New-York tribune., 1900-05-28
MAYOR FEARS THE LIGHT.
rAwYFRs MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO
SEIELD HIM
rr-R7rC,s BELIEF IN HIS COMPLETELY WITH
ICE ExTORTIONISTS Is ONLY IN
CREASED THEREBY.

- zeal OF comment was heard yesterday
- ssfftv and evasive tactics which are being
- bv- The Mayor and other city officials who
--ve5 with conspiracy IN aiding the Ice Trust
- . monopoly Of the ice supply of this city
- 80 -, Wvck and Dock Commissioner Cram
80. bean especially emphatic in declaring that
- nsnss were clean. and have freely conveyed
=. t,-ression that they simply courted the most
a-osi1g inquiry Into their conduct, and yet twice
- week when admirable opportunities We're
so-se5 tberu TO clear themselves in the courts
nov employed learned counsel 70 put forth every
.-,-- 70 shield them from the probe Of publicity.
- &C. -- -i-s course which frank and fearless off,
-t.,- ,r5 sr77-loy and the public will not be de-
-.i-,es a, the pretence Of the lawyers that they
-,s-a6 rir77e 10 study the papers in the case.
the tr,-h seems TO be that every Jechnicalty viii
10 taken advantage OF which can postpone even for
z,- -ra evil hour when these paid servants Of the
-i-v must disclose under oath their connection
rv.+l, +rose who would rob the citizens This view
~ -4,e- racrics was strengthened yesterday by the
s7nounceraent that DAILY, Hoyt & Mason, attorneys
for me American Ice Company, intended to make
r71otiou before Justice GaynoT. Of the Supreme
-,r-r or Thursday that the order made May %
nv Tsstice Caynor. requiring the implicated city
officials and ice men 10 appear before him for exam
nation be amended by striking therefrom the
words
And as 70 the connection Of the said Robert A
Pa-ar @ = eyer7 andrew Il Freedman, Charles "
Morse and John F Carroll with the creation Of the
t~flsr or monopoly commonly known the Ice
Trust. by the combination or merger OF the ice
Cor1Dg-,ies IN the American Ice Company as set
f7rrf i1 the annexed petition and AFFIDAVIT: and as
~ all The matters connected with the creation,
operation. management. control and condition of
me said monopoly.
To ernasculnte the order thus would at once de-
p-tve the court of the power To give the people
what they denland-nanely. the facts which lie at
the bottom Of this extortionate combination which
has resulted in city officials acquiring large blocks
Of stock in the American Ice Company.
District Attorney Gardiner is also taking char
acteristic attitude upon this question. when he
was asked Oh Saturday what steps he had taken
70 bring before the Grand Jury the criminal
charges Of misdemeanor against the directors Of
the Ice Trust which were made last week. and
which resulted Magistrate Zeiler holding the de-
fandants for the Grand Jury. Mr Gardiner is
quoeed as replying that he could not do anything
until Magistrate ZeIler had turned over him the
evidence which had been heard in the police court.
AS the defendants waived examination and no evi-
dence was taken Gardiner will be able TO delay ac-
ton FOR some time II he acts this subterfuge.
Garduer's evident Discrimination aid in the dis
coulhcure Of his Tammany associates may. how
ever. lend weight 70 the widely expressed desire
that Governor Roosevelt should appoint a special
Grand Jury 70 handle the The fact that after
The conference at Oyster Bay Saturday neither
The Governor nor Attorney-General Davies would
say that special Grand Jury would not be called
IS thought by many mean that they have al
ready decided that one is necessary.
Rumors are aloat that the Ice Trust is contem-
plating another concession public opinion. -
such as II made when II consented TO sell five cent
Jumps OF ice 70 the poor OF the East Side.
Reports were heard IN Harlem on Saturday tha I
certain OF the trusts delivery men Offering ice
az 40 cents a hundred. When Vice-President
SchOonmaker was asked about II he SAID:
know nothing about It AS 10 what we may 90
IN the future I say nothing. Just at present
all our affairs in the hands Of attorneys,
and consequently We have statement TO make.
Otherwise the situation is unchanged.
Persons who know the methods which the trust
adopts TO drive independent dealers out of the field
surnised that the reported offer Of ice for 10 cents
IN Harlem was confined 70 the route Of some un-
lucky wight whose business the trust was irving
10 break Up by undersellinE him