The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-10
ANORHRR Tee CONCERN
me Hammond Company to Compete
With The Trusts.
Incorporated in Delaware to Do
Business in This City and BaIti-
nore-Promises TO Sell Its Product
Mt Half the Price Formerly Charg-
ed-POxsesses Important Patents.

| The Hammond Ice Company, of Balti-
more, was Incorporated under the Della
ware laws yesterday with capital of 81
600, eco to manufacture and sell ice in Bal
I -;imore and Washington. The statement is
made by its incorporators that it pos
sesses valuable patents on inventions of
OTmond Hammond, formerly of the Ameri-
can Ice Trust, which will enable 1t to
manufacture at one-half the former price
| and to sell its product far below the Trust
lFices- Il is stated by thesa interested
that the plants viii be large ones and that
! shere can be no doubt of their getting
their share of the ice business both here
and in Baltimore. The statement is made
/ very poitively that the Hammond Compa-
ny is entirely Independent OF the Teust.
The Maryland incorporators of the COM
| Dany anI ths principal promoters are Or
mond Hammond, formerly general super
| intendent of manufacturing construction
/ OF the American Ice Company in Balu-
, more, and his brother Howard Hammond.
| Mr.. Ormond Hammond is practically the
/ pioneer IN the industry of ice manufacture
in Maryland and MS inventions have
greatly reduced the cost of production.
/ From its organization he had been con-
! nected with the American Ice Company
-Four weeks ago Mr. Hammond resigned
his position for the purpose of organizing
the Hammond Ice Company and manufact-
uring ice according to his own special
plate system. The ice will be made in
5000 pound blocks and cut up by means
Of an electric saw into $50 and 800 pound
blocks.
Mr.. Hammond said last night that st
will manufacture its ice and sell 1t at fig
ures which the American Ice Company
viii be unable to meet; and, in a way.
the new company considers itself public
benefactor, because of its purpose to re-
duce the cost of ice one-haIf. thus putting
it within the reach OF almost everyone
The company Mr.. Hammond says, pro-
poses to establish three large plants, with
total capacity Of 750 tons day Two of
the plants viii be located in Baltimore
and the third in Washington.
The plant in this city will probably have
capacity of about $50 or $50 tons a day
The American Ice Company has obtained
eon.rOl Of all the Ice business in Baltimore.
and in Washington 1t has absorbed all the
independent companies except the Purity
Company which il has been unable TO OBJ
tain The Independent, the Great Falls,
the HYGIENE. and one or two minor con-
Germs have all suecumbed or sold out dur
ing the past two years The trust has had
The capitalization Of the new company
is s. eco, geo and bonds viii be issued to
subscribers at par, each subscriber being
given an equal amount of stock a DO
nus The stock will be pooled with some
trustee. selected by mutual agreement, for
a term Of years
The gentlemen back of the company claim
that the quality Of the ice which they will
manufacture and the price at which they
propose to sell IT Will make the Hamm oHd
Ice Company absolutely invulneraDle Sc fer
as competition is concerned The iGea IN
tho organization OF the new company, Z is
said, is not to make a fight on the JrJst
but to simply manufacture ice for sale at
Z reduced rate, in which there IS 4 fair
profit. Those interested in the plan 10
not contemplate an ice war next summer
and simply reiterate their statement that
their company does not fear competition
from any source, and that the scarcity OF
natural ice will not affect the prices which
viii be established when their plants are
put in operation The company expects
to have all three plants erected and in op-
Grafton by next April