The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-20
NOT ALONE
IN ITS ICE TROUBLE
Lakeland's Successful Bluff
Miami and Ft. Myers
Plan Municipal
Plants.

The Southern Utilities Company
controls the ice situation in Lakeland
Cor did) as in Palatka. Same as in
Palatka it gave notice of a raise to
60 cents per hundred. Then the !
people got up on their hind legs and
screerhed. There was a perfect roar
of dissatisfaction.
Great public mass meeting attended
by 600 citizens. They called it an
Indignation meeting and the mayor
lead. He made a speech and said the
people were not going to submit to
such an outrage even if they had to
get t,leir ice from Tampa and later
start municipal plant Others spoke
in much the. same vein.
The ice company was impressed.
Manager Day was there. Later the
company inserted this advertisement:
"Ice Prices Re-Adjusted: Owing
to the fact that our New Ice Rates
seem to be unsatisfactory to our
customers, and they demand the Old
Rates, we have decided to re-adjust
them to the Old Schedule.
Coupon books sold Monday at
the new rate will be taken up and
books at the old rate given to re-
; place them.
| "Anyone having suggestions as to
| the improvement in our service Will
t confer a favor if same are made to
{ the Local Manager-Lakeland Ice
Company"
Down in Miami Town.
;, Down at Miami there has been talk
: CT municipal ice plant for some time
: and a committee was appointed re
s Gently to 90 into the matter. Or
= Tuesday night of this week the com
f mittec reported it's findings. In sub
d stance this report said:
"a municipal ice plant can deliver
= ice to Miami consumers at 25 cent!
!. per hundred pounds, with a profit tt
: the city on the investment"
f The committee also offered a lettel
n from Louisville, KY, manufacture.
of exhaust steam ice plants Iotferlnt
v to install a 25-ton plant in Miami at
: cost of S37, 800, the estimate including
d buildings, water supply and all equip
n ment necessary to begin manutactur
l. ing. An engineer from TINS cohlpail.
l. was in Miami recently and had eH
W amined local conditions, fuel, wate
h supply, etc, and as a result Oh INA
e inves iigation had guaranteed that lc
n can be produced in Miami at lac
t. torv cost of 81. so per ton, or less, IN
Gliding management, interest, depre
J. ciation, materials and labor. -,
,e A MIR. ]. C. Huelsenkamp OF IN
h Miami investigating committee tqI
m If the situation in Fernandlna. ii
To- said that city had a municipal plan
a. ran in connection with It's electrl
rt light and power plant. In fefhal ''.I
a dina the ice prices are as 1oiloWS
n. TX T mounds. 5 cents; 100 pounds, z
w w corts 20 delivered. At the factory 81
ID ronnds are sold for 60 Cents, and
I'd ton for $3.50. He turther sta'e :
r that at the Fernandina plant ice
ed colng produced at a factory cost l.
of 39 cents g ton, which does no! n
;nc;ude management, office or denver
cvnonses. interest or depreciation,
Mr.. Huelsenkamp also stated Tn;
at "the Fernandina plant coal nj
m. heen delivered at $3.50 ton, ana
ay this basis the fuel cost of producti.',
n; bas heen about % cents per ton, WI
~ eight cents ton for laDor anu
w. little less than two cents ton lor o
va ste, ammonia, salt and other mate
Dr. r;als and incidentals." He also sd
. hat careful tests made with Da
on,,utv oa,'r W. rane have shown that as mu
~ beat can be got out of this iuel
N nnt c Of $3.50 coal at Fcrnandlna' :,
,o ,o' that the local fuel cost would De De =,
.t. tIe if anv more than at that ciIs,
lVS " Cost of delivery of ice was es
81 mated by several of the ice maenlne ss i te
at; m,onnfocturers ,,,s' at from 81 to S2 a tc e
uo leu The Fernandina plant, salu N
re- uuoiSankamp, = IS was built by the me
vi chants of that city, and later 'ur11 II
-, over to the city government.
AZ Az process and machinery used are !
N Nte. same as are in use by the Mann
iaC ond Cold Storage company ana as -
Ter s'rIN en used bv ice companies IN n
1d- Wost W Tampa, Fort Pierce and SOU
'o- vi MeIS Sonv;lle. The company, VIII
ess NJ annfactures this machinery IN a II
4S ea' Ter offered to install the plant ana
w ", cept partial payment. allowing ,o'
on balance to be paid within reaso.
uss u.s., bIa n,riod. with interest at SIX
Ike Ike cent PAYABLE semi-annually' on
on unpaid balances due.