The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-30
GREE ICE FUND" METHODS
n SUM OF S<,sRs.5z NOT ACCOUNT
ED FOR BIZ THE HERALD.

10 DtKln NOTk " Nv buLhhhOl -
pretending TO distribute, ice to the suffering
tenement dwellers who neither want nor need
IL. Supposedly tho work will DO carried on under
the same management and on the Same inRen-
ious II not precisely pelluoid business principles
which have characterized 1t in former years. A
few days ago THE SUN told Of the indifference
with which these Same suffering tenement
jewellers" over whom the benevolent Herald
sheds SO many and so bitter tears regard ice as
methods Of lie Free Ice Fund.
Though this fund is a model OF instructed
TO benefit, II must not, therefore, DO supposed
that ~ T. does good 70 to \, no oh one; Where ~ : fne true ss
the following figures OF the Ice Fund for the
past year:
A% o g me ,f Ss1af$ IF sFG JUNE tA :. P PssB.. . y 1880
Expended for Ice during 1899 t'ee the 4, n,
Expended for cSrtins during 1890 iscc the ~
Herald of June 90. lssD....."."...... %.isoes
Total expenditure during 1879. .,...... ee,ss7ss
Herald Gee the Herald of June 20, 1870 5,7et.ls
Total amount accounted fol-; ::......elc!sl.e
Balance OF $4,000 unaccounted fol. <.s2s.oA
What. has become Of that unaccounted bal.
S &oSs !, !. Has a. H. Il e James sT de4So IT S Ssll aS Fse no %Gss
lined ID In the tho fsures of his funi-so much for the
s ssnst Of nsarIy g g ,o SSe nd f0 not th aI.. "aana Is : ice p ai..
solves: It certainly hasn't melted away In the
| ueTCo llBnLO u puunClty v tLc Etyboi lhht Aitht
methods and accounts OF the Free Ice Fund, and
their glare poured fuli upon the self-adverti'ins
There arc NO statistics on which to base an
@ent Contained IN an e%ditoFiiai. on the subject
printed a few weeks age in the Herald aid; h hoy 10y.
ontirely y to the SsfiG mnssinssion." must % ie''
EVEN rTu N he X naif a1s and Su wi ! pso'Bha as 1G ,sis Snatissii
S after the fund als @S OF 1919 SS@S vS aa .npP %sRB @ eiased,
and the tardily acknowledged %, ls might
%sifhs a.isfss s anaSsoa inse i fS 81 RSs jig u Ia, n sSas
but for THE SUNS recent suggestion that Mr..
Ice Fund. Now for the way in which the Herald
d des lo R to oS SfeS money SSsrsSsf Tor e tho T pur sfis se Of i ioc
which nobody wants. The method is Q mixture
are made ihe Victims Of the oajolery and beegary
the ice companies of the blackmail. Carefully
money for the Free Ice Il Fund. and denounce tho
Ice Barons who are sucking the life blood OF
p res S1Grdi desiring Pessd To- s sa,' Themselves nnsi ts n IN print int. in
that the names of subscribers are printed, and
SSiSStGrs; b SSo sss,s athletes Their Or c asSFn DgS 10 s s;
contest or performance for the benefit OF the
its own benevolent self.
The following extracts will suficienty show
among the many charities tina. soOthe and
reckoned. II Il does not lead ali the rest
like Abou Ben Adhem. it has certainly accom-
plished an amount Of good which makes its con-
1.-THE mereiless sun may beat the narrow
quently be handicapped by the distribution of
ice, and the sitting patient can be revived BY q
The physician who attendn them says that a
little ice TO cool the boiling blood may save
sif,nie, 1t tb Is e small cb fhins, iR Wftso;n but i it tS Sen,
will soon be a funeral. but with 1t recovery is
And by what means 10 the Herald Ice Fund
handicapping the merciless sun, reyivips the
sitting patent Sn cooling the boiling blood. and
pound lump OF Ice per sufferer
"Th demand for this ice on the part of the
g Ge@al aS With St a choice SHa d distineti on's q ad fass sas
/" for they, were desperate. It is mate that
Forty tons Of Ice. or more than So 600 pounds,
mf1so dis Ioans every day or more than half a
Tl5o.O0O persons divided this amount of Ice
four.pound lump. Now. Ice il not q staple sub
stance; 1t melts pretty rapidly under the most
that BY, the time the "sufierins tenement
dweller" got his four.pound contribution, home
fhnsrdi Mqul th eG me Gs c e sr sSh. H let alone Ga II pe iets To
ing the other useful feats which the Herald ex.
lBi ssSi,s t Gt # Fact sa 3s , Thst tSs in poo lsr SSen Gt snrs fSar u ise.
This the police found out when, last summer,
they distributed free ice. It melted and over.
flowed the station house cellars because SO few
come generally. traded their ice for beer.
81 Sls'FG fsYYies sei'r' TEki. ha %asn!9 t Gs' e eS3sss 81
the police distribution but Why Wouldn't II be
fund.- There would be no balance. either &C:
knowledged or unaccounted for. at the end Of
is worth while to notice that they distributed
two and one-half times as much ice in a day as
did the Herald. and that without special prepa-
All the time the Herald was quilting the un-
scripptions-f HorN every y'P wall over sgpt the suffering ring.
S 4ss %sss Il $S iSs .sn va i:. s;sss 'si9s e. r. III $ii is%:
hnman,kindness begging articles we're neree Z de,
called. and i was attacked bitterly in many
way all {. which yhtSt, meant nrint s si%g in w.,, ...n an ;"
Such headings as these appeared in the HerGld :
c Cone dfas' !9 BE! Re F Baron. oH Hit, " hiasm.d Fear at
70. % i Ss9ssss 4 hates tas Af 5The H aess aFS eoaS,s sSa
serous." More Ice Robbery" &c. I'D nauseam.
In an editorial headed, "MOvS Against the
"The Tobacco Trust is but ono o, the offenders
that call for official action. There are several
the last named the Herald has, lately called
public attention as being a heartless monopoly
t ,o { fh Pri dSSi RSfs snd EVEN St me h:s sisRseG Of .Ee 'i poorsst
classos-a monopoly which. Il tolerated, means
t Th,ao sPproaeh disSri sam%er a Seat %sui NaW ih aqr tRs
law has been made effective for dealing with
such public wrongs 1t should be enforced with
On the following day was printed q prediction
that the price OF ice would reach $50 a ton
during tho summer. Other predictions in the
same tone followed. And all that summer the
Herald, never mentioned the fact that this
"heartless monopoly was furnishing ice to the
fund" for 81 a ton, and never would have
mentioned 1t at all had not THE SUN forced 1t to
nish Ice for distribution among the poor to any
reputable organized charity at tho same. price.
III the poor need ice" said one of tho fore
most officers OF the ice companies u few days
ago. I'VE will furnish 1t and deliver It ready for
distribution to any recognized charitable organ.
ization at a merely nominal price,"
This means that the ice would DO dispensed
honestly and a reckoning made to tho public,
but. II would be "A sad thing for the Herald Free
leo Fund. Just now starting In upon its active
campaign of 1897.
For a timo after the thing was started this
year the Ice Fund lanRuished. The old system
was brought into play. Again the stock phrases