The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
Ice Men Will Give Just What Is
Paid for.
SAME SCHEDULE WILL STAND
But Ice Dealers Say, However, 1t
Will he UncompromisinglyA Adj
hered To This Year.

When the merry iceman blithely goes
his rounds, after May /, he will carry
with him pair of scales with which he
will carefully weigh out the precious
cakes Of frigidity the while the housewife
looks on aghast.
piece for the same price, as in days Of
yore, the iceman will sadly shake his
head and inform her that his stock in
trade is retailing at just rs cents per 100
pounds, and that his company has set
1ts foot down hard against any deviation
from that rule. Although the retail price
OF Ice was supposed to be at that figure
last year, the ice dealers say that in
majority of cases consumers received
twice as much as they were entitled to.
Hereafter they will be made to paw for
just what they get and it will go hard
with any deliverer who, out Of the good
ness of his heart, throwssin ten, fifteen or
twenty pounds extra.
Where the iceman has been delivering
an average of SO pounds day for 81 a
month he will now be limited to 25 pounds
and will have to account for any wide
discrepancies between the weight of his
load and the receipts therefor.
Those 'sKnock-Downs.n
The agreement between the icemen' 3
union and the ice dealers association has
also sounded the doom Of individual sales
from the wagon and knocks out the
rake Off" therefrom which the iceman
Is popularity supposed. to have received in
the past. The icemen's union has
adopted strict rules against this practice
and penalty is to be imposed any time
an 1ceman violates the agreement
The dealers say this is a protective
measure forced upon them by the big
shortage In ice this season and the neces-
SHY OF selling ice on business basis D..
M. Chute Of the Cedar Lake Ice company
says:
The shortage in ice. and the big all round
increase In expenses this season has forced US
to stop giving ice away and to sell it for so
much pound or hundred pounds, just as a
butcher would sell meat or a grocer sugar
The way our price lists have been ignored
IN the past has been little short Of ruinous
10 the business. There is to be no increase
IN prices this season. We are simply going
to insist on our just dues and give people
what they bargain for, no more, no less We
ccfduct our business at loss from Nov l
TO May 1 OF each year. and in the hot months
we are entitled to sell ice at a seasonable
FRONT The cost of hauling ice has gone up
IN direct proportion to the Increased cost OF
ICED for horses, and we expect that labor will
cost us even more before the season is over
Lumber, iron, everything that we use in
the business, has gone up, and office rent has
also taken big jump.
People are getting ice much cheaper in Min
| neapolis than in Chicago or New York, where
| they pay from 35 to 40 cents a hundred for
ice, with longer season and just as good
| facilities for stocking up.
The Family Price.
While the family trade will be given the
same card rate that has been in effect for
several years, dealers admit that, owing
to the shortage, the heavy downtown
consumers may have the prices material
ly raised on them before the season
| wanes. f
This is the price list for large con-
sumers:
Per ton.
Ten tons or more, delivered at one time 81 OG
Two tons to ten tons. sc
| Per 100 lbs.
500 pouns to 1000 pounds. ............... 80 q
LOO pounds to 500 pounds ..................= 81
For the family trade % pounds or less
1 boxed, will cost $3.50 per month. The
same amount left outside will cost 50 q
month. The cost of delivering thai
amount of ice three or four times a week
| will be the same as the daily rate