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Every Utensil and Material for
House Cleaning
and Renovating
Brooms, Brusbes. Dusters. Cha- i
mois. Pails, Cleansers and Pol
ishes for Floors,, Furniture.
Glass and Metal !
Carpet Sleepers. Cleaning Cloths ]
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99 1 ' Baroda, Saxine, Angora
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v PLAIN-COLOR *
I CARPETS
p*INE quality and superb coloring
are the distinguishing features of
the above mentioned carpets, which
are imported from England by us ex
clusively- They are shovn in many
shades of the latest approved color
ings and in several widths, up to 12
feet inclusive. These widths reduce
the number of seams to a minimum,
I often entirely obviating them as in the
case of a room 12 feet vide.
Broadway & Nineteenth Street
ban American Sugar Company. Rod
<rt B. H&wley. Colonial Sugar? Com
pany, Alametia Sugar Company. John L.
Howard. Union Sugar Company, Spreck
els Sugar Company. Utah-Idaho Sugar
Company, Joseph F. Smith. Thomas R.
Culler, Amalgamated Sugar Company.
David Eccles. I>»wiston Sugar Company,
Great Western Sugar Company, Chester
S. Moray. Sterling Sugar Company, Mor
gan County Construction Company,
Billings Sugar Company. Scott's Bluff
Sugar Company. Michigan Sugar Com
pany, Charles B. Warren, lowa Sugar
Company, Carver County Sugar Com
pany. Continental Sugar Company, M?
nomlnee F.iver Sugar Company and
Horace Kavemeyer, Louisine W. Have
n ever. AdaJine H. Frelinghuysen and
Electra H. Webb, individually and as
executors of the will of Henry O. Have
rr.eyer.
Havemeysjr Control Alleged.
While th« total capitalization of all
The companies amounts to $21M00,000,
the American Supar Refining Company,
with a capital of $30,000,000. and the
Kavemeyer family, with their associates.
it is alleged, control, either through
stock purchases or trade agreements, the
operations <>>' all the companies men
tioned in the Mil.
The government's hill contains a short
treatise on th« cultivation of th*> sugar
cane arid reels fit for conversion into
sugar, with ■ recital of the conditions
requisite for th<* growth and refining
ot the product, together with Or figures
shorring that the consumption of j?\igar
i per capita in the United States amount?
i to approximate!:.- eighty pounds per indi
| vidual.
Reforo th*» year ISS7. it is set forth,
' many plants were established in the
i United Statei for tl»e. refining '- sugar.
Twenty-three companies were in opera
: tion eomp^tinc for the trade of the coun
; try. [a that year, however. It ip all^g^d.
!h. O. HaTempy«r ...... defendants.
p-mtipr, Atkins, Thomas anOI others,
apr»H to form the flr«t ;r-;-t. which
i was known as "The Sugar Refineries
; Company*? and nm'ira-o-1 seventeen of
', the . - ......... with twenty
I factories.
The oapitsl stock of t ; ">» combination
«-?>s placed ax .^50.000.000, and eleven
'< trustees wcr« appointed -.. control the
• -n-vioi^ business of the component com
parief. As n result o ? this first <^nni
j bination the North River Sugar Refining
| Company, the Dick & %''-■ - ■ Company,
! Holler, Si^rck & Co.. the < •■• nard Brotl:
ers Company. the Bay State Sugar Re
finery Companj . the Boston sugar Re
fining Company. tt»« Fewest City Sugar
Rofining CoirpaVjj- and the St. I-ou'.s
Sugar Belli Ccmparsy refineries were
dismantled and. those corporations elim
inated from business.
In LBB9 the factorief of De Castro .■?■
Dormer and the Havetnerer sugar re
finer>- in Brooklyn were hAeo dismantled.
Various othrr factories were amalga
mated, and in ISPS th« American Sugar
i Refining Company, with a factory at San
i Francisco, came Into the combination.
j The Slate of California attacked the
I combination as illegal, and its busi
oem was transferred to 11. O. Have
I ■•■•' Theodore A. Hsve.meycr end
■ ' hsirles 11. i-'enff, who carried on the
j business under the name of Havemeyers
& Eld*r. but always in co-operation wfth
the Suirar ReSr»iiies Company, which
' controlled 90 per cent of the output of
sugar throughout the country.
Declares Corporation Illegal.
