Show BIG combination to control the cracker and biscuit trade thi ea laree large companies consolidate and form one concern with capital stock of I 1 new yort dec 10 it I 1 ia a more than I 1 possible that within the next lew few days the great bulk of the cracker andnis and biscuit busi business nees of the united slates states will te to controlled by a combination ol 01 the corporations that now share the trade among themselves says the new york lime these three corporations are the new york biscuit co the american biscuit manufacturing coiana co and the united states biscuit co the last named company ie is incorporated iu in Peon pennsylvania sylvania and haa bag ita its bead head quarters in pittsburg Pitts bulf the other two incorporated ia in illinois and hive have their headquarters heed quarters ia in Ob chicago leazo it ie is generally suppo supposed ted that the new york biscuit company will be the head aa u it is said to have been chief promoter of the combination this company hae bag tor for years been quealy absorbing ab ite its rivals the oiher other two big concerns have nut been idle ant have been work industriously to maintain a po position of equity with the new now york biscuit company eich elch has acquired smaller COO concerns carni in ite its territory the threefold three fold told process of absorption lor has gone on until these great companies now stand without rivals ex crept ept among themselves thecae elvee the combination now forming will put an end to the limited rivalry and there will then be one biscuit concern that will control the entire trade cf of the country its combined capital will be to the new york biscuit company has a capital of 0 the principal 0 officers are henry J evans president georee george E west secretary and G K webster treasurer all of whom live in chicago one of the directors is thomas 8 olive of new york who 13 1 also manager of the tenth avenue factory the american B becuet manufacturing co is also a chicago concern its capital is jacob loose ie is president harry F varies is secretary and william 8 shaw is treasurer the united states co of Pitta bure burz has a capital of about 0 rumors are current to the effect that phillip D armour of chicago and J D a ore the banker of thid city were sn 9 chief promoters of the organization this has his been denied at the office of the new now york biscuit company it was learned from the company that the officers of the three thre e big concerns interested in coming to this combine are now in the city to complete iho the details of the union all the preliminary work according to the company ha halt been done the formation of the union was begun as soon as it via wai mutually understood that three companies bad had obtained cn arol of all the other large factories in the country when thus was a lions for farther further combination casbe was begun some time ago the general plan ol 01 consolidation was agreed upon arill only the details were not settled ettl sd these will be arranged within the next few days it ii ig said and the union will be corn it ie is als said that there is not a concern outside the combine that ie Is wanted inside of it toe bead headquarters of the new will be es dished in city |