| Show CHEER AND BISCUIT Three Big Minufacturini Concerns to Ga Into One COMBINATION IS DECIDED UPON Detain iprrlril lo bo VmuceJ 1 I 1 cir l > ACrke Put tory In Suit liiUo Included New York Dec 10It Is I more than possible that within the next few das the great bulk of the cracker and biscuit l bis-cuit business of tho United States will be controlled by a combination of the three corporations that now share the Trade among themselves says the New York Times These three corporations are the New York Illscult Co the American lllscult Manufacturing Co and the United States lllscult Coated ho last namcd company Is I Ineorpor ated In Pcnnslvnnlu unit has Its headquarters In 1lttsburg The other two Incorporated In Illinois and have their headquarters In Chicago I li generally supposed that tho New York UusciiU company will be the head as It Is I said to hue been chief promoter moter ot the combination Tills com Ian ha q for ear hn quietly ab Tblng its rivals Tin other Iwo big conceirom have not been Idle but have n been working Industilously to maintain main-tain a position of equity with the New York lllscult company Bach ban acquired ac-quired smaller concerns In its territory terri-tory The thrcotol1 Process of absorption has gone on unlll Iho grat com panlci now stand u Ithout rivals cx < ept among themselv The COMM nation now forming Hill put nn end 10 the limited rivalry and URIC will then be one biscuit concern that will control con-trol the entire trade of the country Its combined capital will bo 45000 001 or 130000000 The New York lllscult company hal ha-l capital of ilOOOOOOO I The principal officers are Henry J Ivan president George M West secretary and d K Wehtr treasurer all ot whom live In Chicago One 01 the dlrctor Is dllvck rau hil Thom 8 011 e ot Kw York hoI Is ho-I also manager of the Tenth avenue fee tory The American lllscult Manufacturing lgo Innllraclr ing Co Is I also a Chicago conccr Its capital Is I 110 000 000 Jacob Loose li I IOOOOOQO Jr 11010i r president Harr r Varies Is I secretary and William 8 Shaw Is I treasurer The United I fatales lll cult Co ot Plttsburg has a laI of tot 5 000000 Ilumors art current to the effect that hllllp D Armour of Chicago and J D Gilmore the banker or tills City I more the chief promote 01 Ih a organIzation or-ganIzation This has hn Inlet ui I the omce if the Nw York Biscuit company It was learned front tile omlUn > that the officers ot the three I ROE concerns Inllod II coming to combine are now In the city ti II I complete the details of the union Ali Al-i the preliminary work according to the company ban been done The formation 01 the union was he gun a ooon ns I wn mutually In I < stood that three companies had oh tabled control of all of the other large factories in the country When thin was assured negolallon for further I mllnaloll was begun Some time ago tile general plan at consolidation was agred upon unit I only the details mere not settled Thee uIll be arranged within the next few days It Is said and the union will be complete I t Is I also mid that there Is I not a sin gle concern outside the combine flint Is I wanted Inside of It The headquarter head-quarter ot tile nw organization will probably lo established In this city |
