New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
NATURAL ICE DEFENDE.
Dealers Contend It Is Purer ID,
Artificial Product.
tor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The inference which the unrsvs
author of the articles in your issla :
June 70 and Is, entitled As u Our Il
wishes to convey to the public q s.
vicinity is very plain and also aa--
He speaks constantly Of the unresgis
trade in natural ice. What he Tk=
understood, and what the un.7foF.sa
reader would naturally deduce from s
statements, is that the ice manufastssa
industry is under the strictest supervise
while the natural ice may come ron &
sorts Of places That comes ve-y I'd
being dishonest. because there IS not Il
and there never has been tr7 siishs
trace If SUPERVISION or regulation Of /
ma king in this city
We consider II very unfortunate "a
driven from the fair field Of argument
author Of those unsigned conmu7icat
is allowed 10 drop into irrnuendces and a
bigufties. simply because the fact= 90 !
fit his SIDE Of the case. No fair 4
would. / protest. try 70 create ne 6
that ice making is a regulated indK-s
No attempt has been made BY tais W.
TO -eflIta the arguments we base o. Z
Investigations of ice by the Eighest i
entifc authorities in The country. HIt t1ss.
the business Cf or members IS again
tackled groundIeGsly ana want0Ily. wii1
the slightest particle OF evidence Of e
entifc character 70 bolster his argumzs
but simply upon mis- OWE opinion
He SAYS. and il IS obviously Untrue =
ing more people buy natural ice than ms-S
featured Ice in this city thar the -
has made up it's mind that the pu-i.7
natural ice is nOt established Vhs
should have said 10 he honest Is.
highest sanitary authorities in this "a
try, the boards of health % Massachzss{
and New York. many town and
boards. have carefully examined the n
ton of the possibility OF natural ice 4
yeying any disease germs 70 consun 4
these men rad in mind solely ire O. 4
of protecting the public health. They Z &
uniformly found that natural ice IS ne
source OF disease. and as Slate Haz
Commissioner Eugene H Porter Of
York State says: Ice cannot from
very nature and method of harvesting
carrier of disease Therefore. naa
ice is safe and wholesome" That Is V
he should have said. instead Of So:
on his own unsupported. unTeEealei u
that natural ice is dangerous.
This authors closing paragraph last 4
day is a gem of misrepresentation as S
one familiar with the water problems
New YOTk's ice plants can c01viuce a
I am tempted TO reply in kind. and TEL s
what I have seen. bur what me I'd
States governments hygienic labors.
found in ice plants in Washington; Ts
one Of the Members Of the Americas IS
ciety of Refrisera ting Engineers touzi b
New York ice plants and reported n s
annual meeting of that body and e
amazed and disguised il was 20 Lean
such conditions; 10 show Won cher
and psychological analyses OF nsr
ice and manufactured ice where Cs1
against the latter produce axe pain q
se@n. BUt I Will not ask you- scacs %
that All I ask on behalf Of the e
million tons of icehouse capacity reprssz
in our association is a criticism whie
based on facts and not on prejudice =
considers the entire question and y
phase OF it. which manifests even a
desire TO adhere to the truth. ard
shall not be ANONYMOUS.
HAROLD " C0EH
Secretary Of the Natural Ice Asscci 1tG
America.
New York. July I, 1910