production and sale of structur-
al steel. Bethlehem's output of struc-
tural steel shapes is very largely of a
patented design. known as "Bethle-
hem shapes" which are not manufac-
tured by Pennsylvania Steel Company
The two corporations do manufacture
in common the so-called standard"
structural shapes, but Pennsylvania
Steel Company uses a very large part
of its product of standard shapes in
its own bridge shops and II, therefore,
is not an important factor in the gen.
eral structural steel trade in which
there are many competitors. The to-
tai tonnage of such shapes sold by the
Pennsylvania Company during the
year last past was not in excess of 10,-
500 tons.
The combined aggregate output by
the two corporations of rails and
structural steel is small as compared
with the total output of the plants of
the United States. The approximate
percentages which the output of Penn
sylvania Steel Company and Bethle-
hem Steel Company, respectively, and
the combined output of said compan-
les in the year 1914 are of the total
output in the United States in the
same year in the only important line
which they have in common, eXclu-
sive of shipbuilding. are as follows:
Products. Penn. Beth. Comb.
p. c. p. c. p. c.
Rails ..... "9A S14 17&
struct. shapes. .""A off 121z 12%
"%Does not include Bessemer rails
and girder and other rails used in
street railways, none of which Bethle-
hem manufacturers.
""*Includes only structural shapes
sold-does not include those used in
the companys bridge shop.
These percentages are sufficiently
accurate to show that the aggregate
production of these two companies in
the two lines mentioned is only a small
portion of these two lines in the United
States"
MRS. SARA \. GEIGER
Mrs Sara \. Geiger, widow of John
w. Geiger, died at 1 o'clock this morn
ing at the home of her son-in-law
]. ]. Newbaker, 1872 South Second
street, of complication of diseases.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete.
Rev. Smith Goes to Rcading.-The
Rev. William b. Smith, who recently
theran Church, has received an unani-
nous call to become pastor of st.
Paul's Lutheran Church. Reading. He
will assume his new duties June 4. The
Rev. Mr.. Smith is well known in
Reading, his former home, and taught
in the public schools of Berks county
several years DelOTG eniGTluB SuSQue-
hanna University
Plan Booster Banquet-After post
poning the booster banquet on ac-
count of the death OF Harry c. Wright,
president of the Municipal League, a
committee from the league and from
the Steelton Merchants Association,
met last evening and decided to hold
the banquet in Frey's hall June Is.
1t Is planned to have high officials of
the Bethlehem Steel Company attend.
@. s. Davis will be POSTMASTER
Feigle Funeral.-Funeral services
for Matthew Feigle, who was electro
cuted at the Central Iron and Steel
Plant, Harrisburg, Tuesday, We're held
from his late home, $50 Mohn street.
yesterday morning. The Rev VIM.
Huygen, rector of st. Johns German
Catholic Church, officiated and burial
was made in Mt Calvary Cemetery