The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-24
PRICE OF ICE NOT HIGH
LOCAL MANAGER CoRREcTs A
 STATEMENT.
He Undertakes to Show That Mont gomery Dealers Do Not Squseze the Consumer-35 Gents
 Per Hundred.

According to The New York Commer- cial Advertiser the price of ice in Mont- gomery is higher than in any other southern City.
 The New York newspaper says:
 .'Ice is sold at lower price in the cities of the South than in those ot the North. In only one Southern city, Montgomery, Ala, does the prics charged approach that exacted in come Northern cities. By combination among the Montgomery ice dealers the price to domestic consumers ls heia at 50 cents hundred pounds. Sash7 viIle ice men are also in a comblpatioh' hut it Is not a grasping one. beinS satisfied with S5 cents per hundred. Tn the other cities the price varies rom 70 cents in New Orleans to .o cehts f' Savannah and 90 cents elseNnere. The contrast appears the more strikhis when it is remembered that practlcaily all the ice now marketed in the Soutn IS manufactured"
 Captain T. II. Moore. manager ot the local ice companies, was snoWh the above clipping ! yesterday. CaPtdin Moore says that such newspaper taik is buncomb; that ice Is sold here just aS cheap as it Is in Nashville. He says that the statement that NashFille Ice men are also in a combination. but II is not a grasping one. being satlsneo with 30 cents per hundred, IS aitoseeii- CT wrong. as ice has been seIiine iA Montgomery at that figure ever sihce the general consolidation. 1t IS lrue' ne said. that ice sells for 50 cents per nun
 dred pounds for cash, but DOCKS or tick- ets for 1 .O0O pounds are sold for $3.o0
 at the rate of 35 cents per hd: l.eA hounds. This has been advertised in the newspapers of Montgomery for some
 time and as a proof that the people
 generally know it, Captain Moor" showed a daily report book which
 proved that nearly three-fourths of the ice delivered by the consolidated com panies in Montgomery is paid for in tickets al the rate of s cents per hun dred.
 In regard to Savannah selling ice for 30 cents per hundred pounds, Captaln Moore says he has heard it was selling there for 10 cents rnr hundred Th' '
 because of competition and tAe eAes tories are losing money daily. He pre- diets that either the old establishments will be run out of business or the ne W concern will soon become bankrupt. Captain Moore says that he has a factory in Tampa, Fla, where ice Is
 being sold for 15 cents per hundred in
 order to meet competition. But said Captain Moore, while The New York Commercial Advertiser in speaking of Nashville not being so grasping by | selling ice for 35 cents per hundred pounds, the ice companies in Mont gomery really only get about p cents per hundred pounds. for the thousand | pound books are divided up into twen- | ty-five pound tickets, hence it takes | four trips of the wagon and four cut | tlngs in order to consume 100 pounds worth of tickets and there will be at | least 10 cents leakage on the four trips | and four cuttings.
 Captian Moore says that much com | plaint has been made recently by per sons who said that the drivers of ice | wagons would not accept the tickets
 which had been purchased. He said these were not the drivers of wagons of the consolidated ice companies. but
 peddlers who purchase ice from them | at the rate of 35 cents per hundred and then sell at 50 cents per hundred. They are independent of the ice companies and have no right to take their tickets | or have anything to do with them. According to Captain Moore the new
 companies here are systema tizing their business. The wagons make a regular
 delivery at a stated time in the morn ing and in the afternoon. and persons desiring ice must be ready and willing to take if when the wagon comes along