Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-19
A FIRMS EXTREMITY
Becomes Home Industry's Chance in
the COngealing Business.
THE CHAUTAUQUA LAKE COMPANY
Will Make Its Own fee in the Future Re-
gardless of the Weather.
TOO MUCH LOSS IN RAILROAD DELAIS

A man with hirsute more or less dishev-
eled came to The DISPATCH office yester-
day and stated that the Chautauqua Lake
Ice Company and theSrailway companies
had fallen out, and that in future Chau-
tauoua Lake ice would be made to order in
Pittsburg. Keep num-" said he, $50 far
as nv name is concerned, but If you don't
believe me Just ask W. f. Wilson, Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the company, what he
knows about it.
Accordingly the mammoth building of
the company on Thirteenth street was Wis
tied. "Who told you?" was Mr.. Wilson's
reply to the question. He was told that the
informant insisted on being incog., when,
with some irritation visible in counte-
nance and voice, Mr.. Wilson stated that
the company had decided to make
some ice for itself, but he insisted
for q time on knowing the authority
for the statement that it was on account OF
friction between the railway companies and
the ice company. The informant had stated
that relations between the CONCEALED water
goods company and the transportation COM
panies have been strained to the swapping
point on account of rates being so high that
ice could no longer be brought to Pittsburg
at a price upon which a profit could be
made.
When everything failed MI. Wilson stated
that the company had decided to make ice,
but he was reticent on the subject of there
being any quarrel between his company and
the railway companies.
ONE HUNDRED TONS PER DAY.
He said, however, that arrangements had
L. Io tn bro fop fhn
of ice per day; further, that owing to the
inability to get cars when they were
wanted the company had been put to
loss and inconvenience, and it was CLEANED
from the talk, though Mr.. Wilson did not
express it In terms, that much annoyance
and loss have been caused by cars not hav-
ing been put into position for unloading un-
til stock had lost greatly in weight in warm
weather. 1t couldn't be "put on ice, and
melted in consequence to such an extent
that profits sometimes become too narrow to
stand upon.
1t having been stated that a controversy
as to rates had been the rock on which the
parties in interest had split, Mr.. Wilson
was pressed on this point, but an expression
could not be squeezed out of him. He par
ried the question by stating that the ice
companies had been put to great straits to
make ends meet of late. They couldn't
splice them, and they were averse to doing
business for fun, leaving it to be understood
that
SCIENTIFIC APPLIANCES
could do the work cheaper than nature, plus
the cost of carriage and the vagaries of
transportation companies who might want
the stimulus Of a bonus to put cars promptly
where they were wanted.
It's an i'll wind that blows no one good,
may be a mustv proverb, but it seems ap-
plicable In the present case. IF we can
make ice cheaper than can the hyperborean
gods, with freight added, it will put bread
and butter into mouths that heretofore were
forced to earn it in a more rigorous climate,
and at the same time add to the wealth of
the city.
The machine used is the one that was on
exhibition at the Exposition, and the ice
will be made in the building on Thirteenth
street. The manufacture of artificial ice is
not new thing, and and in some Western
cities is carried on extensively. In Coving-
ton the ice men are in the habit of placing
various objects in the ice before the process
of making begins. Butchers put in pieces
of meat, and place the block of ice in the
window for an advertisement. Flowers look
very pretty CONCEALED in a mass OF clear ice,
and so do manY other articles