New-York tribune., 1900-05-26
ICE BARONS GIVE BAIL.
WAIVE EXAMINATION AND ARE HELD
FOR GRAND JURY

Fearing exposure of their extortiorate meth
DDS. and desiring to keep out the light of pub
licity as long possible, the directors and ofi-
cials of the American Ice Company, who are
charged with conspiracy. waived examination
before Magistrate Zeller yesterday and asked to
have their sent before the Court of Special
Sessions. The Magistrate declined to accom-
modate them. however. and held them in $1,000
bail each for the Grand Jury. The defendants
so held are:
CHARLES w MORSE. president.
JOHN D. SCHoONMAKER. vice-president.
JOHN r. BENNETT. JOHN L. KAVANAGH. WESLEY
qER sXnp BAXIP H1NT III EPWIN Rr8 GARr8Ed and
JOHN BAUER, directors.
All present in court except Devoe. Kav
enash and Bauer who non-residents here.
and Mr.. Church, who was sick in bed, according
to his counsel. Warrants will be issued for their
arrest IL bail is not offered for them on Mon
day. Israel Blake, of No. 635 Park-ave., man
ager of the American Ice Company, gave bail
for all those who present, offering property
at No II West Ninety ninth-st. valued at ST.
COO as security Magistrate Zeller said he would
need another bondsman for the absentees.
Mr. Shearn of counsel for w. r. Hearst. said
the American Ice Company ashamed to
allow Devoe KavaEagh and Bauer to appear In
court as directors of the company for the rea-
son that they mere boys. 'They do not want
to let the public these underlings In the role
of directors" said Mr.. Shearn. and it is an
outrage that they disregard thus the order of
this Court to appear"
1t is said that the complainants will ask for
a special Grand Jury to consider the case. Dis
trict Attorney Gardiner would not commit HIM
self Yesterday as to what course he would
pursue.
MAYOR VAN WYCK ON HAND.
Among the interested persons in court were
md CyplSheIien
the Garfield National Bank The Mayor looked
intensely relieved when he told that fur
ther delay had been gained and he would not
be called witness at once 1t was said that
Mr.. Gelshenen has been subp9naed TO proouce
all notes held by his bank which Robert A
Van Wycks name appeared. and all collateral
security deposited with it, and 1t was intimated
that the prosecution expected to be able TO snow
thereby that the Mayor had secured big loan
on four thousand shares of Ice Trust STOCK
The hearing was held in Magistrate Aeilers
private room in the jefferson Market Court, De
Lancey Mic oil appearing for the defendants and
Messrs Einstein and Shearn for W. R. Hearst.
Early in the morning Magistrate Zeller had ad-
iourned the trust hearing until Monday on ac-
count of illness. He had recovered suflclehtiy
bv . O'Clock to hold court, however. and sent
his son 20 jefferson Market to announce that ne
would hear the case first scheduled
The Magistrate, who is Suf1erlng from oHhiS
and fever, arrived in carriage with his ply
sicans His prompt action in committing the
defendants evidently pleased Robert A. Scott.
the secretary of the trust. who had been sub
pcnnaed to produce the books. Mr.. Enstein
wanted the Court to inquire If Mr. Scott mad
obeyed the subpoena. but Mr.. Nicoll argued that
his waiver of examination made this unneces-
sary and Magistrate Zeler took that view of
the case.
HEARING BEFORE JUSTICE GAYNOR To-
DAY.
1t is expected however. that Ice Trust secrets
may be exposed to-day, when the Mayor. the
Dock Commissioners and the principal officials
of the American Ice Company have been cited to
appear before Justice Gaynor. of the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn on the application OF hve
members of the Municipal Assembly. A report
was published yesterday detailing the unavail-
ing efforts to Dock Commissioner Cram
on Thursday night with Justice Gaynor's sum-
mons and intimating that the Commissioner
must have been in hiding. Mr.. Cram, however,
was at a dinner at Delmonico's. He was not in
Magistrate Zeller's court yesterday. and no
meeting of the Dock Board was held, though
Yesterday was the regular day for 1t. Commits
sioner Meyer would not tell why there was no
meeting but said would probably be held on
Monday. Mr. Cram recently denied with vehe-
menCe that he ever heiu any STOCK Ol
can Ice Company of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company, and yet in official list of stock
holders filed by the Knickerbocker with the
Secretary of State in Augusta. Me. in 1898 Mr..
Cram is put down for four hundred shares.
Commissioner Murphy is also down for four
hundred.
The Dock Commissioners have also repeatedly
asserted that favortism has been shown by
them to the American Ice Company. or to any
of the companies which it has absorbed, and yet
the records show that the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company pays $4,000 yearly rental for
the covered bulkhead at Beach-st. Its lease
was signed May l. 1891. and ends May l. 1901.
The Ice Trust, the adjoining bulkhead, pays
$500 a year. The Ice Trust pays S2.oOO
year for the pier at West Forty-sixth-st Be
fore the Trust obtained ii the pier leased to
j. A. Bouker at $1,000.
At the pier at West FoIty-fifth-st., adjoining
the Trusts pier is established the New-York
Horse Manure Company. 1t pays $4,000 year
for pier similar in all respects to the one used
by the Ice Trust at Forty -sixth-st for >, 900
rental The pier at West Forty-fourth-st. is
occupied by the Atlantic Transportation Com
pany. This company pays $1,000 year for the
of the pier. On the north side of the Trusts
pier is the Pocahontas Coal Company, which
pays So 600 a year, just double what is charged
the Ice Trust. and these are but few of many
instances of favoritism whichfthe records show.
TRUST STOCK GOES DOWN.
The stock of the American Ice Company fell
from .3E1a TO 321a points yesterday. as a result
of the announcement of Attorney General Da-
vies that he would bring action to prevent
the Trust from doing business in this State
When asked yesterday when he would begin he
said: II am much occupied at present with the
Gardiner hearing. l expect that it will be post
poned for two weeks, and that will give me a
little elbow room. Then. too | have a special
Grand Jury on my hands in Syracuse. 1t is my
wish to dispose of the ice company matter as
nOSSible probable 1 go