The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-03
1T is A COLD MOVE.
But Spencer Ice Com
pany Will Not Be
Frozen Out.
WIRE BUSINESS WILL REMAIN.
Worcester Addition Will
Affect Local End of
the Business.
WIRE BUSINESS WILL REMAIN.

Spencer. Aug. 2.-Many people in
Spencer were surprised this morning
when they learned that combine had
been formed in Worcester to shut out
the Peoples Ice Company, of which
Spencer men, Isaac D. Achim and John
o'Gara. are the chief promoters.
While some were surprised, others
had been expecting such an action on
the part of the Worcester ice barons
for long time. 1t is well known in
Spencer that Worcester ice dealers did
not take kindly to the idea of Isaac D.
Achim and John o'Gara selling ice in
Worcester at a lower figure than the
barons ever thought about. The Peo-
pies Ice Company has been a large
factor in the formation of the new
combine in Worcester. The attempt of
the Worcester dealers plainly shows
that the company managed by Spencer
men has cut quite large swath in the
ice trade of the old time barons.
The company had hardly started for
its seasons run, when the barons of
Worcester saw the great competitors
they had in the Spencer men, and at
once set out to try to purchase the new
company, but when this attempt fails
they resort to the only attack left to
them. The combine claims that it is
formed for the purpose of reducing the
rate of carriage.
That Is one way of looking at it, but
Spencer men say that the combine is
formed solely to run the other ice COM
panies out of business. The reporter
for The Spy called. upon Mr.. Achim
and Mr.. O'Gara at their homes. Mr..
Achim is sick with nasal trouble, and
consequently could not be SEEN Mr..
O'Gara was seen and said: although
the combine is a large one and controls
a great amount of ice gathering places,
still we are going to keep on selling our
ice at the same figure until we haven't
a cake of ice left. If the combine in
tends to run US out Of business, they
are mistaken
I'VE have secured one of the finest
bodies of water near Worcester, for
the purpose of cutting ice, and need
have no fear on that SCORE. The body
of water that 1 refer to is known as
Waite pond, situated in Leicester,
about five miles from the Worcester
city hall. One of the other ice firms
that are now in the combine was very
DESTROYS of securing this sheet of water
for harvesting ice last year, but we
had leased it, and intend to keep it"
The body of water that Mr.. O'Gara
referred TO is one of the best sheets OF
water in or around Worcester. If the
Worcester barons attempt to force the
Spencer men out of business they will
have run up against a serious Snag. AS
Mr.. O'Gara, head of the company, is
such man that when he starts out tc
do anything he usually does it, and Mr.
Achim is another man of the same
stamp.
The Spencer Wire Company has de-
cided to enlarge its works, and insti.
tute a large branch in Worcester fol
the manufacture of heavy wire. While
large plant is, to be built in Worcester
the Spencer Wire Company does not in
tend to move its present plant to the
city location. The Spencer plant will
stay in Spencer and be run in addition
70 the one in Worcester. The plant in
Spencer has become too small for ali
company, and Mr.. Goddard, president
and treasurer of the company, thought
II best to have the addition to the works
built in a more thickly populated place
to have a better chance to obtain heir
to run the plant. This and the better
railroad facilities are the two principal
causes that induced the Spencer Wire
Company to build its addition in Wor-
cester instead Of Spencer.
AS the muster as Webster Sept. 1,
draws near the Spencer firemen are
talking Of their chances in the differ
ent contests. The Spencer f1remen
have always done themselves proud at
every muster in which they have taken
part and the big muster at Webster
Sept. l does not promise to be any ex-
ception.
The Spencer fremen are going to the
muster with their eyes upon first prize.
and nothing else, and when the Spencer
fremen undertake to do a thing they
Usually succeed in carrying out their
plans. AS was announced in The Spy
this morning, the Spencer companies