Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-16
RETAILERS NOT AFFECTED
Arrival of Barge. Yesterday With
1900 Tons Aboard.
NO SHORTAGE THIS MONTH
Defendant Accused Of Failing to Use
Scales Forfeits Collateral In
: Police Court.

The managers OF the American Ice Com
pany have determined on an advance in the
wholesale price OF ice to dealers and large
consumers
The advance Is to be made, 1t Is stated
on good authority. Wednesday of this week.
The wholesale price of ice has been for sew
eral weeks past % cents per hundred
pounds. advance of cents on the
hundred over the 1905 scale--commenctng
Wednesday, the price. wholesale, will be
30 cents per hundred pounds. another ad-
vance of 5 cents a hundred pounds or
10 cents over the price paid last summer.
This advance, the American Ice Company,
it is stated, asserts is made necessary by
the high price. the company has to pay for
Ice in Maine this year. making 1t unprofit-
able to bring 1t here by vessel and sell it
at the rate Of Is cents per hundred. and 1t
Is alleged that no profit Is made on 1t at
so cents per hundred
No advance in prices to householders and
small consumers is to be made, the price
to them remaining at 40 cents per hundred
pounds. There may be a further advance
in the price Of ice, wholesale before the
summer Is over but 1t is not thought the
rate to the small consumer will be ad-
vanced 1t Is asserted that Ice Is now be-
ing sold here at a lower price than in any
large city on the Atlantic coast, and that
the ice company is losing money on Ice
sold here.
The big seagoing barge Idaho. with about
1900 tons of Ice aboard from Booth bay,
arrived here early yesterday morning in
tow Of the tug w. H. Yerkes. IT., and is
now lying at the 9th street wharf Of the
American Ice Company unloading. She
started from Maine with nearly 1850 tons
aboard. but 1t is estimated that 500 tons
melted on the trip down the coast. The ice
as 1t comes from the vessel is loaded on the
wagons and sent out on the street for de-
livery. Much of it will be stored In the ice
house at the wharf.
Stored in Georgetown.
From the vessels that have arrived at
the 9th street wharf up to this time only
about 200 tons Of their cargoes are left
at the wharf. There is stored at George
town about 500 tons of the cargo of the
schooner Cox & Green. This represents
lean Ice Company has in this city. but
with weather similar to that prevailing
OIL late 400 or 500 tons Of the cargo in the
barge now unloading will be stored.
1t Is stated there is one vessel at sea of
the American Ice Company and one load
ing. If they are not diverted to New York
Philadelphia or somewhere else there will
be no shortage In the Ice supply here until
about the first week in August but unless
moro natural ice Is brought here there Is
grave danger of a worse condition than ex-
listed about ten days ago. as there is no
artificial Ice on storage at the plant of
Chaplin & Sacks or in the storage houses
of any of the local Ice making plants
AT the wharf station of the Home Ice
Co., at the foot Of 1874 street southwest,
a big sign with red letters reading mo Ice
Sold Here Is nailed in the gateway. and
1t Is said on the wharf that there are but q
few tons of natural Ice stored in the house
there For that reason all the business of
the Home company is being concentrated
at it's plant at 18th and v streets.
Driver Forfeits Collat eraI.
Frank Wells, the driver OF a wagon of
the American Ice Company, was charged In
the Police Court this morning with failing
to weigh the ice he delivered to customers
Instead of standing trial he forfeited $40
collateral.
Wells was In court about week ago
on a charge of violating the weights and
measures law involving the alleged use Of
scales that were not sealed and tested. He
dema nded a jury trial.