St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-04
ST LOUIS PARTIES ORDER 500
CARS HERE FOR IMMEDIATE
DELIVERY.
HOT TIMES ARE IMMINENT
WHEN G. X. DAVIS GETS HIS PYRO-
TECHNICAL CAMPAIGN WELL
UNDER WAY.
THEN 1T WAS NOT COLD ENoUc.s
There During the Winter to Supply
the Demand for BOrenlis' Pal
atabIe Product.

j. F. George, of this city, has re-
ceived an order for 500 cars of ice from
st. Louis parties, and the receipt Of the
order in this city was Immediately tele-
graphed to Chicago as Indicating that
st. Louis must at last be dead, as the
Windy ones have so long claimed A
second theory Immediately following
the explosion of the first, was that the
ice was wanted for the purpose of cool
ing hot boxes in the breweries, which
have been running overtime in antici-
patton of the coming Republican ma
tional convention in that city Ser
geant-at-Arms Byrnes, of that august
body, declared. however, that only
part of it will be required in keeping
the convention hall cool on June 16,
but did not state whether the commit
tee was counting on the clammy pres
ence of Benjamin Harrison to reduce
the temperature or not Jimmy Man
ming was of the opinion that the ice
was needed to cool the throbbing brow
of Magnate Won der Abe, but none of
these reports were strictly true
AS a matter of fact, the muddy
stream which they call the river at st.
Louis has not frozen over at all this
winter, and while it has been dense
enough at times to cut the stuff out in
chunks, yet the mixture has not suffi-
ciently CONCEALED to render 1t safe for
transportation and storage.
Chicago is reputed there to be ter
rible frost at present, and there is
some talk of sending to the Garden
City for the blue crystals, but local
pride asserted itself and the Kerens-
Chauncey DeFilley- Walbridge-V Won der
Ahe-Carondelet city absolutely refused
to accept anything from Chicago ex-
cept delegates, and them only under
protest.
But it would not do to be without
Ice this coming summer, when the
mere friction of Mckinley buttons on
the circumambient atmosphere is ex-
pected to ignite the cambria dresses
of the Southern beauties on the streets
and the intense heat of Cush Davis
| campaign, beaten back from the
smooth-worn Belgian blocks, will pro-
duce innumerable cases Of sunstroke
| Ice they want and ice they must have
1t Is only stipulated in the order that
the Ice shipped must not be adorned
with the monogram of any particular
candidate, not embossed with notices
on free silver or other complicated DO
litical problems. Mr.. George, who re-
ceived the order, states that if the
weather permits 500 cars will be
shipped at once, and as many more
| later in the season. He says that the
mild weather in the South will un-
doubtedly cause an extensive ice fam
Inc during next summer, and it was
| to obviate this misfortune that the
dealers sought the ST. Paul mans as
sistance. Seen at his residence by a
G b reporter last evening, he said
| concerning the ice deal: "I have un-
dertaken to supply several concerns
with enough ice to fill their summer
! orders. There is a very decided falling
! orr In the ice crop of st. Louis, Kan
sas City and Omaha this year. and
within the next ten days I shall ship
500 cars of ice to these points, at the
rate of about, 100 cars "a day. 1 have
force of 100 men, divided into three
crews, who are cutting ice at White
Bear, Prior and st. Croix lakes. My
| present contracts call for about 500
cars, but If the cold weather continues
1 shall continue cutting and storing
! with the full crew now engaged, as
can easily dispose of as much Ice as
| can be harvested. There has been
| scarcely any winter at all in parts Of
| the country where ice has always been
| plentiful, and with the coming sum-
| mer there must be a large demand
for the product, which cannot be sup
| piled except by Importation" Previ-
| GUS years have seen small shipments
| OF Ice to other cities, but never be-
| fore has so an extensive a deal as the
one under Mr.. Georges supervision
been undertaken.