The representative., 1900-05-24
ICE HEREAFTER
WILL BE so CENTS
PER 100 POUNDS.

| +: ICE HEREAFTER
| WILL BE 60 CENTS
{; PER 100 POUNDS.
/ ssssssss
This was and IL an advance of 100 per
cent over the prices charged last year.
| With the announcement came the
statement that the American Ice COM
pany would not sell to the poor-the
tenement districts-at any price but the
advance Of go cents per hundred pounds.
II the poor could not or would not buy 1t
at this price the company's wagons
would not attempt to make deliveries
in the congested districts.
PROTECTED BY TAMMANY.
To the 100000 population of the city
this information was most startling, but
1t was not suspected that financially
sustaining the action of the American
Ice company were nearly all of the lead
ing city officials and leaders OF Tam
many. It was known that Mr.. Croker
was we'll supplied with stock, but pub
lie investigation had not gone beyond
that fact.
1t soon developed, though, that some
time before the hot weather commenced
here Mayor Van Wyck and John F. Car
roll had made trip to Maine with
President Morse of the American Ice
company. and that while there the trio
had practically cornered the Maine ice
market
1t was only a question OF time when
1t was revealed that the whole oficial
front OF Tammany-Tammany which
expects to nominate Comptroller Coler
Tor governor this fall, as the peoples
friend"Lwas financially interested in
the American Ice company stock; that
the mayor and the dock commissioners
owned large blocks OF 1t. and that Tam
many's protecting wing was well ex-
tended over the trust.
ITS PROFITS ENORMOUS.
The explosion which has followed has
extorted one small concession from the
American Ice company, concession
probably dictated by the Tammany f.
nanciers. The wagons of the company as
stated, are now travelling in the tene-
ment districts and selling ice at s cents
per 16 pounds. Even this concession.
though. yields for the Tammany stock
holders in the trust an enormous profit.
This profit is shown by one Of the
local journals which, in common with
the entire press Of the city, has been
fighting the trust and the Tammany
schemers.
Ice costs trust per ton. $50
At cents per Is pounds, less
waste, 1t nets per ton. ......... 500
Gross receipts daily in tenement
0lStr1ctS ........ ....... 10000
Gross expense ........ .......... 41O.OO
AVoe pioAt ''............ ....... 49O.OO
This is the profit off the poor alone.
on the well to do at so cents per 100
pounds it Is just twice as much
HAS CONTROL OF DOCKS.
The strength Of the combination put
together by Tammany and certain
financial interests lies in the fact that
it has not only gained control of the
natural ice market of this city, but also
Of all the artificial ice plants and this.
too, just before the advent of the hot
test May the city has ever known.
The advance of 100 per cent in the
price of both products came before the
heated term and the swift reduction in
price to the poor was not granted until
the hot wave had dispelled itself and the
crying necessity for ice had temporarily
ceased.
One powerful facotr in the grip of the
American Ice company upon the city's
ice consumers lies In the dock facilities
placed at its disposal by the Tammany
dock commissioners. two of whom, at
least, are holders of ice trust stock. On
Long Island it does not have the same
dock monopoly and is confronted by in
dependent competition. There 1t sells
Ice at 10 cents per 100 pounds.
OFFICERS ARE EvAsIvE.
A cIau6e IN the cnarter OF Greater New
York gives the dock commissioners
power not only to make contracts for ice
landing docks but to annul them after
they have been made. This is taken to
be one explanation Of why the Tammany
dock commissioners appear to be so well
supplied with ice trust stock. and why
any independent company finds itself in
bad coalition when applying for dock
liabilities.
To ell Inquiries a. to why the Ameri-
can Ice company has formed 90 close an
alliance with Tammanys olncials
have nothing to say. Thisxis the Kind
Of an Interview viceaP President schoon-
maker Of the trust saye out: ~s,t