The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-24
BADFOR The ICE MAN
LOCAL COMPANIES ARE TAXED RE-
YOND THE1R-CAPACITY BY
HOT WEATHER
MEN AND HORSES FRUSTRATED
Aside From the Casualties, the Tor
rid Spell Has Brought De-
mand That Cannot
BE Met.

from statements made to the G be
last evening by the managers of local ice
companies, IL is evident that there are
Two sldes TO the question, "How would
you IKE TO be the fee mani" From the
standpoint of firms In that line of bust
ness, the present season has certainly
peen an unprecedented one in many ways
Inc great demand for the commodity
III winch they deal, created by the long
continued spell of intensely hot and
huInlo weather, has taxed their resources
and their facilities Of supply to the ut
most, while the very conditions which
nave created this demand have made its
Iulrllhnent vastly more difficult. Not only
nave the regular patrons of the COM
pahles round their requirements much In
creased; but new customers have appear
ed from all directions. Orders have come
pouring IN from out of town. particularly
from the South, and some of them from
as far distant as Kansas, Nebraska, Mis-
souri, and other states in that latitude
II mas oeen impossible to give these or
ders from distant places any considersa-
zion on account of the rush of business
nearer home
owing TO the extra service required of
them, the men employed by the local ice
companies nave suffered Intensely, and
the horses IN proportion. Speaking on this
SUBJECT last evening to the G o q,
Bernard zimmerman, secretary of the
Peoples Ice company said:
Every day, for some time past some
of our men have come in more or less
exhausted by the effects of the heat CAS-
mas ALREADY been stated in the G. o b e.
one one Oh our men died from heat prostra-
tlon. Tonlght there were seven of the
men VINO returned from their work so
exhausted that it is doubtful whether
Iney VIII be able to work tomorrow.
IN all there are probably as many
as twelve or fourteen men who are laid
on on on account disability resulting from
the neat rive of our horses have already
ueo, ana there is one that we do nos
DeileYe Will recover We have in all 10
horses, and twenty-five or twenty three
lave l peen aIsapledIby The heat. There
service" - 80
William p. Westfau, president and man
ager OF the st. Paul Lake Ice company,
was also interviewed He said:
The demand for ice this season has
peen. something enormous. 1t has been
between 80 anda 40 per cent greater than
Tor the corresponding term of last year,
or or any other year. We have turned away
5Vo or 4O0 orders for service for lack oc
capacity to handle them, even though We
anticipated greatly increased demand
and prepared for it. We have had many
orders from cities in the South that we
could not consider<at all. Our company
mas not had great deal of trouble i'll
the way of heat prostra lion, for the rea-
son that. our men are instructed to re.
port to the office ats soon as they feel
unable Ito work; and then they are re-
lieved. The horses used on the heavy
work we change every six hours Two Of
our men We're overcome by the heat
Thursday or Friday Of last week, but
after a rest of twenty-four hours they
We're all right. We have forty horses
and fifty men, and at present they are
all in pretty good condition"