The morning news., 1889-02-05
TIE ICE SITUATION.
The Delivery Company Dissolved -
The Gorrie 70 Increase It's Plant.

The Delivery Company Dissolved -
The Gorrie TO Increase Its Plant
The Savannah Ice Delivery Company has
dissolved and the ice consumers of Savan-
nah win hereafter be supplied by the Gorrie
and Kuickerbocker companies. The Knick-
erbOcker 5 an old organization. The Gor-ie
company was organized about three years
ago About year ago the two companies
consolidated. The Artesiau Ice and Cold
Storage Company in the meantime was
formed as a competitor in the ice business
Tie latter company has now merged into
the new brewing company. The dissolution
Of the delivery company leaves two indie
pendent companies In the field, and a war
in prices is not Improbable.
The Gorris Ice Company held its annual
mesti z last week ald elected
the following directors: Samuel
J. Whiteside, Louis 3. Hart and
Samuel II. Whiteside. Capt. Samuel j.
Whiteside was elected president, Mr.. Hart,
vice-president aud manager and Mr.. Samuel
NJ. Whiteside secretary and treasurer. The
company has decided to increase
its plant at once by putti
in an additional twenty-five ton
machine, making the capacity Of the works
fif y-two tons day. The ice consumption
Of Savannah during the hot months, June,
July and August, Is about fifty tons day,
capacity for supplying the city from its
own works Independent Of any other com
paGy. Capt. Whiteside will leave for
Columbus the latter part of this week to
place the contract for the new machine,
and expects to have it in operation by
May l.
The Knickerbocker company will con-
tinue its business at the present offices Of
Haywood, Gage & Co., which are part of
the Gorrie company. The Gorrie company
has moved its Offices to Nos and 6j1
Williamson street. The capacity of the
now works being moro than SAyannahis
consumption, the short crop of ice in the
north, threatening an ice famine, will not
affect Savannah.
Advces from Maine dated Feb. l. say
there a but seven inches Of ice in the
Kennebec river, and ten inches in the
PenObscOt, part Of which is snow, and no
harvesting has yet been done. Cutting
does not begin until the ice has reached
sixteen inches, but in extraordinary cases it |
has begun at twelve inches BY this time
the entire ice crop, in binary seasons, is
housed. The storage from last season, ice
men say, will supply Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and tue large cities of the
north. But very little natural ice, how
ever. will be brought south No ice is likely
to be cut in the Hudson this season. and in
fact none south of Boston. Nearly all the
ice used in the south is artificial
The Savannah Brewing Company has
taken full charge Of the plant of the Arte-
sian company, which, President S. p Ham
ilton said yesterday, has been leased to the
brewing company for ten years. Mr..
Hamilton says that the brewing company
will have daily surplus Of some ten or
twelve tons Of ice, but he is not inclined to
think that they will engage in any retail
delivery OF the ice, but that they will have
no trouble to dispose Of it to the other com
pauies. He says that the Artesian Ice Com
pany has not sold its ice delivery wagons to
the brewing company.