New-York tribune., 1900-05-14
OLER NOT YET SERVED WITH WARRANT
WHAT HIS RELATIONS ARE WITH THE ICE BCst-
NESS IN BALTIMORE.

Baltimore May 13 (SpeciaD.-Wesley NJ Oler,
president of the Citizens National Bank Of Baiti-
more, for whom warrant has been issued III New
York in connection with the charges or entering
into IAN unlawful combination for the purpose or
conducting the American Ice Company. has not yet
been served with a summons When asked II ne
could be extradited he declined to make any state
ment. 1t is the general sentiment among MT Oler :
friends that he oughe not to be extradlted out
that he ought to have the privilege OF answering
in the Baltimore courts II at all. His friends Will
stand by him. Mr.. Oler besides being a vice-presi-
dent Of the American Ice Company. IS a resident
director of the Ice Trust to which position he was
elected April 1900 The prosecution or MI oler
is complicated by the fact that The Baltimore
Herald" of which he is the owner, has news ar
rangement by which it receives dispatches daily
from W. r. Hearst. Editor of The New-fork
Journal" who is having Mr.. Oler arrested
People In Baltimore use 1880 tons of ice day ani
they must get it from of three sources: The
Independent Ice Company. capacity 200 tons day
a day. The American company is the successor in
Company was absorbed by the Knickerbocker com
pany of New-York preliminary to the American
put of six companies or plants In Baltimore: Henry
M. Head, manager of the company says its t Price e
families and % cents hundred to stores and
saloons.
c. L. U. CALLS FOR CITY ICE PLANTS.
The delegates to the recently revived Central
Labor Union, at their customary meeting in Central
Hail. No l47 West Thrty-second-st., yesterday
devoted most of their time TO discussing, con-
demning and denouncing the Ice Trust number
of suggestions made whereby the Ice Trust
could be seriously handicapped in its efforts 10
make the ice consumers pay an exorbitant price
A series. of resolutions from District Assembly No.
253 of the knights of Labor were received and IN
dorsed. These call for the establishment OF mu-
nicpal ice plants,
Horace j. Parks secretary of District Assembly
No. 253 said that everybody knew that Ice could
be sold less than 60 cents hundred pounds, ana
that the present agitation against the Ice trust
really municipal ice. Ice plants could be
erected and maintained at a profit selling forty
pounds of Ice for five cents
Delegate Kopp declared that If the city would
furnish the ground the Knights of Labor would
erect ice plants and then turn them over to the
city free of cost. .
Another delegate declared that the knights of
Labor could raise 100000 for the immediate con-
structon of ice plants.
Delegate Eggerman said that II the city would
furnish the two plots of land desired the knights
of Labor would build ice plants upon them free
of cost so that they would be ready for the city
TO operate next spring at the latest. The knights
would also guarantee that the city could operate
these plants without loss and yet sell the ice
manufactured in them at exceedingly low price
1t was finally resolved to send copy ot the
resolutions the Mayor or the Board OF Aldermen
and other city officials, and in the mean time con-
tinue the agitation in favor of municipal Ice