The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-20
DuvaI County Solicitor Prepared
to File Another Information
on Monday.
PROVIDED PRICE Is NOT LOW.
Erred IN CITY OF JACKSONVILLE
BY THAT TEME-AD0REssEs
WARM LETTER TOM ETRoRollS
IN ANSWER TO PRESIDENT
GAMBLE.

| The Jacksonville metropolis says:
William j. Bryan, county solicitor,
who declares he has just begun to
fight the alleged trusts, will leave for
Miami tomorrow for a vacation OF
about three weeks, and his brother,
n p. Bryan, will represent him during
his absence.
Mr.. Bryan says that he has the evi.
dence against the alleged beef trust
well in hand, and that the case against
them will come up before the regular
term Of the Criminal Court of Record
next month. If the defendants do not
return in time, Mr.. Bryan says that
acquisitions VIII be issued for them.
Mr.. Bryan is not pleased with the
| declarations made by the manage
ment Of the Florida Ice Manufacture
ing Company in yesterdays Metropo'
| lis, and says that the companies In
combination can and will be prose
cuted again. unless there is radi-
cal change at once.
Some lawyers have questioned
whether the defendants could be
tried again on the same charge, and
Mr.. Bryan, in this relation, said that
| he had looked up the matte.
thoroughly, and that every day the
alleged ice trust carried out their
agreement was grounds for a new
charge and prosecution; and that I'm
less it was evidenced that there was
no longer a combine to control the
output and the price of ice in this
city.
Mr.. Bryan's Reply.
Regarding the statement made in
yesterdays Metropolis by Robert
Gamble that Mr. Bryan objected to the
ice company doing a wholesale bust
ness, it Is emphatically denied by Mr.
Bryan, who In reply se1ds the fol
lowing letter to The Metropolis:
Jacksonville, Fla. July II, 1906.
To the Editor Of The Metropolis:
In yesterday afternoons Metropo
lis Mr.. Robert Gamble, president and
general manager OF the Florida Ice
Misunderstanding Company, is quoted
by you under an article headed
Cheaper Tee for Jacksonville"
Mr.. Gamble is alleged In your arti
Gle to to have said: County SoIici
tor Bryan says we shall not conduct
a wholesale business, so we have con
Guided to sell it at retail Also
have never said that Mr.. Gamble
or the Florida Ice Manufacturer.
Company shall not conduct a whole
sale business. and defy him to pro
duce any evidence of any such state
ment. So far as I am concerned,
90 not care whether ne does whole
sale business or retail business, OF
any business.
You further quote Mr.. Gamble as
saying: I'VE do not want to be known
as violators of the law and do not de
sire any entanglements with the
courts"
From this statement IT would ap
pear that Mr.. Gamble desires to VIC
late the law, but objects to its be
ing known that he is doing so. Nc
one supposes that he does desire en-
tanglements with the courts.
1t is to be presumed from this
statement that his desire is to VIC
late the law and not let it be known
but, II it 1t becomes known, that he
is not sOlicitoTls Or anxious for prose
cution Of him on account Of hrs VIC
lation of the law. have never heard
of any viOfator of the law who did
desire "entanglements with the
courts
Question Of Hereafter"
Mr.. Gamble further says that 1--WE
are in the ice business, and we have
got ice to sell, and it makes no diff
ference with us who wants to buy
hereafter. for we will furnish it,
This is an admission on Mr.. Gam
Ihleis part that heretofore his con
Germ would not sell and did not sell
to those who wanted to buy it ex
cept to the Jacksonville Ice Delip
cry Company, with whom his COZ
Germ had combined, and to whom
alone his concern would sell.
thank your reporter very much
for having secured this informatio.
from Mr.. Gamble. It will be valuable
evidence to me in the prosecution Oh
| him at the next term of court. A
statement that hereafter he will sell
to everybody Is conclusive that hereto
fore he has not done so.
Wants Price Stated.
Mr.. CANDLES statement rs too va
que and indefinite He does moi
seem to have gotten it out of his
head that he is beng played with. II
he means really to obey the law, why
doe she not frankly say at whai
price his concern will sell ice here
after to the general public of Jack
sonville and to the various delivery
compares? If he does not intend tc
stand by his contract to sell the
whole output Of his Ice factory TO,
jacksonville consumers to the Jack
sonville Ice Delivery Company. why
does he not say so? Unless Mr.
Gamble sells to all delivery men he
must again face jury, which may
not in their tender mercy be so con
siderate of him and his associates
combined TO wrest and extort from
the people OF Jacksonville thousands
OF dollars every summer Tn an alb
soflte public necessity. according Il
the testimony of jacksonville physi
clans and business men.
Cost Of Manufacture.
1t costs Mr.. CANDLES concern, SC
the man who has two-thirds Of the
roney invested therein says, between
so and 80 cents per ton to make it;
1t costs domestic consumers 81
cents for 200 pounds: Mt. Gamble has