The evening world. Newspaper, November 4, 1916, Page 5

\ | 1 1 ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, goo ge 4, Housewives’ Association Uncovers a Precedent for Milk Trust Conspiracy, Old “Milk Exchange, Ltd.,” of a Quarter of a' Century Ago, a Monopoly That Fixed Prices, | Was Driven Out of the State and Over to New Jersey—Farmers and Consumers | Were Their Victims. By Sophie Irene Loeb. If you are a housewife and want to be safeguarded against high prices, @end for the coin of protection. This enrolls you ee a member of the Housewives’ Protective League. No dues, no fees; just sign the application blank below ‘The Housewives’ Protective Association ts follow: ing closely the milk investigation of Deputy Attorney General Lewis. Mr. Lewis te showing how milk organizations were formed in order to find out if there is @ combination now existing according to which the prices are decided for all dealers practically alike. A review of the activities of the milk companies of the past as disclosed in the last investigation of 1909 1s significant and will likely prove of value in tracing conditions to-day. The findings were as follows: “In October, 1882, a corporation was organized under the laws of the Btate of New York, known as the Milk Exthange, Limited. It was or- ganized ostensibly for the purpose of fixing a fair and equitable price at Which the producers would sell thelr milk to the milk dealers doing busi- ness in the City of New York and its vicinity. And with that end in MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Cut out this coupon, fill out and mail to the Housewives’ Protective Association, Evening World, Post Office Box 1354. 1916 Name ......- Address ...... 1 desire to enroll my name as a member of The Evening World’s Housewi Protective Association. Inclose 2-cent stamp and membership token will be muiled. utes of the Board of Directors, was| paper published in the an follows: Jersey. Upon the rt “IA recess was th prices the Milk Ject to the call of postal cards to all reasembling, the ( who compr reported that, In the J bers of t committee, they found change. mitk to be $——— per can of forty| the foliowtr quarts, less freight charges from each Oft respective shipping point, together with an allowance of 5 cents per can for cartage. This report waa duly “It will be noticed that the i. ordered, sub- and, on n Values of his ot Reporter, Bumes, N. J, Sion camnuscet: the price o ant Conte por quart, being an advance © cent per quart THE MILK REPORTER, ‘The exact difference as to the aitu- ation to-day is yet to be disclosed. ——>_—_ Man Shot Dead by « Hanter, CATSKILL, N. ¥., Nov. 4.—Ray Cas- tle, superintendent of the Jefferson | Rural Cemetery, died from injurtes re- ceived while hunting this IOrAIny A gun In the hands of Lewts K. A a member of the hunting party, was ac- (dentally discharged, the load hitting him, cover up the real work ange. in fact, in the one of the meetings of of Directors the word manner, were communicated to the) _ of the Milk bale nda! a news. view, it was contemplated that the Producers should have a representa- —___Pouitical, | ouricat » tion on the board of directors of the exchange. PRODUCERS NOT GIVEN A FAIR SHOW. “The producers were refused an equal representation with the dealers on the Board of Directors and #0, with few exceptions, declined to be- come members of or take any part in the proceedings of the exchange. » “The exchange hold the meetings, both of its stockholders and its Board of Directors, at No. 6 Harrison Btrect, New York City; and there, each month, and sometimes oftener, fixed the prices that the members of the exchange would pay to the pro- ducers for milk. The exchange also @4 a small dusiness in selling milk * on commission, continued until January, hen an action brought by the Attorney General of the Btate of New York to dissolve the Milk Exchange, Limited, on the ground that it was a combination to limit and lessen the supply of milk in the State of New York land to fix and control the price thereof, “As a result of thie action four yeare later @ decree wae made | and entered in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, County of Broome, on the 6th day of May, 1895, dissolving the Milk Exchange, Limited, and vacating and nullifying its charter, “About six months after the dis-| solution of the Milk Exchange, Lim- | ited, practically the same dealers who composed its officers, Board of Direc- tors and stockholders, incorporated, in the State of New Jersey, a corpo- ration under the name of the Con- solidated Milk