The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-25
ICE KEEPS GOING UP.
SMALL CONSUMERS PAYING ia
CENTS TO THE RETAILERS.

A Month OF High Prices Ahead-The
Fight Against the Building of New
Plants-An Incorporation OF the Chat
ham Company Refused Ice by One
OF the Old Compenies-The Price to
Another Incorporation Advanced So
Ton.
Retail dealers in ice are notifying their
customers that hereafter they will be COM
PEELED TO charge l 4 cents per pound. This
is at the rate of SIS per ton, and it is diff
fcult 20 get It served even at that price.
One Of the old companies yesterday refused
to I'LL an order Of one Of its customers be-
cause his name appeared as one of the In
coFporators in the application for charter
for The Chatham Ice Manufacturing Com
pany." The gentleman is not a storekespsr,
and wanted the ice for household use He
has been regular customer
of the old ice company for
years, and last month used about
600 pounds of ice. He will doubtless be.
come very active spirit in the new COM
pany. Another of the incorporators, who
has been using a ton day and has been
paying $12 ton for it, was charged 500 a
ton yesterday. A retail grocer ordered 100
pounds of ice this week, and he was charged
81 for it. He took only fifty pounds, paying
so cents for it,
A deal was on foot yesterday 70 corner
the output OF the Winter plant at good
round figure, and 5000 bond was ten
osred that its entire output would be taken.
1t was understood that the offer came from
one Of the beer men.
Ii is not believed that there will be any
let up In the squeeze for O month, by which
time the new plant OF the Savannah brew
cry will be able to throw thlrty-five tons of
ice daily on the market TO their customers,
the grocers and retail beer dealers, when
there will be drop in the present prices.
Charleston has been having an ice famine,
and the Ice monopoly there has kept the
price so high. to quote the Charleston press,
"as to exclude it from general use" The
scarcity was somewhat relieved day before
yesterday by the arrival of a schooner,
with cargo of natural ice, from Maine.
This is probably the last cargo of ice that
Will come south, as the Knickerbocker Com
pany Of New York is said TO have cornered
the ice crop OF Maine, and New York is in
the throes of an ice famine.
The situation is thus outlined by the Gin
cinnat Enquirer Of Sunday, by special
teles raphic correspondence: "rhe local ice
barons sent discreet agents down into Maine
with instructions to buy up all the ice fu
sight, especially cargoes which were packed
ready for the New York market. The
scheme worked like a charm, for sixty
hours thereafter a sight draft passed through
one OF the big Wall street banks for 10, 900
tons Of ice at Sc per ton, delivered at Saco
Me-, which the Knickerbocker company
promptly accepted and paid. Orders were
issued to buy freely, and the trust has
secured an option on the entire visible
supply, thus driving out from the New
ork market this important supply and
enabling them to advance the price from
week to week as the hot weather sets in.
Butchers in New York and Brooklyn have
raised the price OF meat cents a pound on
beef and cents pound on lamb and NUT
ton. Dealers in bottled milk have given notice
to their customers that there is strong
probability of an advance of cents quart
In July, made necessary by the high price
of ice."