Hemingray Glass Company, Muncie, Indiana

NOW COMES A GLASS TRUST

Detroit Man Gives Details of a Great

Combine, Recently Formed in

New York, He Says.

Detroit, Mich., September 3 - The Free Press prints this morning an interview with Ross M. Leggett of the R. S. Leggett Bottle and Glass Company, located here, in which he asserts that the flint glass bottle makers have formed a huge combine. Mr. Leggett asserts that as the result of numerous secret meetings in New York, the following firms have arranged to enter the combine: J. A. Hamilton, A. Hamilton, W. H. Hamilton & Co., Pittsburg; California Glass Company, California; Fidelity Glass Company, Tarentum, Pa.; Kane Flint Bottle Company, Kane, Pa.; Agnew & Co., Hutton, Pa.; C. L. Flacous Glass Company, Tarentum, Pa.; Everett Glass Company, Everett, Pa.; Glenshaw Glass Company, Sharpsburg, Pa.; Salisburg Bottle Works, Salisburg, Pa.; Salisburg Bottle Works, Avonmore, Pa.; Point Bottle Works, Rochester, Pa.; Tibby Bros., Sharpsburg, Pa.; H. G. Fox & Sons, Sharpsburg, Pa.; Obear-Nester Glass Company, St. Louis, Mo.; Anderson Flint Bottle Company, Anderson, Ind.; Muncie Glass Company and Hemingray Glass Company, Muncie, Ind.; Nerison & Weiskopf, Elwood, Ind.; Canton Glass Company and the Marion Glass Company, Marion, Ind.; Chicago Bottle Works, Frankton, Ind.; Dunkirk Flint Bottle Works and the Dunkirk Bottle Works, Dunkirk, Ind.; Sneath Glass Company, Hartford City, Ind.; Sims' Glass Company, Anderson, Ind.; Bellaire Bottle Works, Bellaire, Ind.

It is asserted by Leggett that the combine is to be formed along similar lines to the American Glass Company and the Window Glass Company, monopolies in the window glass line. Leggett states that there is to be a central sales agency of the monopoly and a move is being made to centralize all the plants at Pittsburg, which will be the headquarters. There will be one central set of officers and one board of directors for the entire trust. A. C. Bark of New York is the leading spirit.