Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1890 — CRACKER TRUSTS AT WAR. [ARTICLE]

CRACKER TRUSTS AT WAR.

The Western Combination Will Fight Eastern Manufacturers. New York dispatch: The American, Biscuit Manufacturing company has secured from the White estate the big livo-storv building on the northeast corner of West and Bethune streets. It is known as White’s malt house and stands on a lot 196 by 160 feet. The American company will at once begin to put in ovens, and it is expected that inside of three months the factory will be opened, employing from 400 to 500 hands. This is the opening of the fight between tho two big cracker companies. The New York Biscuit company, which the American, or Western, combination of manufacturers propose to fight here in the East, was incorporated in Illinois with a capital of $5,000,000. A number of the big Eastern cracker companies were united under this head and prominent among them are E. J. Larrabee & Co., and Vandeveer & Holmes. The company at once secured a tract of ground at Tenth avenue aud Sixteenth street. There a big factory will be built. L. D. Dozier oi the Dozier Cracker company of St. Louis and D. F. Breranor of the Bremner Baking company of Chicago have been stopping for several days at tbe Gilsey house. They are leading men in the American company, and both declare that their company will fight the Eastern concern on its own grounds.