When in 1890 the courts of New Tork
I State declared the Sugar Refineries Com
! pany an illegal corporation the Ameri-
J can Sugar Refining Company was or
\ ganized In New Jersey, and the members
• of th*> old cdnibinalsdn became members
! of the new company, which had a ••ai-i
jtal stock of $50,000,000.
| In 1891 Havemeyers &- Elder, who op
i crated the Bag i refinery in San Fran
j cisco and the California Sugar Refinery,
j in which Olaus, John D. and Adolph B.
| Spreckelf? had a controlling interest,
i combined to form the Western Sugar Be
i fining Company, with a capital of $2,
] 000,000. Half of the stock was issued
! to Havemejora & Klder and half to the
I Sprockets, and the new company took
i the business ««f the two former concerns.
; The Haverrt»»yers & Eider factory wag
; r-losed, and that partnership transferred
' its stock to the American Sugar Re
j fining Company, which has since vot
i co it.
j Th« next step, in the formation of the
j great trust, as recited by the Mil in
< equity, was the acquisition In 1802 of
i the Philadelphia refineries of the Frank
• lin Sugar Refining Company, the Dela
j ware Sugar House, the Spreckles Sugar
> Refining Company and the K. C. Knight
Company. The exhibits in the case con
lain extracts from the minutes of the
i American Sugar Refining Company for
i March I< *. 3^92, showing the method of
; procedure in the purchase or the Frank
; lin and SpreckeLs companies.
The first motion at that meeting was
] for an increase of the capita] stock to
i secure the acquisition of these four com
! panics and the Revere Sugar Refinery
> Company, of Boston. The last named
I company, however, refused to sell, and
stiil continues to operate independently
of the trust. John E. Bearlea, jr. secrc
j tary of the company, and John E. Par
• sons, counsel, were authorized to act for
I the American in acquiring the stock of
j the four Philadelphia companies.
, H. O. Bavemeyer submitted a state
NEWJ^SK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY. ■ y<WEm(ER», l!>ld.
i ment that he had acquired a controlling
i share of the stock of the Franklin com
[ pany which he would sell at a profit to
! the American Sugar Refining: Company.
Theodore A. Hevemeyer submitted a
like statement with regard to the
' Spreckels company. Both withdrew
from the meeting. Some question arose
, whether the Messrs. Spreckels would
| part with their share of the stock anil
I whether ' the Messrs. Havemeyer would i
| part with their stock on the basis dis- j
cussed. j
The secretary was solemn.:" authorized ,
to consult them on this subject and lei;
1 the meeting for that purpose. He re
turned and reported that the Messrs.
Havemeyer were prepared to sell their j
4.'. per cent of the stock of both compa- |
nies. The Messrs. Havemeyer agreed to
the terms offered, and the directors re
maining at the meeting agreed to their
terms.
How the National Was Acquired.
Another transaction set forth at some ;
length in the bill is the acquisition by :
the American Sugar Refining: Company, :
or. rather, by the Messrs. H. O. and j
Theodore Havemeyer, of the stock of the i
National Susrar Refining Company, a :
New Jersey corporation which, in itself,
whs - -mew-hat of a trust, since it com- \
bined three companies formerly carrying
on independent operations. The National '\
has been regarded up to a recent date
as one of the largest of the Independent
1 companies competing with the Sugar
! Trust.
In May, 1900, it is allowed, Henry O
Havf'raeyer. James H. Post, John E.
Parson? and others acting with them de
cided to eliminate the competition of the
», v York Sugar Refining Company,
Mollenbauer Sugar Refining Company
and National Sugar Refining Company.
,7ani**s H. Post, representing unnamed
}>urchn!s<=rp. agreed to incorporate a cor
poration in New Jersey with 510,000.000
preferred end $10,000,000 common stock.
This company, the National Sugar Re
fir.ins Company, was duly Incorporated,
.. n ,j SS-.-'OO.OOO of the stock was distrib
uted among the shareholders of the
former company, while * 10.000.00" of the
Ftock was, it is alleged, banded over,
without consideration, to Henry O.
Kavernever.
Henry O Havemeyer, it is declared,
delivered the 100.000 shares of common
stock thus acquired to himself and Lo
well M. Palmer as a voting trust. The
b^n^firiaries ander this trust, which was
t<> !a<=t for /-..- years, were set forts as
follow?. 76.000 shares to Henry O.
Havemeyer as trustee for his children,
Horace Havemeyer, Adaline H. FrelinF
huysen and Electra H. Webb; 10,000
Bfaares to Lowell M. Palmer: 5.000
share? to Washington P. Thomas, at
pr< »c en t president of the American Sugar
Refining: Commpany; 5,000 phares to
James H. Post. an* 4. nri o shares to John
TL. Parsons.
