The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-21
THE ZOE SCARCITY.
What Manufacturers and Consumers
Say About It.


The demand for ice continues 20 exceed
the supply, and the demand is from home
and abroad. Brunswick and Macon were
telegraphing TO Savannah yesterday for ice,
but couldn't get ID.
If you can only send US fifteen tons, send it
at any price, is about the way Brunswick
telegram TO Winters new ice factory read.
Couldn't you send itf"
"No. The demand for ice has far ex-
ceeded the capacity Of our plant, and had
no idea that there would be such rush. We
can't begin TO furnish ice as fast as our
tickets are brought in. / have ordered
another tank, which will be in place in two
weeks, and that will relieve us to an extent
that will nearly double our output, but we
could sell fifty tons day IL we had it. We
are turning away wagons every hour Of
the day and working our plant to its ut
most tension"
"What is the cause Of tine ice shortageF'
"Well, the weather has been intensely
hot, and there has been ice shipped away to
Charleston and Brunswick, and with the
increasing population the demand is in
creasing."
Manager John c. MAIN of the Savannah
brewery said last night that the brewery
can't begin TO accommodate the pressing de-
mand for ice. He says the COM
pany has been drawing heavily on
the Ice from its cold storage tank. and
have had to bring ice from Augusta by the
carload, and then can't begin to accommo-
date the trade. The brewery tried to get a
car load from the Gorrie factory, Mr.. MAIN
said, but the price was placed so high as to
be equivalent TO refusal, and
the ice was brought from Au-
on the brewery's new ice plant is being
pushed rapidly, and be expects within three
weeks, at the furthest. to have the plant in
operation, and this will help to satisfy the
clamor for Ice, as it will enable the COM
pany to increase its daily output some
thirty or thirty-five tons.
Mr.. j. II. Cavanaugh of the Knicker-
booker company puts different face on
the situation. He says there Is no shortage OF
ice and that his company Is not only sup
plying all of its customers In and out of the
city, but is also furnishing others with ice.
Mr. G. A. Drayton of Armour q Co..
which uses large quantity of ice, says that
he tried yesterday to get a carload for
Macon, but he was unable to get pound
from the Knickerbocker company to be sent
out of the city. The capacity of Armour &
Co.'s cold storage room here is 100 tons.
The agent of one of the West Broad street
cold storage houses tried to get ice yester-
day, but the ice people wouldn't even talk
ice with him.
One of the principal hotels of this city
day before yesterday had to draw on its
cold storage ice, and it was only after a
long delay that it could get 200-pound
block to meet pressing emergencies.
M. NJ. Sullivan & Co., fish dealers, were
asked how they are off for ice, and Mr..
Sullivan replied: 1--WE can't get one-quar-
ter as much as we want"
Many people who depend on their grocers
for ice have been suffering for the past ten
days. The grocers are unable TO get ice to
supply their customers 1--WE can't get
half enough" said one. II can't begin to
| get enough said another. A Broughton
street man who uses ton day is paying
| $12 ton for his ice.
A gentleman from Tybee says that the
supply of ice on the island has been wholly
inadequate. and several times this week 1t
has been impossible TO get glass of ice water
there. This was corroborated by others, who,
while enraptured with the cool breezes OF
| Tybee lamented the fact that the ice supply
has been limited.
1t was learned yesterday that the tele-
grams that came here from Brunswick for
| ice were on account of an accident at the
Brunswick factory, but the ice scarcity
seems to be complained Of at Charleston,
Macon, Brunswick and Savannah. Charles
ton consumers are paying ~ cents pound
fo,. irad