The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-01
BURY THE HATCHET
1cemen and Yachtsmen Not, Likely
to Clash at Calhoun This
Year. 3. y.
The Former Will Soon Retire From
the DISQUALIFICATION in
the Meantime.

Although the different ice companies
will resume ice cutting operations at Lake
Calhoun as soon as the lake freezes over
to sufficient depth, they intend to be
friends with the members Of the Calhoun
Ice Yacht club, with whom they have dis
puted possession at the ice the last two
seasons. The relations between the
sportsmen and the business interests at
the lake became SO strained last year and
the year before that both adopted retalia-
tory measures. Yachtsmen were accused
Of having injured the marketable quality
of ice by flooding 1t with kerosene. Ice
men were reported to have evened mat
ters up by spreading ashes in the beaten
paths Of the sailors and by occasionally
placing other distractions in their way.
10 avoid any repetition Of former
troubles the opposing interests are to be
reconciled this season by arbitration.
Everything is to be arbitrated in advance
so that no unpleasant incidents may mar
this winter. D. M. Chute of the Cedar
Lake Ice company will attend the meet
ing of the Calhoun Yacht club tomorrow
evening, and arrange for an amicable ad-
justment Of all difficulties. > ~ :. =,
=. Soon TO Abandon Calhoun. .,o:5
1.-THE fact isl said Chute, "that
our company has had no trouble with ice
yachtsmen at any time. The small deal
ers and companies which shave no ice
/
whatever grievances the :yachtsnen may
have. In addition to cutting indiscrimin-
atsly, they have strewn the surface with
distractions to sailing. Our company has
cut within certain well established limits,
leaving the big stretch of Ice to the sail
ors. Until the last two seasons. when
there has been little snow, there has been
no ice boating to speak of for many years
at Calhoun. If we get heavy snow just
after the approaching freezeup, there will
be no sport there this winter. !
1--WE cut comparatively little ice at Call
houn now, and will probably abandon that
field within the next two years. I think
that in time the park board should COM
troll the entire lake shore, and it doubtless
will as the city continues to build up in
that section"
E. p. Capen Of the Boston Ice company
says that his company will ommerice cuts
ting part of its ice supply at Calhoun as
soon as the lake freezes thick enough. I
| I'VE have no desire to- antagonize the
yachtsmen,'' he said, .""and we will ar
range to keep our yards clear for skating
as rapidly as the cut-over spaces are safe.
Our company will get most OF its Ice this
season from Waconia, where we have just
finished q new icehouse. We expect tt
abandon Calhoun within the next two
/ years. s:&t. 49, >sss 5t:sl
| Yachtsmen Want aIr#Tr4atnent. .
/ Allan Baird of the Calhoun Yacht club
says that all the club asks ii fair treat
ment He believes there will be no col.
lisfon between the; shippers and the Ice.
men this season. III
1 1--WE would like to see ice-cutting oper.
ations suspended at Calhoun, said Secre.
4 tary Ridgway Of the park board, "but the
ice companies have as much right there
/ as any one. The board has made no ar.
rangements for clearing the ice for slxat.
ing at either Calhoun or Harriet. WE
keep stretch Of ice open for skating OF
4 Lake of the Isles, and I would personals
like to see the same privilege at the othel
/ lakes
i A thin coating of ice has permitted
skating already on the lower end OF LAX,
Of the Isles and smaller outlying lakes
Calhoun and the larger; lakes are still
1 open They generally freeze about Dec
4 Last year Calhoun froze over Dec: 8 ant
1. the year before it remained open unit
3 Dec, Is,