“Mr. Meyer has commonly been called the Napoleon of the whisky trade. He is largely interested in the recently formed combine.
“‘We intend to make plenty of whisky. No brand will be killed,’ said Mr. Meyer.”
Henceforth the names of Levy Mayer, Alfred Austrian and Angelo Meyer appear most frequently in the reports.
“Alfred Austrian, who is Levy Mayer’s legal representative, says that all the distilleries now negotiated for will be absorbed in three weeks more.”
“In an interview today Mr. Angelo Meyer said, ‘I believe confidently that in the next five years a business calling for 10,000,000 gallons of whisky a year will be built up.’”
In April, 1899, another Jewish movement appeared: “Joseph Wolf, the Chicago whisky dealer, who is said to own more Kentucky whisky, independent of the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, than any other individual or corporation, is behind the new whisky combine formed in Chicago with a capital stock of $3,000,000. The purpose of the new trust, which it is said will be given the title of the Illinois Distilleries and Warehouse Company, is to fight the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company.”
The few remaining Kentucky distillers were wary; they regarded Wolf, probably with reason, as simulating enmity to the other part of the Jew-made whisky trust, in order to sweep into his net the remaining independents.
“Alfred Austrian and C. H. Stoll, attorneys for the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, will leave Louisville today for Chicago to confer with Levy D. Mayer, chief counsel for the trust; and in fact, counsel for three big whisky and spirits combines.”