AH these shares, it is set forth, with
the exception of those set over to James
H. Post were later acquired by H. O.
Havemeyer, and were voted lor him in
One narnr of lames H. Post &nd still
continue in the name of Post for the
benefit nf hi? h<>lrs. It is further alleged
that the National Sugar "Ftenrunc Com
pant, in June, I!*" 1 *" 1 , acquired stock in the
W. J. M^Cahan Sugar Refining Company
and has ,-.-■ since controlled th« output
of that company.
The Segal Loan Affair.
Th* bill further sets forth that the
American Sugar Refining Company ac
quired the stock of th« Baltimore Sugar
Refining Company and closed its re
finery: that it acquired control of and
dissolved- the United States . Sugar Re
fining Company, "promoted by Adolrh
Segal, and iat^r by means of a loan made
to S*gal by Guetave E. Kis?".!. one of
th*- director* of the tm?t, paralysed the
operations nt the Pennsylvania Sugar
Refining Company. . The relations of the
trust with the last named company have
been before the public in conn<K-tion
with the suit brought by the- receiver of
the company, which was settled by the
Sugar Trust in June. 1909. . .
Agreements with competitors for th«
fixing of prices before 1882, when it con
trolled '.**• per cent of the total output
of th» United States, and the weighing
frauds and rebating proved against the
company are further alleged as reasons
why the trust should be enjoined from
continuing business.
A tabulation of th* output of the cane
sugar refineries throughout the country
owe that the companies owned either
entirely or in part by the American
Sugar Refining Company turned out
4.017,053,109 pounds as the average in
the last three years, while the eight in
dependent companies operating through
out the country had an average output
in the same period of 1.570,843.702, so
that the trust manufactures <2 per cent
of the whole output of the country.
The alleged acts of the American
Sugar Refining Company in controlling
the beet sugar refining industry are de
scribed in the bill of complaint as sim
ilar to those used in gaining control of
the sugar production. It is charged that
in 1901 H. O. Havemeyer and Lowell
M. Palmer in undertaking to ruin the
thirty-one independent companies com
peting with the trust arranged for re
bates with the various railroads run
ning out of New York to the Middle
Weet States where beet sugar factories
were operating and flooded their mar
kets with refined sugar, which was sold
btlow the cost of production. As a
result of these tactics it is alleged the
Sugar Trust acquired control of the
great majority of the stock of the vari
ous beet root companies throughout the
country.
• Counsel Speaks for Trust.
"The company produces no raw
sugar." said James M. Beck, general
counsel of the American Sugar Refining
Company, after the government's suit
was filed. "It does not and cannot con
trol the price of the raw material; it
has no agreements, direct or Implied,
with other companies, and Is subject
daily to competition of the keenest char
acter; it has. Including its beet root
sujrar Interests, about Dl per cent of
the country's sugar trade, and it re
quires a liberal stretch of the imagina
tion to call this a monopoly, It does
not seek to etiJle competition or oppress
the consumer by advancing the cost of
a necessity of life. "
Mr. Beck quotes fig-urns to show that
while .th'"- commoditie* have advanced
- j*iii ■ i.;.:- befn reduced- in price from
Ksu -nit- In 1870 to 4 7«; In 1900, and
condud-s that ;■ trust which thus re
duces prices ie nut entire]] bad.
Whil« a pressing confidence la the re
suit of the litigation, he assures \h
10.000 shareholders, nearly one-hair «ii
whom arc women, h*» says, that what
ever the outcome •■! the auit the com
pany-cannot be deprived of its property!
If it appears when the Supreme Court
interprets the law in tho Standard Oil
and American Tol jlcco cases that the
Sugar coiupaiiy ha» violated the law
remedy matters and com.uy^
law.
"This would be done/" '^TnTer
"if th. present ? g|g
been ma oannnt unfortunate^
Iness men cannot condu-.t a ice»
business enterprise without * *> ie £ ins
themselves to proceedings under a high
ly technical statute, about the mean
ing of which the courts do nota&ree.
and about the wisdom of which most
thoughtful men of all classes^ are in
serious doubt."
DIES ON HER HONEYMOON TRIP
Mother Speeds Toward Former Miss
Hamilton, Unaware of Death.
