Show TRUE till NFll Y TRST WAS THREATENED BY A RIVAL COMBINE tOwns Text Distlileries the Largest Warehouse and 100000 Ittore Bar rein of Whisky Than Trust Owns Chicago April 1The Record tomorrow will say Supremacy in the whisky market mar-ket long held by the American Spirits Manufacturing company and Its allIed in tereals is to be contested by an opposition oppo-sition combine Arrangements will be concluded in Chicago before the week Is over for the oranizatlon of a rival corporation cor-poration of 100000 capital All branches of the trade dominated by the American companydistuiilzig distributing and vareheusingwlll be pursued and with the largest public warehouse and ten dIe tlileries in Kentucky as a nucleus the men behind the new consolidation declare it will be equipped to furnish the old trust formidable competition Men In the whisky trade in Chicago Mitwaukee and St Louis assocIated wIth Louisville bankers who control the Louis ethic Public Warehouse company are pro meting the company whose prospective title Is said to be the Illinois Distillery I Warehouse company In addition to the Louisville Public Warehouse companys property which embraces three storage plants In that city wIth gross capacity of Z000i barrels the syndicate has taken over the F H I Taylor Co distillery and the 5 Ii Mc Brayer Co plant at Frankfort and the Pepper dIstIllery at Lexington Options arc also In hand for a half dozen more I The distilleries mentioned make hour ben goods exclusively but the acquisition of a rye plant is the ultimate Intention There have been material advances In whisky reCently and relief is sought to be given to jobbers and retailers by tho new congiany sshich claims to own by reason of heavy purchases in anticipation of its formation 100001 barrels mere of mafiumactured coeds than the trust pos V sesses |