Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-05
A PRACTICAL ICE TRUST.
An the Companies Agree Upon . Scale Of
Prfcee.

All the companies Agree Upon . 6co1e 81
Prices.
For one year at least, dating from tie 1st
instant, ths people Of the District Win enjoy the
advantage Of IN ios trust, ths Toe companies
doing business here having entered into an
agreement under which the price of ice has
been advanced 100 per cent to the consumer.
Every company here q party to this agree
ment and - tho individual dealers, those who
sell from their own wagons, are entirely de-
pendent upon the big companies for their sup
ply Of ice, these small dealers are, Of course,
governed BY the prices Of those from whom
they purchase and must, therefore, also raise
she price. So, during the year ending July 1,
1893, the people Of the District will either pay
twice - much for their ice e. they have paid
during the last year and . hall, OF they win do
W31hout u
WHAT Ezz COMPANIES sAY.
The Toe companies susie that during this and
l.st season they have made nothing, and that
the advance made by them was IN act Of abso-
lute necsssay. They st.te, also, that the ad-
vance merely ssises the price Of ice to what IL
that last winters crop was Q fun one, nor do
they deny that the demand for ice has de-
creas Cd II b commended by them that IS per
oent Of the ice gathered in the north II lost be-
fore II reaches the consumer here, and that
loss, together with the cost Of transportation
and the handling and delivery Of it here, rem
ders It impossible to adhere TO the former
prices. 1t Ia for these reasons, they say, and
not because Of any desire to unduly Cypress
the pure aser, that the advance hs 9 been made.
The cut In prices, the older companies con-
tend, was made by those companies manufac-
or resumption Of the old prices was due to q
suggestion Of these manufacturing companies,
who now realize that it is impossible to make
the business pay under the low prices.
Notwithstanding these contentious, it Is . fact
that the business Of the manufacturing COM
the cut prices that they are today compelled to
purchase natural ice to supply the demands Of
their patrons The companies state that there
has been comparatively little objection offered
to the advance by their patrons, very much
less than was anticipated, in fact, and that the
agreemsnt will be strictly adhered by every
company to 1t.
NO ICE ON SUNDAY.
Another agreementbetween the local ice COM
panics, which also dates from the LIST instant,
Il one which will prevent the delivery hereafter
Of ice ON Sundays. The companies state that
this agreement was entered into at the request
Of their employees, who claim that it is hard
ship to compel them to work on the Sabbath,
thereby robbing them Of the one day Of rest to
which they claim they are Justly entitled Such
q demand was made by the employees of the
different companies at the beginning Of the
season, and q bill looking to its enforcement
has been favorably reported in Congress- No
advantage whatever accrues to the companies
In this matter, they claim, and the agreement
was simply made for the benefit Of class of
employees who are among the hardest worked
men IN the District
THE NEW RATES.
The rates under the new agreement are as
follows: At wharves and depots-25 cents to
10 cents per 100 pounds, according to quantity.
To retail trade, stores, restaurants, &C., deliv-
cred from wugons-35 cents per 100 pounds.
Family trade-50 pounds or more at one de-
livery at the rate Of 80 cents per 100 pounds.
rs to 80 pounds at one delivery at the rate Of 60
cents per 100 pounds. Is pounds for 10 cents.
pounds for 8 cents.