Baltimore. Nor 28.-Mrs. William Elliott
Harrold. formerly Miss Edna Hamilton,
one of the most popular voun? women in
Baltimore society, died yesterday afternoon
at Palermo. Italy, following an operation
for appendicitis? •'. :-
On October 31 Miss Hamilton was married
to Mr. Harrold. a banker, of Ma con via.
The wedding took place at Oak Hill, the
country estate of her mother. Mr. and Mrs.
Harroid were on their honeymoon trip when
'.lie bride was stricken. Her mother and
sister are now on a steamer bound for Eu
rope unaware of her death.
A Pianola or Pianola Piano
as a Christmas Gift Will Afford
a Life-time's Enjoyment
With the aid of the Pianola you can play at once without previous study <~>r
practice any piece of music from the simplest song to the most difficult classical
selection.
One reason for the Pianola's popularity as a Christmas gift is that it fur
nishes fasting pleasure-
Most gifts, no matter how great their cost, soon lose their novelty. But
the fascination of the Pianola renews itself with each neiv piece of musk.
With a catalog of over 15,060 pieces to select from, you can always have
bright, new music in the home. The latest successes are added often sooner
than the sheet music itself is placed on sale.
It is a peculiarity of good music that the more you hear of it, the more you
want. And the Pianola keeps step with your growing musical appreciation,
leading constantly into pathways of greater and greater allurement.
The Pianola The Pianola Piano The Grand Pianola Piano
A separate attachment in cabinet form, An upright piano of one of the follow- Combining the world's three foremost
which may be used with any piano, ing well-known makes, with the errand pianos with genuine Pianolas,
and removed from the piano when genuine Pianola inside its case. Play- thus forming single instruments. When
not in use. able both by hand and with a Pianola - used for hand^laying the Pianola
Pianola, Metrostyle - $250 music-roll: practically disappears.
Pianola, Themodist - 350 Steinway Pianola Piano, - $1250 up. Steinway Grand Pianola Piano, $2000
Pianola, Grand - - 450 Weber Pianola Piano. - 950 up. Weber Grand Pianola Piano, 1800
A few used Pianolas guaranteed in Steck Pianola Piano, - 850 up. Meek Grand Pianola Piano - 1500
perfect order .tSl,'3. Payable So.oo Wheelock Pianola Piano. 700 up. Liberatat^ntl^pt^fother
monthly. Stuyvesant Pianola Piano, 550 up. makes taken in exchange.
Make your Christinas reservations now. Special terms on many of our instruments until the holidays
Pianos Without Pianolas
If you arr considering the purchase of a piano of the
conventional type, do not make your selection until you
have visited Aeolian Hall. Here are the headquarters of
two of the world's nio-t famous pianos — the Ji'ebcr .and
the Sterk. Here will also be found the H heclock and the
SivyresanL pianos of widely recojrnized excellence. These
pianos range in price from ?^7 r > upward, purchasable
u]>on exceedingly moderate monthly terms. In its re
spective class, each represents the highest possible piano
value that can be obtained.
Used Pianos of Celebrated Makes
The Exchange Department presents unusual opportunities
nt this season to the Christmas shopper. In this depart
ment are to be found pianos bearing the names of the best
known makers such as Sleimzaif, Weber, Sleek, ("flickering.
Ktwbr, Mason $r
I Limit n. Sohvirr,
etc. These pi
anos have conic
to Aeolian Hall
in exchange for
the Pianola
The Stuyvesant Pianola Piano. Price $550
Uniting a piano of established reputation and th<?
genuine PIANOLA, Purchasable for $25 down
and the balance in small monthly payments.
EXPLAINS DEWEY SELECTION
Long- Believed Him Best Man to
Command Asiatic Fleet.
Boston, Nov. 28.— j onn P. Long, for
mer Secretary of the Navy, takes excep
tion to a statement made by John Bar
rett, director of the Bureau of American
Republics, that he (Long) was opposed
to the appointment of Commodore
George Dewey to command the fleet
which captured Manila. The statement
is contained in one of. Mr. Barrett's pub
lications.
In a communication to the press to
day the former Secretary says:
"There was in the fall of 1807 a va
cancy in the command of the Asiatic
squadron. The turn of Dew.ey and an
other commodore for sea service had
come, and the choice was between them.
I selected Dewey. giving the other the
European .squadron, having' satisfied
myself by inquiry among naval experts
and without consideration of any out
side influences that each wag better fit
ted than the other for the post assigned.
