Show PACKERS PACKERS' INTERESTS IN III HOTELS RELATED HELMED Letters Indicating Investment Investment Investment Invest Invest- ment of Large Sums Introduced CHICAGO Oct 29 Letters 29 Letters Indicating indicating indicating indi Indi- cating that the big Chicago packers had invested large sums in the stock of large hotel companies especially in New York City were introduced yesterday in the interstate commerce commissions commission's hearing of ot the National Wholesale Grocers' Grocers association complaint complaint complaint com com- plaint that the packers receive special service from the railroads The letters letters letters let let- went into the record over the objection of counsel for Swift Co The letters chiefly written in 1917 b by Louis F F. nead of ot Swift Co indicated that Armour Co held in stock in the Biltmore and about in the Commodore Hotel company of New York and that Swift Co had taken in the Hotel Hotel McAlpin The letters to other officials of Swift Co suggested that it should be a good policy to take stock in substantial hotel enterprises enterprises enter enter- in order to obtain the business of ot provisioning those establishments i and told of an effort to obtain stock in the Biltmore and Commodore Hotel Hotel Hotel Ho Ho- tel companies adding But It was I Impossible Armour had arranged It Itin in advance A Swift Co subsidiary A. A the I Metropolitan Hotel Supply company had a share of the provision business of the Hotel Hotel Manhattan of New York lork and had been promised the entire business of the Hotel Ansonia also of that city One letter recommended an investment of by Swift I Co in the tho I Hott Hotels II company operating hotels in sevEral cities |