New-York tribune., 1882-02-16
POOR ICE AT HIGH PRICES.


Treasurer Ball9ntine of the KnickerbOcker Ice
Company was nOn-committal yesterday when a
TRIBUNE reporter asked him about the prospects ior
"How much ico" asked the reporter, "haye you
"Wci ;" was iho reply "if should tell you that
wcqd % put sS SS T Do on s care aa 10 do
"Will ice be high next summerW
THAT depends. If the rice goes mp so that we
cannot buy cheap the public will have 10 pay til"
difference Il Will not be very high though, for
there is 80 much in the country that IL VIII regulate
the market. i. VII be high, however, as compared
What will be the quality of the ice"
at vii be poor. There las been 50 much snow snow
and so little cold weather that the ice is not very
solid nor very thick. 1 do not expect that we shall
be able to cut any more this year. Our
tugs went UP to Newburg yesterday. and the ice IS
beginning to break up al along the river think
MIR. Lynch, president of the New-York City lee
Company, had just returned from q ,p tTlp up tie
breaking up rapidly. The team which brought me
across tie river take the train fell through going
bacl, 20 rapidly is the ice melting. | doubt ii We
are able TO get any more from the Hudson this year.
There is probably little more than half crop now
III the houses along the stream. There have also
been small quantities of Ice, winch VIII amount I"
considerable in the aggregate, stored by private
individuals in temporary houses. The pI1cc Is Ike
IL to he rather hlgh and he quality not very good
next summer The price Will not be as nigh as IT
has been sometimes, but compared with last sum
mer, when almost gave ice away, it Will be
high"
DEPRESSION IN THE PRODUCE MARKETS.
The breadstufs and provision markets were fever
ish and unsettled Yesterday. This condition OF affairs
Tbeat opened m one cent "a Snshe lower than the
closing price on tuesday, followed by recovery OF
the decline, and then dropping suddenly from 2l2
to 3 cents bushel lower. This sudden decline was
due to the report of the failure of Kenyon d Co.,
leading grain firm i'll Chicago and for time the
market was on the verge OF q panic 1T was runored
tl,pTa firm IN . elTU
upon close inquiry ii could not be traced to any
trustworthy source. The markets continued 10
uctuate and finally closed, for wheat. from TO l2
cents n bushel lower than at Tuesdays close. Tie
transactions in wheat were heavier than upon any
day before for a, wear. amounting to G,06lOOO
bushels of which 5712,000 bushels i'll
futures" and 352 900 bushels in cash" sales.
Corn closed from 10 l. cents a buShel lower than
the opening, with large dealings III futures"
amounting to 144, 600 bushels. Oats were half OF
Il cent a bushe lower. Flour was from . to 10 cents
a barrel below Tuesdays closing, with an lndliier-
the part of shippers to trade Lard declined
20 cents per 100 pounds, and pork also declined
DISTRIBUTING THE HOSPITAL FUND.
The committee 20 distribute the funds collected
on Hospital saturday aud Sunday composed OF the
Mayor, Judge BlatchlOTd, P0stmasterP Pearson ;. ID.
B96cock President of the Chamber of C0mmerCe,
and Jesse Seglnan, II. L; Peew, and Morris X.
Jesup has made the following awards: M0unt
Sinai Hospital 5000; st. Luke's Hospital, 5000;
Presbyterian Hospital, $1,000; House of Rest for
Consnmptivcs, $1,000 Home for incurablcs,
IL,
$1,000: Free Home for Incurables, 1,500; New
York Eye and Ear lnfrmary $1,000; New-loTk
IntirnaTy for Women ard ChildICn, 81 900;
New-York Ophthalmic Hospital, 81, 1000; New
York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, 81 900;
Orthopedic Hospital, 81 900; Manhattan Eye and
Ear Hospital, ~ 900: Hahneman Hospital, ~ 900;
toial $25, 100. The New-York Hospital. the koose-
welt Hospital and the Nursery and Chlds Hospital
declined 10 participate in the distribution because
they are in prosperous condition.. The Hospital
for the Relief Of the Rupturcd and Crippled, the
German Hospital and the MOmcn's Hospital were
excluded from participation because Their revenues
for the past year exceeded their expenditures.
. TALKING ABOUT AN IRON EXCHANGE z
A meeting of persons interested III the iron trade
was held at Delmoncos III Beaver-st. yesterday, TO
Exchange. The meeting was largely attended.
While the resolution authorizing committee
TO investigate the subject further was
unanimously adopted, the discussion showed
that several persons present had serious
doubts of the success of the project. one
speaker objected to the scheme asserting that eX-
changes only fostcred speculation and that the
iron trade would suffer injury rather than gain all
vantage from an exchange. Another person de-
caTcd that IL impossible TO classify iron as
grains were graded at the Produce Exchange and
cotton at the Cotton Exchange, and that this diff
entity would prove n great obstacle TO success.
resolution for the appointment of n committee
of nine members, representing distinct branches of
the trade. was passed unanimously. The COM
mlttee was not named. +, :. Wheeler of T.. S,
Wheeler and Co., importers, presided over the
meeting and to him left the appointment of
the committee
BURIAL OF WILLY WALLACH.
The funeral of the late Willy Wallach was held