President McKlnley never suggested
De.wey's name to me, nor was It men
tioned by him until I had made the se
lection and taken it to him for approval.
llYinoVf'Anf' • i>o not nia^e the mistake of supposing
1 "r ul *>«*««•• that any piano-player is a Pianola. The
genuine Pianola, with its vital and exclusive improvements,
the Mctrdstjflc, the Thcmpdist, etc.. can be obtained only in the
Steinway, Weber, Steck, Wheelock and Stuyvesant Piano*.
I nbuyingan imitation the purchaser sacrifices the many important
advantages which have piven the Pianola its world- wide success.
THE AEOLIAN COMPANY
Th, Lirj«( Manufactarm of Musical Instrumtnts in the World
Aeolian Hall. 362 Fifth Aye., Near 34th St.. New York
whereupon he said to me in his charac- I
teristically pleasant way, 'Do you think j
Dewey is the right man and is hi* head j
level r From such a query I naturally j
inferred, not that ■he had been Infill- j
enced in Dewr-ys favor, but rather that ;
somebody had put a doubt in his mind. j
I replied cordialry in the affirmative that I
I had made careful inquiry and he as- J
sented. That is the whole story."
HATTIE LEBLANC ON TRIAL
[
Jury Secured in Case of Girl Ac- j
cused of Murdering Glover.
Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 2S. — Hattle Le- .
blanc. a Cape Breton girl still In her teens, j
looked Into the faces to-day of the twelve j
men who will decide whether she is guilty j
of the murder of Clarence F. Glover, who !
was shot down in his Waltham laundry a [
little more tha.i a year ago. The girl con- j
versed freely ■with th« motherly police ma
tron and the two ballffs as they sat by her ;
side during the opening hours of the trial. ■
No evidence was offered in court to-day, i
but the jury -was taken out to Waltham. j
where the twelve men flled silently through !
the laundry, then up to the little cottage ;
horpltal to which Glover dragged himself j
for all and to die. The jury afterward !
went to the Glover home. wher« Miss Le-; ;
bUme was a servant, and where she wa.< ■
Piano <^the piano that even.- one esn play >. They ha\ c
con \e from New York's finest homes— have usually had
little or no use. and are practically uiuhstinjrmshabie
from new, either in musical quality or appearance. It i>
now understood that the Exthantre Pianos at Aeolian
Hall constitute real "barfrnins"' in the fullest sen>e of
the word. Prices begin at $150. yioderate Monthly Pat/meats.
Victor Talking Machines
The new department at Aeolian Hall for the sale of Vic
tors, Victor-Victrolas and Victor Records, offers to pur
chasers important advantages found nowhere else. Among
these may be mentioned the absolute./rr.TA«!».wof this new
stock of machines and records, which has just been
installed and is absolutely complete in even' detail.
New Pianos for Rent
You may rent a new p.,mo «t Aeolian Hall, on practically
the same terms charged elsewhere for used "rental"
pianos. Special arrangements whereby the rent charges
can be applied on ■ subsequent purchase may be made.
The Aeolian Company do a scry large and constantly
increasing rental business in pianos, And arc in a position
to extend unusual inducements to rental patrons.
found three days after the murder hidfic
under a bed. Jud^e Bond decided to T*m
prne the government's opening nntn to-mor
row.
Still there were a few interchanges of
Ifiral shots by IBM opposing counsel, for 11.
H. Johnson, who has been appointed by -.
court to look after the defendant*!! inter
ests, tried to have th«» indictment quashed
on the usual grounds of lndeitnltenes?. 1 :-
Judpe Bond quietly overruled th* motion
after listening to a word or two from Dis
trict Attorney John J. Hlgrgias. The *x
cej.tlons may form the baaia of an app-al
to th«» Supreme Court in case of an a.-*.- »r<»»
verdict.
The jury Is made up of Middlesex County
fanners, clerks and business men, and-th*
twelve men were selected with very BBSS]
trouble.
OKLAHOMA CAPITAL FIGHT OK
Oklahoma City, Nov. 3.— Both houses oi
th* Oklahoma Legislature, which eonvern^S
in extraordinary session to-day, ratified th*
Governor's act In calllni; the session for
Oklahoma City, and received and placed
on flle three bills.
The first %U provides for . placinr -. th«
state capital immediately at Oklahoma
City, the seennd provides for the appolat
ment of a state capital commission .to
have full charge of the erection of stir*
buildings, and rh«> third provides for £»
compensation of Representatives an-i Sena
tors p«r diem. **