The sun., 1900-05-10
ICE SELLING AT 10 CENTS.
II You Fetch II From Independent Dealers
Boats,

petition for the annulment OF the Cnrtifi-
ca te under which the American lee Company
does business in the State Of New York was
served on Acknowledgement Davies at the
Hotel Manhattan yesterday morning by a law
yer from the Office of EInstein 4 Townsend
who with ex-Deputy Auorney-General q, ID b.
Hasbrouck represent the petitioner Alex
ander 7. Mason and W II Rand. Jr. appeared
for the ice company. The petitioner asked
that the Acknowledgement fix date for hear
ing arguments and he named Thursday May
II. at 10 4. NJ, at the office of the Attorney
General in Albany. After hearing the argu-
ments, the Attorney General will determine II
there is ground to warrant n action TO annul
the ice company certificate OF authority to do
business in this State. II New Jersey cor
pOratiOn
The petition recites that the ice COMPANY is
an illegal combination Of all the ice companies
in this part OF the country; that II controls the
output, that ii has raised the price OF ice TO
small consumers from IS cents the lO0poundS o
60 cents and nas declared that no more 1ye-
cent pieces shall be sold and that il Is BILE
To New York laws, so far rs It's business in this
State is concerned, II is alleged that the COM
panv has violated the following section OF Chap
ter 800 of the laws Of s97 which says.
Every contract agreement. arrangement or
combination whereby n monopoly Is
or may be created j. against public
policy, illegal and void
contract. agreement. ARRANGEMENT or combi-
nation has been entered into by the company
TO create monopoly 49,
There are indications Of new competition
with the American Ice Company. For instance
John Michel a son of the owner OF the India
Wharf Brewing Company. has put mp an artl-
c Ice ySSnt az me moot of opE Cs sT
the name of tho Empire city Ice Company
The plant will have capacity Of 900 tons
DAY bg only 2S tons 6n day S Pe t%rned Sat
there's So much money IN the business for the
American leo Company there ought TO be some
in 1t for him lie wants to, cet all he can for
hS pSaG o nj s% Hu' the
There are six or eight independent dealers
in natural ice, whose houses are up along
who have begun TO bring their ice 70
New York in canalbo1is and are SELL
Ing it al the piers where those boats are
tied up They do not deliver, but they will sell
any amount, from boa'load down. TO any
body who will come after it This ice was being
sold from tho, boats Yesterday at Is cents
hundred pounds the purchaser being nj liberty
to buy as litte or as much "a he liked. ,Thcs,
dealers II wa, said yesterday. have. all told.
about 10000 tons Of ice for sale. There was
consumed in New York and Brooklyn last
year so one Of these dealers said. about
4VOOO tons.
on" of the independent dealers in natural ice
is Willis A. Winnie; who does business under the
lives in Albany. houses his ice al Athens. lust
opposite Hudson. and sells II at Pier 4s. East
River. and Mr.. WinneS houses al Athens hold
about 2O,OOO tons Last March he had put in
about 10000 tons, and was putting IN
the rest a. fast as he could cut IL, when
one morning while he was at work harvesting.
the -idewheel towboat Norwich and the tug
Mills. belonging to the Cornell Towing COM
pany Of Rondout. steamed up the river and
through the channel through which Mr.; Winnie
was floating his ior to the houses. The west
bank Of this channel was field OF ice over
which hs men walked In floating the harvested
ice to the houses.
II was reported in the local newspapers at the
time that the boats had been hired by the
American Ice Company 10 20 up the river TO
smash an ice gorge near toeyman = When
the boats came back, instead of one following
the other through the channel Mr. Whine was
keeping oprn the Norwich changed her course
and plouched through the ice Winne's men
used for u WORKING ground cutting channel
50 wide that Il was no longer possible for the
men 20 work there. WIN then had 70 give
ND ice cutting and wH- COMPELLED 10 buy ice 20
m his houses 4 statement has been printed
that the American Ice Ompany hired the two
boats for the express purpose Of brcahinC up
WINES ice field, because h" had refused 10
sell ont his business 10 the company Winnie
said Yesterday hat he had never received an
ofor for his business from anybody whom he
knew to represent tho American leo Company
Iic said il Wil- generally known in the icc trade,
however, that he had no 1e-ir" 10 get out %!
III" business. and in fact. intended to STAY in 1t
He added that, no matter what his suspicious
might be- he had no evidence To show that the
two boats had boon sent mp and down the
river bv the American Ice Companv for the
purpose Of breaking up his ice ;cldS
kiBANY. NAV . Tn" Bronx Consumers Ice
COMPANY, with u capital Of si0O,OOO was incor-
porated to-day To store natural and naru-
factIrn t'fca ice for Corsumpion in Bronx
borough / he directors are John II Kornig.
Frederick Blckcr, Charles Sncrried. Henry
Krlse and Frederick Hodormann Of New York