Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-27
RouNp AMOUR NEW YoRIk.
RippIes on the Current of Life I'm the
Metropolis.

Rtpples on the Current of Life I'm the
Metropolis.
Notable examples Of concrete construc-
ton In New York City are exciting keen in
terest among local builders. A twelve-story
building under way on Thirty-fourth
street. just east Of Broadway, is said to be
the first tall Office building in the country
to be built of concrete on Thirty-ninth
street. west OF Seventh avenue, the large
concrete structure Of the McGraw Publish
! ing company has reached the fourth floor.
Concrete work under natural conditions
must stop when the thermometer falls be-
low freezing. but contractors are learning
few tricks which enable them to go ahead
! II the weather does not get too cold. Thus,
on the McGraw building. II the temperature
is lowering around the freezing point, all
! the concrete is made with boiling water
and is put into place steaming hot. Be-
sides this, that part of the building upon
which work is in progress is curtained of
] with canvas on the floor below the one
! upon which the concrete is being placed,
and within this Enclosure are placed ten
| or dozen salamanders. or plasterer's
! furnaces. This keeps warm the floor above
/ and with the use OF warm water in the
concrete allows the material to set before
/ the frost can affect II.
4 An 1s-year-old Brooklyn girl abandoned
her customary peep under her bed before
retiring 1t wasn't necessary. Her n st
peep inside her bedroom door revealed a
full grown man peacefully SHOCKING on top
OF the bed cover. Then came a series of
'hollers," that aroused the household and
the neighbors. The girl fled from the room
and ran to the basement, where she told
her father. who telephoned for the police.
Then he unclaimed a half-breed blood-
hound that guards the house by night just
as two policemen FASTENED up the front
stoop with drawn billies and revolvers.
The hound attacked the policemen, and
twenty minutes were lost I'm a scrmmage
in the hallway before the man of the house
could get the dog away from the wrong
scent
Followed by the entire family, the two
policemen assembled to the second floor and
in the girls bed found the man snoring
away. Beside him on a chair were his
i clothes
When awakened he angrily asked the
cause of the intrusion and insisted that II
was his own home. and that he had a per-
feet right to slumber there. The man of
the house then recognized his unlimited
guest as his next-door neighbor, who was
carrying an overcharge Of BOOZE
Action has been begun by Attorney Cen
| eral Mayer of the state of New York
against the American Ice company for the
purpose OF ending the monopoly exercised
by that trust and preventing the continu-
ance of Its unlawful and extortionate meth
DDS of business.
The American Ice company's assets, ac-
cording to the complaint, amounted to over
enE ma. AN-N
S3s, 0O0,0OO represented no tangible property
whatever, being simply the capitalization
of good will; in other words, capitalization
of the power of monopoly. On December
l OF this year the trust paid a dividend on
Its heavily watered stock of 8 per cent. 1t
was able to pay this splendid dividend be-
cause 1t controlled practically the entire
ice supply of the city of New York and
was in a position to demand and get higher
prices for Its product.
The attorney generals complaint alleges
that the trust secured control OF the Maine
ice field and reduced the harvest there from
100000 to 10000 tons. In this way the
so-called famine of last summer was
created. Agreements were reached with in
dependant concerns, for, the restriction of
their output and sales. The trust controls
the landing depots iii New York. ana owns
all but seventeen OF the 1I1 fee houses on
the Hudson. 1t thus had a complete mo-
nopoly of the sale and distribution of ice
in New York and surrounding country. The
price of ice was increased from $40 a ton
at the depots of supply to IS and Sc ton
to the independent dealers, who are also
controlled by the company, and who sup
ply retail customers By the time the ice
reached the consumer it cost SO to $14 a
ton. This ice, it is asserted, cost the trust
1874 ton. No wonder the American Ice
company could make a profit ranging. &C
cording to the bill Of complaint. from n
to "a per cent and pay dividend of 9 per
cent on a swollen capitalization.