The Hutchinson Wholesaler from Hutchinson, Kansas • 4

Bucking a Trust in Kansas Some years later, when red blood was again coursing through his veins, he started' a wholesale grocery business in Chicago, which is today one (Continued from page one.) of the largest concerns of its kind in the country. For his side-line he went in for reforming and beautify ing Chicago, and he has helped a long corporation, whose chief product, soda ash, is composed of salt. Emerson Carey was solicited and became a large stockholder in that, and is now its president. So also with the Country Club, which has just completed a handsme clubhouse. and fine golf links.

A number of minor industries a new bank, a school desk factory, a straw boa'd mill are largely home financed. In all" of them, for large or small sums, is to be, found Emerson Carey, the town's chief pusher. When the Morton interests discovered that Carey was using his steam not only once more than they were using it and then condensing it and makiDg ice, they decided to take a lesson from their competitor. So they went into the ice business, erecting a large plant and shipping ice into over their own railroad, enter way in doing both. As president of the Citizen's Association a generation ago, he started the ball rolling for many of the municipal improvements that the city" now enjoys, especially the boulevards and 'park systems.

At present he is head of the Chicago Bureau of. Charities, president of the Municipal Art League, and a vice-president in both the American Civic Association and the National Civic Federation. So, by and large, you see he's a good bit in the way of being a public-spirited citizen. Having been so eminently successful in seeing that the balance was never on. the wrong side of his own ledger, we shall now be interested to note if he can wipe off of Uncle Sam's books that troublesome deficit we've been hearing so much about.

At all events we wish him every sort of bil-liken luck in his grocer-to-greenback move. May he handle as many gold bullion babies in Washington as he handled "Gold Dust Twins" in Chicago. appeared on the scene and made a colossal mess of things. MacVeagh simply couldn't stomach the silver-tongued Knocker from Nebraska, so he bade his former love, Dame Democracy, a cool farewell and began paying attention to Miss G. O.

P. Of course he got on famously with his new affinity for he has a highly developed knack for getting on famously with everybody and everything. In fact, he made himself so solid that he now holds fourth place in her heart, which is only another way of saying. that in the succession to the Presidency, the Secretary of the Treasury comes next to the Secretaryship of State. Should anything fatal happen to Messrs.

Taft, Sherman and Knox, which the gods forbid, the citizen from Chicago would suddenly find himself skipper of the White House ship. Our Guardian of the Gold Reserve, as we intimated above, is something of a dresser, his near approach to the three-score-aod-ten milestone. Ordinarily at that age a man is more concerned with codicils than cravats, but not so with the merchant prince from the shores of Lake Michigan. He is ever faultlessly attired, never by any chance allows his spats to vary in color from his gloves, keeps his frock coat well pressed, and plays the fine raiment game generally with conspicuous finesse. To pursue the personal topic a little further, you may be interested to learn that he is thinly tall, calmly courteous, and carefully ton-gued.

A four-ply coat of dignity encases him. The haa marks of having been a distinguished member of society for a seasoned number of years stick out ah over him, and you would as soon think of slapping him on the back as you would think of tickling the Archbishop of England. Nevertheless, he's all to the good, if reports from the front can be relied on. He and our much-sung friend. Harrigan, should travel well together, for "divil a mon kin say a wurrd agin him." A long and honorable career has been his.

Born on a Pennsylvania farm, he pulled out of Yale in 1862 and out of the Columbia Law school in 1864. With his brother of now equal fame, Wayne MacVeagh, he began to flash forth his legal lights in New York, but a cog slipping somewhere in his health, he had to strike the western trail for the open. THE NEW SALT PLANT. ing the local well as the outside field. i While not a monopolist by nature, Carey had felt that he was entitled to some special privileges in the local ice trade.

While his was not the only plant it had been for years the largest, and when his competitor's plant burned down he had not only lent ice to the unfortunatet man so that he could take care of his customers until his plant could be rebuilt, but he refused to hoist the price of ice while he had the field to himself. At no time had prices been extortionate, the prevailing price to domestic consumers being forty cents a hundred and to large consumers twenty cents. So when the Morton people came into the local ice field with a flourish of trumpets Carey decided to declare war. Not, only did he cut the profit out of the ice business and give his neighbors and customers for years the benefit, but he announced a determination to build another salt plant, and he is making good his word. Wells have been sunk and excavating begun on a site near the junction of the Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads, an admirable location.