Exchange. ‘ “Phe membership of the Consoll-| dated Milk Exchange was almost| identical with that of the Milk Ex-| change, Limited, and in some cases! the shares of stock of the Milk Ex- change, Limi exchanged, ehare for sli f the Con solidated Milk without the payment of any money. ACTS ILLEGAL IN NEW YORK, TRIED IT IN JERSEY, IS } “Under the cloak of this new {ncor poration in New Jersey, the same boty of a s, to the number of tinued to do the heen a@judged 1 of Appeals In the co, Limited. ein the City of yurt ‘Street, the principal ottice Limited, had heen | of flirectors poration of this Harris e be paid te produ ame manner as tf the old Milk aid houg from. the \ rhe t mT 6 Board cehang ne th f as, ver f this what p : tabl 1 ¢ coed " taken For Good Looks a woman must have good health. She can do her part by helping natureto keepthe blood pure, the liver active and the wels regular, with the aid ot the mild, vegetable remedy — ‘BEECHAMS PILLS Sale of Any Medicine in the World, everywhere, la bones, 100, dhe. POLITICAL POLITICAL, 6 of New]"" STATE HAS CHANCE Affecting the Preserv Forest Each voter at the polls nex day: will be handed three t ark and deposit in the ba One w ain the names of Pres The nt a popula several finanelal onatitutional amend- rendum on tlons and ¢ Chief among these questions for public approval ts Proposition No. 1 which provides for an enlargement of the State's forest preserves in two regione—the Adirondacks and tha Pallsades—in order to cuard agatnet forest fires and provide great public vacation grounds, P On the baflot the nm reads as follows tion No. 1.—8halt Chap. ter of the Lawe of 1916, enté tled “An act making provision for issuing bonds to the amount of POLITICAL, | TOGETA$2,500,000 | GIFT FOR A “YES” : | Depends on Referendum Vote 1916, vided In Proposition N 1 ts placed | Mayor Low appointed Strasbourger al tn the hands of Ms org: zation te’ Tax Commissioner and Mayor M _PouITICAL, | POLITICAL. Vote for Hughes Below is a reproduction of a poster Thursday, November 2 feform League of London. on ‘doubt as to how he should vote, let him look at the Englishman’s face and read his words. 2, Printed by HILL, SIFFKEM ® Co (LOM Lie) Graton Werns London ™ And AMERICAN WORKMAN: BRITISH WORKMAN: 1916. It tells i: s own story. © park estate and banking y r is a trustee of the ey Asylum ) ' ——$<$—_____.__ é te, ITCHING SCALP \ \ etl SCALY AND a \ 1 n rf POLITICAL GOSSIP y , ae oO So Severe Caused Sore Sore E FROM THE CAMPS or BoTH PARTIES| Seemed Worse At Night, } - Came Out. After Ten Years 000 to the Pilinade | yy w Al $5,00 tury i ra te | “.ct-| HEALED BY CUTICURA ; Tout bea aatnber of or. [ent of Ameticanisin becau “Riv Ki r ut boca a following: | 2" the lla alld and SOAP AND OINTMENT >| New York Board of Trade and Trang. | Preparedness portatlo in Camp Fire ¢ ‘tub of Amer- Wet Seahurd, Senator Ollie Tareas! oe CGov. Martin Giynn will speak | My trouble began with an ticking Democratic mass mee P 10 Academy of Music, Brook eruption my hea hich ned rom scratching, and woul become scaly. rouble’ seemed pail. in) to be worse at many ry the | sleepless gigs, Bn | and my came out © people of 12,000 plu- wl feared be bald. Now York have an opportunity to get | rality I tried a number of remedies with o $2,500,000 given to them,” said Mr, won rewiits till | tried a free sample of Perkins, “Thia will happen, however, | President Lee of the Brotherhood of | Cuncura Soup and Clommans. The provided proposition No. 1 is carried|Trainmen has tssued a statement at| ing ing hamediately mopped =! on Election Day, as private indi.|Cleveland “that efforts of the mon- ‘ol Culms. viduals In and about New York have | eyed interests to bribe or coerce work- | Sem and one box Geaeae Come agreed to contribute that amount to|{ngmen” will fall Teale aftr ton yaar ee the Palisades Park fund, I do not a a ia v5? ) Mere 1. S. Fy} know of @ more me While enter. Samuel Stras an nn | Park lesa Wy je ‘ parks ar a Inat Are earl Crit Sample Each Free by Mall f Brooklyn, He ts put- | Senat station | With 32 -p. Skin Book on request. +3 st eflicient management be-| which brought about the gas investi-| tess post-card: ‘ —— hind them, and !f the 0.000 pro- | gation and resulted in eighty-cont gas,| Boston." Sold throughout the wertd, received in the United States It ws published by The Tariff If any man ts MUpUditcan Nattonat Pudiietiy Communen 4 TIMES AND: AND WALES... MAKING SIBLE A COMMAND: Ale THE. NECESSARIES AND “Yes, ‘Cousin, that's what the tariff does for me.” ‘Well I'm blowed! And to think I've been voting FREE TRADE!”