New-York tribune., 1900-06-30
ICE TRUST CASE REVIVED.
GARDENERS OFFER TO SUBMIT 1T TO
THE JULY GRAND JURY TAKEN UP.
HAVE A SPECIAL GRAND JURY CON
SIDER TIA STATEMENT MADE.

District Attorney Gardeners offer TO submit the
criminal charges against the officers of the Ice
Trust to the July Grand Jury announced in yes
terdays Tribune has been accepted by Enstein d
Townsend. attorneys for the petitioners What
may have been the intention Of the District
Attorney IN expressing his willingness TO resuonit
the case the attorneys who fighting the trust
say they not going to trust to him alone but
Will still endeavor TO have the Governor call a
special Grand Jury before which Attorney-GeneraI
Davies VIII prosecute the case.
Clarence J. Shearn. Of Einstein & Townsend
said a Tribune reporter yesterday:
We VIII not stop here. It is not enough to have
Mr.. Gardeners assurances Of cooperation, although
with all possible energy TO have the case tried be
f9Fe s SgeG5 e aqd a4ey ur ID 'ha' m
The case as it will be presented at that time is
exceedingly, simple Before the capitalization Of the
Knickerbocker and the Consolidated companies
neither one could control even one-haf the market
BY the combination control Of 30 per cent or the
supply was obtained As evidence of this the price
Now from a thorough canvass of the ice houses
from which New-York Is supplied we have founo
sTmers at 20 cents a hundred and to private fam
Iies at 80 cents. The taxing of the people at the
rate Of 100 per cent on every cents worth OF ice
that they buy has been the result of this combna-
ton and is a conspiracy against them;
Again, the union was not brought about by one
buying out the other, but merely from an inter-
New evidence has been obtained to show that
the American Ice Company is still pursuing illegal
methods TO stide competition.
prices than TO the rich for purpose far from
phianthropic Under the guise of helping the
poorer classes, the trust has now practically
1t a thought that the breaking of prices
from the top notch of 60 cents a hundred had
resulted from public odtum, and done in order
TO stem the increasing tide of Indignation. When
the poor enabled to get his five cent
chunk the East Side, Immediately after 1t
that the trust honeycombed with Tam
many officials 1t naturally thought that this
concession had resulted from alarm Instead, this
apparent chaos had been founded and planned
Il well ordered scheme to squelch all remaining
competition. The fact at bottom is that the trust
has been cutting prices only where it has met with
competition
During the last month the Ice Trust threatened
those companies which selling ice at the
bridge at prices below 81 a make 81 the
minimum rate. In case of refusal the Ice Trust
said 1t would crush competition by selling ice at 81
a ton; only two companies have held out against
this threat.
At the Custom House it was learned yesterday
that the contract between the American Ice Com
pany and the Government for supplying the Fed
eraI Building Of this city with ice the OF 25
cents a hundred, told in The Tribune Yesterday
Thus il would that the Ice Trust can even
bargain year ahead for . cents a hundred or IS
cents before the alleged living rate of CD cents
IN spite OF the cry OF a shortage IN supply
All inquiry at the Department Of Public Build
inss, Lighting and Supplies to the report that
the city Is paying 40 cents a hundred or 15 cents
more uan the United States Goyernment. was met
with Tie answer that 40 cents the lowest price
available.