"Will you close your city plant?" the Senator was asked. "Certainly not," was the reply. "It will, belong to the oldest boy. I have three other sons you know, and the new one will go to the second boy. In time, Lsuppose, I shall have to build a plant for each of my other sons.

Don't think the trust has got me going because it has entered the ice-making business. They have fought me ever since I went into the business and in spite of all I have prospered. Before the salt trust puts me out of business it will have to go into several other lines and finally 'have to move in with their whose holdings were nominal, were closely identified with Joy Morton's Chicago and Michigan interests. So Carey had another thought and, as before with him, to think was to act. he invited the Interstate Commerce Commission, well knowing its limited powers, to come to Hutchinson and hold a hearing.

It came, or rather two of the members came, and one of vthem was Charles A. Prouty. It happened that Mr. Prouty had be fore-made an investigation of rates in itfhich Joy Morton's interests were involved and it did not take him long to elicit from Mr. Morton himself the real facts in the case of the Hutchinson Arkansas River Railroad, which had a mile and a half of track, connecting the various plants of the company.

Over these tracks it delivered salt, to the railroad companies and for this service, the switching being done by the railroads to which the salt was delivered, it received a sum of money equal to about one-fourth the rate to Kansas City, and proportionately in other directions. The reason why the Morton plants could undersell their competitors, chief of whom was Carey, was explained. "-That was some five or six years ago. Sine that time there has been comparative peace in the salt business. The' Hepburn Bill and other amendments to the Interstate Commerce Law made rebating too dangerous and if 'any of the companies have since received concessions they have been too well concealed for the competing companies to discover them.

But a couple of years ago there came a great improvement in salt-making machinery. A process was installed in the Morton plant, principal refinery of the H-K Company, by which the steam created with which to boil the brine and precipitate the salt therefrom, could be used three times. I.t was known as the triple vacuum process and it cheapened the production of salt beyond all imagination of a few years But Carey was not far behind. Indeed, almost before the Morton plant was in operation, Carey had a quadruple vacuum process in operation and was distancing his giant competitor in the cheapness of production. In addition he was using the condensed steam already used four times in salt-making, to manufacture ice for local consumption.

Incidentally he was piling- up wealth. Along about this time the town discovered that it was in the grasp of an electric light, gas and water monopoly. Relief was sought and an unusually capable honest mayor and council offered to give a franchise to a competing -company. Possibly the courts would say that such a franchise was void; possibly ruinous competition would set in which would kill the enterprise even if started. The town was canvassed for advice and for money and it was discovered that Emerson Carey, in addition to his coal, ice, cold storage and salt business, had for years been operating a small electric light plant in connection with his other industries, and had even crossed the street and gone down a block and was lighting the principal theater of the city.

He was appealed to to head the company and take the leadership in the fight for fair prices for light He accepted the call and as a result of the work of himself and his associates, the town soon found itself in possession not only of the cheapest electric current in the state, but also of a street railway. To the astonishment of everybody the electric line is paying greater dividends than the light Hutchinson Chemical Alkali Company, a million dollar Incorporation Papers Issued Work Already Begun and Machinery Ordered. Incorporation papers have been issued by the state chartetr board to the new salt company, known as the Hutchinson Salt capital $30,000. Emerson Carey, president, Roy G. Streeter, secretary, and J.

L. Dick, the treasurer. It is 'the intention of the incorporators to later on increase the capital to $100,000 probably more. The new salt plant is to be located at the east edge of Hutchinson. The work of sinking the wells and constructing the buildings has already begun.

The machinery, boilers, have been ordered and will arive by the time the buildings are finished. The plant will cost about $100,000 and be the. most modern salt plant in existence. The Main street plant will be continued in operation. Kindly mention the Wholesaler when writirg advertisers.

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