The evening times., 1900-05-15
SURRENDER OF THE ICE TRUST
Cheap Rates Established for New
Nork's Poor


NEW YORK. May 15.-The American Ice
Company, or Ice Trust has made con-
cession 20 small consumers. as shown by
the following notice issued on the letter
heads Of the company today:
The directors Of this company, finding
that a small increase Of price is liable 10
be taken advantage OF by hgcksJers. so
that they can charge an enormous price 10
the poor. have directed that there be plac-
ed IN the tenement districts wagons which
viii sell ice in scent pieces. 50 that The
poor may be able 10 get ice as reasonably
as they did last year. This is a business
which this company has heretofore never
engaged in Notice is hereby given to all
organized charities OF the city that We will
accept orders and deliver ice 10 any who
may come after il with an order from them
al our station in scent pieces or upward
e. the rate Of 81 a ton
John d. Sehoonmaker, vice president OF
the ice company, said with reference 10
the foregoing announcement:
The directors Of the company have
found that the tenement house trade is nOI
likely TO get fair treatment from the huck-
sters who have been supplying IL. because
these hucksteTs viii take advantage Of the
excitement caused by certain New York
newspapers and will unduly advance their
prices We have never sold ice in scent
pieces before. and never expected 10 do so.
But the directors ordered that wagons be
immediateIy pat in the tenement districts
20 serve this class OF trade Five-cent
pieces will be sold. and these viii be as
large as the hucksters ever sold.
The actual increase in the price of ice
TO hucksters has been 81 a ton They are
using as stock in trade the feeling which
has been stirred up. and tell their patrons
that the trust charges so much for ice st
wholesale that they themselves are losing
money. We don't desire such en impress
sion TO go out. because il is entirely er-
roneous.
We shall al once put on twenty wagons
in the tenement districts. chiefly in the
lower East Side. the West Side and in
Little Italy The number Of wagons will
be increased until We have enough 10 sup
ply all the ice that is wanted in those sec
tions.
1t has been our custom to supply many
private charities free Of charge. and the
principal ones Of these have been in the
I habit Of sending wagons TO our river de-
pots. The institutions that have taken ad-
vantage Of this have been usually private
hospitals and the like. Now II there are
any charitable institutions which want TO
give orders on our stations NE announce
IAot "S VIII III ~ SUN hNS-OSht LoeS a.
our wagons at the rate Of 81 a ton. II any
institution wishes TO give five-cent tickets
TO worthy poor persons those tickets viii
be received al the wagons and ice dis
tributed al the same rate-Teally - cents
worth for cents. We will do this only in
the particular sections mentioned
What We do will be done al a loss. but
we desire to demonstrate that we are not
as bad as We have been pictured, and also
that we are anxious 10 prevent any unfair
! advantage being taken Of this particular
class of trade
Joseph Barondess. Of the Cloakmakers'
Union. announces that movement is on
foot among labor unions TO urge Governor
Roosevelt to call a special session of the
Legislature to provide by bond issue for
a municipal ice plant which viii furnish
the city with ice at cost price.