The evening world., 1911-07-10
FACECE FAMINE
IF )RR|D SPELL
KEEE DAYS
Visible pply Exhausted and
MUD, STEERING Among the
'od Is Inevitable.
Si.25A CAKE REFUSED.
Offer Vas Made at Knicker-
bochCo .'s Pier by Driver
OF dependent Wagon.
Si.25A CAKE REFUSED.

More prcus than gold IL ICE TO the
poor OF tsAst side to-day. ard unless
this secorhot spell breaks very soon
the preserscarc!ty Of the commodity
Will develcinto a famine. with all Its
suffering. ich TO the weaker Of the
population ID 10 little children will In
many casenean death.
The TORI spell OF last week 20 re-
duced the cks of both the ~1ndepend-
ent compass and the Knicker booker
Ice Compai which stands In the shoes
or the OloAmerican Ice Trust. that
they at thend OF the week were I'M
able TO 1Ljy tho mands OF regular
customers. The brief respite in the
cool wave Saturday gave no time 20
renew the rex or for the overworked
employees , recupe-ate. To-dsy's
scorcher 10 conditions worse han
ever.
This waslustrated at the East
Thirty-frst Get dock OF the knick-
erbocker Ice mpany, where Ice tickets
OF many chtable organizations are
wont to be Aored. One barge vas
being u~nloade,ere into the company's
own wagons, ! only q few tons were
left. Up drovn wagon of the Mer-
chants Union 8 Coz pany, an indie
pendent c~oncerthose depot is at No.
50, West T~hirtyventh street.
FOR iieaven AXE. let us have some
Ice said the yer to the Knicker-
booker superin;ent. I'VE haven't a
pound"
cant do II. h: sorry. but we've
only a little bit our own wagons.
I'm turning the uwn wagons away"
COULDN'T suYFF BARGE FOR
s1.2s AAKE.
"Glve you n dolla cake for IT," said
the other.
Cant do It," wahe reply. though
the offer was 100 peent. moro than
the usual price to ders.
Give you a dolla,rs a ouar,er-
come now. just a fevAkes." wheedicd
the driver.
Couldn't sell you a te for $50 was
the answer that endedl negotiations.
The manager here . the
sas doing all 1t could fthe poor.
W are honoring aiharity tickets
presented" he said. thigh we haven't
anywhere near %erougfor our own
wagons. And we neveend a ticket
applicant away with ie thar a ten
pound piece. Can't sa.though, how
long we can do II. We'about all out
and fear we wont setnv more to-
day"
Conditions ~were even,orse at tho
other east side Ice plersrhe Knicker-
booker Company's pier the foot OF
Ninth street. the main drlbuting sta
ton for that section osle city, was
shut down tight as E. um. Not n
pound of ice was avaine and none
was expected until to-ni, Even that
was doubtful.
At the Foster-Scott mpany dock,
foot OF East Observation-Disclosures In
dependent company-a v wagons %
regular customers wereelng loaded.
but the supply was verNeagre. Many
groups of children an poor women
were waiting patientlhere for the
scraps from tho big ces and occa-
sionally one would sued in buying
q small piece.
CHILDREN WITT asY CARR.
AGES AND DhPANe.
The children came tn sIi manner
OF odd vehicles In WIN TO cart away
the precious chunks. dor Markowitz,
thirteen years old. OF . G2} East Sew
enteenth street. antittle Josephine
Papay and her slsteylary OF No. 5Gt
East Eighteenth stIt. brought the
family baby carriage,nd were caught
by the camera truting way their
scanty stores. togeth with another lt-
tic girl carrying her unk In a dishpan
and various other nall and almost
naked carriers wi soar on
wheels.
i've been here sc 8 O'clock said
Isador-it was the past es-'and Just
got his hunk. Th, are six brothers