New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

Of typhoid in his practice which he had traced
to the use Of impure ice. Upon learniug there
fore, of the ravages OF this fever in many up
State towns from the drinking Of p1Egted
water. he believed the time was ripe 70 iasro-ace
his bill.
That the natural ice men. who are chiefly
known in the financial world as the A.sa--aaa
Ice Company, or the Ice Trust OF Taa.ralny
fame, are worried was to b. seen at tbs a-aarlag
on the bill last "Wednesday. when they saaI that
the measure would practically ruin t5a..s aIs.-
ness Of the Hudson. In reply Senator 1L.C.aae
simply showed several pages Of statistics l-rA
he had obtained from the sewer deTarra11's sG
the cities OF Albany. Troy, CJhoes AID otaer
towns at the head OF the Hudson, a=-. a-.ea
showed that sixty-seven sewers eHnI-F ls.a t1a
waters Of the Hudson between Wat-r-. g.. and
Coxsackie. The cities and towns that 'z.E -r@iH
are Albany Troy, Rensselaer,. Green island,
I.ansingburg West Troy, Cohoes, Bath AMI the
Iron Works The largest Of these ses.arz ara
8 by 10 feet in size. A dozen are feet in n
eter. and among the smallest is the 2-sget c-r-
cular sewer
The experts Of the "naturaIs'' say ,Hat i~s
freezes the bacteria Of typhoid and sira.ar DIS
eases. In reply the "artiGciaIs" coacaad thlt
these germs can suffer cold without any trouble
whatever. They quote numerous auth'rI..es,
including DR.. T. Mitchell Pruden, bac.er'l"@.zt
OF the College Of Physicians and Surgeons, Who
says:
Bacteria remain alive in frozen water. II has
come to be firmly established that se', ,.-- 20
Iuted water should not be used Tor dElil.-..- ~.
poses, either in its ia tuTaI state or III US
tiOn as ice Innumerable analyses Si-l" -.-s
water does not in the act Of freezing p-i-- ----
from the disease germs 7 when nay ~, ~, ~ ~
true Of that most dreaded sewage germ ~-7
bacillus OF typhoid fever. .r.--s
We know that typhoid fever IS nearly s.i''tyS
present i'm Troy and Albany in the ice. n.lE'-Sc
ason Nevertheless, between two H-il--''- ---1
four million tons of ice from the uII-r i...I -
the Hudson are cut each WINTER anu SEE t.-- ~
New-YOrk for consumption theIe-
Taking into consideration these sc-eat.r d.-ta7
and the fact that not one New-Torker IN ten
thousand knows where the natural ice VIII. ne
consumes so greediIy in hot weather comes i'''-''
If seems pretty clear that the only SAFE lie "
use IS that made from distilled water.
The McCabe bill also prohibits ice cuttIHE on
the Hudson within 5000 feet below Z town OF
village OF more than 10000 people
The scope OF the ice business in the upper
Hudson may be realized when It is estimated
that this ice il melted would fill the Crotoh
Reservoir According to B. s. Gibson, OF 'Co-d
storage g" the organ Of the ice trade, the average
harvest on the Hudson River for the last wen ven.
tv-one years has been estimated at 2,'56i,iOo
TONS In 1862 100000 tons were carried over
from the previous year. and with the amount
harvested more than a 100000 ton record was
made for Hudson River ice this year
Peports I'd to February p OF this year snow
that only $50 600 tons were harvested from the
river. For several years quantities Of Ice have
been harvested from ponds and lakes aLoHE the
Hudson and Mohawk rivers. as It has been
found that the harvest Of river ice was more
or less an uncertain quantity. The ice bar
vested this year from those sources Will be fully
adequate for all local demands
For the period of twenty-five years from $50
the ice harvest in Maine has IN but three IN