The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
Companies 10 Kencsha Announce
Record Increase in Price of
Product on Wednesday
TRUST ExAcIS BIG TRIBUTE
Local Men Claim That They are Forced
to Raise the Price on Account
of Big Wholesale Price
Now Charged

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mand for tribute from the people OF
Kenosha and on W ednesday a general
boost was made in the price OF ice by
both companies doing business in the
city and there is a loud wall from
patrons of the companies on all sides
The new price of ice ranges from So
ton to saloons to SO ton for the
private consumers who use the ice in
small amounts. At the Office Of the
Independent Ice Company the follow
ing schedule of prices was given out
this morning. Saloons % cents 9
hundred, butcher shops 20 cents a hund
red, sales from wagons to residences
40 cents hundred 1000 pound books
with 100 pound deliveries 800; 1000
pound books with so pound deliveries
$355; 500 pound books with % pound
deliveries $500. The offices of the
Knickerbocker Company were repeated.
ly called by telephone, but all efforts
to get statement OF the new rate OF
this company were futile, it being
stated that the manager in charge OF
the Office was not in the Office. 1t
was, however, stated that the price had
been raised by the Knlckerbocker Com
pany on Wednesday and that it was
the same as that charged by the In
dependent Company.
The increase is a decidedly large
one and the largest ever made In a
single year in Konosha. Because of
the fact that the crop of ice har-
vested last year was declared to be one
of the largest in the history of the
business in Kenosha the raise in price
is greeted by bowls of protest. Last
year the rate for 1000 pound books
was $3.50 and the other prices were in
keeping with this rate. Small in
creases in price have been made to the
butchers and saloon keepers early in
the year and it is understood that the
rate now established is to remain in
force for the remainder of the season,
Thomas Scott, the manager of the
Independent Company, when interview
cd this morning stated that he had no
choice but to boost the price of ice in
Kenosha on account of the price that
is being charged for the ice by the
big companies making up the trust
lie stated that at the present time the
Kenosha companies were paying $3.50
per ton for the ice at the lakes and
they we're forced to ada to this the
cost of transportation and the cost of
delivery. Scott declared that for the
past month the company had been los
ing money on ice delivered in Kenosha
The present prices as set in the new
scale are nearly the same as those be-
ing charged in Chicago and other cities
The fact that both companies raised
the price on the same day seems to
indicate that there is an understanding
between them. When the Independent
company was organized two years ago
the people of the city thought they
saw a way to get rid of the high prices
charged by the trust and many con
tracts were made with this company
Tow it seems that the Independent
Company is charging the same rate
as the Knickcrbocker and earlier in the
season it charged higher rate.
AS the prices charged by both com
panics are practically the same it looks
as if the people of the city would either
have to pay them or so without ice
The change in the rates will result
in the profits of the trust in Kenosha
Being increased thousands of dollars
turing the remainder of the summer.