The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-03
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS BUSY
Finds Ice Being Shipped from Kenosha
County Lakes to Other Cities and De-
mands That Wants Of Kenosha Be
Filled-Expect No More Trouble.

Kenosha got raw deal from some
one on Saturday, for just about three
O'Clock in the afternoon it was found
that there was not a pound of ice to
be bought in the city. Orders given
by the Independent lee Company of
Kenosha to the Consumers Ice Com
pany Of Chicago with which the Keno
sha company had contract for FIVE
thousand tons Of ice to be used during
the season, were not filled and the en-
tire visible supply of the frozen neces-
sity in Kenosha was disposed Of early
Saturday afternoon. The wagons of
the company went through the streets
empty while the officials Of the COM
pany were busy seeking to find out
why the usual cars Of ice did not come
from Silverlake. Then they got let
ter telling them that the Consumers
company could not fill the orders.
Hurried orders were sent to other com
panies while the managers Of the local
company appealed to the officials Of
the county for aid.
One single car of ice sent to Kenosha
by the Haegle company Saturday af-
ternoon was on the tracks near the
Northwestern station and hundreds Of
people stormed the car. They hauled
the ice away in automobiles and baby
buggies, they carried it in baskets and
in their arms and it was handed
out freely by the officials Of the
Kenosha company.
All over the city there was demand
for ice Butchers found their meats
spelling saloon men couldn It put out
the usual "cold bot.O Ice cream com
panies We're forced out Of business in
short order and in thousands of homes
the empty refrigerators called for some
thing to cool them. The telephone at
the Office of the ice company was sim
ply deluged with calls.
The men in charge of the wagons Of
the company worked eighteen hours on
Saturday-not delivering ice-but tell
ing the people that they would make
deliveries at night or on Sunday or
any other time when ice could be Sc
cured. Motor trucks were sent hither
and thither to get ice which was the
Imperative need of people who were
sick. The ice houses out at Ander-
son Park were opened and they helped
to fill the demand. The officials of the
Independent company sent men out in
automobiles to plead with the people
at the lakes to send ice to suffering Ke-
nosha. They offered fancy prices, but
made no change in the price charged to
their customers in Kenosha
They waited till the way freight came
in and when it failed to bring ice the
officials of the company appealed to
the district attorney and the sheriff
and they hurried to Silverlake, the
place where ice for Kenosha had been
loaded in the past. They found that no
ice had been loaded for Kenosha al
though it had been loaded for other
places by the train load. They picked
UP Matt Hahn, the superintendent for
the Consumers company at Silverlake
and went over to Twin Lakes where
they found Superintendent Richards.
He had no orders from Chicago to ship
ice to Kenosha. Then they went over
to Camp Lake to George Bruell, the
head of the distribution for the Con-
sumers company. He said, emo orders
to ship" Then they cot General Man
a0er Osborne on the telephone in Chi
;zgo. "Have to take care of the old
trade and can't get men enough to
handle it" was his answer. evil
you ship ice to Kenosha if we get the
men to load it' was the question that
the district attorney hurled back at
Osborne. "Sure we willo was the
answer. "You tell that to Bruell and
make it an order,'' was Drury's re-
Spouse. Then Bruell declared that he
thought he could work out a way to
get ice to Kenosha. They loaded an
extra car at Silverlake, another at Sa-
lem and another at Twin Lakes and
with a car furnished by the Hagle
company these cars were made into
special train.
Right here the old North Western
showed its friendship to Kenosha.
Agent Kiltz was appealed to for train
service for ice. lie went right to the
general Offices of the company and Train
Dispatcher Swartz in Chicago gave an
order for special train to pull the ice
from the lakes to Balm and told con-
ductor of wrecking crew to wait at
Balm and pick up the ice cars
This way Kenosha got ice on Sunday
morning It got enough to relieve the
suffering of one of the hottest days of
the year and the wagons of the COM
pany We're working from early morn
ing until late at night getting the ice
delivered.