OCR Text |
Show AMEPJCAX TIN PLATE THREE HUNDRED FIRMS IN THE NEW CONSUMER'S ASSOCIATION. A Gigantic Cigar Trust Proposed It Will Combine 25,000 Manufacturers With an Aggregate Capital of $25,000,000. New York, Oct. 8. Three hundred firms In the tin plate trade, manufacturers and consumers, were represented yesterday at the meeting when the Association of Tin Tlatc Consumers of the United States was organized. The object of the association is the acquirement of "reliable information respecting re-specting the progress and development of the manufacture of tin plate and to watch legislation affecting the interests of the contemners. con-temners. A CIGAR TRUST PROPOSED. The leading cigar manufacturers of this city held a meeting yesterday for the formation forma-tion of a gigantic cigar trust, to include all the prominent cigar manufacturers of the U uited States. It is proposed to organize on the same lines as the consolidation of the leading cigarette factories. The combination will include 25,000 manufacturers, with an aggregate of capital of $25,000,000. A committee com-mittee w as appointed, and the arrangements are well under way. It is proposed" for the i. . - -combine to buy leaf tobacco direct from the planters, and save the middlemen's profits. |