Proposed Bottle Combine; Brookfield listed

PROPOSED BOTTLE COMBINE

Edward F. Craign, the bottle trust promoter of New York, is working up the Eastern Bottle Manufacturers Combine, which is to start with a capital of $12,000,000. The new company will be known as the National Glass Co., and $8,000,000 is to be 7 per cent preferred cumulative, and $4,000,000 common, of which there is to be left in the treasury $1,500,000 preferred and $1,000,000 common. The following gentlemen have agreed to serve as officers of the company: C. A. Tatum, of Whitall, Tatum & Co., president; William Brookfield, of Brookfield Glass Works, vice president; Richard Delafield, vice president of National Park Bank, temporary treasurer, and John Whitall, of Whitall, Tatum & Co., secretary.

The company is to be organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey. The new company will continue the manufacture of all kinds of glass bottles, including amber and flint, druggist's ware, electrical glass goods, fruit jars, and deal in druggist's sundries. About 20 concerns will be taken in now, and the $2,500,000 left in the treasury will be sufficient to buy those who will not be taken in at present.

Those taken over include Whitall, Tatum & Co., New York and Philadelphia; Brookfield Glass Works, Brooklyn; Moore Bros. Glass Works, Clayton, N.J., Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J.; Salem Glass Works, Salem, N.J.; H. C. Fox & Sons, Philadelphia; S. M. Bassett, Elmer, N.J.; Jeffries Glass Works, Fairton, N.J.; East Stroudsburg Glass Works, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Acme Glass Works, Olean, N.Y.; Sydney Glass Works, Sidney, N.Y.; Bodine Glass Works, Wilmington, Del.; More, Jonas & Co., Bridgeton, N.J.; George Jonas & Co., Minotolo, N.J.; F. M. Pierce & Co., Clayton, N.J.; Woodbury Glass Works, Woodbury, N.J.; Standard Glass Works, Philadelphia; Lockport Glass Works, Lockport, N.Y.