Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
ICE 81 MORE IN
ATLANTA THAN
( IN MACON
Same Concern Charges As Cents
Hundred Here, rs Cents in
Bib County Capital.

Atlanta, with far greater popula-
ton, is paying more for ice than
Macon.
The wholesale price in Atlanta is
"a ton. or 81 more than the Macon
price. The comparison is even more
distinctly to the disadvantage of At
lanta. in the prices for small amounts
of ice at retail, the price being 80,
35 and 40 cents per hundred in At
lanta compared with a straight 25-
cent rate in Macon.
The Atlantic Ice & Coal Corpora
ton is the principal manufacturer
and distributor of ice in both At
Chattanooga, Rome, Augusta and
Jacksonville.
Three Dollars Ton in Macon.
As q result of the competition be-
tween the two ice companies in Ma
con, the Atlantic Ice & Coal Corpo-
ration and the Southern Ice & Coal
Company, ice is selling at wholesale
In Macon for So a ton. At the be-
ginning of the season the rate was
$3.50. The retail purchasers, those
who buy 10 or 10 cents worth at
time, are now getting their ice in
Macon at the rate of IS a ton, or rs
cents a hundred pounds. Formerly
they paid $3.50 a ton, or 81 Ia cents
q hundred.
In Atlanta the wholesale price is
81 a ton. Ice is sold at retail on a
graduated scale-30 cents per hum
dreds in a'NOunts over 90 pounds; 90
cents per hundred in 25-pound lots
and 40 cents per hundred in 10-pound
lots
The Atlanta customer who buys 10
pounds of ice, pays more than the
Macon customer did before the ice
war in Macon started. Before the
price cutting began in Macon, the
price of ice in small lots was 81 1-s
cents per hundred pounds. In At
lanta the price then, as it is now,
was 40 cents per hundred pounds.
To get ice as cheap as it sold in
Macon before the price war started,
the Atlanta purchaser must buy at
least rs pounds. He can not buy
any amount of ice as cheap as it sells
III macon to-day
Says Price Will Be Raised.
When asked why Atlanta had tc
pay a higher price for ice than
Macon, w. B. Baker, vice president
and general manager of the At
lantic, said Wednesday that Macon
was in the throes of an ice war,
started by their competitor, the
Southern Ice & Coal Company. The
price there was too low. he said, and
at the end Of the war would be
raised to a reasonable figure.
The Southern started the price
cutting" Mr. Baker said. 1T is a
small company, with 6Oton capacity.
We have a 300-ton plant, with $4,000
ton storage capacity. They started
last summer and had to cut prices to
get any business.
1T is simply a question of supply
and demand in Macon. Ice will not
keep always and they they make it
they have to sell 1t. They couldn't
get our customers without offering
an inducement, and so they began
to cut prices. The cut, however. ap-
piled only here and there. Our pol
icy is to treat everybody in the city
alike. When they cut at a few places,
we met the cut, and pursuant to our
policy. gave the same cut prices to
everybody in the city. We always
do that"
In direct reply to this is the charge
that the Atlantic Is a trust and has
suppressed competition in Atlanta
Augusta, Rome and Jacksonville and
is attempting to do the same thing in
Macon. This charge was brought by
the Southern Ice & Coal Company,
which has secured an order from the
Superior Court enjoining the At
lantic from further reducing prices
until court hearing on July rs. Il
was charged that because the South
ern would not sell out to the trust"
the rates were cut to such an ex-
tent that ice was selling at ruinous
prices.
Restrained in Chattanooga.
Mr.. Baker admitted ice was selling
too low in Macon and said It would
advance. He laughed at the South
ern Company's suit, saying they
wished now they had not brought II.
And as for our having suppressed
competition in certain places" he
continued, you know yourself that we
have three competitors in Atlanta.
We also have two competitors in Au
gusta and two in Jacksonville and
one in Rome, because Chattanooga
ships Ice to Rome against us. We
also have another competitor in Ma
con, because a brewery there sells
ice against US"
The Atlantic Ice & Coal Corpora
ton was recently restrained by Chan
cellor Mcconnell of Chattanooga.
from selling ice below a stipulated
price in a certain zone of that CITY.
The same charge of attempting to
kill competition was made against
them"
There still remain the conflicting
stories of the Slower girl and Frank.
even though they can not have a d.
rect bearing on the case. The Slower
girl says Frank was not in his office
and he declares that he was there un-
til he went to the fourth floor to see
Arthur White and Harry Denham.
The defense will be able to saw
however, that Frank probably was
perfectly sincere in his declaration.
but that, as matter of fact, he might
have stepped out of the office for
few minutes and not have recolIectsd
it when he was telling his story be-
fore the Coroner's inquest. They will
argue that it is a very difficult mat
ter for a person to recall every move
he made at certain times unless
something occurs to impress 1t on his
memory at the time.
100000 IN GOLD FROM ALASKA.
SEATTLE, June ga million del
lars in gold, the first shipment from
Nome. Alaska, this year, was re.
ceived by the steamers Senator and
Victoria, which arrived from Bering
Goo on their first trim Of the Season,